Tor

The Tor is Tarantulas' personal base within the Noisemaze. It is shielded from the mind-bending effects of the pocket dimension and built around a massive core of Obtenteum crystals that serve as its power source. The Tor contains facilities for housing troops, holding prisoners, and of course—laboratories in which Tarantulas develops his bleeding-edge tech. Should the Noisemaze become compromised, Tarantulas can even initiate a mass-shift of the entire base, shrinking it down for transport to ensure none of his vital experiments are lost.

Notes

• A "tor" is a kind of rock formation that juts out of a smooth surrounding, which seems like an apt description of Tarantulas's Tor, a fixed point of stability jutting out of a landscape of incoherent chaos. Given the themes of Sins of the Wreckers, though, it might also be a reference to the computer network of the same name, which was created to maintain anonymity and secrecy of users. This "anonymous" portion of the internet is called the "deep web"—web, see, he's a spider—so it could well be a deliberate reference.