Bowman Bastion

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BOWMAN BASTION
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With the impending end of the world, it would be quite foolish indeed for the governments of the world to stand by and do nothing. And while that may be the expectation of the general populace, there are some within the government that have been quietly allocating funds and resources to the Bastion Project - a globe-spanning initiative to save humanity’s remnants, should night fall.

The Bowman Bastion, located in Bowman County North Dakota near the town of Bowman, is one such construction. Meant to safeguard residents from the general areas of North Dakota, South Dakota, Eastern Montana, and Wyoming, the Bowman Bastion is an enormous underground megacity with huge tiers of housing and centrally located commerce zones. The entire community is supported by geothermal generators and an intricate network of air valves and filtration systems. As the world is coated in Outland Mist, the air network will filter the Mist out through specialized orichalcum ducts and ensure the populace is supplied with fresh air. Water is tapped from several basins above ground that will move through similar filtration systems before reaching the residents. Finally, food is supplied through immense hydroponic farms sustained by artificial light. The community itself makes heavy use of this self-same light in order to allow it to grow greenery within and keep oxygen properly circulating.

Immense and impressive, the Bowman Bastion is in fact one of the smaller bastions currently under construction. As night falls, there are plans to evacuate all citizens to these huge underground shelters, in hopes that Nightfall might be reversed, or, failing that, that the structures will remain defensible enough that humankind will not perish in its entirety.

The structures are indeed immense and wholly impressive, although those with a firm grasp of numbers will likely realize upon touring the facility that it is not nearly able enough to supply the entire area it is supposedly intended to cover. According to the wardens, it is expected a full third of the population in the area will choose to remain where they are instead of fleeing, with evidence borne out from studies of other disasters and human responses to them. Further questioning, of course, will lead nowhere. The Bastions are here to save as many people as they can. It’s just a question of how many that number truly is.

Not unlike previous encounters with those who haven’t been fully exposed to the supernatural side of things, the researchers and workers here are generally skeptical but curious to ask questions in order to understand both the motivations behind their new visitors and their range of knowledge. Advice and answers from Daybreak’s staff and students will likely change how things are handled here in months to come.