• Location: Industrial Ring, Firetown
• Address: SE Industrial Ring Road 1
• Surroundings: Close to the Firetown Market and within reach of the Entertainment District, making it a logistical hub for both official refuse and unofficial “disposals.”

Founded in December 2628, almost two years after Firetown’s official establishment, the Firetown Garbage Collection Coop (FGCC) emerged from an official call by the Contact Person of Firetown to organize waste management for the fast-growing settlement.

Rumors swirled that the Trade Guild of New Kourou intended to seize the contract, which would have expanded its influence into Firetown. In response, a coalition of local interests — Entertainment District hosts and mongers from the Firetown Market — under the leadership of Tina Bonanno (founder of the Dark Side Hotel and infamous mastermind of the Cartel Network) — established the Coop. The FGCC won the call, though persistent whispers claimed bribery and blackmail of the decision board secured the victory.

The FGCC’s official purpose was straightforward: collect Firetown’s refuse and burn it weekly in the molten lava flows of the Ralar Volcano. Unofficially, however, the Coop doubled as the Cartel Network’s clean-up crew — erasing evidence, disposing of bodies, and vanishing incriminating documents in the same fiery abyss as common trash.

The FGCC was disbanded in 2631 after the rise of Communardism and the establishment of the Federal Confederation. Nationalization brought the waste sector under the Federal Allotment Agency, replacing the FGCC with the Federal Garbage Collection Center and the Federal Organic Waste Recycling Plant in Firetown.

• Construction Material: Volcanic stones, corrugated hull-plating sheds salvaged from Last Frontier cargo containers.
• Floors: Single storey depot with an attached carriage shed.
• Design Aesthetic: Utilitarian frontier style — soot-blackened walls, roof vents spewing acrid smoke, open yard stacked with refuse piles.
• Power Source: Geothermal Power Plant, Quantum Fusion Batteries

Perimeter

• Fence: 2 m stony palisade reinforced with scrap iron; one wagon gate.

Depot Hall

• Sorting Yard: Covered area where employees unloaded carts, refuse separated into combustibles, recyclables, and “special consignments.”
• Incinerator Pit: Lava-stone funnel where interim burning took place before weekly volcano runs.
• Carriage Shed: Housing for five to seven Hoos and their refuse carts, with feeding troughs and hay storage.
• Office Shack: desk, coop registry, and bribe-fund lockbox.
• Break Corner: Rough benches, water barrel, dice board for staff
• Restrooms (2): Simple genderneutral cubicles equipped with AuroraSan units for basic hygiene.

The FGCC site reeked of rot and ash. Black smoke clung to the depot rafters. Hoos stamped nervously in their stalls, the air thick with dung and scorched metal. Trash-Tonis, faces smudged with soot, dragged sacks from doorsteps to carriages, their laughter often masking darker duties. Visitors sensed an unsettling mix of honest labor and criminal undercurrent — a place where waste and secrets alike vanished without a trace.

• Coop Director (1): Alfonso Bonanno, only son of Tina Bonanno — managed contracts, bribes, and Cartel operations.
• Clerk (1): Received customer requests, arranged collection schedules, logged complaints, and acted as contact point for “special” arrangements.
• Trash-Tonis (≈10): Paired teams of collectors; each drove a Hoo-drawn cart, responsible for both refuse and clandestine “specials.”
• Sorters (≈6): Stationed in the Sorting Yard; sifted through refuse for reusable materials, resellable goods, or valuables discarded during Firetown’s long nights (e.g. jewelry, wallets). Reusable scrap was sold on to factories across the Free State of Settlers.
• Stablemaster (1): Maintained Hoos and wagons.
• Bookkeeper (1): Kept false ledgers to cover cartel dealings.

• Access: Locals could contract FGCC for household or commercial refuse; “special requests” were arranged through Cartel channels.

Schedule:

• Collections: Twice weekly in Firetown’s inner rings.
• Special Pick-ups: By call
• Volcano Disposal: Every 7th day

• Cartel Guards: Plain-clothed thugs from the Entertainment District occasionally watched the yard.
• Bribed Watchmen: Certain Local Guarding Troopers were paid to “look the other way.”
• Low-Tech Secrecy: No formal alarm systems — discretion relied on fear and cartel reputation.

Legal interactions:

• Arrange a routine household or shop refuse collection.
• Pay extra for a same-day pick-up after a tavern brawl or large market day.
• Negotiate a disposal contract for a business in the Entertainment District.

Illegal interactions:

• Blackmail a Trash-Toni who knows too much about “special disposals.”
• Intercept a volcano run carrying sensitive evidence.
• Infiltrate the yard to discover cartel ties to Firetown’s power brokers.

• Beta Age
• Ralar Region
• Ralar Volcano
• Firetown
• Tina Bonanno
• Cartel
• Trade Guild of New Kourou
• Federal Garbage Collection Center of Firetown (successor, Gamma Age)
• Federal Organic Waste Recycling Plant of Firetown (successor, Gamma Age)