Editing Avalonus (section)

===Aronlot===
This vast subsurface hive is built upon a cluster of seamounts, former mountains of a sunken continent dubbed Drustainland. For centuries, '''Hive Aronlot''' has been dying a slow death as the hive's population has shrunk and its out-lying spires have grown empty and derelict. Though it continues to produce and ship vast quantities of power cells thanks to an abundance of geothermal power, diminishing mining and sea trade has forced its populace to seek their fortunes elsewhere. 

Five great hive-docks, named for ancient starships, crown the seamounts and thousands of lesser, submersible towers either rise from the seafloor or sink through the placid waves of the sheltered sea between them. This interior sea, known as the '''Firepool''', is the heart of Aronlot's economy and produces untold trillions of power cells, plasma containers, promethium by-products, and other sundry goods made with the subterranean resources of Avalonus. In ancient times, the hive-docks were also the heart of an extensive aquaculture industry, one that has withered as the pollution of millennia of industry has taken hold. This failure illustrates a key aspect of the Aronloti personality: invariably short-sighted, or more charitably, rationally self-interested, they are also stubborn and headstrong. When something works for them, they'll keep doing it until it stops being useful, then scramble in creative and open-minded ways to find the next thing that works. Thus have the people of Aronlot staved off, avoided, and defied the disintegration of their hive for millennia. 

Much of Aronlot remains habitable and well-maintained, thanks to ancient and long-standing contracts with the Adepta and Rogue Traders of the Imperium, and there is no single underhive where the poor and mutated may be driven. The middle hive is a blur of well-off merchants, poor preachers, scurrying mutants, and doughty knights, all quietly disdainful of one another. Rather than a powder keg of resentments, however, the martial and chivalrous culture of Avalonus (and the quiet desperation of the populace) keeps the hive quiescent. The city's arenas are constantly expanding, and gladiators and champions of Aronlot are famed throughout Avalonus, even those of less-than-pure descent.

*'''Port Fanel:''' Named for the overlords of the Knight World of Fanelia, who were crucial to the defeat of the Gladocracy's own undersea war-engines, this vast offshore complex is the home port of the ''Reflected Blades of the Imperial Glory'', the small but well-equipped naval and air component of Avalonus' PDF. '''Port Fanel''' is a tangible sign of the hive's continuing importance to the rest of the planet, one that the people of Aronlot cling to ever more desperately as their hive sinks ever deeper into irrelevance.