Docks

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Docks</default></title>

<image source="image"><default>File:Placeholder location.png</default></image> <header>Basic Information</header> <image source="map"></image> <label>Type</label> <label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Inhabitants</label> <header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label> </infobox>The Docks was a region of Brockton Bay located west of the Boardwalk<ref name="1.03">Gestation 1.03</ref> in the north end of the city<ref name="6.8">I hand picked you Undersiders because I needed allies who were comfortable being situated in the North end, the Docks, the Boardwalk, the Trainyard, the outskirts to the North. - Tangle 6.8</ref> and the east.<ref name="3.1e1">In Brockton Bay, going east took you to one of two places. You either ended up at the Docks, or you ended up at the Boardwalk. - Agitation 3.1</ref> The south end of the Docks bordered Downtown.<ref>The meeting place was at the south end of the Docks, near the border to the downtown area, and it was closer in appearance to the refurbished, ramshackle building where I'd reunited with the Undersiders than anything else. - Parasite 10.6</ref>

Description

Despite the name, much of the Docks were located away from the water,<ref name="1.03"/> although there were some actual docks there 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. - Hive 5.10</ref>

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 middle ground between Downtown and the Docks were a mix of quaint housing and stone buildings.<ref name="15.2e1"> 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. - Colony 15.2 </ref>

The Docks were afflicted by urban decay, with most city infracture failing to be maintained.<ref name="2.7"/> Many 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 included abandoned factories, warehouses and garages. The similarly-coloured buildings were said to blend together, making it difficult to navigate.<ref name="3.2">Agitation 3.2</ref> Many buildings in the Docks don't have 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. The only people on the streets at night were unconscious drunks, whores, and gang members.<ref name="1.03"/> During the day, there were homeless people visible, but also many people who looked surprisingly normal.<ref name="2.7"/>

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

Storm drains ran beneath the Docks.<ref name="5.10e1"/>

The southwest end of the Docks had many residential areas, schools, small businesses and restaurants.<ref name="I15e1"/>

Because of the homelessness and vagrants, it was considered advisable to avoid the area.<ref name="1.03"/><ref name="3.1">Agitation 3.1</ref> The people who lived there 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>"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." "I think I remember, yeah. The area where the fight started didn't exactly look upscale." "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." - 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>

Notable Locations

The Trainyard was located in the Docks, opposite the Boardwalk. It contained a number of abandoned boxcars, as well as a train station that was still occasionally visited by trains. There was a storage facility a few blocks away where Bakuda fought the Undersiders.<ref name="16.4">Monarch 16.4</ref> <ref name="4.5">Shell 4.5</ref>

Taylor and Danny Hebert lived on the periphery of the Docks.<ref name="2.7"> Insinuation 2.7</ref>

The Undersiders had their base in the Docks, in an abandoned-looking Redmond Welding factory building.<ref name="2.7"/> Bitch maintained an improvised dog shelter there that was destroyed by Purity.<ref name="7.7">Buzz 7.7</ref> When they began seizing territories, Grue claimed the southwest end of the Docks bordering Crater Lake<ref name="I15e1">His territory was marked out in black marker. Southwest end of the Docks. Lots of residential areas, lots of schools, small businesses, restaurants. - Interlude 15 (Donation Bonus 2)</ref><ref>Grue – Western end of the city, from the docks to the lake downtown. - Interlude 19 (Donation Bonus 2)</ref> Regent claimed the middle ground between the Docks and Downtown,<ref name="15.2e1"/> and Skitter claimed the areas of the Docks surrounding her core territory of the Boardwalk.<ref>It would mean that my plan to efficiently seize the Boardwalk and surrounding Docks would fall apart. - Plague 12.2</ref><ref>I nodded, and we ventured out into my territory. All around us, the Boardwalk and what had been the shadier parts of the Docks were coming together. - Chrysalis 20.1</ref>

Coil bought up numerous locations in the Docks as part of his master plan to control the city.<ref>I've quietly been purchasing properties throughout the Docks and will aggressively purchase more in the final stages of my plan. - Tangle 6.8</ref>

Chariot lived in a brick tenement building in the Docks.<ref>Sentinel 9.4</ref>

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