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Hearth Stations of Umbak
Posted on September 30, 2025
The Hearth Stations of Umbak have evolved over time from their original simple social safety net for the homeless. While Umbak is one of the places with the least homeless problem, there are always circumstances leading to loss of home and safety. It is part of the social safety net inherent in its “honor in service” perspective of its noble houses and precepts of the Lightbringers and Umbaks traditional form of nationalism.
In Umbak, the Hearth Stations are essentially homeless shelters, public baths, and also typically serve as hostels. There is typically one of these in every settlement. In the smaller ones, it is tied to (either connected to or next to) a Lightbringer church.
In the last few hundred years, the Hearth Stations and the function of The Pigsjin of Umbak have been combined.
The Pigsjin of Umbak
Posted on September 30, 2025
The Pigsjin of Umbak are the original creation by the Umbakians to manage waste and create natural gas fuel in their larger settlements. It has gradually led to a wider use of The Pigsjin in general in the Steel Realms, though it is much more prevalent in Umbak.
Its also used by extracting it from offal piles at large farms, towns and cities. The organized creation of The Pigsjin – offal pits, collection for and taxation/fines if NOT used has allowed beacons and Hearth Stations of Umbak to be warmed.
The Technology of Teilhard (Umbak)
Posted on September 30, 2025
The tech Teilhard is known for its natural gas processing plants for salt brine. Natural Gas is used by the Umbakians to boil sea water for salt brine. Some primitive electrical tech and turbines are involved.
The Technology of Havluck
Posted on September 30, 2025
The tech Havluck is known for is its electrical lightning – the entire city is well lit. Like most of “The Mech Belt“, it has mills and lathes and has some coal fired sources producing steam for crude turbines.
Iron Bottom Hunters (naval boat of Umbak)
Posted on April 18, 2024 in Steel-Realms
The Iron Bottom Hunters are a progressively more armored hull naval ship of Umbak. It is a product of the Automata Brigade of Virtue and Reason. These were made to hunt war ships in ancient times. They were large and heavy, not useful for anything except war. They were meant to survive a battering ram strike or the rocks off a coast. They almost never sank, and when they did it was rapid, dooming most of the crew. They are prohibitively expensive to build and have assistance propelling them from mystical means. They are few in number now, being expensive to maintain.
The first made, the “Silver Eventide”, has the distinction of slaying the crew of The Greentooth at the end of the Dread of Vesicant.