The center triangle of Nueva Valparaiso was smothered under the anchorpoint terminal of its space elevator, three hundred meters on each side. Sleek and black, its lower levels boasted restaurants, hotels, casinos, and even brothels. Its surface-level concourse, however, was filled with stores-turned-shrines in honor of Sky Haussmann, and rarely frequented. Originally a secular business enterprise, sometime around 2492 the Church of Sky stormed the terminus and threatened to release canisters full of their indoctrination virus if any attempt to retake it was made; eventually a compromise was reached, allowing the Bridge Authority to continue running the space elevator minus a significant portion of the revenue.