Muspelheim

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Muspelheim 	Muspelheim
Location 	South-West Norway
Nearest city 	Bergen
Year Built 	Ongoing construction - began in 2015
Affiliated Factions	The European Federation
Named for the firey home of the… fire giants, Muspelheim more than lives up to the name, as the vast industrial cityscape spews boiling steam and burning slag into the freezing North Sea, from its position straddling the fjords around Bergen. Muspelheim, rather than being one single facility is more accurately described as a vast, interlinking network of factories, refineries, and powerplants that all make use of the location’s excellent connections via rail or sea to the rest of the Federation, and the facilities access to the majority of the European reserves of suit-tech.
Most of the facility is under the ownership of Lyons Heavy Engineering, though most other large corporations operating in Europe have partial ownership, with the European government itself holding the next largest stake in the facility. Muspelheim is primarily responsible for the production and refinement of metals, fuels, sludge (through the use of salvaged suit components), and other basic materials, which can then be converted - usually on site - into a variety of different goods, ranging from warships and warmachines to farming equipment and locomotives.
Being of such critical value to both the day-to-day life of a European Citizen, and to the European warmachine, Muspelheim and the surrounding areas are granted a large garrison and significant fortifications throughout the factories. Due to the massive fortifications present at the facility, it is believed that any attack launched on Muspelheim would likely prove disastrous, quickly bogging down into a slog through the endless labyrinth of ducts, pipes, and smog that makes up the facility.
A significant part of Muspelheims success could be attributed to the widespread use of Vannai technology in a variety of industrial roles. The largest share of artifacts recovered is turned over to the corporations for exclusive use inside Muspelheim (once their use has been ascertained by other branches of government). This system has proven incredibly effective, with Vannai technology being used to greatly increase the rate at which the facility can manufacture goods, at the expense of incredibly high power draw, an ongoing issue which the facility (and surrounding areas) face to this day. One proposed solution is using shaped nuclear charges to crack through hundreds of kilometers of the Earth’s crust to access geothermal energy reserves, though this approach is deemed to be “overkill”, “incredibly expensive”, and “probably dangerous”.
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