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Well that's all for now, I sincerely I hope I don't get sued by luma for using them as inspiration
. In any case, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and stay safe out there! Until next time when I'll most likely be outdone by real life's ability to copy fiction!
Been a while I reckon, but here's something that I've had on my done pile for a while, a figure based around the real world because sometimes, just sometimes what we often see in fiction just simply seems to seep into our world. Back in January the local electric company had it's distribution privatized, back then there where as usual some protests and what not and the fear of employees of PREPA of losing their benefits was real, there where some threats but none that where carried out, nevertheless the new company in charge of distribution, LUMA saw the need to have it's own security, like this photo which I originally saw Here.
I don't have much information about where this was taken, but to me it's just... surreal, in all my life I have never seen someone, anyone with a rifle out on the streets, we are after all a concealed carry state/territory so seeing this corporate security guy with a rifle out in public just seemed like something straight out of one of those dystopic movies, books or video games, sometimes life really does imitate art. Now I'm not certain if they've kept doing this since I've not seen any more photos but still that image inspired me to make this figure because how can I not?
But hey, this isn't about LUMA or PREPA, this is about fiction, and as such here's a little story and background to my own fiction.I don't have much information about where this was taken, but to me it's just... surreal, in all my life I have never seen someone, anyone with a rifle out on the streets, we are after all a concealed carry state/territory so seeing this corporate security guy with a rifle out in public just seemed like something straight out of one of those dystopic movies, books or video games, sometimes life really does imitate art. Now I'm not certain if they've kept doing this since I've not seen any more photos but still that image inspired me to make this figure because how can I not?
Federal Public Works Authority
The F.P.W.A, known simply as the public works authority is the agency in charge of all things related to public works, be it maintenance, construction or upkeep. As such they are one of the largest government organizations and span the entirely of the UFS and it's autonomous regions. The PWA carries out all sorts of maintenance and upkeep, from cleaning the streets to fixing power distribution to blocking off roads whenever it's needed, most of the PWA is automated to some extent, the use of road upkeep drones that clean and fix damages is their more notable, other types of robots are also used for menial labor, heavy or dangerous tasks. However there's still plenty of human workers too, these often work in areas where the expense of running any sort of automation is too much, these workers known as agents carry out these labors the old fashioned way though with better tools than ever before. One of the primary task of these human agents is protection or defense of other workers in high crime areas, in recent years thieves have taken to robbing PWA workers of electronic components and devices that are often sold in the blackmarket due to their multipurpose nature as such the PWA requested federal permission to arm themselves with "less than lethal" weapons to be used in self defense so now it's not uncommon to see the workers in their bright orange clothes standing around, hand on the grip of their weapons and keeping an eye out for any trouble makers.
Well that's all for now, I sincerely I hope I don't get sued by luma for using them as inspiration
. In any case, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and stay safe out there! Until next time when I'll most likely be outdone by real life's ability to copy fiction!
