Assimilation Camp 121

Camp 121

A squalid, overcrowded Republic relief camp on Mars's Cimmerian Plains where freed miners rot forgotten.

Story so far

Assimilation Camp 121 sits on the humid Cimmerian Plains of Mars, beyond a piddling river, a muck-soaked town of plastic, tin, and dog shit meant for twenty thousand but now crammed with fifty thousand freed miners and more arriving daily. Malaria burns through it; burner boys douse infected trash with engine oil, choking the sky with black smoke; mosquitoes hunt the streets. It is Lyria's home since the Rising raised her clan from the mine of Lagalos two years ago—a place of a thousand broken promises where able-bodied youth are gone to the Free Legions, the old survive on food tokens, and clans like Lambda hoard the Solar Republic's washers over the disfavored Gammas.

Appearance

A sprawling, overcrowded refugee town of plastic and tin shanties in a boiling green savannah, ringed by burning trash heaps, mosquito-clouded muddy streets, and a shallow river.

Role

Lyria's home and the story's window into the Republic's failed promises to the freed lowColors of Mars.

Relationships

Lyria — Its bitter Gamma resident, washing clothes in its river and scorning its broken hopes.

Solar Republic — The liberating government whose neglect has let the camp fester.

Red Hand — The marauders whose raids on such camps force supplies to be air-dropped under escort.

Sources — 1 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 3

A squalid, overcrowded Republic relief camp on Mars's Cimmerian Plains where freed miners rot forgotten.