Mercury City

This working-class neighborhood is home to many of Dockside's factory workers and some blue-collar and clerical employees of Old Town businesses.

Demographics

This mix of small homes and tenement buildings is one of the most densely populated areas of the city. The loud trains and planes from Kaufman Station and Orchard Airfield, plus the smoke from Dockside factories, ensure that few live in Mercury City once they have the means to leave, however. Still, crime is lower in Mercury City than in Curtistown or the Garment district.

Points of interest

• Mercury City Hospital was the city's largest hospital until it was destroyed in a bomb blast and melee six months ago orchestrated by a secret society known as the ARMY OF THE ECLIPSE. The society's motivations for attacking the hospital were never made clear, nor were their larger goals. Those who stood trial after the attack described a network of cells, none of which knew the identities or activities of the other groups. Commonwealth authorities announced that they'd smashed the leadership ring of the Army of the Eclipse, but subsequent investigative reporting by the city's newspapers revealed evidence of other Eclipse cells that extended into the halls of government and industry. Today, Mercury Hospital sits as an ugly reminder of a mysterious attack--and perhaps a harbinger of others to come.
• Kaufman Station is a major trainyard for both industrial and passenger traffic, connecting Dockside to the rest of the Commonwealth.

• Orchard Airfield is the home of the burgeoning airplane industry in Northport. Planes travel to and from the two runways on an hourly basis.
• The government, several major conglomerates, and Omelan Spy Networks have heard persistent rumors of "Strange Batwings in the night sky" in this district and are trying to uncover the truth.

Type

Neighbourhood

Location under

Northport