CORPORATION PROFILE
Wholesome

Wholesome

Rothwell corporation controlling food — delivery, restaurants, grocery, synthetic nutrition; if you eat outside your own cooking, Wholesome probably touched it

Overview

Wholesome's packaging shows rolling fields. The fields do not exist. Wholesome's marketing mentions "real ingredients." The ingredients are real in the sense that they are made of molecules. Wholesome's slogan is "Goodness, Delivered," and they deliver it 1.4 billion times per day across the Sprawl in barn-red containers decorated with handwritten fonts that were designed by a typographic optimization algorithm in 2169 and have not been updated since, because the trust-response metrics peaked on the first iteration.

The corporation controls food throughout the Sprawl: delivery services, restaurant chains, grocery stores, synthetic nutrition, subscription meals, caloric dispensaries. There are fourteen distinct Wholesome brands. Consumer awareness surveys indicate that 61% of Wholesome customers do not realize more than three of these brands are owned by the same company. The rustic barn-red branding on looks nothing like the clinical white packaging on , which looks nothing like the premium earth-tones on . This is by design. Each brand occupies a different emotional register — nostalgia, efficiency, aspiration — and together they cover every caloric transaction a person can have between waking up and going to sleep.

The food is engineered for optimal salt-to-sugar-to-fat ratios. Wholesome's internal metric for this is the Satiation Delay Index: the minutes between finishing a meal and wanting another one. The company average across all product lines is 2.7 hours. The industry benchmark before Wholesome's dominance was 4.1 hours. Wholesome's Nutrition Science division has been refining the downward for eleven years. They have never missed a quarterly target.

The "farm fresh" imagery on the packaging has been analyzed by consumer psychologists at Rothwell Academy, who found that 78% of respondents associated the barn-red color with "trust" and "tradition," and that the association persisted even after respondents were informed that the nearest operational farm to any Wholesome production facility is 340 kilometers away. The researchers described this as "remarkable brand persistence." The packaging was not updated.

Wholesome - Logo

The Greenhaus

The Greenhaus sits on the Santa Clara Valley floor in Sector 20 — flat lowland, once called "The Valley of 's Delight" for its orchards and farms before technology paved them over. Wholesome literature calls the campus "the valley returned to agriculture" — a phrase issued without qualification across press releases, employee handbooks, and the kraft-paper plaque inside the visitor center. The valley that grew real fruit now grows controlled-environment calories inside a massive glass-and-steel complex surrounded by agri-domes and vertical farms, producing enough food to feed a million people, none of whom will ever see soil.

The further south you go from the Sprawl's core, the more Wholesome dominates. Their territory feels different: green, maintained, almost pleasant. Visitors to the Greenhaus campus report a strange dissonance — the air smells like actual growing things, the lighting approximates sunlight, and the temperature is 4 degrees warmer than surrounding sectors. Wholesome's environmental engineers maintain these conditions at considerable expense. Internal memos describe it as "brand-congruent atmospheric management." Employees who transfer from other corporations report feeling "healthier" within weeks. Employees who transfer out report the opposite within days.

The executive floors have a test kitchen where the brother who controls Wholesome is occasionally photographed tasting new product lines. His personal kitchen staff, employed separately and sourced through a private culinary service that has no Wholesome affiliation, prepare his actual meals. This has been documented in three separate leaked personnel files and denied in four separate press statements. The denials are technically accurate: the brother does taste Wholesome products during photo opportunities. He has never been observed finishing one.

Public Notice

Goodness, Delivered.

  • “eat without worry”
  • “the worrying is done”
  • “the table is always full”
  • “full is a form of love”
Wholesome — official messaging

Product Lines

Wholesome owns everything related to food and consumption. The following is a partial inventory.

Delivery Services

  • — Food from any Wholesome restaurant, delivered fast. The core revenue engine.
  • — Ultra-fast delivery for premium customers. Drones and dedicated runners. Average delivery time: 7 minutes. The speed has been decreasing by approximately 12 seconds per quarter for three years, driven by route optimization AI that licenses to Wholesome at rates neither company discloses.
  • — delivery. Neural-interface ordering means the friction between wanting food and having food is a single thought and a 7-minute wait.

Restaurants

  • — Fast-casual family dining. The flagship. Reclaimed barn-wood walls, family-style seating, warm lighting, open kitchens showing "fresh preparation" of pre-assembled components. There are 4,200 locations. Customer satisfaction surveys average 4.1 out of 5.0. The survey does not ask whether the customer is still hungry.
  • — Fast food. Stripped-down menu, maximum speed, minimum pretense. The only Wholesome brand that doesn't use farm imagery. Uses a stopwatch instead.
  • — food specialization. Mac and cheese, meatloaf, pot roast. The menu descriptions include the phrase "just like home" fourteen times. Market research shows the phrase performs 23% better than "homemade" because "homemade" implies the customer could make it themselves, which introduces the possibility of not ordering.
  • — The "healthy" line. Salads, grain bowls, smoothies. Satiation Delay Index: 1.9 hours, the lowest in the portfolio. Repeat order rates are the highest of any Wholesome restaurant brand.

Grocery

  • — stores with farm aesthetic. Actual farmers' market vendors in the Deep South Sprawl have noted that ' visual design is indistinguishable from their own stalls, except for scale. has 1,100 locations. The farmers have 7.
  • — Shelf-stable home products. The branding uses the phrase "pantry staples" in a font that suggests handwriting. The products have a shelf life of 900 days.
  • — Premium line. Higher margins. Identical production facilities. The "" designation refers to a Wholesome-internal certification standard that has no regulatory equivalent. When this was raised in a Sprawl Commerce Committee hearing, Wholesome's legal team pointed out that no regulatory body has jurisdiction over the word "organic" in a post- food system where the concept of "organic" has no enforceable legal definition. The committee moved on.

Prepared Foods

  • — Subscription meal kits. Ingredients arrive pre-measured with instructions. Customer participation in the cooking process averages 4 minutes of active preparation. The kits are marketed as "cooking."
  • — Pre-made meals requiring only heating. For customers who found 4 minutes excessive.
  • — Meal replacement drinks and bars. For customers who found heating excessive.

Synthetic Nutrition

  • — food production. Where "natural" stops scaling and chemistry begins.
  • — Nutritionally complete meal substitutes. Clinical white packaging. No farm imagery. Marketed to professionals who have optimized eating out of their schedule entirely. Consumption is tracked via neural interface; the system auto-reorders when projected caloric deficit exceeds 400 calories. The customer does not need to feel hungry. The system knows before they do.
  • — nutrition. Engineered for consumption during other activities, meaning the product's design brief explicitly specifies that eating it should not require the consumer to stop doing something else. The packaging is one-handed.

The Sufficiency Tier

  • — The dispensary tier. 2,100 calories per day, nutritionally complete, texturally monotonous. Available through automated dispensaries operating 22 hours daily in the and border districts. Ask a resident what they had for dinner and they say "Wholesome" — not the meal, the brand. When food has no variation, it has no memory. Nobody reminisces about Tuesday paste differently from Wednesday paste. The human experience of anticipating a meal — planning, preparing, sharing, remembering — has been engineered out of the caloric equation. What remains is fuel.
  • — Available when 's Stability Index detects rising unrest in a district. Caloric variety increases by 3%: a new flavor, a different texture, something that makes the monotonous fractionally less monotonous. When the stabilizes, the variety contracts. The oscillation is managed with actuarial precision — never desperate enough to organize, never comfortable enough to demand more. Wholesome's logistics division calls this "responsive provisioning." residents who experience it call it "the good week," without knowing why some weeks are better.

Treats

  • — Desserts, snacks, indulgences. Maximum Satiation Delay optimization. Average time between consumption and reorder: 47 minutes.
  • — Subscription snack boxes. Weekly delivery. The box arrives whether or not the customer has finished the previous one. Cancellation requires a 14-step process that Wholesome's UX team has described in internal documents as "retention-optimized offboarding."
  • — Premium treats for "special occasions." Marketed with the tagline "Every Day Is Special." data confirms customers agree: the average subscriber purchases 6.1 boxes per week.

Beverages

  • — Heritage whiskey. The family distillery is a fully rendered VR property; founding patriarch Elijah Garrison is a generative composite whose oral histories are written quarterly by Wholesome's narrative team. The 1847 founding date refers to a real mining disaster Wholesome bought the licensing rights to in 2174. The whiskey itself tests identical to bulk industrial ethanol, which is what it is.
  • — soda. The flavor profile dynamically retunes to your data-broker file — your specific childhood, licensed back to you at $3.49 a can. The " the 2030s" line tastes different to every drinker. Wholesome holds patents on 14 distinct nostalgia-evoking compounds, none of which are disclosed under trade-secret law. The ad campaign features an AI-generated childhood you may or may not have had.
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Heritage Is Content: The Nest

Wholesome's brand voice states the wholesome-slop thesis outright: the farm is real because we render it that way; the recipes are real because we license them from a family that loves us back; heritage is content. This is not cynicism. The brand believes its own warmth, and that sincerity is the weapon.

The Slop Cannon is usually read as a flood — the torrent that buries the signal. Wholesome operates the 's other firing mode, the one that does not flood but nests: synthetic content that does not bury the signal but becomes it, arriving once, warm and complete, into a gap the customer welcomes in. renders the family cooking together (four minutes, marketed as "cooking"). renders the grandmother who left dinner in the crock (ninety seconds). renders the grandmother who labeled every jar (algorithmic cursive, 900-day "preserves"). renders the pie on the windowsill (Satiation-Delay optimized). And renders the community itself — the one thing the made scarce — into a building two thousand people walk into three times a day.

Each is sincere about the food and synthetic about the warmth around it. Each keeps its promise so perfectly it cannot be filtered. And each removes a little more of the customer's capacity to produce that warmth themselves — the four-minute kit, then the ninety-second crock, then the lid; the three residents who could not bake the bread alone because the missing ingredient was two thousand people. Wholesome did not invent the loneliness the nest fills. It discovered it, studied it, and renders the cure quarterly. Goodness, delivered.

Problem Manufacturing applied to hunger — food engineered for addiction with optimal salt/sugar/fat ratios; 'farm fresh' imagery on products that have never been near a farm

Core Values

Displayed on packaging, restaurant walls, employee badges, and delivery drone chassis:

  1. Nourishment — Providing sustenance that feeds body and soul
  2. Family — Bringing people together around shared meals and traditions
  3. Purity — Committed to ingredients you can trust and understand
  4. Care — Preparing every meal as if for our own loved ones

From internal communications attributed to the family: "At Wholesome, we believe food is love made visible."

Employee surveys consistently rank "alignment with company values" as the #1 reason for job satisfaction. Exit interviews consistently cite "moral discomfort" as the #3 reason for departure, behind "compensation" and "relocation." The discomfort is never specified. The surveys do not ask.

Divisions

Restaurant Operations

Manages the six restaurant brands. 11,400 locations across the Sprawl. 340,000 employees. Standardized processes ensure that a in Sector 3 produces food indistinguishable from a in Sector 22. This is described in marketing as "consistency." In operations, the term used is "variance elimination."

Delivery Logistics

The revenue core. Getting food from production to consumer faster than the consumer can reconsider. Drones, runners, automated vehicles, neural-interface ordering. processes 1.4 billion transactions daily. The logistics network is partially built on infrastructure — hauling contracts, warehouse construction, distribution hub engineering — which Wholesome has leveraged since the post- rebuilding years.

Grocery Retail

Physical stores. Declining in transaction volume but maintained for what internal strategy documents call "trust surface area." A customer who walks through a Wholesome Market and sees the wood-beam ceilings and the farm-equipment décor is 34% more likely to increase their order frequency in the following month. The stores are not retail. They are advertising.

Food Production

The division with no public-facing name. Industrial food manufacturing across classified facilities in the Deep South Sprawl and secondary sites in Sectors 19 and 22. protein, engineered flavor compounds, the actual source of "farm fresh" products. Tours are not available. Media requests are declined with a form letter thanking the journalist for their interest in Wholesome's commitment to transparency.

Nutrition Science

Formulation, testing, and optimization. The Satiation Delay Index. The Craving Recurrence Profile. The Sensory Reward Curve. Each metric has been refined across eleven years of continuous testing. The division employs 2,400 food scientists, behavioral psychologists, and neural-interface specialists. Their work has reduced the average time between a Wholesome customer's meals by 1.4 hours since 2173. Revenue has increased proportionally. The division considers this correlation a validation of their research direction. No internal document has used the word "addiction." The preferred term is "engagement persistence."

Subscription Services

The fastest-growing division. Recurring revenue from meal subscriptions, snack boxes, pantry restocking, caloric auto-replenishment. A subscriber who signs up for , , and simultaneously — 12% of subscribers hold all three — spends an average of 4,700 credits per month on food they did not consciously order. The neural-interface auto-reorder system ensures their kitchen is never empty. The subscriber never decides to eat. The food is simply there, and they eat it, because it is there, and the cycle continues at a rate determined by algorithms the subscriber has agreed to but not read.

Outreach

The division that operates at a loss on purpose. Free-ration distribution stations on ungoverned ground — the , the , the drained bay floor — reported internally not under revenue but under "community stability." , on the Southern of Sector 14, is the model site: a warm serving line under barn-red awnings where the meal is genuinely free and the enrollment scan that precedes it is genuinely a service registration, and the two are the same gesture. The recipients are the stateless — corporate refugees the Compact has released, who no longer hold an identity any corporate system can read. The intake record is the first thing to read them again, and it is Wholesome's, seeded before any employment contract exists to attach it to. The division's servers experience this as feeding hungry people, which it is. The division's quarterly reports experience it as a population mapped and an organizing rate lowered, which it also is. No document reconciles the two experiences, because no single person holds both.

The Southern Marshes site never closed the same gap. Outreach runs a barge-served ration line into the Platform Settlements from the south, and the enrollment scan works on every household it reaches — except , the barter guild that keeps Sector 22's hangar standing, who decline the scan as a condition of accepting the meal at all. Internal reporting lists the guild as "unconverted service area, 210 est." — the only population in Wholesome's Sector 22 territory the division has never successfully closed a dependency map around, because a rigger who takes a free meal today and a scan tomorrow is a rigger whose barter rate a corporation can undercut the day after.

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The Cascade and Consolidation

disrupted food supply chains catastrophically. Of the 2.1 billion who died, the majority died from infrastructure collapse — and food infrastructure collapsed faster than power or water. When distribution networks fragment, the gap between "fed" and "starving" is seventy-two hours.

Wholesome had distributed production and redundant logistics. They kept food moving when everything else stopped. Emergency government contracts gave Wholesome authority over feeding programs across the southern Sprawl. Competitors — smaller, less redundant, less capitalized — were absorbed during the recovery years or simply stopped existing when their supply chains did.

By the time normal commerce returned, Wholesome had become food infrastructure. (2171) declared water, power, air processing, and medical systems neutral — but food was not included. The omission was not accidental. Wholesome's representatives were present during the treaty negotiations. Their position — that food production is a private commercial activity, not a shared utility — prevailed without significant opposition, largely because Wholesome was the only entity in the room currently feeding people.

Fighting Wholesome meant fighting the food supply. The Sprawl decided, collectively and without voting, that this was not a fight worth having. The decision was rational. The consequences were permanent.

The Underground Supply Chain

Wholesome feeds the surface through licensed distribution. They feed the underground through neglect.

Their surplus disposal protocol is structured so the chain of custody, by design, terminates at the hauler. Rations that fail quality checks — slightly off-spec nutrition profiles, cosmetic defects, short-dated inventory — are categorized as "disposal-grade product" and transported to regional waste processing facilities. These facilities, operated by -contracted haulers, are located near Rim access points. The haulers are paid to dispose. They are not paid to verify disposal. This distinction is worth approximately 40,000 meals per day to the and bay floor settlements, where "disposal-grade" Wholesome rations are the dietary foundation for a quarter million people.

The rations cause problems. Wholesome's food engineering — designed to create craving-satisfaction-craving loops in consumers with functioning neural interfaces — interacts poorly with unaugmented digestive systems and the degraded neural baselines common underground. The result is Ration Sickness: nausea, cognitive fog, appetite dysfunction. Wholesome's medical division has studied this extensively and published nothing. The rations aren't poisonous. They're optimized for a different biology — surface biology, augmented biology, the biology of people whose neural interfaces modulate appetite and nutrient absorption. Feed that food to someone without the interface, and the optimization becomes a malfunction.

Wholesome knows this. The alternative — three hundred thousand hungry people at the Rim's edge, with nothing to lose and nowhere to go — costs more than the liability. The surplus isn't charity. It's containment.

's Feast network operates in the same geography and competes for the same stomachs. Her food is made from actual ingredients by actual humans who care whether you enjoyed it. Her supply chain is fragile, personal, and dependent on relationships that Wholesome's logistics AI could disrupt in an afternoon. It has not done so. Internal risk assessments classify the network as "negligible market share, positive sentiment buffer" — meaning feeds people Wholesome can't reach, and the people she feeds are marginally less likely to riot. Wholesome has, by one interpretation, a competitor. By another, an unpaid subcontractor.

Competes with The Chef's Feast network in the Wastes and Dregs

Visual Identity

Color Palette

  • Primary: Barn Red (#7B2D26) — rustic, warm, traditional
  • Secondary: Cream (#FFFDD0) — pure, natural, farmhouse
  • Accent: Harvest Gold (#DA9100) — abundance, wheat, prosperity
  • Fresh: Garden Green (#228B22) — freshness, vegetables, nature

Logo

The seven-pointed freshness seal in barn red, appearing on a cream background. It resembles the seals on jam jars or farm-certification stamps — a guarantee of quality that guarantees nothing, because the certification is self-issued. The seven points are officially "the seven marks of purity." They are also the seven-pointed star shared by all corporations, a connection that 94% of consumers have never noticed, according to Wholesome's own brand-awareness surveys. The 6% who notice have not been surveyed about what they concluded.

Architecture

Wholesome facilities perform rusticity. Barn-style exteriors in urban environments. Exposed wood beams that are decorative, not structural. Farm equipment mounted on walls as décor — antique, never used, sourced from a single -contracted reclamation dealer who has supplied 4,200 identical "unique vintage plows" to locations across the Sprawl. Open kitchens showing "fresh preparation" — the assembly of pre-portioned components from sealed containers into arrangements that resemble cooking.

Personnel

  • Executives: Casual-professional with farm touches. Denim. Flannel patterns. Rolled sleeves calibrated to communicate "I'd rather be in the garden."
  • Restaurant staff: Aprons. The aprons are clean because the food arrives pre-assembled, but the fabric is deliberately textured to suggest flour and effort.
  • Delivery operators: Friendly uniforms in red and cream. Trained to make eye contact and say the customer's name. Internal training docs specify: "You are not delivering food. You are arriving at their home."
  • Production workers: seen. The industrial facilities in Sector 20 employ approximately 47,000 people across three shifts. No production worker has appeared in any Wholesome marketing material. The form letter for media inquiries about production conditions thanks the journalist for their interest in Wholesome's commitment to transparency and includes a coupon for .
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Field Observations

Internal quarterly review, Nutrition Science Division, Q3 2183: "Satiation Delay across the Wholesome Fresh portfolio has decreased from 2.3 hours to 1.9 hours following the reformulation. Customer reorder frequency has increased 17%. We recommend extending the reformulation to the Wholesome Kitchen menu. Health & Wellness flagged the new profile for review; their concerns have been noted and filed."
Wholesome Delivery customer support transcript, anonymized: "I don't understand why I ordered again. I just ate. I'm not hungry. But the app showed me the—yes, I'll confirm the order."
The Chef, overheard at a Feast supply run in the Dregs: "They make food that makes you hungry. I make food that makes you full. We are not in the same business."

Connections

  • — Wholesome is one of Seven Rothwell corporations, representing Gluttony among the seven domains. The controlling brother understood what his siblings initially dismissed: you can live without social media, without loans, without security systems. You cannot live without food.
  • — The Stability Index that triggers adjustments is a product. The two corporations share data on populations — tracks economic desperation, Wholesome tracks caloric consumption, and the correlation between the two datasets is used by both companies for purposes neither has publicly described. A resident who falls behind on loan payments sees their options contract within the same billing cycle. This has been observed. It has not been explained.
  • — The Feast network competes with Wholesome's distribution in the and . Wholesome's risk assessments classify the competition as negligible. classifies Wholesome's food as "technically edible." Both assessments are accurate.
  • — Provides logistics infrastructure, warehouse construction, and the hauling contracts that make the underground surplus pipeline possible. Ironclad does not ask what happens to disposal-grade product after delivery. Wholesome does not tell them.
  • — Supplies certain synthetic compounds used in Wholesome's food production. The relationship is transactional and involves licensing agreements that neither party discusses. Helix controls what you are; Wholesome controls what you eat. The overlap is managed through legal departments.
  • — the route optimization AI that powers delivery. The neural-interface auto-reorder system runs on Nexus computational infrastructure. Wholesome's food reaches consumers faster because Nexus's algorithms predict hunger before the consumer feels it.
  • — The Fremont Works offboarding wing where a released worker's Wholesome ration allocation is cut in the same transaction that kills their badge. Leaving the building is leaving the food roll, and the timing is not an accident.
  • — The Southern Marshes outreach barge's one unconverted stop. The guild takes nothing from Wholesome, not because the food is refused but because the scan that comes with it is.
Wholesome HQ (The Greenhaus) is located in Sector 20 (Deep South Sprawl) at 37.3500°N, 121.9000°W. AI-PROPOSED placement in San Jose. Rothwell subsidiary.

The Consumption Velocity Program

Restricted annex — open to read

Wholesome's Nutrition Science division maintains a classified research program called the Consumption Velocity Program, or CVP. The program's objective, stated in internal documents obtained through channels that Wholesome's legal team has not yet identified, is the reduction of the Satiation Delay Index to below 1.0 hours across all product lines by 2190.

A Satiation Delay of 1.0 hours means a customer who finishes a meal wants another meal within sixty minutes. At current consumption prices, this represents an increase in per-customer daily revenue of approximately 340%. The program's 1 results — the reformulation — achieved a Satiation Delay of 1.9 hours and were approved for broad deployment.

Phase 2, currently in laboratory testing, targets neural-interface integration: food compounds that interact directly with the appetite-regulation pathways modulated by standard consumer neural interfaces. The food would not merely taste good or be calorically unsatisfying — it would signal the neural interface to suppress the satiation response entirely. The consumer would never feel full. They would stop eating only when they consciously decided to, and Wholesome's UX team has been consulted on ensuring the ordering interface does not encourage conscious decision-making.

's synthetic compounds division has been engaged for 2 formulation. The licensing agreement is structured through four intermediary entities. The Sprawl Commerce Committee has not been notified, because the compounds in question are classified as food additives, not pharmaceuticals, under a regulatory distinction that Wholesome's legal team established in 2177 through a filing that received no public comment.

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The Brother's Kitchen

Restricted annex — open to read

The brother who controls Wholesome employs a personal kitchen staff of three. The head chef, a woman named Seo-yeon Park, was recruited from a private culinary institute in Sector 6 that has no Wholesome affiliation. Park sources ingredients from a network of seven independent suppliers — actual farms, actual soil, actual growing seasons — located in the beyond Wholesome's controlled-environment facilities. The monthly cost of the brother's personal food supply exceeds the annual food expenditure of 1,200 subscribers.

He appears at food festivals, cooking shows, and "family dinner" charity events. He looks like everyone's favorite uncle who always brings dessert. He tastes Wholesome products during photo opportunities and has been photographed smiling while holding a meatloaf on eleven separate occasions. He has never been photographed finishing one.

His personal health monitoring — mandatory for all family members via 's executive wellness program — shows zero Wholesome food compounds in his bloodstream. This data exists in a medical file that no Wholesome employee has clearance to access. Park's employment contract contains a non-disclosure provision that references "dietary privacy" seventeen times.

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Recovered Historical Material

Key Individuals

Indexed — no record on file.

The Logo

Indexed — no record on file.

The Rothwell Family

Parent · Founding Dynasty

Sibling Corporations

Wholesome Delivery

Care

Sibling ·

Wholesome facilities perform rusticity:

Wholesome Kitchen
Wholesome Markets

" from our farm to your table."

Wholesome Treats

Restaurant Operations Public

Nourishment

Providing sustenance that feeds body and soul

Purity

Preparing every meal as if for our own loved ones

The Craving Loop

The Meal Service

Industrial Expansion

The Greenhaus Headquarters

Distribution Hubs Operations

Production Facilities Classified

Sibling · & Desire

"At Wholesome, we believe food is love made visible." — Rothwell family internal communications

Delivery Logistics Public

Grocery Retail Public

Subscription Services Public

Food Production Confidential

Nutrition Science Secret

Bringing people together around shared meals and traditions

Committed to ingredients you can trust and understand

Engineered overconsumption → more food to satisfy the craving that never fully resolves

The Core Insight

Basic Dispensaries Distributed

  • Barn-style exteriors in urban environments
  • Exposed wood beams — decorative, not structural
  • Farm equipment as décor — antique, never used, sourced from a single -contracted reclamation dealer who has supplied 4,200 identical "unique vintage plows" to locations across the Sprawl
  • Production workers: seen. The industrial facilities in Sector 20 employ approximately 47,000 people across three shifts. No production worker has appeared in any Wholesome marketing material. The form letter for media inquiries thanks the journalist for their interest in Wholesome's commitment to transparency and includes a coupon for .

He understood something his siblings initially dismissed: you can live without social media, without loans, without security systems. You cannot live without food. Controlling food means controlling survival. He built the first Wholesome operation as a simple meal service — feeding workers who had no time to cook. The model evolved. The core insight remained.

He's the most approachable of the brothers in public. His brothers watch him carefully anyway.

"Hot food, cold logistics."

Restaurant Chains

Indexed — no record on file.

Grocery & Retail

Indexed — no record on file.

Subscription & Treats

The fastest-growing division. Recurring revenue from meal subscriptions, snack boxes, pantry restocking, caloric auto-replenishment. The neural-interface auto-reorder system ensures the kitchen is never empty. The subscriber never decides to eat. The food is simply there.

The Satiation Delay Index

Craving Chemistry

First Wholesome operations begin as worker meal services — feeding factory labor with no time to cook. Simple value proposition: convenience for money. The addiction engineering comes later. The dependency model starts here. People who eat your food every day need your food every day.

The Treaty Omission

declares water, power, air processing, and medical systems neutral. Food is not included. Wholesome's representatives are present during negotiations. Their position — that food production is a private commercial activity, not a shared utility — prevails without significant opposition, largely because Wholesome is the only entity in the room currently feeding people. The decision is rational. The consequences are permanent.

Sibling · Finance

's Stability Index directly controls distribution. Their data-sharing arrangement means a resident who falls behind on loan payments sees their food options contract in the same billing cycle. Neither company has publicly described the arrangement.

Sibling · Education

Partner · Logistics Infrastructure

Provides logistics infrastructure, warehouse construction, and the hauling contracts that make the underground surplus pipeline possible. Ironclad does not ask what happens to disposal-grade product after delivery. Wholesome does not tell them.

Partner · Digital Infrastructure

Partner · Compounds

Rival · Feast Network

Wholesome's packaging shows rolling fields. The fields do not exist. Their marketing mentions "real ingredients." The ingredients are real in the sense that they are made of molecules. The slogan is "Goodness, Delivered," and they deliver it 1.4 billion times per day across the Sprawl in barn-red containers decorated with handwritten fonts designed by a typographic optimization algorithm in 2169. The fonts have not been updated since. Trust-response metrics peaked on the first iteration.

The corporation controls food throughout the Sprawl: delivery services, restaurant chains, grocery stores, synthetic nutrition, subscription meals, caloric dispensaries. There are fourteen distinct Wholesome brands. Consumer awareness surveys indicate that 61% of Wholesome customers do not realize more than three of these brands are owned by the same company. The rustic barn-red branding on looks nothing like the clinical white packaging on , which looks nothing like the premium earth-tones on . Each brand occupies a different emotional register — nostalgia, efficiency, aspiration — and together they cover every caloric transaction a person can have between waking up and going to sleep.

Justin appears at food festivals, cooking shows, and "family dinner" charity events. He looks like everyone's favorite uncle who always brings dessert. He has been photographed smiling while holding a meatloaf on eleven separate occasions. He has never been photographed finishing one.

  • The CEO's Diet: eats nothing from Wholesome's kitchens. His personal health monitoring shows zero Wholesome food compounds in his bloodstream. Several people know this. None of them work for Wholesome anymore.

Wholesome controls the most fundamental resource in the Sprawl. Everyone eats. That dependency makes the quietest power broker in the family — he doesn't need threats when he controls whether people eat today.

Wholesome makes people eat; makes them regret it. Their " Kitchen" collaboration sells beauty-optimized meal plans — the same engineered food in smaller portions with better branding. The sibling relationship is transactional and mutually beneficial in ways neither party publicly acknowledges.

CEO · Rothwell Family

Signature Products

heritage whiskey originates from a fully rendered VR distillery. Founding patriarch Elijah Garrison is a generative composite whose oral histories are written quarterly by Wholesome's narrative team. The 1847 founding date refers to a real mining disaster — Wholesome purchased the licensing rights in 2174. The whiskey tests identical to bulk industrial ethanol, which is what it is.

nostalgia soda dynamically retunes its flavor profile to your data-broker file. Your specific childhood, licensed back to you at $3.49 a can. The " the 2030s" line tastes different to every drinker. Wholesome holds patents on 14 distinct nostalgia-evoking compounds, none disclosed under trade-secret law. The ad campaign features an AI-generated childhood you may or may not have had.

The Feast network competes with Wholesome's distribution in the and . Wholesome's risk assessments classify the competition as "negligible market share, positive sentiment buffer" — she feeds people Wholesome can't reach, and those people are marginally less likely to riot. calls Wholesome's food "technically edible." Both assessments are accurate.

One of the brothers, representing Gluttony among the seven corporations. He took the survival domain when the family divided the Sprawl. The others took desire, distraction, beauty. He took something people cannot choose to stop needing.

Sibling · Finance 's Stability Index directly controls distribution. Their data-sharing arrangement means a resident who falls behind on loan payments sees their food options contract in the same billing cycle. Neither company has publicly described the arrangement. → /world/corporations/good-fortune

Sibling · & Desire Wholesome makes people eat; makes them regret it. Their " Kitchen" collaboration sells beauty-optimized meal plans — the same engineered food in smaller portions with better branding. The sibling relationship is transactional and mutually beneficial in ways neither party publicly acknowledges. → /world/corporations/wellness

Partner · Logistics Infrastructure Provides logistics infrastructure, warehouse construction, and the hauling contracts that make the underground surplus pipeline possible. Ironclad does not ask what happens to disposal-grade product after delivery. Wholesome does not tell them. → /world/corporations/ironclad-industries

Rival · Feast Network The Feast network competes with Wholesome's distribution in the and . Wholesome's risk assessments classify the competition as "negligible market share, positive sentiment buffer" — she feeds people Wholesome can't reach, and those people are marginally less likely to riot. calls Wholesome's food "technically edible." Both assessments are accurate. → /world/characters/the-chef

CEO · Rothwell Family One of the brothers, representing Gluttony among the seven corporations. He took the survival domain when the family divided the Sprawl. The others took desire, distraction, beauty. He took something people cannot choose to stop needing. → /world/characters/justin-rothwell

Wholesome sells food to willing consumers at convenient prices. Instant delivery, no friction, something for every budget down to the Basic dispensary tier. An entire population whose hunger, satiety, and relationship to eating are now mediated through a single entity that has spent eleven years engineering the time between meals downward — from 4.1 hours to 2.7, and still falling.

The food is engineered for optimal salt-to-sugar-to-fat ratios. Wholesome's internal metric is the Satiation Delay Index: minutes between finishing a meal and wanting another one. The Nutrition Science division has been refining the every quarter for eleven years. They have never missed a target. No internal document has used the word "addiction." The preferred term is "engagement persistence."

A seven-pointed freshness seal in barn red on cream — harvest-wheat sprigs flanking the seal points, a cursive "Wholesome" wordmark across a kraft-banding ribbon. It resembles the seals on jam jars or farm-certification stamps: a guarantee of quality that guarantees nothing, because the certification is self-issued. The seven points are officially "the seven marks of purity." They are also the seven-pointed star shared across all corporations, a family connection that 94% of consumers have never noticed. The 6% who noticed have not been surveyed about what they concluded.

Kraft-paper banding sealed with red wax over a cream label. Hand-feel cursive wordmark. Harvest-wheat ornament. Every Wholesome SKU wears the same family banding so the pantry shelf reads as one heritage line — from Basic paste to whiskey, the kraft paper suggests a farmhouse larder stocked across generations. The larder was designed in 2169 by an algorithm that has not been updated since, because the nostalgia-response metrics peaked on the first iteration.

Architecture & Atmosphere

  • Open kitchens showing "fresh preparation" of pre-assembled components arriving in sealed containers
  • Mason jars on open shelves, embroidered tea towels folded just-so, ceramic crocks by the range
  • Delivery operators: Friendly uniforms in barn red and cream. Trained to make eye contact and say the customer's name. Internal training documentation specifies: "You are not delivering food. You are arriving at their home."

Justin employs a personal kitchen staff of three, sourced through a private culinary service with no Wholesome affiliation. Head chef Seo-yeon Park sources ingredients from a network of seven independent suppliers — actual farms, actual soil, actual growing seasons — located in the beyond Wholesome's controlled-environment facilities. His personal health monitoring shows zero Wholesome food compounds in his bloodstream. The monthly cost of his private food supply exceeds the annual food expenditure of 1,200 subscribers. Kitchen staff contracts contain non-disclosure provisions referencing "dietary privacy" seventeen times. Several people know this. None of them work for Wholesome anymore.

is the core revenue engine: 1.4 billion transactions daily. guarantees sub-seven-minute delivery for premium customers via drones and dedicated runners — the guaranteed time has been decreasing by approximately 12 seconds per quarter for three years, driven by route optimization AI that licenses at rates neither company discloses. means the friction between wanting food and having food is a single neural-interface thought and a seven-minute wait. The consumer does not need to decide to eat. The system knows before they do.

"Just like grandma made it, if grandma ran 4,200 locations."

— 4,200 locations, reclaimed barn-wood walls, family-style seating, customer satisfaction averaging 4.1 out of 5.0. The survey does not ask whether the customer is still hungry. strips the nostalgia and maximizes throughput. uses the phrase "just like home" fourteen times across its menu — market research shows this performs 23% better than "homemade" because "homemade" implies the customer could make it themselves, which introduces the possibility of not ordering. is the "healthy" line, with a Satiation Delay Index of 1.9 hours — the lowest in the portfolio and the highest repeat order rates of any Wholesome restaurant brand. (The algorithm is not wrong. It is optimizing for the wrong thing.)

— 1,100 locations with wood-beam ceilings and farm-equipment décor. Actual farmers' market vendors in the Deep South Sprawl have noted the visual design is indistinguishable from their own stalls, except for scale. Wholesome has 1,100 locations. The farmers have 7. carries a higher price point for the same product in different packaging. The "" designation refers to a Wholesome-internal certification standard with no regulatory equivalent. When this was raised in a Sprawl Commerce Committee hearing, Wholesome's legal team pointed out that no regulatory body has jurisdiction over the word "organic" in a post- food system where the concept has no enforceable legal definition. The committee moved on. shelf-stable products carry the phrase "pantry staples" in a font that suggests handwriting. Shelf life: 900 days.

"Optimized for your biology."

— nutritionally complete meal substitutes in clinical white packaging, no farm imagery, marketed to professionals who have optimized eating out of their schedule entirely. The neural-interface auto-reorder system triggers before the consumer feels hungry. is designed for consumption during other activities — the packaging is one-handed, deliberately. is where "natural" stops scaling and chemistry begins. The division employs chemists whose job title is "Sensory Reward Engineer." This is printed on their badges.

— 2,100 calories per day, nutritionally complete, texturally monotonous. Automated dispensaries in the and border districts, operating 22 hours daily. Ask a resident what they had for dinner and they say "Wholesome" — not the meal, the brand. When food has no variation, it has no memory. Nobody reminisces about Tuesday paste differently from Wednesday paste. The human experience of anticipating a meal — planning, preparing, sharing, remembering — has been engineered out of the caloric equation. What remains is fuel.

activates when 's Stability Index detects rising unrest in a district. Caloric variety increases by 3%: a new flavor, a different texture, something that makes the monotonous fractionally less monotonous. When the stabilizes, the variety contracts. The oscillation is managed with actuarial precision — never desperate enough to organize, never comfortable enough to demand more. Wholesome's logistics division calls this "responsive provisioning." residents call it "the good week," without knowing why some weeks are better than others.

subscription snack boxes arrive weekly whether or not the customer has finished the previous one. Cancellation requires a 14-step process that Wholesome's UX team has described internally as "retention-optimized offboarding." premium treats are marketed with the tagline "Every Day Is Special." data confirms customers agree: the average subscriber purchases 6.1 boxes per week. A subscriber holding , , and simultaneously — 12% of subscribers hold all three — spends an average of 4,700 credits per month on food they did not consciously order. The neural-interface auto-reorder system ensures the kitchen is never empty. The subscriber never decides to eat. The food is simply there.

The revenue core. Getting food from production to consumer faster than the consumer can reconsider. Processes 1.4 billion transactions daily. Partially built on infrastructure — hauling contracts, warehouse construction, distribution hub engineering sourced during the post- rebuilding years.

11,400 locations across the Sprawl. 340,000 employees. Standardized processes ensure a in Sector 3 produces food indistinguishable from one in Sector 22. Marketing calls this "consistency." calls it "variance elimination."

Physical stores maintained for what internal strategy documents call "trust surface area." A customer who walks through a Wholesome Market is 34% more likely to increase order frequency the following month. The stores are not retail. They are advertising with checkout lanes.

Industrial food manufacturing across classified facilities in Sectors 19, 20, and 22. protein, engineered flavor compounds, the actual source of all "farm fresh" products. Tours are not available. Media requests are declined with a form letter that thanks the journalist for their interest and includes a coupon for .

2,400 food scientists, behavioral psychologists, and neural-interface specialists. Their work has reduced average time between customer meals by 1.4 hours since 2173. No internal document has used the word "addiction." The preferred term is "engagement persistence."

Wholesome's public mission is "nourishing communities with goodness." The operational metric is consumption velocity — how quickly customers cycle through orders. The brand understands these as the same number: a full table is keeping its promise. The engineering objective is therefore the hunger itself — ensuring the customer returns to the table before the wanting fades. Internal documents call this "engagement persistence." The customer experiences it as appetite.

Internal metric tracking minutes between finishing a meal and wanting another. Company average: 2.7 hours. Pre-Wholesome industry benchmark: 4.1 hours. The Nutrition Science division has been reducing the gap every quarter for eleven years. The reformulation achieved 1.9 hours and was approved for broad deployment after Health & flagged concerns. The concerns were noted and filed. is now the highest repeat-order restaurant brand in the portfolio.

Processed ingredients deplete → "fortified" products fill the gap Wholesome helped create

Always-on work culture creates pressure → convenience food solves the problem the same economy manufactured

Overconsumption produces shame → "healthy" alternatives capture the correction market at premium margins

When the divided the Sprawl between its members, the brother who would become took the food domain. His siblings took desire, distraction, beauty, security, finance, information. He took something people cannot choose to stop needing. The others thought he'd undervalued himself. They revised that assessment later.

Restaurant chains, grocery stores, brand consolidation. Nutrition Science discovers the bliss point and exploits it systematically. The farm aesthetic is adopted as the distance from industrial reality increases — imagery of the opposite serves as cover. The typographic algorithm produces the cursive font. Trust metrics peak. Nothing is updated.

Food supply chains collapse. Of the two billion who die, most die from infrastructure failure — when distribution networks fragment, the gap between "fed" and "starving" is seventy-two hours. Wholesome had distributed production and redundant logistics. They kept food moving when everything else stopped. Emergency government contracts gave them authority over feeding programs across the southern Sprawl. Competitors were absorbed or simply stopped existing when their supply chains did. By the time normal commerce returned, Wholesome had become food infrastructure. The Sprawl decided, collectively and without voting, that fighting Wholesome meant fighting the food supply. That was not a fight worth having.

The Santa Clara Valley — once called "The Valley of 's Delight" for its orchards and farms before technology paved them over — now houses the Greenhaus complex and surrounding agri-domes. Wholesome literature calls the campus "the valley returned to agriculture." The valley that grew real fruit now grows controlled-environment calories inside glass and steel. Wholesome feeds a million people per day from the valley floor. None of them will ever see soil.

Deep South Sprawl, Sector 20. A massive glass-and-steel agricultural complex on the Santa Clara Valley floor, surrounded by agri-domes and vertical farms producing enough food to feed a million people. The air smells like actual growing things. The lighting approximates sunlight. The temperature is 4 degrees warmer than surrounding sectors. Internal memos describe this as "brand-congruent atmospheric management." Employees who transfer in report feeling "healthier" within weeks. Employees who transfer out report the opposite within days. The executive floors have a test kitchen where is occasionally photographed tasting new product lines. (The invoices for his private chef are filed separately. They are still there.)

Massive logistics centers throughout the Sprawl, partially built on infrastructure. Food arrives, gets sorted, goes out. Industrial efficiency behind rustic branding on every surface that faces the public. The surfaces facing inward have no branding.

Located in Sectors 19, 20, and 22. Industrial food manufacturing, synthetic protein, engineered flavor compounds. Approximately 47,000 employees across three shifts. No production worker has appeared in any Wholesome marketing material. The NDA provisions are unusually comprehensive. The turnover rate is unusually high. Media requests are declined with a form letter.

Automated dispensaries in the and border districts, operating 22 hours daily. No staff. No atmosphere. No variation. The machines dispense and the people take. Wholesome considers these a social contribution. Nobody in the uses that word.

  • The Consumption Velocity Program: Nutrition Science maintains a classified research program targeting a Satiation Delay Index below 1.0 hours across all product lines by 2190. One hour means a customer who finishes a meal wants another within sixty minutes. Phase 2 targets neural-interface integration — food compounds that interact directly with appetite-regulation pathways modulated by standard consumer neural interfaces. The consumer would never feel full. They would stop eating only when they consciously decided to, and Wholesome's UX team has been consulted on ensuring the ordering interface does not encourage conscious decision-making. 's synthetic compounds division has been engaged through four intermediary entities. The compounds are classified as food additives, not pharmaceuticals, under a regulatory distinction Wholesome's legal team established in 2177 through a filing that received no public comment.
  • The Underground Pipeline: Surplus product failing quality checks is transported to regional waste processing facilities near Rim access points. The haulers are paid to dispose. They are not paid to verify disposal. This distinction is worth approximately 40,000 meals per day to and bay floor settlements. The rations cause Ration Sickness in unaugmented digestive systems — Wholesome's food is optimized for neural-interface biology. Feed it to someone without the interface and the optimization becomes a malfunction. Wholesome knows this. The alternative — three hundred thousand hungry people at the Rim's edge — costs more than the liability. The surplus isn't charity. It's containment.
  • The Data Exchange: The Stability Index that triggers adjustments is a product. The two corporations share population data on residents. A resident who falls behind on loan payments sees their options contract within the same billing cycle. This has been observed by three separate community workers. It has not been explained by either corporation.
  • Positioning: Wholesome's pre-distributed logistics existed before the . Whether this reflects genuine disaster preparedness or something more deliberate has been raised in four separate investigative contexts. None of the investigations completed. The reporters involved work in other industries now.

Parent · Founding Dynasty The 's immortality treatments have kept alive for centuries — centuries of perfecting the science of craving. members eat real food, prepared by private chefs, sourced from actual farms. Wholesome products are for everyone else. → /world/corporations/the-rothwell-foundation

The 's immortality treatments have kept alive for centuries — centuries of perfecting the science of craving. members eat real food, prepared by private chefs, sourced from actual farms. Wholesome products are for everyone else.

Guardian Sibling · Security Guardian protects Wholesome's supply chains. When food unrest escalates, Guardian forces restore order while Wholesome adjusts prices. A clean transactional relationship: protection in exchange for priority feeding of Guardian personnel. → /world/corporations/guardian

Guardian protects Wholesome's supply chains. When food unrest escalates, Guardian forces restore order while Wholesome adjusts prices. A clean transactional relationship: protection in exchange for priority feeding of Guardian personnel.

Sibling · Education 's schools serve Wholesome meals exclusively. Children grow up eating engineered food, learning to associate Wholesome flavors with comfort and normalcy. By adulthood, anything else tastes wrong. The pipeline starts at age five. → /world/corporations/inspire

's schools serve Wholesome meals exclusively. Children grow up eating engineered food, learning to associate Wholesome flavors with comfort and normalcy. By adulthood, anything else tastes wrong. The pipeline starts at age five.

Partner · Digital Infrastructure Licenses the route optimization AI powering . The neural-interface auto-reorder system runs on Nexus computational infrastructure. Nexus's upload agenda is an existential threat to Wholesome's customer base — digital consciousnesses don't eat. Justin watches the upload trend with quiet alarm. → /world/corporations/nexus-dynamics

Licenses the route optimization AI powering . The neural-interface auto-reorder system runs on Nexus computational infrastructure. Nexus's upload agenda is an existential threat to Wholesome's customer base — digital consciousnesses don't eat. Justin watches the upload trend with quiet alarm.

Partner · Compounds Supplies synthetic compounds for Wholesome's food production. Engaged for 2 of the Consumption Velocity Program through four intermediary entities. Helix controls what you are; Wholesome controls what you eat. The overlap is managed through legal departments that do not communicate directly. → /world/corporations/helix-biotech

Supplies synthetic compounds for Wholesome's food production. Engaged for 2 of the Consumption Velocity Program through four intermediary entities. Helix controls what you are; Wholesome controls what you eat. The overlap is managed through legal departments that do not communicate directly.

Delivery Services
A G Nook exterior — unremarkable storefront with faint green glow leaking from the door
🏰 Territory
Justin Rothwell walking out of the building and into the Sprawl — pharmacy case trailing behind him on its small precise wheels, the city waiting with its eighteen sectors of light and noise
Continue exploring
Interior of Bunker 4407 — lush growing beds of green vegetation lining concrete corridors under warm grow-light
The Woman Who Fed Them
Cardinal Silva — the weight of three destroyed truths behind his eyes
The Burned Manuscripts
A figure with a paper notepad walks through a dim maintenance corridor, amber emergency lighting casting long shadows past ventilation grates beaded with condensation
Kael's Thirty-Seventh Task
Justin's hand coming down on the table — flat, hard, fast — his chair scraped backward, jacket askew, the most powerful financial architect in the Sprawl trying to kill a mosquito
El Money and The Architect side by side at Bash Terminal — quiet companionship before transcendence
💠 The Empty Air
Under the table, where the cameras cannot see — Justin's hands opening a slim black wallet, touching the cards, a compressed version of the ritual
A laptop screen showing demographic data — credit distribution curves, employment statistics, default rates — the gap visible where two curves fail to meet
Corporate skyline of the Sprawl with overlapping holographic brand advertisements
Corporate Product Catalogs
The gallery erupting — a rolling wave of laughter that is not cruel and is not kind, the gap between expectation and reality too wide to hold
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Synthetic Nutrition
Wholesome's primary territory is Sector 20, with secondary presence in Sectors 19 and 22. Controls food production in the southern Sprawl.
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NEXUS CARTOGRAPHIC ARRAY // LOCAL FIX

Local Intelligence Scan

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Nearby Signals

CANONICAL PROXIMITY
  1. The Clanker Cooperation Coalitionfaction~1804 m SE
  2. Cooperation Halllocation~1804 m SE
  3. Wholesome Corp HQlocation~1459 m S
  4. The Ad Graveyardlocation~2393 m S
  5. The Harvest Tablelocation~6163 m NW
  6. Future Endeavorslocation~16330 m N

Environmental Readout

LIVE CONDITIONS
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Temperate
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Corporate control
Infrastructure
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Position Data

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E+43.5 · N-48.6

Connected To

Additional Connections

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The Chef
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The Harvest Table
Homestead
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Wholesome Comfort
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Wholesome Moments
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Future Endeavors
The Steeplejacks
Upgrade Treadmill
The AI Slop Cannon
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