The Founder-Processor

 

As described in the recent plot outline post, the Founder-Processor is a horrible monstrously large machine that smelts and refines raw ores and rubble into slightly more useful end products. It lies in the bottom of the pit, laboring like an enormous bloated dying animal, smoke billowing from its internal furnace as it vomits forth processed material onto its conveyor.

The Founder-Processors are only mobile to allow them to adjust as the mine grows ever wider and deeper. They are largely constructed on site, and either deconstructed or abandoned to die when a mine's resources are thoroughly exhausted. After encountering one on her first night voyage aboard Ark Royal, Noira is haunted by nightmares of these great beasts lumbering over the landscape, laying waste to the worlds...