My Take on an "Urban" Region

[Willy Pete]

I've seen the idea of a region with buildings galore float around here with mixed results and wanted to offer a different sort of idea for a Metropolis on Great Bear Island: one that was never finished.

During the time of Richard Carter and his plan for Hydroelectric dams on the Island, perhaps another entrepreneur stepped up in with a plan to build an urban area on the island: a young CEO by the name of Kyle Royce. Wanting to get in quick, Royce got backers for his project and rushed in to start building with little to no research or testing, hoping to get in quick before anyone else did. Unfortunately for him, the geological problems reared their ugly heads and the Carter project failed.

Funding ran out when the backers for Royce's project withdrew their money and everything was abandoned, left as it was. Rather than a shining cityscape, all that remains are the metal and cement skeletons of what might've been, and some of the equipment that couldn't be taken off the island. In this region, you'll find little in the way of dedicated shelter. Old trailers and a cheap construction office for the workers and personnel offer the only dedicated protection from the elements. Meanwhile, some forgotten tools and scraps of metal and cloth can be found littering the unfinished buildings with a couple large cranes standing like forgotten monoliths of a lost era. Paved roads are the only finished part of this urban landscape, but have deteriorated and crumbled as mother nature takes back hold of her world. Much like Forlorn Muskeg, you might find a furnace outdoors, with nor shortage of workbenches.

Animals have started taking back the area with deer and rabbits living on the outskirts of the region and wolves patrolling the city area.

[Fuarian]

Eh... why would anybody even decide to build a city on a remote island? It makes no sense.

[Willy Pete]

On 2/1/2019 at 10:18 AM, Fuarian said:

Eh... why would anybody even decide to build a city on a remote island? It makes no sense.

Same reason they built a dam, did you read the description?

[Fuarian]

On 2/2/2019 at 8:44 PM, Willy Pete said:

Same reason they built a dam, did you read the description?

A hydro dam to power a small mining town to be built for the purpose of extracting resources from a remote wilderness area is a lot different than an entire city... 

[Willy Pete]

On 2/7/2019 at 8:39 PM, Fuarian said:

A hydro dam to power a small mining town to be built for the purpose of extracting resources from a remote wilderness area is a lot different than an entire city... 

Evidently, someone should've told the fictional Kyle Royce that. Hindsight is always 20/20, no reason people can't make dumb decisions, which is exactly the point of why it failed.