Bucket

Bucket is a Caver colony established by the Cosmic Federation, located near the Old Quarries. Originally a mercury mine that sided with the Union during the Subterra Civil War, Bucket was cut off from the outside world during a disastrous cave-in, theorized to be of their own design to prevent their capture by the Federation. Presumed destroyed or lost for many decades, Bucket unknown to the rest of the Union survived a series of natural and supernatural disasters in the form of mercury fume poisoning, spectral haunting, cave-ins, and attacks from strange wildlife. Recently reestablishing contact with the rest of the Union, the people of Bucket are hostile and paranoid from their generations of war with the Cave itself, and have transformed into a cult-like nation convinced that they remain the last bastion of free Cavers. Attempts by the Union to create dialogue are futile and often met with hysterical violence.