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This document details the history and creation of the Hadal Blacksite sector, The Ridge. This document can be found at the checkpoint after exiting the Crystal Room.
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The Ridge
"The Ridge" was the first sector constructed during the 1962 "Hadal" project. Finishing construction in 1963, it was the first successful prototype of the Hadal Blacksite. Built into a pre-existing cave that had been drained of water, The Ridge was the quickest and cheapest area to build. During the construction of the rest of the Blacksite, The Ridge served as a temporary hub to house building materials, guards & prison workers.
Due to it being the first area constructed, The Ridge was made when the Navi-AI had not yet been programmed, meaning that numbered doors did not exist at the time. The Navi-AI is still yet to be implemented, as the relatively small size of the zone compared to the rest of the Blacksite makes it incredibly easy to remember the layout, thus, not needing it.
All of the light bulbs in The Ridge were the same ones used for the Emergency Lights system, meaning they would break less easily. These light bulbs were expensive however, and were switched to be a cheaper bulb model for the rest of the Blacksite.
The Ridge's PA system is also still using an older model, where the speaker is plainly visible to the naked eye. This is kept both as a novelty & simply because if it isn't broken, why fix it? There is the usual issue that, should The Ridge's PA be disconnected from the rest of the Blacksite or the mainland, it would be incredibly easy to hijack. This has been declared a non-issue, however, as the most damage it could cause would be blown-out eardrums or rival propaganda.
In 1967, after the discovery of Thor's corpse, and subsequently, Z-2, The Ridge was chosen as its new home. A big reactor shaft was built into the edge of The Ridge to house it, powering all of the Blacksite, with excess energy produced being sold to Europe.
Although talks of modernizing The Ridge have been going around, it has been decided to be left as is as a show of novelty and how far Urbanshade as an organization has come.
