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INDUSTRIAL ZONE X-4: RAUSGEBERGRAD
"Imagine it. All the mundane horror of slavery. The torture. The beatings. All beneath that black, acrid cloud."
"Imagine it. All the mundane horror of slavery. The torture. The beatings. All beneath that black, acrid cloud."
CIS Petty Office
Deadrick McLure, Prisoner AC-72
Deadrick McLure, Prisoner AC-72
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Flesh out the lore of Prefsbelt Command.
- Image Credit:
- Canon: No.
- Permissions: None.
- Links: None I would deem necessary.
AT-SG on the production line at the ArkOne Walker Foundry.
- City Name: Industrial Zone X-4
- Colloquial Name: Rausgebergrad
- Classification: Metropolis
- Location: Prefsbelt IV
- Affiliation: Prefsbelt Command [The New Imperial Order]
- Population: Crowded
- Demographics: In terms of species, the demographics of Rausgebergrad are expansive as the New Imperial Order finds itself beholden to massive refugee crises due to Bryn’aduhl, Sith Empire and Brotherhood of the Maw. So a myriad of species now inhabit the facility. Ergo, a better metric of demographics is not species wise, but works more so with work demographics.
- Population Demographics
- Prefsbelt Command Personnel: 22%
- Non-Prefsbelt Civilians: 42%
- Civilian Demographics:
- Prefsbelt Command Citizens: 44%
- Refugees To Be Permanently Resettled: 36%
- Fly-In-Fly-Out Specialist Workers: 20%
- Civilian Demographics:
- Prison Labourers: 36%
- Prisoner Demographics:
- Sith-Imperial POW’s: 37%
- Non-Military Criminals: 35%
- Confederate POW’s: 18%
- Brotherhood of the Maw POW’s 10%
- Prisoner Demographics:
- Population Demographics
[Pictured, the Cloud from approximately two hundred kilometers away.]
"Citizens are reminded that grade six protective equipment is mandatory during any excursions to the surface! Failure to comply may result in cancer of the lung, liver, tongue, pancreas and heart. Along with cases of blood poisoning, emphysema, permanent blindness, brain damage, radiation poisoning, loss of limb and death. We thank for your compliance!"
~Prefsbelt Command safety briefing for smokestack maintenance.
- Wealth Rating: Medium
- Wealth: Wealth in Rausgebegrad is not something that is extensively addressed by its denizens, nor the regime. Clothing is all fairly uniform. There is little in the way of ability to purchase luxury goods except for surprise shipments to the civilian commissary. Also considering that sizeable portions of Rausgebergrad's populace are one; effectively slave labour. And two; guards. There is very little in the way of the ability to flex wealth, and the slave labour portion does drive the median income down. And even those denizens who are paid, their wages are not exceptional and Prefsbelt Command considers the leave passes it provides, part of their payment program. Along with deductions for additional rations, water use, and disciplinary infractions such as breaching curfew, frolicking too loudly, receiving a noise complaint or the smuggling of contraband material.
- Stability Rating: High
- Freedom & Oppression: Rausgebergrad is an exceedingly oppressive environment. Even the free citizens who live there are governed by exceedingly strict schedules. While they are technically free, work permits and the chaincode system tie them to the facility. Even while on leave to Nova Avalonia, they have to report to the train system and are beholden to restrictions put in place back at Rausgebergrad. Sworn to NDA’s about the intricacies of what goes on there.
- Description: Perhaps the most pertinent feature spotted first for any observer to Rausgebergrad is the Cloud. A large, black mass seen from space, spewing thick and grimy industrial pollutants. Even from twenty kilometers away, one needs wear protective equipment. The actual facility itself is largely built underground, in a valley. Large smokestacks creep from the ground, and spew thick smoke across the system. Other than the gargantuan smokestacks, nothing appears above the surface. Even the conveyex convoys, for their own safety, disappear into the dark confines of the facility, well before they see those large monolithic structures.
The infamous cigar lounge within the Prefsbelt Office of Industry and Labour Complex.
Rausgebergrad can be described in four separate parts which comprise its construction.
- Camp Victoria: The largest of the camps, although not in reality a military structure. Camp Victoria is effectively a civilian place of work. Each citizen is fitted with a small cell. For couplings, larger cells. There are no children allowed within Rausgebergrad, due to the lack of facilities there to care for them. Still, compared to their indentured colleagues, those of Camp Victoria have it easier.
- Comms Hub: Monitored and tapped, the Communication Hub, or Comms Hub, is the centre which allows for parents to contact their children housed elsewhere, and even their family who may be aboding elsewhere.
- Communal Areas: The communal areas for Camp Victoria are not by any means spacious. They’re largely cramped, and the air has a sickly sweetness to it, thanks to the decontaminants sprayed within it. Still, those of Camp Victoria have access to gyms, a cinema, a theatre, and even an artificial park and swimming pools.
- Ration Dispensary: As with all things on Prefsbelt IV, it comes from the state. And that is also the case with rations and meals. Prepared by a core of citizen cooks, and military logisticians, rations are provided daily to the shifts of Rausgebergrad. Either directly to the factories, or to be delivered home and eaten in ones quarters.
- Commissary: The citizens of Rausgebergrad are paid for their time, and have access to the Commissary. It stocks some retail and consumer goods, but not an extensive array. Fashion trends within Rausgebergrad are often several months behind those elsewhere in the Galaxy, and its stock is limited. Workers in Rausgebergrad are encouraged to save for trips to Nova Avalonia’s Gastarbeiter district.
- Trade School and Technical Academy: Most of the denizens of Camp Victoria were refugees from the conflict with the Sith Empire. Many of whom were either unskilled in manual labour, or needed retraining. To ensure productivity and as well as to keep workers safe, Prefsbelt Command runs a technical college which certifies its workers in skills. Be it the maintaining of food and cooking, computer sciences, engineeering, or as little as welding. It allows for a skilled workforce capable of being deployed wherever their masters need them.
- Camp Trachta: With further victories on Vijun, Camp Trachta has become one of the largest way stations for the working of Sith Imperial military prisoners. Naval personnel, grunts and other assorted soldiers have been rounded up to work on Prefsbelt IV. They are the prisoners who have increasingly had an easier time. Now with them working only ten hour rather than fourteen hour shifts.
- Cell Block Aurek: Cell Block Aurek is the largest cell block in Rausgebergrad, and houses approximately eighty percent of the Sith-Imperial labour force. The cells are cramped, at a ratio of 4:1.
- Communal Sector: Compared to the other work camps within Rausgebergrad, is more comfortable and conventional. There are even sort of amenities to enjoy. Such as a small theatre. A small commissary with some luxuries like cigarra, and an exercise yard.
- Camp Tavlar AKA: The Brood: With the assassination of Irveric Tavlar, there’s been a small contingent of Brotherhood of the Maw, and other associated entities. Those of the Brotherhood of the Maw, are often sheltered with other miscellaneous or apolitical prisoners. The Brood has a certain reputation for cruelty, and those put inside find themselves the target of attacks.
- Cell Block Kresh: With it being the newest of the cell blocks, Kresh is the worst. And most hackneyed of the sort. Still under construction, those who abode here, live effectively in stys, with catwalks above where Prefsbelt Auxiliaries often times beat them. These stys are often seven to one, with one toilet. And where food rations are dropped from above.
- Camp Yularen AKA:Talon Town: The Confederacy of Independent Systems entry into the Third Imperial Civil War saw an unprecedented amount of hatred manifested toward them by Prefsbelt Command leader, Carlyle Rausgeber. With the installation of Order 227, all POW’s of the Confederacy have been rounded up and hauled to Camp
- Cell Block Besh: Definitively a worse place to be than their Sith Imperial counterparts, Confederate prisoners are stowed in cells with a ratio of 10:1, with there being a 20% decrease in size.
- Communal Sector: The CIS personnel have no real communal area. It is deliberately devoid of seats, and is more used as a mustering ground for work parties sent to various factories. Also as an ad hoc morgue for the morning crew to drag out the dead for inspection.
Maintenance point within Rausgebergrad.
- Industrial Sector: In the dark heart of Rausgebergrad is the industrial zone, with dozens of armaments factories running around the clock, working their workers thin on assembly lines. An entire legions worth of military equipment, just in weapons and armour
- Volkswaffe Fabrik: The Prefsbelt Command owned Volkswaffe is one of the largest factories within the sector, with it being effectively a front for Prefsbelt Command to export weapons.
- Kuat-Entralla Components Hub: With technical parts critical to the development of equipment, the Kuat-Entralla Components Hub creates computers, engine parts, and hyperdrives for the various shipyard facilities on Prefsbelt IV.
- The ArkOne Walker Foundry: Critical to imperial doctrine everywhere is the use of walkers, large and small. ArkOne, a small independent arms manufacturer from Bastion found themselves, in the wake of the Sith Imperial retreat, new found contracts. Renting space from Prefsbelt Command, and licensing manufacturing from the New Imperial Order.
- Utilities: Beyond the work camps, quarters and factories, Prefsbelt Command keeps a tight leash on the security and logistical sectors of the city.
- Transport Hub: With flight an impossibility and a constant need to dispatch both guards and civilians in and out, a large conveyex hub rests at the edge of Rausgebergrad. The city houses three terminals. The first for citizen, and personnel use. The second, is a heavy freight hub, which brings in raw materials and components to be broken down. The third dispatches equipment from the city, to both Prefsbelt Command facilities, but also for transportation off world.
- Medical Centre: Servicing both the indentured labourers and civilians, the medical centre is often times left treating cancer caused by exposure to the surface, along with miscellaneous injuries. Discretely however, prisoners who are found to suffer life debilitating conditions are often times euthanised and dispatched in a Naraka Series worksuit.
- Reactor: Tapping into a lava flow beneath the facility, Rausgebergrad is powered entirely by thermal energy and maintained by a staff of military engineers.
- The P.O.I.L Offices: With the amount of small corporations operating within Rausgebergrad, some oversight is necessary. Enter the Prefsbelt Office of Industry and Labour, which oversees production quotas. While each corporation is provided an office, they are all within the P.O.I.L complex. These offices are not however without perks, and there is a lounge for POIL staff to booze and schmooze with their corporate counterparts. Often times liquoring them up as to cause blackmail.
- The Cloud: Not a fixture of the facility, but rather a result of it. With the engines of industry running all day and night, thick, industrial pollutants are spewed into the atmosphere. So dense, and toxic, TIE fighters and shuttles attempting to fly through have found their engines corrode and die, making vehicular travel from the air an impossibility. The cloud is so toxic, extended exposure for more than three minutes sans PPE, results in death. And those who stay with PPE for more than an hour may have permanent damage to their organs. Even twenty kilometers from the facility, soldiers patrolling must wear equipment, in case of fallout from the gargantuan smokestacks.
SECURITY RATING: Maximum
SECURITY: Prefsbelt Command runs Industrial Zone X-4 like a military camp because it to a degree is. One third of the populace are prisoners, who work themselves to the bone, and even the citizens are treated to martial law-like conditions. There is a constant, jackbooted presence. And security checks are taken constantly, verifying the identity of citizens and prison labourers. Those who fail, even for innocuous reasons are detained, and punished. Prisoners often disappear, and never return. There’s an odious spectre of fear which manifests in the dark confines of the facility.
One of the many conference rooms within the Prefsbelt Office of Industry and Labour Complex.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
When Prefsbelt Command was formed, its leadership immediately set about beginning the construction of weapons factories. During the negotiations with Irveric Tavlar which had held, Carlyle Rausgeber, the leader of what would become Prefsbelt Command informed him that he would be able to provide industrial aid. Something the fledgling New Imperial Order had to some degree suffered from a lack of.
Prefsbelt Command immediately foisted itself into the effort of revitalising the war economy. With the victorious New Imperial Order, came spoils, in the way of prisoners. Sith-Imperial, who became the backbone of the Prefsbelt war economy. Constructing facilities like X-4 among others. Initially X-4 was intended to merely be a fortified series of armaments stores, with some minor manufacturing. However, it grew beyond that as the Prefsbelt Command worked to engage corporations to join them. While most of the Sith corporatocracy was split, between the NIO and Sith Empire, Prefsbelt Command engaged with a dozen smaller firms. Offering them competative contracts, so long as their shipping and employment was retained in their hands.
Facility X-4, administered dutifully by General Liu Krave, became a model facility. With Krave successfully lobbying for vast expansion projects, to allow not only for prisoners, but shipments of civilian personnel. Those left disaffected, homeless or without work thanks to the Third Imperial Civil War. By the Battle of Genaris, X-4 became the single largest producer of armaments of Prefsbelt IV, accounting for approximately 5% of all small arms put into the arms of its various forces. For this achievement, Krave was put as overseer of a number of facilities, and his leader, the now Admiral Regent of the New Imperial Navy, Carlyle Rausgeber formally approved the use of the term Rausgebergrad.
Additional prisoners sent to the facility were, buy and large petty criminals, as the war against the Sith stagnated. But, Rausgebergrad would later find itself, after the unsuccessful intervention of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, home to the POW's retained from it. However officially, these prisoners would be legally defined as insurgents, and thus be able to be treated with little care. Their barracks receiving about half the facilities and capacity for rations as the Sith.
The only real crisis to grip Rausgebergrad was that of the succession of hostilities against the Sith Empire. With there being a blanket amnesty provided by the Imperial Assembly to those who had fought for Darth Carnifex's Empire. As a result of that, and not wishing to jeapordise production, Carlyle Rausgeber instituted a cover up. And while approximately 30% of the Sith-Imperial POW's were released from Rausgebergrad, the remainder had their release papers deliberately destroyed, or misfiled. As to keep them there indefinitely. Conversely however, at least compared to the other prisoners, conditions have marginally improved. With the installation of some recreational utilities, and access to literature, and a decline in their work hours.’
Increasingly, Rausgebergrad has become the dumping ground for members of the Brotherhood of the Maw. Those not slated for experimentation that is. The ones who end up at Rausgebergrad are conversely deemed unremarkable enough, that they are not worth the trouble of autopsying. However, in keeping with the line of segregating prisoners from each other, should they align with a major military. The Brotherhood of the Maw, and their cellblock, nicknamed the Brood, is still at work. With it really being just pens, with little bedding, where rations can be lobbed down bellow.
Nonetheless, as the Second Great Hyperspace War looms, Rausgebergrad once again tools itself for another great war to fuel.
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