Acier Moonbound
Wandering Wolf
VERGEWORKS
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To flesh out Bonadan and establish the Vergeworks as an industrial city-location on Bonadan. This submission also serves to contextualize
Acier Moonbound
's upbringing. - Image Credit: Ash Pink - ArtStation
- Canon: No
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Bonadan | Acier Moonbound
- City Name: Vergeworks
- Classification: Industrial Borough
- Location: Bonadan
- Affiliation: Planetary Government | CorpSec | Managed through layered municipal and corporate oversight rather than a single ruler.
- Population: Crowded - The Vergeworks supports a massive labor population tied directly to Bonadan's manufacturing, logistics, and reclamation industries.
- Demographics: Multi-species. The Vergeworks is broadly species-agnostic; prejudice is economic rather than racial. Droid labor is widespread, particularly in hazardous and repetitive industrial roles.
- Wealth: Poor - Despite generating enormous economic value for Bonadan, wealth within the Vergeworks is minimal. Wages are low, housing is overcrowded, and infrastructure investment prioritizes productivity over quality of life.
- Stability: Medium The Vergeworks is functionally stable but socially strained. Crime, labor disputes, and environmental hazards are common, though large-scale unrest is rare due to economic dependency and heavy bureaucratic control.
- Freedom & Oppression: Freedom exists largely in theory. Residents are not overtly oppressed, but economic pressure, debt cycles, zoning laws, and corporate regulation severely limit social mobility. Surveillance is normalized in industrial zones, while residential Sectors receive minimal oversight unless disruption threatens productivity.
- Description: The Vergeworks is Bonadan's vast industrial city-district. It is a dense, perpetually active sprawl of factories, starports, refineries, scrapyards, and residential Sectors. Smoke-choked skylines loom over narrow streets lit by industrial glow rather than sunlight. The city never truly sleeps, its rhythm dictated by cargo schedules, assembly lines, and reclamation cycles. Life here is loud, crowded, and utilitarian. It is designed to function, not to flourish.
POINTS OF INTEREST
- Sector 9G - One of the poorest residential Sectors in the Vergeworks, wedged between a secondary starport and a sprawling droid scrapyard. Housing consists of repurposed labor dormitories, orphanages, and cramped residential blocks. Air quality is poor, power fluctuations are common, and scavenging is an accepted means of survival.
- The Droid Scrapyards - Vast reclamation fields where decommissioned and damaged droids are dismantled for parts. Memory cores are wiped before disposal, though fragments occasionally remain. Scavengers, technicians, and illicit dealers frequent the area.
- Secondary Starports - Cargo-focused ports operating around the clock. These starports serve industrial shipping rather than civilian travel, creating constant noise, vibration, and pollution in nearby Sectors.
- Industrial Markets - Dense street-level markets selling salvaged parts, tools, recycled components, and black-market goods. These markets form the economic backbone of residential Sectors.
SECURITY
- Security Rating: Medium - Security within the Vergeworks prioritizes industrial continuity over civilian safety.
- Corporate security forces protecting factories, refineries, and starports
- Surveillance systems concentrated in industrial zones
- Minimal law enforcement presence in residential Sectors
- Rapid response to sabotage, strikes, or disruptions affecting production
- Informal enforcement by gangs and labor collectives in poorer Sectors
Visitors are generally tolerated but advised to avoid unregulated areas without local knowledge.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Vergeworks developed alongside Bonadan's rise as a manufacturing and logistics hub. Initially a collection of purpose-built industrial facilities, it expanded rapidly as labor demand increased. Residential Sectors were added incrementally to house workers, often repurposing temporary structures into permanent housing.
Over time, the Vergeworks evolved into a self-sustaining industrial city-district, absorbing economic strain and environmental impact so that Bonadan proper could remain prosperous and clean. Its growth was organic rather than planned, resulting in layered infrastructure, overcrowding, and stark economic stratification.
Though indispensable to Bonadan's economy, the Vergeworks remains socially marginalized.
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