Atum-Ra System / Pocket Dimension
What This Is
Kemetopolis is a city-planet in the Atum-Ra system, in a pocket dimension, founded by Amenirdis and kept secret from Earth, which it calls Alkebulan.
The law underneath everything: reality answers to its true name. The world has a source code and the source code is speech. Learn what a thing is really called and it does what you say.
Every surface in the city is talking, and most of it is trying to sell you something. The city has to be kept alive on purpose, spoken true every day, or it rots. That daily fight is the engine of every story.
Founding
- Founded
- 744 BCEOn the Alkebulan calendar, the outside birthday.
- Founder
- AmenirdisCarried the founding lexicon across the threshold.
- Internal age
- UnresolvedTime runs differently inside. Nobody fully agrees how old the city truly is.
- Keeper lines
- Twenty-oneFour named and ratified. Seventeen still unspoken.
Elsewhere in the Work
Kemetopolis Immersive
The city as wearable artifact. Names as Adinkra glyphs, architecture that runs code.
The Weekly Dispatch
Blaq Comix. Spoken-name battles are inherently visual, the name manifesting as it leaves the mouth.
Cosmic TV
Broadcast. The Shu domain built into infrastructure, running live.
Greenrose
Records. An archive of a different kind, kept by other means.
Logistical Logistics
Operations. The bureaucracy of magic, a line at the office to renew the permit to light your own stove.
Marc Joy Media
The Dream Terminal. Every world in the studio, one index.
Still unlinked: Scattered Thrones, Blaq Timbre, The Obsidian Feed and NeverOneMonth have no public destination yet.
Kemetopolis is a property of Marc Joy Media. Built in Seattle. We dream in public.
Marcus L. Joyner / Artist-Technologist