Residents of mining colony abandoned by the Wiyrkomi Corporation saved by Guristas relief efforts.
December 7th YC 119
Author: Old Willie
Outlaw Headlines has an exclusive report coming out of the low security backwater of The Forge region.
On the surface of Akkio IV in the system of Akkio. A run down mining colony brandishing decayed markings linking them to the Wiyrkomi Corporation can be found among the structures. But this colony isn’t simple a hollowed shell. But had a population of 2,653 slowly but surely all dying from malnourishment and sickness. No Wiyrkomi Peace corp security personnel could be found on site. Which in turn made the colony a lawless ghetto as families would steal from one another - sometimes violently - in order to obtain precious resources to tend for their own.
This madness has only recently come to a end after one week of Guristas occupation of the colony. The Guristas came peacefully, carrying with them a bounty of medical supplies and food. This cargo of course having first been stolen from a Federal cargo ship crossing the Caldari Border. With armed security present the Guristas began handing out the supplies and establishing order. A former foreman of the colony was selected to take over administration and the colony is just now getting back to its original mining operations.
While this can almost certainly be seen as the Guristas exploiting some desperate colonists to not only start digging for them. As well as adding a friendly colony to their collection to harbor contraband or fugitives. It does the beg the question of just why the Wiyrkomi Corporation allowed this colony to fall into such a depressing state that the Guristas could come in and look like heroes.
The answer - is because it doesn’t officially exist anymore.
The colony was established in July of YC 119 to extract the planet’s natural source of Carbon components. But failed to meet quotas for three months straight with the outdated machinery handed to them. Outdated machinery, that was built during a time with more primitive safety regulations. As such employee fatalities were more common than not. The Director that lorded over this colony, Ailf Vuoltzer. Made the sinister call to pull funding and anything of value. With 6,542 residents being a struggle to resettle elsewhere. The director had Peace corp security recovered along with select specialists settled there. The common men that were put there to work for the glory of the State were abandoned with no funding, security or any future supply deliveries. The colony was removed from the Corporate database and never spoken of again.
It’s a sad day when normal law abiding civilians have to be saved by pirate forces due to the greed of their government. But this is not the only case of a colony being forgotten by its owners and left to rot away. Simply one of the few to get lucky and be saved from a painful and slow death from unlikely heroes.
- Old Willie