On the surface of the frozen sea, the Great Machine rests in disrepair. The situation within continues to deteriorate rapidly: not a single megasystem is fully intact, the System of Motion is well on its way to being destroyed — stranding us here — and public panic has reached a new peak with the news that a Machinist was caught ripping up plating from the System of Dwelling to sell in the market, leaving critical infrastructure exposed to the elements in the process! Under intense scrutiny and social pressure, the marketeers are selling almost every Component for cheap, and refusing to pay high prices for anyone selling Components for fear that they might be complicit. All other commodities, meanwhile, have skyrocketed in price.

In more hopeful news, six more core Facilities have been repaired and rewired, and are ready to be powered up and used by the Machinists to get a handle on this absolute disaster. We can only hope that that is truly what they’ll do with them.