User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/World-1: The Neo-Methuselahverse/@comment-4867780-20190619051844/@comment-26322734-20190628030544

"What about the construction process of Sola Longia ? How did they manage to build a city at the heart of a giant volcano, despite the crazy heat and pressure levels 24/7 ? And keep the immense capital so safe and stable from there on ? Are the technical countermeasures to these building/security issues also part the scientific fuzziness you mentioned, not just the geothermal siphoning itself ?"

So as mentioned earlier in the character sheet, technology progressed much faster than it does in real life. This is because of Engineer-type neohumans. Engineers can design technology that doesn't follow the laws of physics - and the vast majority of space-age tech in this 'verse is from Pathrazer himself, who was the most powerful recorded Engineer-type neohuman ever (his power was essentially Imaginative Technomagic, he could invent anything he could think of).

So while Sola Longia was built, city planners had access to things like hyper-strong and lightweight metamaterials that would make room temperature superconductors look like copper wires, force fields, etc. Of course, the way the city was built, it was actually fairly far away from the volcano until it grew.

"Black Spiral seems a lot more powerful than the Camarilla on every level, though I imagine running the Sol Federation from the shadows in a time of constant global crisis comes with heavily draining responsibilities and many strings attached, so they can't really allocate the necessary resources to wipe out the Camarilla, while having to maintain the randomness of quantum events to keep the Monarchs at bay also prevents them from gradually thinning out the enemy's manpower into insignificance. Seems like Black Spiral have their hands pretty tied on the Camarilla matter."

Precisely. Black Spiral is focused on maintaining their high level of secrecy and power (which is very, very difficult, luckily the head of the conspiracy is a super-intelligent AI), and they usually let the superheroes deal with the Camarilla. The Camarilla isn't known that well as an organization, but all of its members are fairly notorious supervillains, so their progress is regularly slowed down by superhero organizations like the Neohuman Society - not to mention the massive property damage associated with Jotnar attacks is enough to foil any supervillain's "take over the world" plot.