The Gray Towns
It's a bunch of farms
Some hundred kilometers to the east and south of
Evergreen are dozens of the so-called “Gray Towns”
– the “gray” in the name describing their legal
relationship to Landmark. Liu Maize and
Merricktown are the largest of these settlements.
They serve as social hubs for the uncounted,
noncitizen population that lives around Evergreen.
The Gray Towns are primarily agricultural, with little
heavy industry beyond logging and some light,
surface-level mining. Few buildings stand above two
stories and the tallest reach only four. Save for the
crossroad clusters of buildings that form their civic
centers, the Gray Towns are very lightly populated.
Most people live in small clusters of two to four
families working many hundreds of acres, or as hired
hands on those large agricultural properties.
Thesetowns serve the crews from Evergreen that live and
work maintaining the drone depots, and have grown to
serve the lonely, scattered farmhouses as well. Liu
Maize and Merricktown enjoy healthy, gray-market
commerce with Evergreen, and in contrast to the
agricultural operations that they serve, are places
where service and hospitality are the prime economic
drivers.
Aware of the raids plaguing Evergreen, Liu
Maize and Merricktown, separated by some dozens of
kilometers, have entered into a mutual defense pact.
Their mayors have raised corps of armed guards to
conduct regular patrols and garrison checkpoints
along the road connecting the two towns.
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