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For three years Fredor Urivich fought with the Infrastructural army in the 22nd Rifle Battalion, during which he earned the nickname of Ox. He was rather big and heavily built though typically cautious with his strength. After the fall of the Black Ports he was discharged and like many soldiers decided that the best prospects for the future were in Dalatyr. Unlike many other newcomers that arrived that year he managed to avoid the hovels and get a bunk in an apartment building with a little application of his savings and bonus. He did various odd jobs for the next year before he was eventually settled down at a factory job in Foundry-5 at a newly installed machine.

It was similar to a device used for making rails. A bar of red hot steel was fed in one end and wend through a series of rollers which gradually squished it into an H-shaped bar while pouring water on it. The end result was a length of steel either three, four or six meters long that was called an H-Beam that was dropped into a trough of water. His job was to ease it into said trough using a hooked stick, flip it over so both sides would cool, hose it down if things got a bit too hot and then shove it along the rollers to the next station, where boltholes were cut, then they were stacked and prepared for storage. One beam was put through every three, four or six minutes, depending on the size. He could do the job on his own, but it was easier with another man especially with the longer ones. He also took to learning how the thing worked.

The foundry was loud, noisy, hot and because of all the water being boiled in this room extremely humid. The work was quite physical. That said, he got a solid ten credits a day, three times what some people got paid and the people who worked here were a decent enough, even if they usually had their hands full. He quite enjoyed his lunch hour as the lads were more than able to hold there end of a conversation. One of the big subjects of discussion was the matter of what these H-beams were to be used for. Some of them were sent off for building ships and Paddlesteamers, but apparently most of them were being stockpiled in warehouses. The Committee also used some for tests, but it was still uncertain for what they were to be used. Save for that whatever it was, it was going to be big.

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For three years Fredor Urivich fought with the Infrastructural army in the 22nd Rifle Battalion, during which he earned the nickname of Ox. He was rather big and heavily built though typically cautious with his strength. After the fall of the Black Ports he was discharged and like many soldiers decided that the best prospects for the future were in Dalatyr. Unlike many other newcomers that arrived that year he managed to avoid the hovels and get a bunk in an apartment building with a little application of his savings and bonus. He did various odd jobs for the next year before he was eventually settled down at a factory job in Foundry-5 at a newly installed machine.

It was similar to a device used for making rails. A bar of red hot steel was fed in one end and wend through a series of rollers which gradually squished it into an H-shaped bar while pouring water on it. The end result was a length of steel either three, four or six meters long that was called an H-Beam that was dropped into a trough of water. His job was to ease it into said trough using a hooked stick, flip it over so both sides would cool, hose it down if things got a bit too hot and then shove it along the rollers to the next station, where boltholes were cut, then they were stacked and prepared for storage. One beam was put through every three, four or six minutes, depending on the size. He could do the job on his own, but it was easier with another man especially with the longer ones. He also took to learning how the thing worked.

The foundry was loud, noisy, hot and because of all the water being boiled in this room extremely humid. The work was quite physical. That said, he got a solid ten credits a day, three times what some people got paid and the people who worked here were a decent enough, even if they usually had their hands full. He quite enjoyed his lunch hour as the lads were more than able to hold there end of a conversation. One of the big subjects of discussion was the matter of what these H-beams were to be used for. Some of them were sent off for building ships and Paddlesteamers, but apparently most of them were being stockpiled in warehouses. The Committee also used some for tests, but it was still uncertain for what they were to be used. Save for that whatever it was, it was going to be big.

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