Waterfall Bastion

Fort Scarfelden, or the Waterfall Bastion, as it is more commonly known, is a unique defensive structure set roughly twenty-five miles inside the Pfwillic-Menza border on the planet Drowlto VI. Built around the Mouth of Scarippa, the egress of the Menzascata Caverns, the Bastion was created after the Battle of Scarfelden to prevent a repetition of the Menzan surprise attack.

Scarfelden Falls

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Numerous solutions were considered, including a series of metal grates, electrification, and automated turrets covering the Mouth, but all were deemed to be too easy for a prepared enemy to foil. In the end, the solution chosen was the creation of a colossal waterfall, now called Scarfelden Falls. The Falls are nearly half a mile high, falling down an artificial gorge designed both to make escape (via a an air/water-capable vehicle, perhaps) nearly impossible and to enhance the beauty and magnificence of the location.

Annual revenues from tourism to Scarfelden Falls is estimated at roughly three times the annual cost of maintaining the Waterfall Bastion complex.

Fort Scarfelden

The fortress itself is a massive defensive structure set over the Scarippa River half a mile downstream of Scarfelden Falls. Details of the fortress's defenses are not publicly available, though information leaks have put the permanent garrison at between two and six thousand soldiers and support troops, with another twenty thousand regionally.

Since 1966 SD, Fort Scarfelden has been the headquarters of the Western Army of Pfwillic.

Hinsk Project

A set of hydroelectric turbines set under and downstream of the fort provide electric power for much of western Pfwillic. The complex of turbines and connected facilities are collectively named the Hinsk Project, after Hinsk, mythological daughter of the great dragon Scarippa.

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