Efficient housing layouts revolve around a central "Service Hub." A well-optimized colony usually supports approximately to remain stable from Pioneer to Merchant levels.
They called it Portus Ferrum at first, for the tide-scoured cliffs behind the inlet hid seams of iron-rich stone that rang under hammer and pick. By the time our story opens the year is 1503, a year that tastes of salt, fresh oak, and the hot, oily smoke of forge fires. The layout of the harbour — the sinew and bone of the town’s life — is the thing everyone reads first when they arrive: merchants, captains, pilots, priests, thieves. Below is a map told in words: lanes, districts, people, and the small tragedies and triumphs that make a place live.