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RUNNERS' GUIDE                                      v.1.001.01.tciv           

ZONE EXPLORATION: DIRE MARSH 

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ZONE: DIRE MARSH   

LOCATION: Colony Farming Sector  

FUNCTION: Agricultural Research Hub  

ENVIRON: Marshland

REGIONS: 

     • COMPLEX 

     • AI UPLINK 

     • BIO-RESEARCH 

     • GREENHOUSE 

     • ALGAE PONDS 

     • MAINTENANCE 

     • QUARANTINE  

STATUS: Auxiliary functionality. DIRE MARSH is technically as dormant as any other ZONE, but hints at upkeep and in-progress grow operations indicate some level of automated system activity. 

OVERVIEW: DIRE MARSH appears to have been a key ZONE in the colony's sustainability efforts. Designed as a collaboration between Colony Science Command and NUCALORIC AGRICULTURAL, its facilities focused on the research and active development of hybrid food sources. As the science of crossbreeding Earth-based nutriment and TAU CETI-local plants and proteins was deemed crucial to long-term colonization efforts, this ZONE and any other like it served important roles in not only establishing NEW CASCADIA's present, but also ensuring its future.   

Evidence of a quarantine operation points at a credible threat to colony security. Food scarcity or loss of stores due to contamination puts any remote operation at risk, much less one wholly removed from its natural habitat. TAU CETI IV may feel familiar in ways, but never forget it is alien, and it will kill you. 

DIRE MARSH's defining curiosity is the ANOMALY—the ethereal scar cutting across DIRE MARSH's West-Central REGION. Once you see it, you cannot forget it. Wars will be fought for answers to its existence, and it's hard to believe the ANOMALY is not a major factor in the UESC's brutal attempts to keep all eyes but theirs off this planet. What else are they hiding? What else don't we know?

REMARK: Long, wide open spaces provide clear sightlines for RUNNERS hunting RUNNERS. Move swiftly and check your surroundings before stepping from cover. 

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