Bayview-Portola
Pre-Collapse Identity
Hunters Point was a naval shipyard that left behind generations of environmental contamination and a community that fought for decades to hold the government accountable for it. Bayview was a historically Black neighborhood squeezed between industry and neglect. Visitacion Valley was working-class, quiet, and largely forgotten by the rest of the city.
Current Character
The SF side of Ironclad's industrial corridor, where heavy manufacturing meets the Rim's edge. The old Hunters Point Naval Shipyard — already contaminated before the Cascade — is now Ironclad's SF-side heavy manufacturing center, and the contamination is a feature, not a bug. Toxic soil keeps land values low. Low land values keep workers desperate. Desperate workers don't negotiate. The equation is simple and brutal, and it has been running since before Ironclad put their name on the gate. Relief, a Rothwell subsidiary, operates "humanitarian assistance" programs from this sector — free clinics and medical outreach that come with biometric data collection built into every examination.
Terrain & Atmosphere
Low hills and former shipyard industrial zones characterize the terrain. The southeastern waterfront is a Rim edge — the ground drops away to the bay floor, and from the old shipyard piers (now loading platforms), you can look straight down into the Dregs' southeastern sprawl. The terrain carries the scars of centuries of industrial use: soil discoloration, concrete foundations from demolished structures, drainage channels stained with chemical runoff that nobody has cleaned because nobody has been made to.
Corporate Presence
Ironclad controls the shipyard and the industrial waterfront. Relief operates clinics in the residential blocks, collecting data from patients who come for treatment and leave with their biometrics in Rothwell's network. The two corporations coexist because their interests don't overlap — Ironclad wants labor, Relief wants bodies to scan.
Key Locations
Hunters Point Shipyard (Ironclad heavy manufacturing center), Neon Graves (cemetery district with holographic memorials and data tombs for the digitally deceased), the Rim Drop (southeastern cliff edge overlooking the bay floor).
Sensory Detail
The smell is chemical and old — industrial solvents, contaminated soil, and the metallic tang of heavy manufacturing that saturates everything within a kilometer of the shipyard. Sound carries the rhythmic clang of shipyard work and the whine of cargo hoists lowering materials to the bay floor. At Neon Graves, holographic faces of the dead flicker in the contaminated air, their light competing with the orange glow of the foundries.
Daily Life
You breathe what they give you, work where they tell you, and visit Relief's clinic when your lungs start to go — which they will.