Log dragging Gangs

Log Dragging Gangs

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. The trunks often up to 10 tons heavy are dragged using chains and penal colonists over many kilometers to the local Saw mills.

 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 men on the bottom of this hierarchy are forced to participate in the log dragging gangs. The men on top operate the saws in the mills.

 The job is dangerous as the logs and paths are slippery, 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.