Scrapline Union
The union of the dockers and riggers who built the city, run from the Yards.
Who they are
Scrapline is the Fringe's syndicate of powered labourers. It is a trade union of locals, elders and a boss who signs the death-book personally, and it treats Legends as workers.
Answer: Endure
- Colour
- Rust-orange
- Ground
- The Yards
- Board
- The Ledger House board, in Big Ferro's hall on the quay
- Ranks
- Dayhand, Carded, Crew, Steward, Gaffer, Keystone
- Comic
- Gun Before Ware
- Status
- Partly built The creator pick and the rep tiers run in the dev build. The rest is design.
We bury our own. It's the only thing we've ever been able to afford.
In the creator
In the dev build The faction pick runs in the development build.
The creator's second screen asks "Whose city is it?" The answers are Meridian, the Undercurrent, Scrapline, or Unwritten, which declines.
A pick gives you standing with that faction at its first tier, and nothing with the others. Standing has tiers for each faction, comes from quests, contracts, war and events, and is never lost, so one Legend can reach the top with all three. Almost nothing earns standing yet.
It also gets you the faction's banner, a shelf of its costume, and its channels and halls. Crews can mix factions, so friends on different sides still play together. The pick is set once, and the intake record is permanent.
A head start, not a rank.
Argument: Endure, or stop having to?
Intake: A union card in the Yards. Nobody asks about your paperwork, your ware, your face or where you came from. You are asked to work, and then you are fed.
Ground
Scrapline holds the Yards wall to wall. It is the one district where showing up without a union card gets you looked at twice, licence or none.
The day starts with chains at 05:00 and ends with a whistle at 17:00. After it the Ledger House floor fills, the book comes out, and everybody stops talking.
Crane Zero stands at the head of the Gantry Line, and the membership maintains it. Nobody races off it on a day the book has been opened.
The union also keeps a board in the Wick, with the other two factions' boards a short walk away.
How it is organised
| Organ | What it is |
|---|---|
| The locals | Numbered crews by yard and line. This is where a card actually lives. |
| The Ledger House floor | The death-book, the benefit fund and the vote. |
| The elders | The old hands, who hold that enduring is what has kept anyone alive. |
| The stewards | The officers who want the union to do more than survive. |
| The archive | Mrs. Amperage, who keeps the union's history on her walls. |
| The Med-Fund | The union's own clinic, off Tourniquet's books. |
Ranks
Lowest first. Carded is the rank that changes how people speak to you.
Dayhand
Day labour on the salvage lines.
Carded
The handshake, and a card.
Gaffer
Runs a yard's crews day to day.
Keystone
The top rung. Few members have met one.
The argument inside
The union's argument is endure, or stop having to. The elders hold that endurance is what has kept anyone alive for twelve years. The stewards say enduring has become a routine the union keeps because it always has.
The book
Scrapline's death-book, kept at the Ledger House.
The book is a hard-backed folio, kept flat in a steel case bolted under the Ledger House counter. It has a hasp and no lock, and it has three spines.
A wrong entry is struck through once, never erased, and re-entered below. A name goes in the book once.
| Name | Card no. | Date in | Date out | Signed |
|---|
Name, date, and what she was doing. That's the record. Sit down, all of you.
Benefits are paid here in person, 17:20, two lines. No speeches.
What it offers a player
Designed Vendors, war doctrine and deployables are the game's design.
The vendor sells materials, Salvaging perks and frame variants.
The Med-Fund clinic cuts the fee you pay to respawn at a med-station. Your Legend's stats stay the same. Its Deadband doctrine is on the war page.
Partly built The standing screen carries a title for each tier as client content. The first reads:
The union writes your name down. It matters more than it sounds.
The story
Designed Faction questlines and side stories are written and not built.
Act 1 is called "The Open Order". You come up through the Scrapline as day labour on the salvage lines. For you the union is a shift, a med-fund and a hand up when the Fringe takes something from you. Big Ferro notices how you work, and you earn a card.
It is the only faction questline you can start before your First Splice.
| Side story | What it is |
|---|---|
| Ferro's Ledger | Deliver death benefits by hand. |
| The Med-Fund | The union's clinic against Tourniquet's franchise clinics. |
| Scrap Rights | A strike: every crew refuses to cross the line on the same day. |
| Mural Under the Overpass | A ghost-signal hunt across rooftop murals. |
What the others say
Toward Meridian, Scrapline feels tiredness more than anger: you cannot hate the weather. Toward the Undercurrent it feels fear for them, which comes out as scorn.
Ferro would give you his coat and not one word. I'd give you the word and keep the coat. He's the better man.
They can stand there. They're on gravel we laid.
