¶ The Rendera District
The Rendera District is the sunny, beautiful coastal district of Haven City. Marked by beautiful waters, coastal cabins, and sunny beaches, the Rendera District is the only district where offworlders may purchase property, typically vacation homes. It is a target for many citizens going on vacations, as its wonderful beaches provide sustainable recreation with its glistening sands and waters, making it quite a popular district to visit. Naturally, being a beach, it is home to a majority of Haven’s Hylotl, who have built up quite an infrastructure and culture in the Rendera District, who share a home with a diverse group of human, whose cultural background has been the source of the Italian and Portuguese architecture and culture that differentiates Rendera from any other place in the Fringe, if not the Milky Way as a whole.
The Rendera District is largely split into two major regions, the poorer urban sector, which is built upon the coast and houses the majority of the Hylotl and Portuguese population, the brunt of the labor force for the District, and the upscale “Tuscan” sector, in the surrounding rolling hills that lie directly inland of the coast; it is here that some of the wealthiest people in the Federation live, including the aristocrats of Renderan society, such as the Guanciale family, who have historically been in the leadership of Rendera’s local government since the first colonists came to Haven. In these rolling hills, the Fringe has its greatest concentration of wineries and grape orchards, which have been producing vintages using the same specimens of grape that were used in the regions of the Italian peninsula on Earth for thousands of years, carefully maintained and brought to Haven before Earth met its fate forty years ago.
The Rendera District is known for the unspoken secret of its crime culture, various mobs and mafias intertwined into the business and government of the region, having influence on its machinations and processes. The youth of Rendera look up to these mobster figures around them, similar to how the children in America’s past looked up to famous bandits and gunslingers from the old west, seeing them as portraits of masculinity and individuality to be emulated in style. This behavior is particularly common among the children of urban Rendera, who often face poverty and a difficult childhood, looking to the mobs around them as something that they can aspire towards in their own desires to have individual freedom and power.
Conflict between the Italian mobs of upper-Rendera, which hold considerable power in industry and the government, and the Portuguese-Hylotl gangs of lower-Rendera, who hold influence with the worker’s unions on the docks and factories, is a common thing to see. It wouldn’t be unexpected for there to be several shootings in the course of a single night during a period of increased tension between these groups, and the people of the District have largely come to terms with the idea that this sort of violence will likely not be winding down any time soon, particularly with the advanced age of the Guanciale patriarch, Antonio de Guanciale, who is expected to begin handing down the leadership of the Guanciale Family Business to his son, Cirillo de Guanciale, soon, something that will surely create waves of tension and uncertainty in the region as the future of the most powerful Italian mob in Rendera lies unknown.
Political Information
The Rendera District tends more towards right-wing libertarian ideals. Being composed mostly of Catholics, Renderans prize Christian ideals, and will favor Christian government figures, though any religious figure will be supported over a non-religious one. Renderans also prize their local culture, vehemently opposing efforts to curb their ability to run their district as they wish, causing them to dislike legislation that they believe oversteps the boundaries of what a federal government should do.