Squib Techie
fig 1. view of the recycling center
- Intent: Create a landfill to add some needed character and improve the property values for
Daiya
's lovely Denon sub. - Image Credit: jonone [ image 1 ] [ image 2 ]
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Junkyard | Salvage Yard
- Structure Name: Squib Reclamation
- Classification: Salvage Yard
- Location: District 3, Denon
- Affiliation: Reeilownyfflam-Fflewddur the 27th
- Size: Massive
- Population: Insignificantly Staffed
- Squib
- ASP-series Labor Droids
- DUM-series Pit Droids
- MSE-series Repair Droids
- Various vermin (vegicus, ganker, womp rat, dianoga)
- Profit: Low
- Accessibility: Public Access, with fees required for dropping anything off for disposal. Salvaged and/or refurbished parts are also available for purchase. If a Squib is unavailable, then a droid with a vocabulator will gladly process the transaction for a low, low handling fee, plus taxes, regulatory fees, and tithes.
- Description: Squib Reclamation was the name for the Squib-operated landfill, salvage, and recycling operation that occupied Denon's Moonfall district. Originally a smaller operation, as Denon's resource mining in the region dried up and manufacturing moved closer to the planet's spaceports, the landfill expanded into adjacent factory space.
- Landfill. First and foremost, the Squib Reclamation is a massive landfill, composed of a series of thick-walled cells -- essentially, a series of very large dumpsters buried in the ground, with the trash piling up until the cell can't hold anymore. Corporate Authorities of Denon prescribe limits on both height and volume for landfill cells. Waste processed through the recycling center will be compacted into cubes to maximize the space volume in the cell, but whole objects such as starship components, repulsorlift craft, and even husks of rusting starships can be found here.
- Scrap Yard. Primarily, this area is littered with curiosities or objects sorted out of the landfill or dropped off for disposal. There's some loose organization, such as a pile of discarded droids, the graveyard parking lot of speeders, and various other appliances.
- Recycling Center. Don't lose it, reuse it! Here's where metal can be melted down into new sheeting or bricks, batteries can be processed, and salvageable materials can be siphoned away from the landfill and instead put into new products or materials.
- Workshop (Power Station). Previously a service station that was in business when the Moonfall District was a thriving economic hub of production and manufacturing. Now, it serves as the power station for the waste management landspeeders, the droid corral, and as a repair garage and workshop for the resident Squib.
Low. There's a fence. It's a tall fence. There are also miles of fence, and so some sections are more recently maintained than others, where there may be holes or gaps. There's also a mouse droid that thinks it's a guard dog. Other than that, there's a snub-nosed, Squib-sized blaster pistol that Under Foot keeps in one drawer. But he also keeps the blaster cartridges in another drawer and can't recall now which drawer that is -- so not very helpful. All in all, it's a trash heap, so there isn't a high incidence of people breaking in. And, when they are, its usually because they're just looking to off-load some garbage, dump a body, or the like.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Squib Reclamation center on Denon was a triumphant success for all Squib-kind.
The tale of its founding is a heroic legend of commerce, garbage, and the pursuit of more profit, as told through twenty-seven generations of Squib. Originally a family of salvagers who were breaking even on a garbage scow operating on the Corellia Trade Spine, the trade winds of fate ushered in Four Hundred Years of Darkness that brought the sailing days of those intrepid sanitation engineers to stop at Denon. But, where some saw bankruptcy filing, one brave Squib saw a challenge.
Not just a challenge, but an opportunity!
Because plague or no plague, people would always have a need for someone to take out the trash. And that trash would need somewhere to go. And off-world would not be an option any more! Thus, from humble beginnings as a second-hand thrift store, did those early entrepreneurs lay the ground work for the herculean undertaking that would be owning a landfill. But such was the dream, and that dream was made a reality when Reeilownyfflam-Fflewddur I purchased a recycling center at the corner of Twelfth and Vader in Moonfall. From that humble beginning of used droid parts or being the only place in nine city blocks where you could recycle used batteries, Reeilownyfflam-Fflewddur III took the family business to the next level when he broke ground on the first landfill cells. Something that Reeilownyfflam-Fflewddur XIV would repeat when he bought out the factory next door as it was going out of business, bulldozing it to the ground and expanding the landfill and scrap yard into the adjacent space.
As Moonfall declined, the Squib prospered. Reeilownyfflam-Fflewddur XXI added the power station, as Moonfall became a husk of its former self. Just abandoned manufacturing, exhausted mines, and one large pile of trash.
A tradition of waste management that Reeilownyfflam-Fflewddur the 27th continues in the proud tradition of his father, and his father, and his mother before him because his great-great-great grandfather had four girls, but also her father before her!
Heavy is the Squib burdened with a legacy such as this. Ree can only hope to make daddy proud until they meet again, at the Ancient Trash Heap of the Gods.
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