¶ YuKon: Delivering Happiness
¶ Associates
- Product and Fulfilment Specialists- pack and ship orders
- Couriers- delivery people
- Nutrition Technicians- people who work at Refresh and Renew eating places. Mostly they work bioprinters. Many have specialized training in bioprinting.
¶ Departments
- Compliance & Conformity aka C&C.
- Basically the secret police inside YuKon. Also the auditors. A combination of Internal Affairs and inventory people. Tend to not be very visible. People aren’t really afraid of them, but nobody outside the department really knows very much.
- The Labor and Lifestyle Overlap for YuKon Associates Leaders Program (aka LLOYAL)
- A sort of hybrid between training organizers and the people that always throw birthday parties for everyone (with a bit of secret police thrown in)
- They do both enforced fun and training, and often the two overlap. They’re the people that need to see you being happy. Just like every YuKon branch, they have their own internal culture and higher ups.
- Run by the LLOYALty Committee
- Sapling Prime the movie/redline making portion
¶ Facilities
- YuKon owns full asteroids, planetoids, and orbitals that are entirely made up of their facilities. They are all named after famous historic Canadians
- Exchange Stations
- Generally named as whatever they were before, or what they are in addition to being a YuKon ES. Ones that are YuKon only have a name scheme TK.
- places where courier ships stop to change pilots, etc)
- these often piggieback on public transit stops (SPACE stations) or already-built orbitals/habitats/space ports.
- They frequently end up taking over something already made, and imposing YuKon rules.
- Production and Fabrication Facilities
- Numbered. Are on YuKon owned habitats/asteroids/etc.
- Where things are fabbed or bioprinted and packaged, then sent to couriers.
- FASTR pods (acronym forthcoming) are the place workers work. Individual pods with a fabber & printer, and 1 Product & Fulfilment Specialist to man it.
- Shipping Hub-
- Numbered.
- the place all packaged stuff goes to to be sorted into courier ships for delivery
- Refresh and Renew Cafe-
- Named, but I don’t have a name-scheme yet. They have a cutesy company name, but most people just call them by a local landmark or street. The real names are too hard to remember.
- basically a company cafeteria. There are a variety of these kinds of things, with different names and different sizes. The Cafes are sort of middle-sized, about the size of a Denny’s.
- YuNHI-T ( YuKon New Hire In-Take)- an orbital where new hires are processed (probably there are a series of these)
- YuDios aka Sapling Prime asteroids
- All stages of redline productions
- They run their own asteroids (named after Canadian actors).
- Reeves (shut down after riots etc)
- Meyers
- Arnett
- Generally, people transfer over to these after they’re discovered somewhere else, but some people are born there
- The school curriculum is heavily media/acting focused, for all ages
¶ History
- YuKon as a whole has been around for about 28 years
- First 5 years were small, as a Luna-based manufacturing and delivery company with one asteroid.
- Year 5-10 explosive growth, took over everything.
- Year 10 + YuKon as we know it.
¶ Locations
- Kesstrel
- A production and fulfilment facility that piloted the SupraCath Bio-waste Management System
- Le Duplessis- Preston Jorgenson’s private orbital home. “houses it's own YuKon Fulfillment Station and an atmo bubble that is home to several gardens, Jorgenson's private zoo and his palatial mansion”
- New Houston- a company town, the largest YuKon facility on Luna is located adjacent to this. One of the places they tested the LIV-FIT implant
¶ Management
- President/Founder- Preston Jorgenson
- Jeff Bezos meets Elon Musk
- He’s “quirky”
- Resonant peaks for hums of all reactors/engines/hvacs CANNOT be in the 5-10hz ranges (well below human hearing) because he insists it gives him nightmares if he comes into contact with sounds of the frequency. He will test it it with his terminal and insist things be changed before he will come aboard. Even if that means operating equipment outside it's specs
- And no, you cannot just use active noise cancellation to play the opposing wave and cancel the hum out, because even if the test can't register it once it's been canceled out, he absolutely can, he can feel the sound pressure on his eardrums and if anything it's worse
¶ Miscellaneous Other Stuff
- YuKon has a mascot- Monty the Mountie Moose.
- Every employee gets a YuKon Exclusive Employee Terminal (A YEET)
- “Larry the Leaf” is one of their animated training characters
- LIV-FIT an implant in the neck that delivers chems to the blood instantly. A limited program on some facilities (including New Houston) that went really bad and ended up a huge cause of the labor riots (see Let Sleeping Dogs)
- Personal pharmabot. It monitored your vitals and dispensed directly into your bloodstream. Vitamins, probiotics, analgesics, anti-nausea, SSRIs, hormone adjusters, depressives, stimulants.
- People hacked it almost immediately and started tinkering
- “The cocktail” a blend of meds to let people work better, longer
- The LIV-FIT- Local Iatrogenic Vessel, Facilitating Individualized Treatment.
- When stations/settlements/orbitals were dropped after riots, etc, they start calling them “Autonomous Affiliates” which really just means YuKon isn’t helping them anymore and left them to flounder. But, you know, better optics.
¶ Rank/promotions
¶ The LEAFS
- Leadership, Empowerment, Aptitude, & Function
- Green → Gold → Red → Brown
- Each LEAF is divided into Categories
- Green
- Gold
- Red
- Brown
- Each color is divided into types of Maple Trees ( 1 is lowest ranking, 8 is highest)
- Paperbark
- Big-tooth
- Striped
- Sugar
- Sycamore
- Rocky Mountain
- Red
- Box Elder
- Maple Trees are broken into adjectives (1 is lowest, 16 is highest)
- Innovative
- Curious
- Accurate
- Diligent
- Ambitious
- Productive
- Resourceful
- Trustworthy
- Visionary
- Efficient
- Decisive
- Enthusiastic
- Persistent
- Creative
- Conscientious
- Tenacious
So a Persistent Red Sugar Maple would be of a higher rank than a Visionary Gold Box Elder, and a Decisive Brown Paperbark would be of a higher rank than a Conscientious Brown Paperbark
- HIgh degree of competition between all of them
¶ Robotics & Use Thereof
- Hounds
- Scary death robots
- Technically illegal in the outer solar system (by the Ceres Accords). Legal inside the belt.
- Remote Manager Droids
- Used as the primary interface with management in Production & Fabrication centers.
- ROOKIE drones Remotely Operated Overhead Kinetic Implementation Experts
- (flying murder robots)
- YuLiA- YuKon Lifestyle Improvement Assistant
- A robot therapist, that’s basically the same as YuRRI but re-skinned some
- Like a chat-bot, with about that degree of accuracy
- You can have sessions with YuLiA to remove marks against your file
- Can also be scheduled for “training” w/ it as disciplinary action
- YuRRI (YuKon Refreshment and Renewal Intermediary)
- It’s made to cheer you up as you go into the R&R centers
- It also tracks everything employees do, to avoid abusing privileges
- Onboard database of staff, that is constantly updated thru the YuKon internet etc
- Has facial recognition data, and a scanning chip. Was used to make sure people didn’t abuse their R&R priviledges or scan people in. Also a cheaper therapy option
- “The R&R site narc”
- “like it walks around and tries to behave human but i think it's just very upsetting and creepy to look at”
- “it definitely spurred a ton of freaked out muttering about YuKon trying to create human-equivalent AIs until people realized the YuRRIs are, in fact, extraordinarily fucking dumb”
- Ad copy:
- The brand new YuKon Refreshment and Renewal Intermediary unit is here to make sure there's nowhere in the System your hard work and dedication goes unnoticed.
- With an onboard database of all YuKon personnel, YuRRI will always recognize you, no matter how far from home you might feel.
- In addition to almost a hundred comfortingly familiar YuKon quotes and aphorisms, YuRRI also comes equipped with our proprietary Yu-Courage algorithm!
¶ Security
- MOUNTIEs (Mobile Operative Unit: Neo-Tactical Implementation Experts).
- YuKon’s private security
- Technically, any YuKon security is a MOUNTIE, but the ones people mean are the guys in mech suits. While standard security guards technically have the title, they’re more likely to just get called security or something similar.
- The MOUNTIES people think of when they use the title are people in not exactly mech suits. Sort of very low-key power armor, a bit like Ironman suits, but more treated fabrics and kevlar, less solid metal.
- They have the reputation of being brutal and unable to reason with. Break heads first, talk never.
- Enhanced MOUNTIE program
- In a pilot program they were given a sort of portable, automatic medkit. The LIV-FIT (see below for further information.) This was officially withdrawn, and stopped after the Luna Riots.
- “I think they’re issued some sort of backpack or something that has “tightly controlled and regulated security systems” or whatever to make sure it’s being used properly but among actual YuKon people it’s an open secret they’re bipassed almost immediately. I don’t think recreational stuff officially. But like...uppers to “enhance observation and response” and downers to like...”support employee bio rhythmic regulation and mindfulness “ or something. And pain meds as “in the field, delay-less medical support” And it’s pretty obvious people end up on an up/down cycle, and that the pain killers are easy to abuse”
- There might (read: probably are) some of the MOUNTIES still out there.
- They use Hounds, bots and drones that hurt people. They’re officially supposed to be non-lethal but. (these are all robot things. Hounds specifically are robot dogs and are terrifying)
- ROOKIE drones Remotely Operated Overhead Kinetic Implementation Experts (flying murder robots)
¶ Sub Contractors & Subsidiaries
¶ Red Sky Technical Services
- Contract Number YMT-300M
- Martian company, based out of New Portland
- See On Rocky Ground
- Engineers and mechanics. Do repairs on the YuKon transport equipment on Mars
¶ Nebula Cola
- Purchased by Jorgenson after the Centennial Storm
- Originally founded by Caleb-Jon Pemberham & the Pemberham family
¶ Sapling Prime
- Semi-officially YuKon, but sort of its own thing
- The movie/redline making arm
¶ Terminology
- The Org- term used by people familiar with (and generally high up) for the management and establishment of YuKon
- The Jorg- the not really serious bastardization of the above.
- YoCols (pronounced Yokuls)- derogatory slang for people who live on YuKon worlds, from YuKon Colonists. Mostly used by MOUNTIEs and high ups, rarely by the people who live there themselves.
- YoTowns- YuKon company towns/worlds/asteroids/orbitals. From YuKon Town. Derogatory, but everyone uses it. Sort of low-key insulting.
