Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Astronaut Shrines: Dimsheen


There is only one viable settlement within the entire Griffsilv Crater Region and that is Dimsheen, a tumble-down series of scored, pitted and constantly malfunctioning domes squatting on the very lip of the crater-rim at the South-most point.  The dust smelters and alloy-works are the only industry in Dimsheen, not counting the usual service-sector professions that always spring up to cater to and prey upon lonely populations of isolated workers. Conditions within Dimsheen are grim, demanding and dangerous. There are constant fatalities out on the dust, and everything is patched together and recycled or jury-rigged to get by on a budget dictated by absentee overlords of commerce who only ever read the production reports.

The Dust Trawlers cannot hire enough workers fast enough to keep up with the demand, let alone the injuries or casualties, which has acted as an incentive for standards to be relaxed quite a bit within the Region. Crude, hand-crafted, hand-me-down cymek prosthetics have become an almost totemic mark of pride amongst the Dusters who treat the glitchy prosthetics as their only real legacy to their offspring or co-workers. A single arm or leg or eye unit will have been passed along from one host to another more than seven or eight times before it gets overhauled and sold off to some prole or cybertribe scav-swap.