Lunenshire Dig
Lunenshire Refuge is home to one of ARCHES archaeological digs around the Expanse. As is standard, the ruin that they're excavating is partially submerged in the water, though some efforts have been made to access it through Lunenshire's cave system.
Defences
Lunenshire's natural uninhabitability is its greatest defense. When pirates or raiders scour the water for a target, their eyes skim right passed the rocky wasteland full of researchers. Even still, some defenses have been prepared. A small wall surrounds their settlement and they have a few cannons set up for if things get really dangerous.
Infrastructure
The Lunenshire Digsite is somewhat barebones. They have magecrafted shelters for themselves, bolted-down barrels to catch rainwater, and a simple shipyard where they offer repairs to any who pass by in exchange for payment or rations.
Guilds and Factions
Although claimed officially by all of ARCHES, only the Kalei and Lani crews are currently digging the Savarial ruins, with Travon Rieviere's team of analysts on-site to investigate any finds that can't be transported out of the ruins. Both archaeological crews are competing, and both would very much like the other to be gone.
Lucas Kalei's team are taking the brute-force approach of boring through the underwater rock to expose more sections of the collapsed ruins, while Redonna Lani's team are exploring the Lunenshire caves in hopes that one of their many branching paths may connect to an interior section of the ruined city.
Architecture
Like all magecrafted structures, the buildings of Lunenshire appear bunker-like and seamless, as though they had grown naturally out of the ground. They can be viscously cold during Snapfreeze and sweltering during Flashfire, but they keep the rain out.
This is contrasted with the beautiful, flowing architecture of the ruins are excavating; the Savarial ruins. Although time has done its damage to them, the rounded shapes, colorful strata-like masonry, and Glasgate gold patterns (at least where they haven't been extracted from the wall) remain strikingly beautiful.
Alternative Name(s)
Savarial Ruins
Type
Outpost / Base
Location under
Owning Organization
