"Chemical Sciences, Genetic Studies, even Geological sciences, even Botany, were carried by the Lost Engineers. They said that the Lost Engineers were a group of great minds that helped formed the foundations of the Corporation. The originating Corporation Orders, the manufacturing plants establishments, they helped before all of this.
They left because, I think, they can't understand how the Corporation is being managed. It was Menks and his mentor who had created cruel Orders, and immoral Executions, and even his projects are politically driven.
Erik Berkley to his son
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He thought of a hover wheelbarrow. What he had was wheeled, hardly succumbing to steep and rocky roads from the scraps towards his home. It was a long walk and pushing the borrow with 10 kg of Smooth Silver Casings had provided him thigh aches after.