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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8811320" data-attributes="member: 4937">It's also a working city of some 5000 people.  There has to be shipments of all sorts coming in.  First, there are the parts for the say ~3500 harness assemblies that they build every day.  Each of those seems to weigh say 800 lbs, so that's hundreds of tons per day of components that are going in and out.  And even the sludge, they are probably eating like 7 tons of it per day.  Assume they need deliveries of soap and disinfectant, plus enough amenities for the guards to keep them from revolting, plus all the parts that have to be maintained daily in a giant working factor complex to keep all those hundreds of thousands of parts working, plus transports for the contractors that you'll have to pay to repair all that stuff, and yeah there are dozens of semi-truck loads worth of things going in and out per day.  The trouble though is you at best would get one or two ships hijacked before the Empire learns what is going on, so maybe 1-2% of the factory could actually escape and everyone else is going to be made an example of, unless you can get outside help.Brutal but logical.  On the other hand, you probably don't want to flood the non-living spaces of the factory even as a failsafe.  The factory is worth more than the workers in it as far as the Empire would be concerned.  Most machinery does not like being emersed in water.</blockquote>