Earth Empire factory

The Earth Empire factoryThe Legend of Korra—The Art of the Animated Series, Book Four: Balance, page 109. is a facility in the middle of a vast rocky plain where the spirit energy cannon was designed and built. It held the prison that kept the Beifong family, and was later the scene of their escape and confrontation against Kuvira. 
== History ==
After Varrick had refused to work for Kuvira and destroyed his destructive invention, Kuvira ordered Baatar Jr. and Zhu Li to recreate the weapon and bring it to working order as soon as possible. An already existing reeducation facility was converted into a workplace for the weapon. The troops already stationed there and the imprisoned people allowed for a cheap workforce. After Kuvira's army cut down the vines from the banyan-grove tree in the Foggy Swamp to get into possession the spirit vines, the construction of the superweapon escalated greatly.
After just a few weeks, the cannon was tested for the first time. The test was a failure, as someone had tampered with the inner mechanism of the machine. The deliberate malfunction resulted in the near-destruction of the cannon and the factory in which it was housed. After a close examination, Baatar Jr. found out that a gear had almost been broken, causing the malfunction. He promptly ordered his team of scientists and engineers to thoroughly search the machine for any other problems. Kuvira arrived and questioned Zhu Li about the malfunction, who said that she had no idea what went wrong. The next day at the testing ceremony, the machine malfunctioned again due to a missing distributor pin. As Kuvira discovered, it was Zhu Li who had removed it in an attempt to sabotage the device. Kuvira sentenced her to be the first person to be killed with the super weapon, which would be fired at an abandoned city.
At the same time, Bolin, Opal, Lin, and Toph arrived at the facility to free the captive members of the Beifong family. After using her seismic sense, Toph found out that the family was held in an underground bunker, but they were in some sort of raised prison to prevent them from earthbending. The strike force managed to get to the prison chamber unnoticed and managed to free everyone except Suyin and Baatar, who was afraid to go out of the cage as it dangled several tens of feet from the air. As the guards noticed that something was wrong, they sounded the alarm, but the team managed to escape. After escaping the underground prison, the team wanted to leave, except for Bolin, who wanted to save Zhu Li.
Accompanied by Opal, Bolin managed to get to the town on Juicy to save Zhu Li. As they were untying her, the weapon was already firing but missed as it was hit by several large stones, when the others attacked. After a fierce battle, the Beifong family was pinned down and surrounded. They managed to get away when Toph, who had been watching them with Baatar and Huan, toppled several mecha suits and all the soldiers surrounding them with one blow upon her arrival. As Bolin, Zhu Li, and Opal returned on Juicy to get them out, Toph shouted that Kuvira was giving metalbenders a bad name. Kuvira, knowing she was outmatched against Toph, watched idly as the Beifong family flew away.
== Layout ==
The enormous facility was stationed around a large central hanger, where the cannon was housed. Inside the hanger were shelves lining each side, with metal support beams running up along the curve of the hanger and a row of windows running across the wall. Ten Earth Empire flags were hung on the support beams, five on each side. Tracks ran in a straight line through the factory grounds to provide the cannon a mode of movement, which led all the way top the nearby abandoned town. Numerous mecha suits swarmed the factory, assisting in the cannon's construction and guarding the Beifong family.
Around the central hanger were additional warehouses, many of them with tall chimneys that bellowed a constant stream of smoke. Alongside the warehouses were rows dark green tents housing the scientists and troops, with dirt trails connecting each of the fixtures.
Underneath the hangar was a large, vertical ravine that acted as a prison for the Beifong Family. It dipped deep below into the ground, leaving the bottom hidden. Though the cavern was made entirely of earth, the cage was made of wood, and was suspended from the walls via eight long wires–four staked into the ceiling and four staked into the ground, making the earth too distant to bend. Though the cell had many wires suspending it, the cage still had a lot of slack, swinging a good distance when Lin Beifong landed on top of it. Ten crystal lanterns configured in a circle around the walls provided a faint green light for the prison. Guards were posted on one end of the cavern, behind a metallic double-door, which opened on two different hinges, allowing both human guards and mecha suits to go through. The guard door led into another hallway, which had walls and ceilings lined with bricks. The prison held an alarm system, which rang throughout the entire factory when the Beifong family escaped.
On the outskirts of the factory was an abandoned town. On the edges of the rocky plain mountains bordered the town.
== References ==
es:Fábrica del Imperio Tierra
ru:Оружейный завод
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