Locus and Barry's starting point looks mostly like the heavily mechanized Capitol City of Chorus, Armonia, but Barry's influence is threaded into the nature of reality itself. Illusory soldiers of both the New Republic and the Federal Army of Chorus can be seen going about their daily business - but are frozen in place.

Actually, it's not that they're really frozen - careful examination shows that they're moving but their movements are so slow as to be barely noticeable, as if the Legionnaires are perceiving things so fast the rest of the world is at a standstill around them. In few places, random lightning arcs between buildings.