Open Vein Excavation
Open Vein Excavation is the largest local supplier of industrial resources in Dominus Columbia, and the Mamlan clan runs it with the kind of institutional memory that should not be possible. The Mamlans appear to be Semper Morts, a lineage whose defining trait is the absence of pre-death memories. Yet the Mamlan clan possesses unusual pre-Strain memory reserves, a contradiction no one has adequately explained.
The operation is built on four mines, each producing different materials essential to the DC economy. The Athanor, located near Ellistown Landing, yields soft and alloy metals and may exhibit psionic phenomena. Calverts Clast produces radioactive metals and is the subject of an ongoing ownership dispute with the Calvert Senatorial family. The Laminate is a compacted old-world landfill that yields plastic resources, turning pre-fall waste into post-fall commodity. Bleeding Hill produces hard metals under harsh working conditions, its iron-rich red runoff giving the mine its name.
The workforce is Lascarian, housed in subterranean company towns built into or adjacent to the mines themselves. The arrangement concentrates labor near the point of extraction and creates communities whose existence is wholly dependent on the continued operation of the mines. Whether the company towns constitute adequate living conditions or something closer to exploitation depends on who you ask and how much they depend on Open Vein's output.
Septimus Mamlan leads the operation, presiding over an enterprise that combines intense Hedon ritual with the use of Full Dead servants as knowledge repositories. The Full Dead, preserved as functional entities rather than allowed to deteriorate, serve as living archives of information that the company deems worth keeping. The practice is unusual and raises questions about the nature of the knowledge being preserved.
Open Vein Excavation operates at the intersection of essential industry and unsettling practice. Dominus Columbia needs what the mines produce. The Mamlans know this, and they have organized their operation accordingly.
The operation is built on four mines, each producing different materials essential to the DC economy. The Athanor, located near Ellistown Landing, yields soft and alloy metals and may exhibit psionic phenomena. Calverts Clast produces radioactive metals and is the subject of an ongoing ownership dispute with the Calvert Senatorial family. The Laminate is a compacted old-world landfill that yields plastic resources, turning pre-fall waste into post-fall commodity. Bleeding Hill produces hard metals under harsh working conditions, its iron-rich red runoff giving the mine its name.
The workforce is Lascarian, housed in subterranean company towns built into or adjacent to the mines themselves. The arrangement concentrates labor near the point of extraction and creates communities whose existence is wholly dependent on the continued operation of the mines. Whether the company towns constitute adequate living conditions or something closer to exploitation depends on who you ask and how much they depend on Open Vein's output.
Septimus Mamlan leads the operation, presiding over an enterprise that combines intense Hedon ritual with the use of Full Dead servants as knowledge repositories. The Full Dead, preserved as functional entities rather than allowed to deteriorate, serve as living archives of information that the company deems worth keeping. The practice is unusual and raises questions about the nature of the knowledge being preserved.
Open Vein Excavation operates at the intersection of essential industry and unsettling practice. Dominus Columbia needs what the mines produce. The Mamlans know this, and they have organized their operation accordingly.
Structure
Open Vein Excavation is controlled by the Mamlan clan, an ancient family that appears to be Semper Morts with unusual pre-Strain memory reserves. The clan head, Septimus Mamlan, directs the company's operations across four mines. The workforce is composed primarily of Lascarian laborers housed in subterranean company towns beneath the mine sites. Full Dead servants function as living knowledge repositories, preserving information through a method that has not been fully explained.
The company's internal culture revolves around intense Hedon ritual. Whether this practice serves a spiritual, practical, or coercive function within the organization is not documented, but its prominence suggests it plays a central role in binding the clan's operations together.
The company's internal culture revolves around intense Hedon ritual. Whether this practice serves a spiritual, practical, or coercive function within the organization is not documented, but its prominence suggests it plays a central role in binding the clan's operations together.
Public Agenda
Extract and supply industrial resources to Dominus Columbia through the operation of four mines producing soft metals, alloy metals, radioactive metals, hard metals, and plastics. Open Vein Excavation positions itself as the region's indispensable source of raw materials.
History
Open Vein Excavation established itself as Dominus Columbia's largest local supplier of industrial resources during the region's functional period. The Mamlan clan, whose origins predate the company's founding in ways that remain unclear, built the operation around four mines: the Athanor for soft and alloy metals, Calverts Clast for radioactive metals, the Laminate for plastics recovered from compacted pre-Fall landfill, and Bleeding Hill for hard metals.
The company's reliance on Lascarian labor and subterranean company towns created a system of economic dependency that persisted for decades. A Lascarian workforce strike over inadequate food supplies and unsafe working conditions demonstrated that the arrangement was not without friction, though the outcome of that dispute is not recorded. The Calvert family's ongoing territorial claim to Calverts Clast added a second axis of conflict. Whether either dispute was resolved before the Omni Plague reshaped the region remains unknown.
The company's reliance on Lascarian labor and subterranean company towns created a system of economic dependency that persisted for decades. A Lascarian workforce strike over inadequate food supplies and unsafe working conditions demonstrated that the arrangement was not without friction, though the outcome of that dispute is not recorded. The Calvert family's ongoing territorial claim to Calverts Clast added a second axis of conflict. Whether either dispute was resolved before the Omni Plague reshaped the region remains unknown.
DC's largest mining company; four mines, Lascarian labor, led by the ancient Mamlan clan.
