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===The Underguts===

If ever a visual reminder were needed of the decay of the station as it grew, the Underguts would be more than enough.  Some of the corridors, cabins, and compartments in the Underguts were luxury quarters for the wealthiest guests and merchants.  Traces of their old grandeur are still visible if one knows where to look, under centuries of rust and grime.  Flickering or absent lights throw deep shadows on embossed skulls and cracked statuary.  Some of the rooms in the Underguts still see some visitors from the Mechanicus, there to pursue personal projects or maintain indispensable equipment, but the most regular visitors are the hundreds of thousands of indigent spacers, vagrants, and escaped indentured servants from the upper decks.  While the station rarely builds up such a populace of lifelong residents in the Underguts as the Dropouts on Thunderhead do, that is not because it is easier to leave.  Roving gangs of unscrupulous merchants and flesh-dealers sometimes descend into the Underguts to kidnap hundreds of people to be sold as cheap gladiators.  The Adeptus Arbites officially do not know this, but unofficially tolerate the practice, as it reduces strain on the life support systems.