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The Bottle's voyage proceeded without incident and soon arrived at the Colony on a pleasantly mild evening. She and her convoy were soon docked at a newly built harbor for vitaling, with most of her crew receiving a stint of shore leave for the next week. The next day captain Morisleb and four of her sailors took her out and puttered along to a secondary docking facility a kilometer up river. A rough palisade wall enclosed an small area under the watch of a guardtower that contained a single proper building, an sheltered open air workspace (both of which had solar panel lined roofs, a sign of the importance the Committee gave it), a paddock for draft animals (including oxen and the strange shaggy behemoths of this land), some machinery and piping a pair of large cisterns looking like oversized squat beer barrels. A fair number of stevedores worried about the area and to her surprise to see a Committee Member monitoring the operation which came to meet her. More specifically she was Transition Of Mobile Macrofauna From Marine To Terrestrial Enviroments-402122 (Transition) and she made a quick inspection of the Bottle before declaring that everything was in order and that loading would begin.

A long hose of Rubberized canvas was soon unpacked and affixed to a specialized crane before being affixed to one of the two cargo port. Soon a big electric motor began to rumble, the hoses began to shake and petroleum flowed from the cistern's to the Bottle's Bunkers. Over the next hour, a thousand cubic meters of the black liquid were poured into the hold, leaving the tanker heavy and low in the water. After everything was secured, the Bottle puttered back to the main port where her own fuel tanks would be filled with Kerosene.

At this time, Infrastructure had set up a couple of Oil Wells nearby operate infrequently due to security reasons and the colony's limited storage and transport capacity. These filled wooden barrels a few of which were decanted refined for local use or, with the majority of them, loadup as regular cargo on return voyages to the Coldlands for study, stockpiling and the limited distillation efforts already in place. It was an expensive, ungainly and unsafe set up which was not viable for the Committee's long term goals. It would still take years to expand the Petroleum Colony to meet said goals, but with the war over that was simply a matter of Infrastructural Development.

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Description

The Bottle's voyage proceeded without incident and soon arrived at the Colony on a pleasantly mild evening. She and her convoy were soon docked at a newly built harbor for vitaling, with most of her crew receiving a stint of shore leave for the next week. The next day captain Morisleb and four of her sailors took her out and puttered along to a secondary docking facility a kilometer up river. A rough palisade wall enclosed an small area under the watch of a guardtower that contained a single proper building, an sheltered open air workspace (both of which had solar panel lined roofs, a sign of the importance the Committee gave it), a paddock for draft animals (including oxen and the strange shaggy behemoths of this land), some machinery and piping a pair of large cisterns looking like oversized squat beer barrels. A fair number of stevedores worried about the area and to her surprise to see a Committee Member monitoring the operation which came to meet her. More specifically she was Transition Of Mobile Macrofauna From Marine To Terrestrial Enviroments-402122 (Transition) and she made a quick inspection of the Bottle before declaring that everything was in order and that loading would begin.

A long hose of Rubberized canvas was soon unpacked and affixed to a specialized crane before being affixed to one of the two cargo port. Soon a big electric motor began to rumble, the hoses began to shake and petroleum flowed from the cistern's to the Bottle's Bunkers. Over the next hour, a thousand cubic meters of the black liquid were poured into the hold, leaving the tanker heavy and low in the water. After everything was secured, the Bottle puttered back to the main port where her own fuel tanks would be filled with Kerosene.

At this time, Infrastructure had set up a couple of Oil Wells nearby operate infrequently due to security reasons and the colony's limited storage and transport capacity. These filled wooden barrels a few of which were decanted refined for local use or, with the majority of them, loadup as regular cargo on return voyages to the Coldlands for study, stockpiling and the limited distillation efforts already in place. It was an expensive, ungainly and unsafe set up which was not viable for the Committee's long term goals. It would still take years to expand the Petroleum Colony to meet said goals, but with the war over that was simply a matter of Infrastructural Development.

From the Beginning

Previous: Infrastructure: Part Two Hundred and Ninety Nine

Next: Infrastructure: Part Three Hundred and One