Chicken Coop
Col. Sanders is gonna need a bigger bucket.
Summary
Like Carrotopia, it is assumed this alternate was somehow used by a prior group of dimensional explorers, but unlike it, the worked part of the world is small. Perhaps it was a pilot program, perhaps it was a personal farm, perhaps guessing the motivations of beings who made things like the Hedgemaze is a foolish idea.The breach point opened to the ruins of what was once a very advanced farm and processing plant. As has become accepted, the remains were in too poor a condition to be salvaged for anything, other than a few scraps of ultra-strong metal that somehow escaped corrosion. Its purpose, based on the layout of the ruins, and the presence of the local dominant predator, seems clear enough -- it was a farm where creatures colloquially known as "terror birds" were bred for meat and eggs. This was evidenced by the many large structures holding nests, skeletons found shown signs of mechanical dissection (with very, very, sharp blades!), crates bearing motifs of the birds in the manner of packaging (other writing has defied attempts at recovery), and so on. Building that were probably living quarters, offices, and shipping platforms (presumably, via breach) were tentatively identified.
Of course, the 'food' animals have long since become the eaters, not the eaten. The entire area is swarming with packs of the things, and they are very powerful and dangerous hunters. Six BREACH agents were seriously injured over the course of the early investigations, and later forays faced the trade-off of "If we go inside a tank, we're safe, but we also can't do anything." Whatever the creature's Baseline behavior patterns were, the species here is pack-oriented and very, very, clever. They do not appear sapient, but can manipulate objects with beak and claw, engage in "clever girl" tactics to pick off prey, and quickly learned how to attack when a human was pausing to reload.
While hardly the most dangerous world BREACH has ever found, the condition of the ruins (extremely poor) relative to the risk of meaningful exploration has moved this one to the "Maybe Later" queue. Even the Pleistocene Park people don't think it's worth it (BREACH also doesn't want them trampling over any relics that might eventually be salvaged.)
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