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Location: Jade city of Emerald
Ove rview
Near the icy surface of the city of Jade on Emerald is the
Korst organics distribution centre, which takes organic
molecules extracted from deep ice and prepares them for
shipment elsewhere. Sited in the Hallows, one of the cold
slums of the city, the Korst plant has become a haven for
those who wish to escape the gangs that dominate the slum
and the Icers that enforce law in the city proper.
O rigin
The processing centre is owned by the Korst family, one of
the older families on Emerald. The family’s fortunes have
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waxed and waned over the years, the processing centre
was built when the family was at its height. The centre was
designed to take organics piped up from the depths and
purified by distillation and other chemical techniques in the
deep city, and package them ready to ship across the Flame
Worlds via the transit terminal on the surface. Originally the
centre was manned by a large workforce, and the location
near the surface was a necessity to serve the vessels that
visited the moon for the organics it produces. Originally the
Hallows wasn’t originally a slum. How times have changed.
Histo ry
The Korst family are well past their prime, and their
deterioration in fortunes matches the decay in the
neighbourhoods surrounding their plant. When it was built
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the Korst processing centre stood in an area of relatively
good repute. However, as with the rest of the moon
proximity to the colder surface drove the richer, more well-
connected families deeper into the moon, to newly built
accommodation near to the warmer core. As a result the
levels nearer the surface became the dwelling place of the
less fortunate, the poor and the desperate.
The slum called the Hallows has been here for as long as
anyone can remember. The Processing centre has remained
operational despite the decline in the surroundings as in
this case proximity to the surface is a boon, reducing transit
times for goods to waiting Void Arcs.
Over the years since the centres construction, the outer
defences have become stronger as the slum surrounding
it has decayed, built especially to repel the various
opportunistic gangs that have taken over the slum. Now the
plant is a veritable fortress, a bastion of the great families
embedded in the filth of the Hallows. Many of the human
workers who operated the plant have been replaced by
Puppets, so a relative skeleton crew maintain operations.
Deeper in the city the plant is forgotten by the family that
own it, just another infrastructure building lost in the cold
hell of the surface areas.
Th e real sto ry
The Korst processing centre has been running for many
years and continues to do so under the care of Jonas Grip,
a skilled Puppet engineer, and his small team of three co-
operators. Living inside the centre – it’s too dangerous
in the slum outside – together they run a steady ship, at
least as far as their masters are concerned. In truth Grip
hates his job, and hates the slums and the desperation that
surrounds the processing centre, and has decided to do
something about it.
Six months ago, Grip contacted Miras Lux, a medic from the
lower reaches of the city who had been volunteering in the
slums as a medic. Although from a richer part of the city,
Lux had endeared herself to the local populace with her
selflessness, and even the gangs of the Hallows grudgingly
left her in peace. Grip persuaded Miras that the processing
centre offered a safe haven for those of the slum too sick to
care for themselves, or those forced onto the Understreets
through desperation and lack of credits.
So far, Lux has brought about sixty people into the plant,
with Grip making one of the empty, disused processing
Underhalls available for the influx. Grip himself doesn’t mix
with the locals he’s brought in, and is very wary of his own
personal security, but he does feel that at least he’s doing
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something for those around him. Unfortunately, selfless
acts rarely last long in the cut-throat world of the cold
slums.
Cu rrent situation
The sixty or so individuals Grip and Lux have brought into
the centre are mostly harmless or too sick or grateful to
cause trouble, but sadly not all of them. Dogger, a Hacked
woman of indeterminate age with scaled skin and yellow,
bleary eyes, is a troublemaker, agitating the population
against Grip. She tells them that the ‘residents’ have been
abandoned in the Underhall, which she renames the Warren.
She advocates that the whole processing centre should
opened up to those in need, and some of the population
are beginning to agree, much to Lux’s dismay.
In reality Dogger is a member of Fracture, a local anarchistic
gang bent on random destruction as part of their fight
against the authorities ‘down-city’. Their goal is to gain
access to the whole plant, and then to destroy it in an act
of wanton violence loud enough to send a message to the
depths.
Local environs
The processing centre lies in the centre of the Hallows, one
of the most notorious cold slums of Emerald. Icers do not
tread in the slum, and to those from down-city the Hallows
is the kind of place to scare your children with.
It is not the kind of place where you’d want to stick out as a
stranger – currently four gangs contest the icy, derelict and
rotten Understreets, Fracture, the Ice Knives, Lordy’s gang
and the Three.
No ta b l e l oc at i o n s
The following locations can all be found in the environs of
the processing centre, some easily accessed, some far less so.
Th e control room
Grip and his three colleagues – Rex, Towser and Hamilton
– occupy the Control Room, a near fortress within the
already heavily fortified structure of the processing centre.
They don’t leave this place, and receive all they need from
the various ships that dock at the transit centre. Consisting
of the control room proper for the plant as well as living
quarters, recreational facilities and various other halls
needed to a larger workforce, the place is eerily silent
and decayed, most of the workers being long gone. Grip

doesn’t allow the Puppets into the control room, so it is
literally the four co-workers in a space built to comfortably
accommodate around three hundred. When not working,
the four operators spend their time playing, arguing and
having sex in an impenetrable web of inter-relationships
gangs of the hallows
The Hallows is a violent place, completely out of control
of the authorities ‘down-city’, as the slum residents call
those who live in the relatively luxury of the deeper
levels. Gangs are part of the life of all the residents of the
Hallows, whether because they are members or because
they spend most of their time trying to avoid drawing
their attention. Many gangs have risen and fallen in
the Hallows over the years, and inter-gang warfare is
common. The following four gangs are currently the
most dominant in the slum.
Any of these gangs could harbour shadows, being
dedicated to the kind of human suffering and resulting
emotional turmoil that might attract Numina.
Fracture
Filled with malcontents, the damaged and the deranged,
Fracture has one goal – bringing the Hallows to the
attention of those ‘down-city’ so that the plight of those
in the slum might be acknowledged. They want to do
this by creating such a level of destruction that they
cannot be ignored. At least that’s what the leader of the
relatively small gang, a mentally scarred Seirim called
Moseb, used to say. Now it’s pretty much destruction
for its own sake. But although he’s deranged Moseb isn’t
stupid, and he knows that sometimes he has to play the
long game to get the results he wants. He’s prepared to
wait on Dogger to get him access to the control room,
knowing that brute force will get him nowhere. Patience
isn’t his best quality however – Dogger knows she’s got
a fairly limited time to open up the centre of the plant
before Moseb decides he needs to act.
Fracture are feared by all as their members think nothing
of their own safety and cannot be reasoned with.
Ice knives
The Ice Knives are a pretty standard criminal gang,
working an extensive protection racket in the slums along
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caused by their isolation. The control room is isolated from
the rest of the plant by an airlock, which Grip hasn’t opened
in years. This is where Fracture hope to make their entry, if
they can persuade Grip to open the door.
a few other crimes like Spike dealing. The difference with
the Ice Knives is that their boss, a young human woman
called Anna, can be reasoned with, and if you treat her
fairly she will treat you in a similar way. Cross he though
and you’ll find out why the gang have their name. Many
in the slum active seek the help of the Knives – they are
certainly a lot better than some of the other gangs to
be found. The Ice Knives hate Fracture and actively work
against the anarchists.
Lordy’s gang
Lordy, a fat Sapra, runs this gang of thugs and killers.
If you need someone dealt with, fatally, Lordy and his
predominately Sapra gang are your best option, even
if your victim is affiliated with one of the other gangs.
Assuming you can afford it.
Lordy manages to maintain the position of his gang as a
result of the superior equipment he gets – no one knows
who is supplying, but Lordy’s gang carry the very latest
in Pulse weaponry. Lordy has long-running feud with the
Three, who have sworn to finish him.
the three
Principally Spike merchants, the Three are despised
by many in the slum for the false hope their narcotics
promise and the inevitable destruction they bring. One
of the Kelder distribution gangs (see Exilium – House
Kelder), the Three make sure that the slum is well
supplied with the latest in recreational Spikes.
Protection for their business comes in the form of combat
Puppets, many of which are quite old and of dubious
neural programming. The name of the gang refers to the
Three leaders, sisters Misha, Keller and Abigail Thorn.
The Three has a sworn hatred of Lordy – the gang used
to be called the Four until Lordy’s assassins gutted Emily,
the youngest sister.
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Th e Warren
A maze of brick passages, cells and intersections, the Warren
as Dogger calls it is aptly named. Once just an abandoned
Underhall allowing servicing to one of the main processing
plants above, the Warren is now full of makeshift structures
created from rubbish and discarded detritus from the
processing centre. Around sixty people make the Warren
their home – it’s not a nice place, but it is free from the
gangs that roam the slums, and Grip makes sure that the
area is secure as the entrance is hidden despite Fracture’s
attempts to find it – the residents aren’t allowed to leave,
even if they wanted to.
There’s probably room for another fifty odd people in the
Warren if they are prepared to share the space, but Dogger
already claims the area is too crowded. Lux is a frequent
visitor, being one of the few people who know the way in
and out. The occupants treat her like some kind of saviour.
None of them have met or heard of Grip or his team, only
seeing the Puppets that work that factory.
Transit hu b
Above the processing centre is the Transit hub, where
processed organics are sent off-moon and supplies are
brought down to the operators. Housing three space
planes of old but serviceable design, the Transit centre is an
automated affair and the operators rarely venture up here –
there’s no heating, and the cold is unbearable.
If anything where to happen in the processing centre, this
is where Grip would seek to escape rather than enter the
slums. He’s careful to keep knowledge of the hub from the
Warren occupants and Lux, afraid that they might try and
use it to escape the moon. This would compromise the
plant, something that Grip would never allow. Of course if
Fracture were to gain access to the hub, he results could be
catastrophic.
Tunn els
The way into the Warrens is through the tunnels that snake
beneath the structure – these enter some of the long
abandoned sections of sewer that criss-cross the slums.
The occupants of the warren know this, but the information
hasn’t escaped the processing centre – Grip doesn’t allow
any of the residents except Lux to leave, using his industrial
Puppets to enforce this rule. This isn’t an issue with most of
the occupants, as only Dogger has actually tried to return to
the slum to tell Fracture the way in.
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No ta b l e I n d i v i d u a l s
The following individuals can be found in the processing
centre.
Jonas G rip, O pe rations manag e r
Grip thinks of himself as a professional, and of paramount
concern is keeping the processing centre running despite
the fact he hates his job. However, recently he’s been
feeling more and more out of synch with his co-workers,
and increasingly horrified by the state of the slum his
workplace inhabits. As a result he has pretty much isolated
himself from the other operators and set in motion his plan
to accept the desperate into the processing centre, sending
a Puppet to talk to Lux and set the plan in motion. His co-
workers are pretty horrified at the idea, and have made him
promise to seal off the warren from the rest of the plant
and keep the entrance secret. This suits Grip – he doesn’t
like actually meeting new people, and find his cocoon of the
control room comforting and safe.
Sadly, his lack of interaction with real people makes him
susceptible to persuasion – he’s considering setting his
natural distaste for contact aside and meeting Dogger to
discuss her demands, which would be incredibly dangerous
and potentially fatal for everyone on the centre. A small,
non-descript man with lank hair and a chubby, unhealthy
appearance, Grip is as unthreatening as he looks. Grip could
become a Shadow –although he’s somewhat obsessive with
his job, he feels a strong empathy for those that suffer in the
cold hell of the Hallows.
Miras Lux, m edic
Lux came to the Hallows to escape her family, and especially
her coddled lifestyle deep in Jade. The daughter of one of
the great families, she was shocked when as a child she
learned that the cold slums here parents threatened her
with actually existed. This empathy for the plight of others
led her to train as a medic, and eventually to run away from
her sheltered life to help those trapped in poverty near the
icy moon’s surface. She’s been here ever since.
A tall, willowy woman with a perpetually worried expression,
Lux thinks that her contact with Grip is a godsend, allowing
her to free some of her most desperate ‘charges’ from the
worst the slums have to offer. She knows and resents the
activities of Dogger, but doesn’t know the real danger the
agitator poses. She is also unaware that her family want her
back and have several agencies searching for her, and are
coming close to finding her location, something which could
be extremely dangerous to those she associates with in the

Warren. Lux could become a Shadow, dedicated as she is
to easing the suffering of others even at the expense of her
own well-being.
Dogg e r, warren agitato r
The scaled, yellow-eyed woman known as Dogger is an
enigma. Her extensive Hacking indicates a prosperous or
even military background, and how she ended up in the
Hallows is anyone’s guess. Truth is she doesn’t remember
herself. That she’s mentally unstable is clear, as she has a
wild and slightly off-kilter way of talking and a twitchy,
nervous manner that along with her bizarre appearance
make her stand out in a crowd.
What no one knows is that she’s a member of Fracture.
Living on the Understreets of the Hallows, when Lux offered
to take her to ‘a safe place’ she sense an opportunity and
agreed. Meeting with Moseb she promised to tell him all she
learns. Unfortunately, when she got into what is now the
Warren she forgot the way in, and could only communicate
to Moseb via her comlink how to find the entrance in the
vaguest terms.
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So far she has managed to calm his rage by offering to find a
way into the control room, ‘where real damage is possible’,
while Fracture search for the entrance and try and follow
the movements of Lux. Her method of gaining entrance to
the control room is to stir up resentment in the Warren and
demand entrance to the processing centre proper.
She’s almost managed to get ‘the one in charge’ to meet
with using Lux as a go-between. She hopes to overpower
whoever is in charge and bargain their safety for entrance
into the heart of the structure, using her hidden poison
claws to defend herself once inside. From there she’ll open
the doors for Fracture and all hell will break loose. Dogger
could become a Shadow just as the rest of Fracture could,
being dedicated to destruction for its own sake.
Oth e r dang e rs
All of the gangs of the Hallows know something is up, and
that Fracture seem to be searching for something. It is
entirely possible that activities at the processing centre
could precipitate an all-out war between the rival gangs,
and carnage is the only outcome.
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