Butcher Bay Correctional Facility

The **Butcher Bay Correctional Facility** was one of the most notorious supermax prisons ever created. Located on the harsh desert deathworld of Cardolac 4, it was billed as being inescapable by Vanguard Incorporated that owns the facility. The sands surrounding the prison was also fitted with landmines for those who did manage to get out of the prison and if they managed to survive that they would have to survive on uninhabitable desert that would claim them in a matter of months if not weeks or even days. When it was operational it once housed some of the worst criminals in the galaxy with some rumors speculating that it also housed dangerous chaos cultists deep within the prison.

Theron Shan mentions that most of the infamy it gained was due to its' lack of attempt at rehabilitation its' prisoners, often times putting them in facilities designed to let them rot away and lose a part of themselves in the process.

Butcher Bay has three levels to it, each level detailed a separate security function, with level one being on the surface of the planet, level two being underground and worked as a mining facility, with the last level, level three being a massive storage facility where the most violent prisoners are kept, often in either cryo or carbonate.

## Hierarchy

Two of the main forces or higher-ups that run Butcher Bay is head of security Abbott, and the warden Hoxie, the head of Vanguard Incorporated. Hoxie runs the prison with the air of a businessman, although maintaining tight control of the dealings within and without. While a pencil pusher, Hoxie is still in good physical condition, as he beat a prisoner at one point with nothing more than his fists. The head guard, Abbott, is Hoxie's watchdog. He is a thug with authority behind him. Abbott and his guards seem to enjoy the power they wield over the inmates, and prisoners being beaten to within an inch of their lives for little (or no) reason is not an uncommon occurrence. However, Abbott later finds Theron to be a harder inmate to break than any of the other prisoners.

## Structure

### Level One

The Single Max zone is built on the surface of the planet and is more of the "traditional" prison area. Inmates are kept in shared cells with a common recreational area. With level one being more of a sleepy part of Butcher Bay, there is relatively little order in the area, with gangs staking out territorial claims throughout the cells. However, Single Max is secured by auto turrets that lock-on to any inmate attempting to enter a restricted area, carrying a weapon, or conducting an act of violence of any kind. The courtyard has a wide hole in the center of it, which leads to the sewage systems. This area is filled with deformed and deranged Humans, Terrans, Near-Humans, and Non-Near-Humans who killed and ate the prisoners occasionally tossed into the sewers. Inside the sewers, an inmate named 'Pope Joe' resides in a protected area. He is slightly deranged but offers medical assistance in return for favors.

When Theron arrives at Butcher Bay, he is introduced into the Single Max section and given a cell. He promptly upsets the balance of power by killing Abbott's left-hand man, an inmate named Rust who led one of the gangs in the Single Max section. Abbot used Rust to help control the inmates in this section. When Theron killed Rust, Abbott offered him the chance to take Rust's place, an offer Theron quickly rejected, earning him Abbott's malice. Afterwards, Theron started a riot, forcing Abbott to "clean" the Single Max section by opening the hole in the recreational area and throwing unruly inmates down it. In the midst of the riots, Theron attempted to flee to the sewers. A single guard shot Theron, but then Theron grabbed him and used him as a cushion for his fall. Fighting his way through the sewers with a shotgun and a dying flashlight, Theron met Pope Joe, a hermit who lived down in a safe section of the sewers. Pope Joe explained that the inhabitants of the sewers were tracking him due to the bleeding caused by a gunshot wound prior to Theron's fall. Pope Joe offers to clean and suture his wound for him if Theron will get his radio, which he refers to as "blessed voice box". Theron agrees and retrieves the radio. Pope Joe takes care of his arm and tells him how to escape the sewers. Theron navigates the tunnels and emerges in the guards' quarters. Theron then searches the Guard's quarters for Abbott, as he requires Abbott's eyes to fool the retinal scanner blocking access to the starport. Theron tricks Abbott into opening the door for him, then proceeds to beat him savagely. However, Hoxie then confronts Theron and takes Theron back into custody. He proceeds to send Theron away to the Double Max facility.

### Level Two

In Double Max, the facility operates as both a high-level security prison and a mining facility. The inmates have established a fighting arena, where the winner gets credits, weapons, or packets of cigarettes. The guards are not disturbed and even encourage the fights in a bid to eliminate the most dangerous prisoners. The place has no access to natural light, creating the perfect environment for Theron to sneak in.

Theron was attempting to escape, but failed to retrieve Abbott's eyes for the retina scanner. When he reached Double Max, he was informed by the other inmates that Abbott rarely ventured down to Double Max. However, he would come in the event that an inmate was caught with drugs or was becoming too successful in the fight ring. Theron opted for the fight ring, which was essentially a gladiator match that pitted two inmates against each other until one of them died. Theron continued fighting until he found himself face-to-face with a guard named Bam. Theron succeeded in killing Bam in the fight, drawing Abbott down after him. Abbott and four guards took Theron into a room with no cameras, where Abbott begin to beat Theron with a club. Theron, after several blows, unleashed a stun mine taken from one of the guards. The resultant energy killed Abbott's henchmen and sent Abbott himself crashing through a large door. Theron then proceeded to kill Abbott, taking his cardkey. Theron worked his way down into the mines from there, meeting an inmate named Jagger Valance. Jagger formed a plan to help Theron escape. He had Theron retrieve and plant a bomb which would throw the guards into chaos and also open a hole to let Jagger and Theron get to a ship on a nearby docking bay. Theron succeeded in planting the bomb but was captured by several guards immediately after. While transporting Theron in a container along with two guards the bomb detonated, causing massive damage to the mines and disabling the container. While one guard watched Theron, the other went out into the caverns to check the damage. Theron killed the guard watching him, then watched as subterranean creatures, drawn by the explosion, killed the other one.

After the bomb exploded, the creatures began to infest the mines, attacking the miners and guards alike. As a result, a massive firefight occurred between the guards and the aliens. Meanwhile, a massive evacuation began, which provided Theron an opportunity to escape. When he finally reaches the starport, Theron finds Jagger attempting to force a starship's door open with a screwdriver. Jagger hands the screwdriver to Theron, who begins to open the door when one of the guards appears, knocking Jagger aside and aiming his gun at Theron. He fails to notice the screwdriver however, and as he moves towards Theron, Theron stabs him in the side with it, as well as sending the gun flying towards Jagger. Theron and the guard wrestle over the screwdriver, both men nearly killing the other a few times, when Jagger takes a shot at the guard, grazing him but also hitting Theron, who is hurt, but not mortally injured. As the guard and Theron lay wounded on the floor, several guards arrive, spot the gun in Jagger Valance's hand, and promptly shoot him dead. Theron and the guard, now on crutches, once again find themselves in Hoxie's office. Hoxie takes his pistol and kills the guard with a headshot due to his incompetence and decides to put Theron into the Triple Max section, in cryo-storage.

### Level Three

This prison area is located on the top of the tower in the middle of the prison. it's where the Warden keeps all of his most prized and dangerous convicts. Keeping them in either carbonite or in cryosleep. In cryosleep, dizzy and sleepy, they are allowed 2 minutes of limited exercise before being sedated and returned to their respective cryotubes by droids. In carbonite, they are kept in storage facilities where they are routinely monitored to make sure they stay alive while in hibernation.

Theron was put into cryo-sleep and brought here, waking up once every day for two minutes of mandatory exercise before a heavy sedative was administered, knocking him out. The second day, the exercise session is shared with another inmate, who appeared to be borderline catatonic. This continued for some time until Theron, noticing a pattern, tricked the machine by laying down in the other inmate's cryotube. When the machine attempted to drop the other inmate in, Theron tossed him back out. This threw off the administration of Theron's sedative, who remained fully awake when the inmate's tube (now inhabited by Theron) was put back into the storage chamber. Theron kicked his way out of the tube, and then started to make his way out of the triple max facility. Theron fought his way through the corporate offices of the facility to a docking pad where a transport ship was located. Theron knocked out the guards, then took off in the ship. Instead of heading off-world, however, Theron crashed the ship into Hoxie's office. Theron proceeded to jokingly ask what price he would get for Hoxie's head. Hoxie began trying to bargain for his life, but ultimately hit a switch that sealed him and his desk chair in a metal safety chamber in the upper wall, also activating two droid bodyguards. Theron destroyed both with a minigun detached from the ship, then used a rocket launcher attached to one of the wrecked droids to blast open the chamber with Hoxie in it, causing him to fall to the floor. Theron demanded the codes for Hoxie's ship, which he promptly gave up. An alarm then sounded, and several guards ran into Hoxie's office, as Theron (disguised as a guard) calmly walked down the hall (outside of the office) toward the starport, escorting a few prisoners. When the guards broke into Hoxie's office, they found Hoxie taped to a chair, gagged and dressed in Theron's cryo suit and goggles, with a rifle taped to the chair pointed at them; they immediately opened fire (believing the person to be Theron), killing Hoxie. As Hoxie's ship powered up in the dock yard, Theron removed the guard's helmet he was wearing as he sat in the pilot's seat, with several prisoners he befriended in the passenger as they took off and headed for space.

### Guard and Non-Prisoner Quarters

Commonly known as Pigsville, it's the area where all the guards (pigs), including Abbott, live. Some prisoners who behave and those who give information also have rooms here. There is a passageway connecting The Pit and the guard quarters. During Theron's escape from Double Max, one of the guards mentions that the shower area in the Guard's quarters has been sealed off.