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Malakim network: incoming transmission…

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Date: C666

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Hey, this is Mandi-Bull, errr, Specialist Tanker Mandi-Bull of the Razor Rock clan. I heard you lot from P.R.A. Academy wanted a tactical dump of the wastelands? That I can do, but not sure why you’d care. They aren’t called the wastelands for kicks. But whatever, it’s your coin.

So where to start? This place stinks, but it didn’t always. According to the lore, the three original punks found this place and chose it ’cause it was metal-rich and verdant. Imagine that, eh? A flakking verdant Kerberos! It blows the mind, doesn’t it? So what happened, you ask? How did we end up on this barren, slightly toxic death world that we call home?

Well, we are responsible; that’s a kick in the pants, ain’t it? Seems when that ol’ legendary gleamin’ Glorious Future went all nuclear, enough of it survived on a trajectory that was reachable by the Gearbreaker ship… What was it called again? Slagg, I forget. It doesn’t matter — they hooked onto it and started scrapping it for materials and old tech. Went on like that for yonks, but as the deceleration began when we entered Hades local space, you know the system that we live in, bullets and brass. I don’t know how simple to make this.

So lemme back up. We live on the planet Kerberos, named for the three large continents it used to have — I’ll get to that later. This planet was in the Hades system, named for the reddish color of the sun, TRM dash something-something. That’s what the old solar imperial techs used to call it. This system was far enough from the earth and the solar empire that pursuit was unlikely, and it had an earth-like planet: TRM dash seven-something, also known as Kerberos. It was full of water, equatorial jungles, temperate zones, polar zones. It had all the zones.

So then we show up, and when the ships start to decelerate, that weakens some of the moorings on the floating scrapyard that became the Gearbreaker ship, the Robert something. And as our trajectory became sharper and deceleration became greater, those moorings failed, and at least half an interstellar arc ship still full of fabricators, and nano storage, and nuclear reactors all broke off, and BAM! The wreckage hit right smack-dab in the middle of one of the continents. This caused some not insignificant problems for the local flora and fauna. The main crash site is said to be the Impact Sea in the middle of Metalos.

This kicked up dust storms and triggered earthquakes, and then all the freaked-out nanobots started to do their thing but only half-arsed due to their lack of a centralized computer system to monitor their duties. They got weird and started to build half-constructed foundries or lay down miles of pipeline that went nowhere. So between the time period that the wreckage broke off and impacted the planet, our deceleration into orbit, and our wild descent through the clouds to form our new homes, the planet had changed a bit. We still had oceans and some forests, but much of the verdant life had died or was dying.

Then came the bullslag axiom that the Holy Corp psychos had a mandate from their shareholders that they should rule the planet. We, the people, and the gears-for-brains objected a bit, and that was the first of the Axiom Wars. That war went bad real fast, like neutron bombs, nano bombs, and nukes bad. After that, the place was pretty much wrecked, and the weaponized nanobots from the nano-bombs comingled with the wild nanos, and they got even weirder, but that’s a different report.

Of the three continents, we have Metalos, Dios, and Lemos. With the boiling of the oceans during the Axiom Wars, Metalos became the largest continent, covering 80% of the globe. The other two, Dios and Lemos, are much smaller and are still surrounded by the small vestiges of the planet’s oceans, Ingot to the south and Sidaero to the north. We built our great city in the southern hemisphere on the coast of Slag Bay. The Gearbreakers, as I said, are on the shores of the Brackish Sea, and in the north, on the edges of the ice flows, the Holy Corp set up their money church.

Metalos also has vast areas that are only held by the factions in name only, and are mostly unexploited, making expansion even in the face of war very tempting. Places like the Calix Planes and the two continents, Dios and Lemos, are less touched by war and even have some hearty local flora and some mutated lifeforms if the rumors are true. The kind that can gobble up a tank or launch spines through an aircraft.

So that leaves us with the wastelands. Like the rest of the planet, they are metal-rich, with magnetite being the most common ore in that area, with some galena deposits and uraninite. There are three largeish seas: the Brackish, which is, well, brackish and dead, poisoned by Gearbreaker manufacturing; the Impact Sea, which is said to hold lost tech at its bottom; and the Blood Sea, which has lots of magnetite in it, staining the waters red.

The land varies between rocky, hilly, and mountainous. There are some runoff rivers, toxic still ponds, and I hear there may be some blue waters, but those are most likely rumors. Most of the territory is old battlegrounds where ruined cities stand empty, wrecks of planes, mechs, and tanks still dot the land. There are also lots of old bases, foundries, even some lost fabricators. But you also have the nano-plagued, the bandits, and even some faction spies up to no good.

I’d assume most of you know-it-alls are aware we are currently involved in the oh-so-wittily named Paradox War, thanks to moot leader Sin-D for that one. If their axiom is that the Holy Corpees should run the show, the paradox is that the Metal Punks should run things instead, since everyone else is a bunch of blockheads. Expectedly, the blockheads disagree.

While the moot idea isn’t tracking, the factions are still mostly abiding by the treaty of Cresh. So we reached out to the lunatics on Scyla to send us some of their people who might like to live in this middle ground and carve out their own empires, creating a buffer zone between the factions to stop the constant warfare maybe. It didn’t work, but now we have cat’s-paws to do most of the fighting for us. We still poke our noses in occasionally and send out mercs, but mostly the Paradox War has been fought with Earther barons on the front lines. It works well for us — we can focus on whatever the slag we want to do, or what the moot makes us do.

That’s all I got for ya. Good luck and slag off!

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