Sorry nobody's gotten back to you yet. Anyang isn't explicitly mentioned in the core EP rulebook or in Sunward, so there's not any additional information explicitly about it in the books. However, we do know some things about similar cities. Maglev trains run most of the long-distance transport. There are "urban highways", but probably not in a dome of 30,000. Valles-New Shanghai is a dome with internal highways and a maglev train, but it has 37,000,000 inhabitants, so it's orders of magnitude larger. 30,000 in a dome habitat probably means that you're looking at inhabited areas of only a few city blocks in size, since a lot of the stuff under/around the dome is infrastructure run by AI with transhuman oversight. Noctis-Quianjo is 13,000,000 strong, and we know for a fact that they have taxis, complete with ground cars, flyers, and a metro train system. There are also bikes, unicycles (for the brave), and parkour (for the braver) as more short-distance forms of transportation. So for a 30,000 strong dome, I'd expect to see a lot of just traveling on foot. There's probably not enough size to really justify a metro. Since domes have a lot of vertical space and not a whole lot of horizontal space, you'll see people taking elevators (there's not really enough room in a dome that size for flyers) in large buildings, which will be fairly common, though limited by the height of the dome. Keep in mind that depending on how people live, the infomorph/synthmorph population, and population density. Even if we say that population density is 1000 people per square kilometer, which would be a miraculously expansive amount of living space, you'd only have a 30-50 square kilometer area for the whole city, and efficient planning could mean that people only have two to five kilometers to travel each day.

I currently live in a town of around 50,000, and the bike is king. Likewise in most dense European cities, which a dome city would take after (to say nothing of the Arabian feel EP's Mars has with the souks, so small and agile is the name of the game). You'd probably have a few mass movers around the perimeter of the dome and, if it's a well-planned one meant to expand, a subterranean freight/people mover system if the place is big enough. Hell, if you wanted something memorable, have a gondola system suspended from the dome itself, with a central hub. Especially in a buried crater dome, this might be one of the only places you can get a view outside and/or the main point of ingress/egress.

KarlHeinzVogel wrote:

Bikes: I live in Amsterdam (700.000) and the bike is indeed king.

Having Dutch friends myself, I can vouch that this is indeed entirely true. Further evidence

Cyberbrains are marginally more cost effective for picking up mnemonic augmentation, access jacks, and a puppet sock. While there aren't any rules for cyberbrain biomorphs in the book, only cyberbrain pods, I'd imagine that it's possible to achieve a slight (10%?) cost reduction by using a cyberbrain. Alternatively, debilitating injuries to the brain could mean that it's as simple to scoop out the remains and plunk in some hardware as it is to repair the mangled tissue.

There was a thread about the cost benefit analysis of Cyberbrains versus meatbrains, since biomorphs can have cyberbrains and synthmorphs can have meatbrains. Adv. to Cyberbrain in Splicer: resleeving time is 3 seconds instead of 1 hour, plus the aforementioned implants: mnemonic augmentation (needed for XP production!), puppet sock (still not 100% on why that is a good thing), and access jacks (use an Ecto for hacking rather than risk Basic Mesh Inserts! cf. Ghost in the Shell's combat hacking). Downside: vulnerable to being hacked and ravaged by Scorchers, plus integration and alienation penalties maybe?

Lazarus wrote:

SquireNed wrote:

. . .While there aren't any rules for cyberbrain biomorphs in the book, only cyberbrain pods, I'd imagine that it's possible to achieve a slight (10%?) cost reduction by using a cyberbrain. . .

Rimward pgs. 187-188 wrote:

BIOMORPHS WITH CYBERBRAINS The cultures of the outer system are far more accepting of forking and regular resleeving. For this reason, many biomorphs in the outer system are equipped with cyberbrains rather than organic brains by default. This makes the resleeving process quicker (less than a minute as opposed to an hour) and makes it substantially easier to fork. The drawback is that cyberbrains are vulnerable to hacking (p. 261, EP). Biomorphs with this option have Access Jacks, Cyberbrain, Mnemonic Augmentation, and an optional Puppet Sock. Increase CP Cost by 5; Credit Cost remains the same.

Bah, should've checked MRG instead of just the core rulebook.