Vorke is an absolutely massive city located in the northern part of The Empire. It used to be extremely culturally and politically relevant, but due to the recent goings on, this is no longer the case.

Although it was never the capital or at the center of The Empire, it WAS very relevant and is in many ways still an enormous, churning machine of a city made up of different types of people from broad array of cultures.

In a lot of ways, though, Vorke is a backwater. It’s the offsite conference center of the Empire. It was historically a place where dignitaries would meet to sign accords, where great plans for the Empire’s future would be drafted. This has given Vorke a tremendous sense of self importance, but in reality, no one who isn’t from there really thinks that much of it. It’s a neutral meeting ground and is only as diverse and bustling as it is because it has had to accommodate these events, but it’s all pretty shallow and surface level. As the Empire’s attentions have turned from soft power to crisis management or whatever the hell is going on (the game should be deliberately extremely vague about this), the life beneath the shallow administrative surface of the Empire has been left to fester - or flourish, depending on who you ask. Vorke has a culture all of its own that is wholly separate from the image of power.

It's where you are and where the Library is located.