Lumberjack teams

Lumberjack Teams

Back breaking, dangerous work offered to penal colonists at the UFPC 23.

The valuable tree like mushrooms native to this planet (Parajsa Planet ) grow in the mountain jungle regions and are cut by lumber jack gangs. Not every Mushroom tree is harvested, only the ones of a certain kind and minimum size

The wood like material of the Parajsa Mushtree is fetches a good price on the exotic wood market. Due to the fact that it grows on a Penal Colony, it is harvested mostly by manual labor. The Lumberjack Teams often stay month on end out in the jungles, and the only contact they have are the Log dragging gangs who bring them food and supplies. There are usually more men than jobs and the local inmate / colonist hierarchy led by organized crime gangs decides who works at what job. The Logging crews are especially rough and tumble and form tight groups.The job is dangerous and  there are several dangerous life forms, mostly tick like insects that can kill a carbon based life form in a few days if not treated.

Murder is not unknown among the Lumberjack Teams. (Three teams survived the Shiss masacre.)