Chinca Agroplex
Though Esmeraldas doesn’t grow as much food as La Costa, its agroplexes still provide many of the daily nutrients essential for New Angeles to survive. The Chinca agroplex on the edges of the Streets is one such facility, employing over five hundred local residents. Technically, the central building has more floors than any arcology in Rutherford. The “floors,” however, are only twenty-five centimeters deep: just enough to grow and ripen a wide range of crop types. Human workers direct legions of crawler-bots, which tend the plants and collect the harvest, bringing the fruits (and vegetables) of their labors to human-sized access hallways.
Each floor has an isolated environment to prevent the spread of contamination. Recent sabotage attempts saw the release of a bioengineered fungus that necessitated burning one floor’s crops down to the roots. The owners suspect rival agroplexes in La Costa, but NAPD Sergeant Burke LeGrande wonders if someone has taken issue with Chinca’s ties to Humanity Labor.
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