Scorchline Station — The Water Bearer
Scorchline Station controls the most critical resource in the desert scorchlands: a deep-bore water extraction system that produces three thousand liters per day, which is exactly what the community of five hundred needs and not one liter more. The remnant of the original engineering team manages the extraction with a precision that leaves no margin for error and no room for new arrivals who have not earned their water allocation. The fractured order of the surrounding desert communities depends on the Station's willingness to trade, and the desperation that drives desert politics is concentrated here. You arrived carrying the geological survey that shows where a second extraction site could be drilled — a survey the Station's leadership has been told does not exist. Betrayal, in the desert, tastes like salt.
About Scorchline Station — The Water Bearer
Scorchline Station controls the most critical resource in the desert scorchlands: a deep-bore water extraction system that produces three thousand liters per day, which is exactly what the community of five hundred needs and not one liter more. The remnant of the original engineering team manages the extraction with a precision that leaves no ma...Read more