The Gantry Line
Decommissioned loading arms, joined into one continuous grind-rail and wall-run route. It is the proving ground for Freerunner and Redline, and a time-trial course from end to end. A timekeeper clocks the runs.
The Yards
Scrapline Union's harbour, and the first crane the city ever raised.
Scrapline's harbour
Mapped The streets and the cranes are laid out in the build. Scrapline's board, the Med-Fund and the time trial are the game's design.
- Kind
- Faction ground
- Who runs it
- Scrapline Union, wall to wall
- Combat
- None in the hub
- Landmark
- Crane Zero and the Gantry Line
- Loop station
- A platform stands dark
- Sound
- Work chants on the Line, gantry groan, water
- Moving
- The Gantry Line as one grind-rail, a grapple point on every crane, four crane thermals, and the flattest open sky in the city
Dockside gantries and salvage cranes left over from the Deepworks build crews. The same cranes that lowered the first cable trunks now haul scrap for the union whose members built the city.
Scrapline Union 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 economy is materials, salvage, and weapon blueprints that nobody paid full price for.
There is no fighting here, and the container stacks are built to topple. Graviton suits the place: its swingers took to the tether the way their grandparents took to a crane cable.
The line, the crane and the book
Crane Zero
The first crane, the one that lowered the first trunk cable. The union maintains it, and it is also a grave marker. The unwritten rule is that nobody races off it on a day the book has been opened.
FIRST LIFT, 2054. MAINTAINED BY THE MEMBERSHIP.
The Ledger House
Big Ferro's union hall, on the quay. The name is a pun on the book kept inside it, and Scrapline stopped finding it funny a long time ago. After the whistle the floor fills, and when the book comes out everybody stops talking. See the book.
The Harbor Basin
Where the Catena Cut ends, below the gantries, with the Dry Dock beside it. In the first winter after the Seal the Yards ran a hot meal on the Basin quay for the city's hungry. Kindling Night comes from that meal.
The Deepworks Cable Head
Where the original trunk goes under the water, at the Basin end. It rises out of the ground and is warm to the hand. The union brings things here, and the book never leaves the Ledger House. It is the quiet grave of the district and the last of the four walls.
A work-glove hangs over the head. There has been a new one every year for twelve years, and it is never the same pair. There is no writing on the head itself, not one mark in twelve years, in a district that writes everything down.
The Eight Hands
A mural in the Gantry Line underpass: eight hands, with the faces left as bare concrete, and a work chant painted into the border. See the murals.
Ma Torro's
A cable-broth cart that has been the locals' unofficial meeting room for nineteen years.
Three generations deep
- 05:00The chains go out and the shift starts.
- 17:00The whistle. The Ledger House floor fills after it.
- 17:20Benefits are paid on the quay steps, in two lines.
People live three and four generations deep in the walk-ups behind the Basin. The union is their landlord and their clinic, and it buries them. Nobody asks about your paperwork. They ask whether you have eaten.
We built this city and it's never once said thanks.
On the walls
Benefits are paid here in person, 17:20, two lines. No speeches.
THE AUDIT OPENS THE 14TH. Bring the roll, bring your card, bring lunch. It goes to the 19th.
WE BUILT IT
SAY THANKS THEN
EIGHT HANDS. COUNT THEM.
TICKET 0119-A · STATUS: CLOSED · TRUNK 1 LANDED 0417.
NOTES: NONE.
TICKET 0164-B · STATUS: CLOSED · FINDING: FALL. NIGHT WORK. UNWITNESSED.
REMEDY: CALL BEFORE FIXING. FEET VISIBLE. NOBODY WORKS ALONE.
Work, logged
Designed
Scrapline's contract board hangs in the Ledger House, and the union's Med-Fund runs its own clinic for members. Materials and Frame variants are sold here. The only faction questline open before the Splice is Scrapline's, and it starts with day labour on the salvage lines. See Scrapline Union.