Rijker's Island in Marienburg bears a direct similarity to Riker's Island in New York; a US Correctional Facilty (unnecessary, but you gotta love the Correctional Facility part:) ) an island prison seperate from the rest of the city and connected by a bridge. I'm also noticing a fair amount of 'Dutchness' in the naming conventions of Marienburg (Hoogbrug, Hoogmann, van Onderwhatsit), so since "even Old New York, was once New Amsterdam..." I'm guessing this is where they approriated several ideas and jokes from.
Re-read Beasts In Velvet today (while making stew), and spotted a couple of other Marienburghers who are worth a brief mention.
I may abandon the Carroberg, as it's proving difficult to run down 'cannon' source material. I'll start mini-defs for some of the bit-players who get name-checked in my city defs soon. The Marienburg definiton got longer and longer; I started being ruthless about what I was cutting, so there'll be a fair few folk who get a mini-def to tie them to Marienburg.
Several cities / civs have used the watery prison idea: the British Empire had prison 'hulks' - vessels no longer sea-worthy moored off-shore and used as floating prisons. In fact, we still have a couple today; although they're no longer rotting hulks.
The US has at least two, which we've already mentioned.
Venger in D&D the cartoon had a floating prison; well, it was surrounded by lava, which is close enough for me
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Justice World in Red Dwarf....
MegaCity One used Titan as a penal colony (ok, getting silly now)
Ego Ordinis Mallei Inquisitor, per auctoritate Digamma, Decimatio, Duodecies, ultimum exterminatum planetae [insert here] cum extrema celeritate impero.
(roughly; 'I, Ordo Malleus Inquisitor, hereby authorise Death, Destruction, Doom, the total extermination of the planet "blah" with the most extreme and imperative speed.')
In a galaxy of a million worlds, what does the death of one matter?
Simguinus, Chief Historitor
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