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| ====== ARLA TOWN ====== | ====== ARLA TOWN ====== | ||
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| ===== Overview ===== | ===== Overview ===== | ||
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| The industrial efforts lasted less than three years before being violently disrupted. The factory and docks were destroyed during the [[great_war|Great War]], marking the end of ExoHuman presence in this area. | The industrial efforts lasted less than three years before being violently disrupted. The factory and docks were destroyed during the [[great_war|Great War]], marking the end of ExoHuman presence in this area. | ||
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| + | **Legacy Note:** The success of Arla Town’s early fish industry inspired the [[fisherpoint|Fisherpoint]] project on Lake Orlanda, envisioned as a second Exohuman fishing hub. Unlike Arla Town, Fisherpoint never matured into a real settlement, remaining only a construction site before its destruction by the [[the_orlanda|Orlanda Tribe]]. | ||
| ===== Geographical Position & Microclimate ===== | ===== Geographical Position & Microclimate ===== | ||
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| * **Microclimates: | * **Microclimates: | ||
| + | ===== Social Composition of Arla Town ===== | ||
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| + | A working waterfront first, a community second. Population rose and fell with the catch and the lake’s moods; most adults were contract fishers or plant hands. | ||
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| + | * **Households & Children:** Not purpose-built for families, but some settled anyway (skippers, foremen, quartermasters). Schooling was private only via the Funkenberg School on the factory grounds; no public school existed. Classes were small, fees offset by factory stipends and donations from church circles. | ||
| + | * **Gender & Tenure:** Male-skewed crews (roughly two-thirds men). Typical contracts ran one season (3–9 months), while factory supervisors and dockmasters tended to be year-round. | ||
| + | * **Workforce Mix:** Dominated by lake fishing and processing (boats, smokehouses, | ||
| + | * **Automation Footprint: | ||
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| + | ===== Political Orientation in the Beta Age ===== | ||
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| + | No formal parties; decisions lived on wet planks and warehouse floors. Arla’s settlers carried two simultaneous memories—the sleek order of shipboard life and the chaos of the crash—and translated both into a dockside pragmatism. Policy was whatever kept boats upright, workers paid, and smokehouses lit. | ||
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| + | The Contact Person worked by consensus more than ballots: mediating slip rights, settling gear disputes, balancing safety closures against the hunger for bigger catches, and minding relations with lake-shore Tribes and sacred-water boundaries. Frictions were practical rather than ideological—independent skippers vs. factory buyers over prices and grading; plant foremen pushing throughput vs. crews insisting on weather holds; warehouse schedulers vs. the courier station over dispatch windows. Votes, when taken, tended to be quick show-of-hands after the loudest arguments had spent themselves—frontier decision-making under the constant press of fog, thunder, and the next day’s haul. | ||
| ===== Local Governance ===== | ===== Local Governance ===== | ||
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| ==== In the Gamma Age ==== | ==== In the Gamma Age ==== | ||
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| The settlement lies reclaimed by jungle vines and reeds; collapsed docks sag into silted shallows, and the Funkenberg ruins stand half-buried in moss. Fog drifts through shattered window frames, and the air smells of rot and green growth. Fallen beams creak under shifting earth, while ghostly bird calls answer the hush of abandoned smokehouses. Only treaty-authorized guides dare tread the cracked pathways, their boots stirring thick leaf litter that muffles every echo — Arla Town is now a silent monument to ambitions lost beneath the Haze Doom. | The settlement lies reclaimed by jungle vines and reeds; collapsed docks sag into silted shallows, and the Funkenberg ruins stand half-buried in moss. Fog drifts through shattered window frames, and the air smells of rot and green growth. Fallen beams creak under shifting earth, while ghostly bird calls answer the hush of abandoned smokehouses. Only treaty-authorized guides dare tread the cracked pathways, their boots stirring thick leaf litter that muffles every echo — Arla Town is now a silent monument to ambitions lost beneath the Haze Doom. | ||
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| * [[exohuman_settlements_in_the_beta_age|Exohuman Settlements in the Beta Age]] | * [[exohuman_settlements_in_the_beta_age|Exohuman Settlements in the Beta Age]] | ||
| * [[exohuman_settlement_and_housing_in_the_beta_age|Exohuman Settlement and Housing Conditions in the Beta Age]] | * [[exohuman_settlement_and_housing_in_the_beta_age|Exohuman Settlement and Housing Conditions in the Beta Age]] | ||
| + | * [[fisherpoint|Fisherpoint]] (planned second fishing hub on [[lake_orlanda|Lake Orlanda]]; never completed) | ||
| **Exohuman settlements: | **Exohuman settlements: | ||
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