Stories and dispatches from Tomorrowland — headquarters of the League of Planets, where the future never quite arrived.
The Metropolis runs on a strict power hierarchy. When a cascade failure threatens to force a shutdown, the Light & Power Co. must decide which parts of Tomorrowland go dark first. Write the meeting where that decision gets made, and the one person in the room who refuses to sign off on it.
It rains in Tomorrowland once a year — a scheduled pressurization purge that sends water cascading down the art deco facades and turning the gears slick and gleaming. This is a story set entirely during those four hours, following a being who has been waiting all year for the cover the rain provides.
The Merchant of Venus has been sending the same encoded request up the supply chain for three years. No one has been able to decode it. Write the story of the junior analyst who finally cracks it and discovers the Merchant isn't buying anything — they're trying to return something.
The League of Planets convenes quarterly at Tomorrowland headquarters. These are the minutes of Session 7, in which a minor procedural dispute about transit lane prioritization near the Astro Orbiter escalates into the most serious diplomatic crisis in the League's history.
The Carousel of Progress runs its final public show at Grid Cycle 22. What the Light & Power Co. records show is that it draws a small but consistent power load every night between Grid Cycles 3 and 4. This is the story about what the animatronic family does with that hour when no one is supposed to be watching.