The Breakpoint
Overview
The former naval shipyard -- 4.55 square kilometers of contaminated ground that traded one kind of poison for another. The navy left behind generations of toxic soil and broken promises. Ironclad moved into the same infrastructure and kept the contamination because it depresses land values, and depressed land values depress wages, and depressed wages mean workers who don't negotiate. The shipyard piers now serve as loading platforms for Ironclad's SF-side manufacturing, their crane booms lowering materials to the bay floor where the Dregs begin. The contamination is measured in decades of exposure, and Relief's free clinics are positioned at every gate -- offering treatment that comes with biometric data collection built into every examination. The equation has been running since before Ironclad put their name on the gate.