Base de Cayambe Junkyard
This junkyard covers dozens of square kilometers along the edges of Neo-Broadway in mountains of construction waste, scrap metal, and ruined hoppers as well as trash drifts tens of meters high. Originally, the junkyard was a dumping ground for discarded or broken material from the flurry of construction work that went into building the Chakana and Base de Cayambe port facilities. After construction was complete, the authorities looked at the waste and decided that building a wall around it would be easier than trying to recycle it. Now, the junkyard is where surplus materials, byproducts from nearby industries, and the unwanted detritus of local residents ends up. As long as it’s not considered toxic enough to warrant removal from New Angeles, it can be dumped here.
Some souls eke out a living by salvaging what they can from the junkyard, repairing it, and selling it. Some even live out their lives in its center, out of sight of the workers dumping more trash, constructing slums out of whatever materials are at hand. Everything from obsolete computer hardware to lengths of the same buckyweave cable used for the Beanstalk’s tether can be found here. The junkyard regulars even host semi-regular bazaars among the dunes of discarded YucaBean cups and packing material. Most of the time, visitors to these swap meets are just exchanging junk for more junk, but once in a while, someone digs up something valuable—or dangerous—from the detritus.
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