Capital city of Pathusia. 7 million inhabitants including the neighboring cities it has agglomerated through the centuries of its development.

Such a huge population appears to dwarf the population of big cities in the Fungus Jungle, such as Imperada and Palera, which score at 5 and 6 million souls; but these cities don't have a surrounding, densely populated countryside : the entire population is urban. Intra muros, Uwens might "only" represent 3.5 million people, the other half of the population being a multitude of former little towns it has taken in.

It makes Uwens one of the few cities able to afford a proper spaceport. It's tricky, because such a thing necessitates both a huge, economically relevant urban center, and a countryside not too densely populated. That explains why Palera and Imperada both have more successful spaceports : all they had to do is incinerate 50 square miles of jungle. Uwens had a different problem : they had to expel hundreds of thousands of people in the neighboring countryside to make room for the spaceport; farmers and small towners were already worried and angry enough with the monstrous metropolis's tendency to expand and absorb town after town. But they had a vote, and unsurprisingly, the urban population voted for the spaceport while the rural population voted against... which meant about 1 million votes against VS 4 million votes for. And that was with a record ballot box attendance in the countryside VS record abstention rate in the city.

...Anyway... step pyramid buildings, as well as skyscrapers with bulbous tip and round windows, have been characteristics of Patwussian architecture for the longest time. Especially the step pyramid type; because it was originally a Zeetian style, it was passed on in most of the former Zeetian empire, that is to say not only Pathusia but also the modern state of Semantia.

The sidelights on top of the skyscrapers are very important so that vessels don't run into them. It uses a powerful signal, used also by most ships, that not only automatically signals the presence of the building (even overrunning the control of ships in case a reckless pilot has shut down his radar), but also has a technology that allows ships to know the size and characteristics of the building in order to better avoid doing it any damage, as well as details about the weather and the input it collects through the day about the aerial traffic in the area, simply by flashing back at the light with their own signals. In return, the ships automatically feed the building's system informations on the weather, and information about the traffic it has collected on its way.

Well this was a shitshow of a drawing. Basically it's a Frankenstein creature. Sketch was years old; I worked on it for about 2 months; the paper wasn't in the greatest condition (it was originally an old folder cover, too), I managed to not tear it to pieces accidentally, but then it was way too big for my scanner, even after folding it in two. I ended up folding it in 4 then try my best to reconstruct it with Paint and Gimp. It still has many defects, in fact it doesn't even look that good on its own, not as good as I was going for, so I was about to just tear it to pieces voluntarily. But I worked on this for too long, so here it is. As for the paper thing, it's sitting next to me, it's a folded brushed mess
Oh, and now it's old