Pandemonium
Gaea, Sol System, Core Sector, Sol Federation
It was the same in almost every city across Gaea, whether it was Tokyo or Shanghai or Istanbul or Paris or New York. Billions of people all over the planet took to the streets and skyways of their home cities, and angrily protested at the galaxy at large.
In London, the people had packed the streets down below with so many bodies that all foot traffic was all but halted.
Up above them, fleets of hoppers did the same for the skyways above. They too clogged their pathways between buildings and all but ensured that the city’s economy ground to an absolute halt. Not a single commercial or industrial or otherwise “productive” vehicle could get through.
The swarm of civilian hoppers literally crowded around commercial vehicles and ensured they couldn’t move anywhere. Vehicles filled with goods and tourists and deposits and deliveries couldn’t budge more than a single meter per hour.