Editing Docks (section)

==Description==
Despite the name, much of the Docks were located away from the water,<ref name="1.03"/> although there were some actual docks as well as run-down beaches that tourists didn't frequent.<ref name="5.10e1">It was still early afternoon, so the beach was deserted, and it wasn’t the sort of beach that saw much tourist use anyways.  A concrete wall separated the beach from the roadside above us, and a yawning hole with the rusty remains of what had once been a grate marked the exit of the various storm drains beneath the Docks.  Trash, rotted leaves and one or two needles had filtered down to the sand below the drain. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/hive-5-10/ Excerpt] from [[Hive 5.10]]</ref> A good amount of the area consisted of abandoned factories, warehouses, and garages.<ref name="3.2"/> The southwest end had many residential areas, schools, small businesses, and restaurants,<ref name="I15e1"/> while the middle ground between Downtown and the Docks was a mix of quaint housing and stone buildings.<ref name="15.2e1">Shatterbird descended from some distant point high above us, landing in the middle of the College, Regent’s territory.  It was the middle ground between Downtown and the Docks, and the buildings were a mix of quaint housing and stone buildings.  Or they had been.  Most were ruins now. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/colony-15-2/ Excerpt] from [[Colony 15.2]]
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The Docks were generally more run-down than Downtown, with the quality of buildings declining steeply as one progressed deeper into the Docks.<ref name="1.03"/> The area was afflicted by urban decay, with most of the city infrastructure failing to be maintained.<ref name="2.7"/> The similarly-colored buildings appeared large and boxy<ref>It was the sort of street you saw often enough in the Docks. Large buildings lined either side, like giant boxes made of concrete or brick. - [[Extermination 8.4]]</ref> and were said to blend together, making the area difficult to navigate.<ref name="3.2">The abandoned factories, warehouses and garages of the Docks all blended into one another very quickly.  The colors of the building exteriors weren’t different enough from one another to make buildings recognizable, and the people or piles of garbage that I had been unconsciously noting my previous visit had all shifted locations or been replaced.  I found myself glad for the artistic graffiti and the row of weed-entangled power lines that I could use as landmarks.  I did not want to get lost.  Not here. [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/agitation-3-2/ Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.2]]</ref> Numerous buildings in the Docks lacked electrical power.<ref name="1.03"/>

There were cramped tenements located in the Docks, with ten or twelve families sharing a single bathroom and shower.<ref name="6.1">[[Tangle 6.1]]</ref> There were enough warehouses and apartments in the area for even the most destitute to find shelter. It was considered advisable to avoid the area, as the area had a reputation for criminals and gang members.<ref name="3.1">Because most areas of the Docks were not the sort of place that you just breezed through, given the vagrants, gang members and general crime, I stuck to main roads leading past the Docks and to the Boardwalk.  It was usually close to seven by the time I got to the bridge that went over Lord Street.  From there, it was a block to the Boardwalk. [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/agitation-3-1/ Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.1]]</ref> The people living in the Docks were used to paying protection money to the [[ABB]], and it was known as "the go to place if you want to buy black market".<ref name="I2">[[Interlude 2]]</ref>

Ironically, the buildings of the Docks survived the [[Battle against Leviathan]] unusually well,<ref name="8.5e1">The area we were entering had been further from the heroes with the forcefields, where waves hadn't had their impact softened or diverted by the the PHQ's forcefield or the larger, heavier, blockier structures of the Docks. - [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref><ref>"Brockton Bay doesn't, or didn't, have many that you could strictly call homeless, as there were so many abandoned buildings to squat in. When the Endbringer attacked, he chose the area with many of these buildings."<br><br> "I think I remember, yeah. The area where the fight started didn't exactly look upscale."<br><br>"The sad irony of this is that the defending parahumans protected that area, while other locations were leveled by the tidal waves. That area, known to locals as the Docks, was not under the control of any organized crime or villain organization even before the attack. After the battle's conclusion, it was swiftly occupied by the Merchants and growing numbers of their followers, and is now one of the areas with reliable shelter." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/cell-9-1/ Excerpt] from [[Sentinel 9.1]]</ref> although the water and power infrastructure was hit hard.<ref>Leviathan had arrived in the Docks, and his destruction of the city's water infrastructure and power had hit that part of the city hardest. - [[Prey 14.11]]</ref>

The [[Protectorate ENE Headquarters]] was visible from almost every part of the Docks.<ref name="1.03"/>