Infrastructure: Part Two Hundred and Twenty Nine

The rebels were fairly swiftly routed by the concentrated efforts with the exception of a few pockets of die-hards who held out into the night. This, by order of the Committee, was followed by a purge which would last the better part of a week to hunt down the remaining rioters and any Drow spies that might remain, of which two were captured and three were killed. A similar if less extreme crackdown was ordered in Borogskov, which managed to break up a similar if far less developed underground organization. This also came with a propaganda campaign to justify it. Mostly it depicted photos of the damage wrought by the rebels.

While firearms let the rebels take on enforcement and armed guards, ultimately a greater percent of their bloody work was done with knives, clubs, axes, rocks and other crude old fashioned weapons and by far their most devastating tool of destruction was fire. Hundreds of buildings were set alight by the rebels often with those they suspected of being Infrastructural collaborators in these. Almost all the buildings in the city made heavy use of wood in their construction, especially the older buildings made of waddle and daub and timbers. A few factories and warehouses were also torched despite the fact that the head rebels decided not to do so and take them as prizes, though the shipyards and their associated buildings were mostly spared. As fires do, they spread. In the rout a few rebels in desperation turned to setting alight barricades and random buildings. In any case much of the city was on fire by the time the rebels were contained and firefighting efforts, which were hampered by the fact that the rebels had targeted the city's fire departments. When the last fires had been contained large sections of daagsgrad were left in ruins.

Ultimately the rebels had managed to kill some 6,200 people, including 412 Enforcers (just shy of two thirds of the department) and 143 soldiers while an additional 4,200 were severely wounded. Of the rebels themselves some 1,013 were killed and 1,932 were captured or arrested in the following days as well as some 5,000 of their family members afterwards. It was estimated that of the rebels there were about 50 ringleaders and 400 core members who were at the heart of the uprising and it's leaders as well as 1,000 secondary members many of whom let in on some limited detail for the plan towards it's latter and 2,800 rioters who they had swept up. A fair number of the family members were pardoned or were deemed to have had no hand in the uprising, but many would be sentenced to up to two year of detentional labor while their property was confiscated and sold off while being deemed unfit parents and having their children taken to orphanages in Dalatyr. A handful of rioters were pardoned as having been coerced into fighting, but almost all the captured rebels were given between five to thirty years hard labor with a couple hundred individuals being sent over to Detail for his experimental projects. In the end between deaths and relocation the population of Daagsgrad fell from 77,000 to 65,000.

Ultimately the Daagsgrad Uprising had several long term effects. The first being that the setback of the loss of of more than a seventh of it's total population meant that Daagsgrad would be overshadowed by Borogsokov for more than a generation. It also had large section of the old city rebuilt and restructured. The cluttered old workshops and homes on their erratic gave way to new brick apartment blocks laid out on a geometric grid. Finally proved to be the end of notable resistance to Infrastructural Authority among the native populations of both cities. In Daagsgrad the belligerent population was severely reduced, in Borogskov many people sought to distance themselves from those with rebellious tendencies and came to realize the futility of armed rebellion. There was still some resentment and grumblings among those with backgrounds in the Black Port's free population and a couple of petty gangs which used the symbols of the old era, but neither of which would be more than a nuance to local Bureaucrats and Enforcement.

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