Landfill
Well, this place stinks! — Every BREACHer ever. They all think it's hilarious. It is not.
In 2019, Allan Krusk, an innovative and brilliant engineer (at least, that's what his PR people said) secured licenses from the US to use breach technology to "disrupt" trash disposal, through his new Dump*Star corporation. He had found a world, he said, that was old, used-up, and virtually lifeless... but with a breathable...ish atmosphere, Baseline gravity and pressure, etc. Trash could be transported to a central processing facility, then trucked into the Breach by robot trucks, which, by coincidence, he also manufactured (through his Brunel corporation) and could buy from himself (using government money) for low, low prices! What could go wrong?
The cost of transporting the megatons of waste produced daily to a remote breach facility was prohibitive. The chosen location was in northern Nevada, because it was convenient to Brunel Truckworks. The roads or rails needed to bring in garbage from the densely-populated coasts did not exist. Nor did anyone to handle the shipping itself, as every city and town had its own local trash service that would need to handoff their pickup to a deliverer.
Promising to address those issues with other inventions, such as a network of underground tunnels crossing thousands of miles, he secured enough venture capital to set up service with Las Vegas, and started to ferry garbage into the barren wasteland he'd found.
The Collapse
The operation had been running (at a loss, but running) for several months. There had been problems. Living workers were definitely needed; the robotic trucks were simply not up to the job once piles of trash began to shift and block roads. Several trucks had lost communication and vanished. The "lifeless" world was also now inhabited by rats, raccoons, and many other species brought in with the trash.
All of these troubles could be dealt with, "said increasingly nervous man for the 19th time", but one couldn't be. On August 7th, 2021, Dump*Star's facility and a good chunk of the surrounding landscape, roughly a half-mile diameter region, vanished, leaving a smooth indentation like a spherical region of reality had been removed. Which is precisely what happened.
Test of block:
Scavenger Truck
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Description
A battered vehicle used on Landfill by survivors of the Bubble.
Subassemblies & Body Features
Off-Road Tires, Large Cargo capacity
Propulsion
Electric engine, batteries support 2-3 hours use under local conditions.
Instruments and Electronics
Very limited 'GPS' based on a signal from the Dump*Star HQ, limited by curvature of planet and garbage mountains. Only good for 3-5 miles.
Controls
Mechanical (TL5), replacing electronic (TL 8). -2 to all skill checks,
Crew Stations
1 Driver, 1 Passenger, 2 workers ride outside. (Which can be dangerous.)
Occupancy
Short.
Passengers
1
Accomodations
2 cf. of storage for food behind seat in cab.
Environmental Systems
None in vehicle, more's the pity.
Power System
None
Energy Storage
Batteries
Fuel
Batteries
Access, Cargo and Empty Space
28 cy
Structure
Advanced plastics and light alloys, now reinforced with crude metal plates.
Armor
DR 20, but patchy: Has Accessibility 14-.
Vision
Poor, clear front view, built for automated systems so no side mirrors, LIDAR non-functional
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Empty Weight
16 tons
Usual Payload
10 tons garbage.
Loaded Weight
26 tons
Size Mod
5
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