The picture shows men and women who were bound and brought here.
The reason for the sparse population in this area is that the spaces meant for living are now used to house people.
With the NCPD and Mox taking over the upper infrastructure, startling images began to appear in the database.
The Brain Demon Gang, like the Vortex Gang, are extreme modifiers, and uncontrolled modifiers can do a lot:
Like the former Vortex Gang, they would even chop off the limbs of passing youths and replace them with ill-fitting prosthetics. Neural inflammation would drive people insane, and the improper limbs would make living worse than death.
The information from the Cyber Modulator would be misinterpreted—raising an arm decoded as spinning around, gripping as letting go, and walking as squatting...
Such absurd mistakes would alter a person's brain, eventually causing subtle and difficult-to-describe mental and neurological damage.