Bullet Factory

One morning, the scrap in the Great Junkyard started to walk. The rust heaps grew legs, pincers and an appetite for anything shiny. One factory is still standing east of the junkyard: Granny Odette's. She's 87, and she just left it to you: "I'm retiring, not hanging up my helmet." She's still on the radio, to give advice, or at least to comment. The plan is simple: turn the scrap into bullets before the scrap turns you into scrap.

It starts with a press that makes bullets and a belt that carries them to the wall. At the end, a turret fires whatever it gets. In between, you decide: every machine a bullet goes through changes it. An accelerator, a fire infuser, an explosive warhead, a seeker head, a prism that splits them…Every bullet wears its recipe. Its body, nose, fins and flames change with the modules it went through, and the most elaborate ones become rare, epic or legendary, with a name of their own.

But nothing is free: each pass through a booster costs half of the impact damage. One very special bullet, or lots of plain ones? The answer changes from sector to sector. Across five sectors, your factory goes from rusty nails to laser beams: planks and nails, steam, electricity, chemistry, then the future. Each age changes the look of your machines and brings its own puzzles.…