Luxor is the last surviving city in the Middle East and noted as an impressive technological achievement. The city has created a replica of Ancient Egyptian civilisation to live in.
Description[]
The city is a vast multi-layered construction, inside a glass pyramid. It was known as one of the four wonders of the modern world. Water is pumped up from reserves deep underground. A great rad-desert stretches around the city, including a canyon that was once the Nile river.
Despite the trappings of Ancient Egypt, people worship the monotheistic god Yad.
The population lives in one of the harshest regimes on Earth, unable to even glance wrongly at a Judge, and are shown in art to be living a 'rustic' lifestyle and fashion among the high-tech city.
A comment that the Atomic Wars "brought the countries of the Middle East together" in "blind obedience" may indicate refugees from outside of Egypt entered the city.[1] This also means they're ignoring the other Middle Eastern cities and states that exist, such as Casablanca, Libya, and even neighbouring Siwa.[2]
A resyk facility exists but only for the average citizen: the rich and the senior Judges get a traditional mummification and taken to the old pyramids.
In 2116, it was also known as "Mega-City Six" on maps[3] but it's unclear what led to the name, if this is due to its prominence or if it was the sixth megacity in the 21st century.
History[]
Judge Kamun said the Nile had been Luxor's water source "until the Atomic Wars dried up its source".[4] If he meant the megacity's water source, then it pre-existed before 2070.
The Atomic Wars, according to Luxor's Judges, brought the survivors of the region together in "blind obedience" to them. [5]
The city would not join the Pan-African Compromise.
Luxor as seen from above, and the descent down the tiers
A cult grew within the Judge ranks that worshipped the ancient gods and oped to restore them. Judge Kamun was one of the senior Judges and cultists both.
In 2215, Chief Judge McGruder arranged a cultural exchange with Luxor: Mega-City One's Judge Dredd and Luxor's Judge Rameses would swap jurisdictions for a week. At the time, the city was ruled by Chief Judge Giza. However, Judge Kamun had helped arrange this as part of a plot to empower the awakened mummy Ankhhor the Redeemer with the ka of top Judges. When Dredd arrived, Ankhhor had already been slaying Luxor Judges, devoured the ka of Giza, and was sicced on him - only to be torn apart at resyk. When the exchange ended, Rameses came back with severe injuries from his first few minutes in MC-1.[6]
In 2117, Luxor was one of the multiple megacities that tried to get access to Tek-Judge Eckhart. Rameses was sent as their envoy. Feeling humiliated from the exchange, Rameses attempted to kill Dredd in revenge. (He died instead.) [7]
At the end of 2143, a Luxor Judge was present at the Assembly of Nations summit about Project Providence. [8]
Judges[]
Judge Kamun in profile
Close-up of helmet
The Luxor Judges have extreme power: a wrong look will get you flogged, an apple thief is told to count themselves lucky if they just have an arm shot off. There are no iso-cubes as the Judges imprison their lawbreakers in a maze underneath the Sphinx and then execute them upon 'release'. As a result, crime is severely low and the Judges pride themselves on having the safest megacity on Earth.
Instead of guns, the Judges wield Staffs of Justice that shoot electrical blasts. Their equivalent of Lawmasters for desert trekking are turquoise hovercycles.
Tek-Judges wear little and are adorned with the masks of Anubis, their patron. When a Chief Judge dies, an honour guard of Tek-Judges is buried alive with him to serve him in the afterlife.
Mongoose RPG[]
In the early 2000s RPG, Luxor is centre of an "Egyptian Empire" and the pyramid walls are both covered in solar collectors & can withstand nuclear strikes. Every dawn, the solar collector operators pray to Ra. [9]
2000AD & Worlds of 2000AD RPG[]
In one of the supplemental modules, it's mentioned Luxor has a lunar city colony.[10]