Trapped in a quarry at Ripper’s Fork, digging itself ever deeper into its own oubliette, Rybalchenko’s Excavator-Automanufactory seems to have been built to gather resources from its environment and then assemble them into a variety of mechanical devices, from simple farming implements to cars. Once a month or so, it discharges a (mostly) functional… something, usually of vehicular or agricultural purpose.

Members of the Dara family have laid claim to the Automanufactory, given that it’s in territory they claim, but nearby Bellephine rivals and unbonded wildcatters see no reason to honor the Daras’ claim.