Protein Adjacent Bars 'N' Shakes
A gastronomic paradise for the carnivorously
inclined
The last stop for Ur-Um's cowboys and their photosynthetic cattle, Protein
Adjacent is part slaughterhouse, part candy store for bodybuilders and mass cultivators. The residents of
Protein Adjacent are - without fail - absolutely jacked, but the auras of supreme self confidence
surrounding these people means that crime is lower here than anywhere else in the New World. Most people are
too busy on quests of self-improvement to try anything funny.
History of Protein Adjacent Bars 'N'
Shakes
Protein Adjacent Bars 'N' Shakes came from the same general
beginnings as the Ur-Um Wines and Spirits Company. But where Ur-Um consistently bought out competition,
grabbing land rights and facilities, Protein Adjacent focused entirely on poaching talent in the form of
scientists, engineers, nutritionists, and culinarians. Whenever someone bought out one of the other
megacities, often dissolving the company and repurposing the herding and ranching facilities in the
territory adjudicated by that city, PABnS would head hunt for talent in terms of cooks, advertising,
artists, and all the other things useful for keeping fast food chains running.
Protein Adjacent quickly expanded its operations, quickly leveraging its growing
market of various animal meats, both real and synthetic, into deals with food chains across the New World.
It established close ties with what could have been it's chief rival, Ur-Um, effectively becoming a
partner company in a two point endeavor. Ur-Um would provide the raw materials, and Protein Adjacent would
do the marketing and cooking. Now, almost every food store that serves any form of actual meat, unless it is
a local vat grown product, does so using Protein Adjacent products.
Government and Structure of Protein Adjacent Bars
'N' Shakes
Protein Adjacent is run by a rather normal corporate executive board, though in
truth, there are a series of boards, one for each major division of Protein Adjacent's industrial
base. The cattle ranchers of Ur-Um have a representative on the board, as do the body builders, the tourist
trappers, and the culinarians. These are non voting positions, and ultimately all of them must abide by the
decisions of Protein Adjacent's executives, but it gives them a chance to keep the executive board
properly informed on issues, which in turn keeps the executive board surprisingly well grounded compared to
most other boards of directors of other holding companies. In addition, the Protein Adjacent's
directors work closely with those of Ur-Um, so as to better plan their production lines, sales, and
advertising programs.
Commerce of Protein Adjacent Bars 'N'
Shakes
If there is any advantage to Protein Adjacent's geography, it is in the
fact that it is perfectly located at a massive natural gulf that is sheltered from piracy and storms,
allowing for shipping to continue operating between it and two of its largest customer bases at all times of
year.
Their major income sources are as follows:
- Fast Food and Bar Franchising: The
primary money maker for Protein Adjacent is the uncountable number of fast food and bar franchises it
owns. There are hundreds, if not thousands of various meat based fast food franchises and bar chains who
are part of the Protein Adjacent Bars 'N' Shakes, in every territory the world over.
- Processed Animal Products: Almost every
single food franchise that they do not own, if it sells any form of meat, has to do business through
them. If it's a non-soy, non-vat grown meat based product, then chances are it comes out of
Protein Adjacent Bars 'N' Shakes.
- Body Building Techniques/Programs:
Because of the enormous amount of protein produced in the territory, body builders the world over flock
to it, and the territory is more than happy to cater to them with various gyms, workout programs, and
body building resources. Further, it exports these programs both online and physically to various other
territories as high-expense bodybuilding franchise programs.
- Zoological Expertise: One of the least
talked about things is how, even today, there are a very few corporations that are attempting to restore
the earth's natural ecosystem, or at the very least, a close approximation of it. This is an
incredibly difficult task in a world where even the 'wild fauna' are almost all corrupted by
various forms of the run away nerdery that defined the last few years of the Forced Biodiversity
program. With few exceptions, the last truly natural animals are all located almost exclusively in
Protein Adjacent Bars 'N' Shakes zoo program, their numbers carefully culled and controlled
both to product product for bespoke clientele, and to conserve their numbers by an ancient technocult
that sees their duties as butchers as a necessary evil. These experts are paid a premium by other
programs for their knowledge, though corporate infighting and a scientific tradition of 'we can do
it better than nature!' often leads to this expertise, however highly paid for, being
ignored.
Protein Adjacent Bars 'N' Shakes has special trade relations with
the following Territories:
- Ur-Um
Wines and Spirits: The chief ally of Protein Adjacent, and the chief
supplier of product. Ur-Um spirits, meat, and other products are all used in Protein Adjacent's
various products and franchises. Ur-Um makes little profit on these products, but instead turns a large
profit on the sales of said products made outside of Protein Adjacent franchises, using Protein Adjacent
as a massive marketing tool and a partner in simply beating out any possible competition in the global
market.
- Sarajevo
Seven Holdings: Unlike most territories, Protein Adjacent's
structure lacks any form of megacity structure, or the multi-tiered efficiency boosts and self
supporting internal economy this enables. Protein Adjacent's entire industrial capacity is
entirely focused on its exports, and thus does a brisk business with Sarajevo Seven Holdings for
literally everything from machine parts to consumer goods.
- The
Duty Free Ports: Both loved and hated by Protein Adjacent, the Duty
Free Ports of House 'Bacco are one of their chief competitors, not for the mass food market, but
definitely for the more bespoke meals, as several lesser and greater Houses possess herds of real meat
animals sold at a premium to the high classes. At the same time, 'Bacconian knights keep the New
Mojave gulf mostly pirate free, and their free ports act as an important processing point for Protein
Adjacent products that overflow from the territory's own production capacity.
Tourists take part in a gig economy to pay their way, leading to a lack of need
in automation.
Prominent Races of Protein Adjacent Bars 'N'
Shakes
While Humans make up the majority of the population, only the mechanical bodied
members of society are underrepresented within the territory. The population is in constant flux due to
health tourism. If someone is interested in gains and sculpting their perfect body, then they can find a
place in Protein Adjacent and probably have. Artificiates and Remakes are, obviously, mostly uninterested in
the territory, only occasionally visiting while passing through or while attending to their fleshier
companion's needs and wants.
Culture of Protein Adjacent Bars 'N'
Shakes
PABnS was founded firstly as a production town, not even as a megacity, but
leveraged it's position as other facilities fell apart to expand, and expand, and expand. This has led
to a massive, low lying, processing facility less than 20 stories tall filling nearly the entirety of the
territory. Edge to edge, the entire territory is layered, with meat processing and packaging facilities
taking up the first few stories across the entire territory, a more mixed living and shipping area in the
middle layers, and then shops, tourism, and executive functions on the highest floor. The entirety of the
territory is, effectively, a single structure, edge to edge, from the coast to the final dune wall backing
against the desert.
The people of Protein Adjacent are a mishmash of cosmopolitan yokels, used to
meeting people from all over the world, and catering to their needs. Almost everyone in the territory either
came from somewhere else originally, or is descended from those that do. Most people born there are looking
to get away and see the world, and those who have arrived often find themselves staying for their own
reasons, be it the no-questions asked nature of hiring, or the down to earth nature of even the executives,
so often mixing with the normal proles on the upper floors if not the middle ones.
The majority of the populace spends their time moving between the three layers
of the territory's enormous processing facility building. Gig workers hauling crates and barrels, or
slicing away with huge cleavers in the meat processing and packing plants will travel to the middle floors
for necessities and sleep in hostel like shared habunits, while looking to the top floors to participate in
the gyms, bars, and good dining of the territory. Visitors likewise might stay either in middle floor
hostels, or if splurging, stick to the hotels of the upper tiers of floors. Ranchers spend an odd week or
two vacationing and eating and drinking well before going back to the long dusty trail, while bodybuilders
and culinarians will seek tutelage from the masters of their trades, staying as long as they need to satisfy
their curiosity or desire to learn, before returning to their own territories.
Special Locations of Protein Adjacent Bars 'N'
Shakes
The strange construction of Protein Adjacent Bars 'N' Shakes leads
to many odd portions, but many of them analogous to various megacities and other sorts of settlements. Here
are a few of the more unique places located within its enormous walls.
- The Processing Floors: Miles upon miles
upon miles of vatteries, curing rooms, smoking chambers, bun bakeries, meat processing and packing.
These vast interconnected assembly line style rooms handle every process of transforming cattle into
various goods, packaging, processing, and using the raw production to create everything that the holding
company sells. These floors are actually not very heavily automated, depending on gig economy labor of
all sorts, from ranchers waiting for the next season of herds, to body builders looking for work to tide
them over between gains. What automation does exist tends to not rely on A.I.
- Zoo Attractions: Almost entirely
located on the upper levels of the massive production town, with the middle levels being focused on the
creation and maintenance of the artificial environments for the various pre-climate catastrophe species
held almost exclusively in this location. A major tourist attraction, and also acting as a holding area
for various species that will, in time, become food in Protein Adjacent products.
- Power Lift Plants: While the territory
does make significant usage of solar power, many of the weight and cardio gyms in the territory are
hooked into the powergrid as well. Deadlifting hunks power up peizoelectric and kinetic batteries in the
form of the lift weight disks, which, once racked, discharge into the powergrid at need. This is why
dropping your weights carries far heavier penalties in many Protein Adjacent gyms than it does in the
gyms of other territories, to prevent damage to corporate property!
Organizations of Protein Adjacent Bars 'N'
Shakes
List of Organizations
- Gains Inc - Corporation: One of
the largest body building gym owners in PABnS territory. They cater specifically to anyone looking to
get as buff as possible, as fast as possible, with multiple tiers of body sculpting plans from simple
work out routines for the cheepskates, to full retroviral treatments and nanite implants to insure that
your muscles bulk up at top speed! All perfectly healthy and not at all cheating of course!
- The Butchers - Criminal Gang: A
gang of life long butchers and fry cooks that control a large swathe of the central meat processing
floors and the floors above them. This gang is known to do wet work and make sure the bodies disappear.
Locals never buy their sausages, burgers, or really anything else made from ground meat for this
reason.
- The Audubonites - Cult: A cult
claiming a heritage over 700 years old, this technocult retains the ancient knowledge of pre-climate
disaster biology and zoology, carefully cultivating the living spaces of the animals that Protein
Adjacent Bars 'N' Shakes maintains. These cultists endeavor to give their charges the best,
most natural life they can from the ancient texts and videos they have preserved, until they must be
slaughtered for food that in turn helps fund the zoos to preserve them.
Settlements of Protein Adjacent Bars 'N'
Shakes
List of Settlements
- Sea Lorry Alley: The middle and
lowest coastal tiers of Protien Adjacent Bars 'N' Shakes is made up of a single massive
chamber, where the docking stations for the sea lanes shipping of the entire coastline of the territory.
Famous for its lift bars, which are large, multi-person, open air elevators to the top floors stocked
with booze and various meat dishes for hungry sailors.
- New Muscle Beach: Built above a stretch
of Sea Lorry Alley, this portion of the roof floors of Protein Adjacent is built for bodybuilders to
show off their gains and bodies in the blazing hot sun as the surf and waves crash below.
Important People of Protein Adjacent Bars 'N'
Shakes
List of Major Figures
Historic Events of Protein Adjacent Bars 'N'
Shakes
List of Historic Events
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