Post by Flak on Mar 30, 2005 13:49:15 GMT -5
Tori is a dark place during the day time and light at night. The reason? Pollution. During the day time, the black fogs, the smokes and fumes pollute the sky and darken it. At night, the lights of the towns are blocked off by these same chemicals and reflected back, brightening the night sky to a sickly orange. Many inhabitants of Tori have never seen a black sky, nor a blue one. All they know is gray and orange.
And ever since the period of unrest within the Tori Fortress, the skies have changed even more drastically. Many children born to the workers of the factories have birth deffects due to the dangerous atmosphere.
There have been protests against the extent to which the manufacturing business destroys the land, but they have been put down by a strict government that claimed that 'we profit more than we lose'. Indeed, Tori is a rich country, due mainly to its grain surplus and its metal works industry.
Tori's southern peninsula is almost exclusively grain farming, with a few other types of seed here and there, and is definitely the cleanest part of it. When you go upland and inland, you find giant steel plants, hardy workers, blackened and dying old folks. Tori once had been the lead of the Japan-wide development on the train, of the lightbulb, but recently its inventions and creations have been of a darker sort. Very few workers have any idea of what they are building, just making the piece of the set they are assigned to.
There has been a steady flow of Kame ores and metals into the factories, yet the economy does not balance, it continues to go up. The more educated wonder about this- is Kame giving its goods away for free? Those who venture to Kame to find out and return are never seen again after the day they set foot on the land. This suspicious behavior of course raised some eyebrows but out of fear of themselves disappearing the simple worker folk have surely fallen into steady and controlled motions, obeying the government unconditionally.
The northern coasts are used to inject all sorts of hazardous wastes into the oceans via giant pipes and tunnels. The industrial country of Tori is definitely a shady and dangerous one. There is a line between Sapporo and Tomakomai that splits the country in two, it would seem- to the southwest of this line, liberal grain farmers are doing the best they can to indiscreetly communicate with Ryu. To the northwest, the government's slaves continue to manufacture who-knows-what...
And ever since the period of unrest within the Tori Fortress, the skies have changed even more drastically. Many children born to the workers of the factories have birth deffects due to the dangerous atmosphere.
There have been protests against the extent to which the manufacturing business destroys the land, but they have been put down by a strict government that claimed that 'we profit more than we lose'. Indeed, Tori is a rich country, due mainly to its grain surplus and its metal works industry.
Tori's southern peninsula is almost exclusively grain farming, with a few other types of seed here and there, and is definitely the cleanest part of it. When you go upland and inland, you find giant steel plants, hardy workers, blackened and dying old folks. Tori once had been the lead of the Japan-wide development on the train, of the lightbulb, but recently its inventions and creations have been of a darker sort. Very few workers have any idea of what they are building, just making the piece of the set they are assigned to.
There has been a steady flow of Kame ores and metals into the factories, yet the economy does not balance, it continues to go up. The more educated wonder about this- is Kame giving its goods away for free? Those who venture to Kame to find out and return are never seen again after the day they set foot on the land. This suspicious behavior of course raised some eyebrows but out of fear of themselves disappearing the simple worker folk have surely fallen into steady and controlled motions, obeying the government unconditionally.
The northern coasts are used to inject all sorts of hazardous wastes into the oceans via giant pipes and tunnels. The industrial country of Tori is definitely a shady and dangerous one. There is a line between Sapporo and Tomakomai that splits the country in two, it would seem- to the southwest of this line, liberal grain farmers are doing the best they can to indiscreetly communicate with Ryu. To the northwest, the government's slaves continue to manufacture who-knows-what...