Urbanshade

Urbanshade is the company you work for in Pressure, and is the center of the game's existance.

Lore

Urbanshade was founded by Mr. Shade in 19?? for unknown reasons. In 1961, to the West of Iceland in the Norwegian Sea, a B-class cargo ship had sank into the ocean. The recovery team later found a previously unknown deep trench. Mr. Shade, knowing this information, quickly commanded personells to cover the site, making sure the new information never reach public knowledge. The trench was then dubbed The Let-Vand Zone.

With the Let-Vand Zone secured, Urbanshade founded the Hadal Division and begin construction of the Hadal Blacksite in 1962, with construction finishing in 1974. Due to the Blacksite being located far underwater, no governmental powers are able to manipulate it other than Urbanshade itself. No life was

During construction of the Blacksite, personells noticed convicts used for labor would try to escape. To counteract, Urbanshade invented the Prisoner Diving Gear (PDG), a modified standard issue-diving backpack outfitted with a remotely detonated modified shotgun shell that works underwater being pointed directly at the users neck. If a convict tried to escape, a stationed guard or HQ can detonate the PDG, killing the convict immediately. Improved models of the PDG was developed throughout the years.

To generate more money for Urbanshade, the Trenchbleeder Class Walker was built. It's only mission is to excavate as many resources as possible from the Let-Vand Zone, being natural minerals and oil. The Trenchbleeder was built to fill the role of a mobile oil rig and mining platform, bleeding the trench of all its resources. A total of 4 Trenchbleeders were created, Trenchbleeder Leon, Rosa, Lucy, and River, named after Mr. Shades' family and Urbanshade's history. After emptying the Let-Vand Zone, all Trenchbleeders were shut down and dismantled for parts, except for Lucy, which was instead switched into freeroam mode.

In 1979, a logging company contacted Urbanshade after coming across The DiVine in the Amazon Forest, a species of humanoids made out of vines and other plant-based materials. After discovering an estimated 320 quantity of The Divine, Urbanshade operatives brought as many as possible back to the Blacksite. The logging workers were then executed and the area of the forest was burned down, making sure no trace of The DiVine was left. Urbanshade then dubbed the incident as a wild fire to give to the public. The DiVine later became the main supplier of oxygen in the Blacksite, being placed in the Oxygen Gardens.

In 2013, Urbanshade seized Sebastian Solace a prisoner proved guilty of murdering 9 people, later discovered innocent. Sebastian partook in an experiment in 2015 of merging the DNAs of an anglerfish, a sea snake, a blue whale and an unknown creature. While the experiment worked, giving Sebastian the ability to breathe underwater, it distorted his body into that of a sea snake. During a transport, Sebastian killed the guards transporting him after faking an anaesthesia dosage, taking their high level keycards and releasing every monster he could find, causing a site-wide lockdown.

With the lockdown, Mr. Shade told everyone in the Blacksite to either escape or hide in bunkers. The "Expendable" protocol was launched, sending Expendable Specialist on a mission to retrieve the crystal at the end of The Ridge. Urbanshade deemed anyone who retrieved the cystral back to HQ would gain freedom, though uncertain. The player somehow is able to come back to life upon every death, with Sebastian briefing the player about the thing they died to.