The Aimless Cities

An Aimless City from my misspent youth

The Aimless Cities are giant, living prisons that mindlessly roam the long-dead planet, Awnasee.  Thousands of enemies of the Terrec'Qek Empire reside inside each City, maintaining the giant creatures just as it protects them from the impossible conditions that exist on Awnasee's surface.  The prisoners consume the city, but are forced to ration their intake as they could otherwise kill their host.  Births and deaths have to be strictly controlled by the prison population so that the City is not over-taxed.  The City's death means theirs as well.

Only a few Aimless Cities have died in the several millennia since they were first created, meaning many hundreds of generations have been birthed and perished knowing nothing but the insides of these creatures.

The Aimless City of today