RUCamp

**RUCamps** are both a recruitment/training center and a "rehab" for the RUC's prisoners. They were started and are maintained by Tremaine. The camps are separated by two color-coded sides, red for the training and recruitment, and the other for the prisoners, who are subjected to mistreatment and torture by RUC officials and soldiers from the red corner. In addition, occupants are to wear colored bands that represent which corner they belong in.

## Red Corner

The training/recruitment corner. As one can expect, this is basically the center for training and recruiting soldiers. As far as anecdotal evidence suggests, the vast majority, if not all soldiers here are voluntary recruits.

Training is lackluster at best, and downright fatal at worse. The biggest example is the obstacle course that soldiers are expected to go through, which involve actual lava and traps that have killed several recruits, with none of the officers ever noticing anything wrong. Almost no one makes it through the obstacle course, so they often just ignore them and put the recruits on the frontlines immediately.

Besides this, the RUC is known to use prisoners and captured civilians as targets for the firing range. This, along with constant filming of propaganda videos are meant to further instill their soldiers with feelings of violence and condition them to murder people in conquered territories.

Soldiers in the red corner have special privileges, such as being able to order around prisoners from the blue corner and kill them with impunity.

## Blue Corner

The Blue Corner is supposedly the "Rehabilitation Center" for the RUC's prisoners. Rather than any actual rehabilitation, the prisoners are put through forced labor and face frequent abuse and harassment from RUC officers and recruits from the red corner.

The RUC's methods of "Rehabilitation" consist of filming RUC propaganda to show them the "Good and heroic" way of life, "exorcisms" which range from the victim being whipped while strapped to a table or having "holy water" poured over them while they gasp for air. Perhaps the most extreme and absurd example are the "Pit Fights." Every RUCamp comes with an arena, a place where prisoners are dragged out and thrown into, before being forced to fight one another to the death. The fights are spectated by thousands of RUC soldiers and RUCitizens, with Tremaine even attending as the "guest of honor" if she's present at the camp at the time.

Regardless, despite their claims of "rehabilitation," the RUC does not allow any of the prisoners to leave or return to their normal lives; instead, they are kept as toys for the entertainment of the recruits and RUCitizens.

## History

It's been recorded that Tremaine first suggested the idea of a camp for training recruits and "making use" of the RUC's prisoners in x/xx/xx, to which Popeye agreed to wholeheartedly. The first RUCamp opened up in a junkyard in [region], with no real facilities save for a couple of trailers and a shoddily put together ring. The function remained about the same however, and it gave the RUC a place to move their prisoners to when their own prison cells ran out of room.

Around the time the RUC first began antagonizing the Justice Tower Protest Community, there have been about [Number] recorded camps, mostly in [region] and [region] of The Republic. After the Justice Tower Massacre, the RUC built more camps/repurposed existing locations into RUCamps in the Peninsula, bringing the number up to about [Number].

With the collapse of the RUC after the Peninsula war, many of the RUCamps that remained in The Republic either went defunct, or are operating at a significantly lower capacity than before.

## Peninsula War

During the Peninsula War, there were about two RUCamps worth noting; one in the northern regions (near Justice Tower), and another one in the western regions.

### The West Camp

During Felix's campaign to conquer the western regions of the peninsula, Tremaine visited the RUCamp that was established there. Conditions were about what one can expect from an RUCamp, though Tremaine had also captured a wild bear to be sent into the arena to help "spice up" the pit fights. The bear in question refused to fight for her, which lead to her abusing it with her whip.

#### O'Ryan's Raid

It was at this time that O'Ryan's forces moved further north into RUC-controlled territory, and began planning a raid on the camp to free its prisoners. He prepared his troops, but sent Steve's personal unit first to scout out the camp before they made their attack. However, they found themselves discovered by RUC troops. Thankfully, O'Ryan had foreseen this, and had separate units, Steve's included, on standby to help him break out of it. It was at this point that they launched a full on assault on the camp, which lead to Tremaine's execution.

### The North Camp

One of the first camps that were built after the Justice Tower Massacre. Tremaine had operated here for a good portion of the early stages of the war, and it is also the camp that Madame Phoenix volunteered as a warden at. The prisoners were kept in line by her extremely brutal methods of torture and execution, of which they would be forced to watch each and every one. Having operated the longest out of the camps built in the Peninsula, the campgrounds are littered with the corpses of the RUC's victims, with no one bothering to bury or dispose of them, save for putting their corpses up for display in RUC-controlled territory to serve as a warning for "demons." It also has the highest concentration of recruits.

Some officials have also been seen visiting this RUCamp and conversing with the ones in charge there, though the visits stopped after repeated cases of certain "incidents" on the RUC's part.

#### Razing the North Camp

As the United Front marched closer to the RUC's base of operations, they sent a small squadron of Resistance fighters to the camp. With no one really in charge of the camp this time around, and with Madame Phoenix having already returned to The Republic, the squadron was able to raise some havoc in the camp and destroy much of the RUC's military and recruitment capabilities. They were even able to steal some of the RUC's weaponry for themselves. After all was said and done, a much larger unit was then dispatched to the camp to free any surviving prisoners and burn down its facilities.

### Others

There was an RUCamp located in the central-south regions of the Peninsula, though it wasn't under very high maintenance. The reasons why could possibly be attributed to the laboratory that Albert discovered. The only reports of this camp came from its underground arena, where a small group of Resistance fighters were challenged to a fight by a rather eccentric mercenary the RUC had hired, who then turned on them later in the war.