New Japan
In the year 4001 AD Japan has become a massive multi-tiered nomadic floating city called New Japan. It is controlled by the benevolent leader Father and the mysterious guardian Rai.
Name:
New Japan
Aliases:
Start year:
2014
First issue:
New Japan is an airtight, self-sustained, high-tech ecosystem that has detached itself from Earth and is now, in the year 4001 AD, orbiting the Earth three hundred miles above sea level. It's controlled by the benevolent eye of Japan's enigmatic leader and unseen authority called Father and its spirit guardian, Rai - a powerful being who can telepathically communicate with Father and travel through New Japan quickly and effortlessly.
New Japan is separated into many sectors - some are known, some are unknown - and not everybody is allowed to travel freely between those sectors. It also takes weeks and months to get from one sector to another.
Known sectors of New Japan (from top to bottom):
| Sector No. | Sector Name |
|---|---|
| 4002 | Father's Temple & Home Sector |
| 4001 | Top of (New) Japan and Rai's Home |
| 4001-5 | Outside the Top of Japan; the Solar Collector |
| 4000 | Secret Cells |
| 3508 | [untitled] (only seen in Rai #1 so far) |
| 3507 | [untitled] (only seen in Rai #1 so far) |
| 3128 | Hangar Bay IV |
| 3127 | Fructose Farms |
| 3125 | Silk Level |
| 3008 | [untitled] (only seen in Rai #1 so far) |
| 3002 | Information Square |
| 3001 | War Corridor |
| 2998 | New Tokyo |
| 2993 | Faux-Coast (or Artificial Beach and Ocean Sector) |
| 2992 | Moisture Collector Sector |
| 2991 | Beefland |
| 2990 | Heat Farms |
| 2989 | Hydrophonic Rainforest |
| 2555 | Blackwater (a residential sector) |
| 2505 | Murder Cycle Tournament Center (or Mayhem Arenas for Sports) |
| 2502* | "Positronic Factories", holding the Positronic Creation Center, Positronic Birthing Headquarter, and Positronic Farms, and the original Livewire source (not be confused with the character, Livewire) |
| 2501 | Fungal Farms |
| 2500* | Prehistoric Replica Sector |
| 2499 | (other) Prehistoric Sectors |
| 2307 | "Cumulus Heights" (a Vapor Sector) |
| 2306 | Base of Cloud City (a Vapor Sector) |
| 2007 | Manhattan (21st Century Recreation) |
| 1985 | Old Los Angeles (cut off from Father's network) |
| 1967 | McGoohan's Preservation Garden |
| 1923 | 20th Century Revival Sector |
| 1898 | Old New York |
| 1855 | 19th Century Revival Sector (aka Old West) |
| 1854-5 | Sewer Sector & Waste Management |
| 1642 | Prynne Preservation Society |
| 50 | Rome-Mania (aka Rome Quarantine Zone) |
| 1 | Board of Exhaust Management |
| 0 | The Solar Cell |
| 0.5 | The Solar Cell (hidden chamber and holding facility) |
Note: * The Positronic Factories and Prehistoric Replica Sector have their numbering (2500 & 2502) switched in some panels/issues.
Other mentioned but unassigned locations and sectors include:
- Construction Zone
- Furabashi (Bioenhancement Sector)
- Incubator Cells (beneath the Murder Cycle)
- The Library of Congress (or Pulp Archive and Written Universal Sector)
- Myst City Banks
- White Chapel (Reenactment Sector)
According to a map of New Japan by Matt Kindt that can be found in Rai Plus Edition #1 (and the Rai Deluxe Hardcover Edition #1) there are another 20-30 sectors - for instance the Feudal Japan & Reformed Raddie Proving Sectors - however, these sectors are unassigned, too, and have yet to occur in the actual story line.
