Metal Fatigue

PREFACE

The goblins are an ancient and industrious race from Azeroth. Their ingenuity and innovation been influencing the realm, particularly in the field of engineering, for thousands of years. However coupled with their intellect is a streak of recklessness and an insatiable greed. Goblins are renowned for sacrificing personal safety for the sake of their craft. The engineering discipline has thus divided into two major schools - goblin and gnome. Where the gnomes specialize in fantastic devices with a wide range of uses, goblin engineering focuses largely on bombs and rockets.

However for the goblins, engineering often becomes a means to an end, and that end is trade. Their society is built upon acquisition and profit, and most goblins fall under the influence of one of the cartels based out of their island home: Undermine. The largest by far of these is the Steamwheedle Cartel, which has substantial holdings throughout Azeroth, including Ratchet, Everlook, Gadgetzan, and they even finance the Blackwater Raiders of Booty Bay.

After the Dark Portal to Outland was reopened, a group of goblin scientists working for the Steamwheedle Cartel, known as BOOM - the Braintrust of Orbital Operations and Mechanics - led an expedition into the wilds of the Netherstorm, where they built a research and development station known as Area 52. Though it began as a secretive base, Area 52 has since become the base of operations for the Aldor and Scryers in Netherstorm, as well. BOOM also operates a smaller outpost, Cosmowrench, as a staging area for attacks against the blood elves of Tempest Keep.

Outland was once Draenor, the homeworld of the orcs, ogres, draenei, and many other creatures. However the elder shaman Ner'zhul, hoping to gain access to new worlds, opened many unstable portals that shook the world to its core, and in the aftermath of the magics he unleashed, Draenor was blasted apart. Outland was the most substantial portion that remained intact, suspended within the Twisting Nether. Netherstorm is the name given to the area of Outland that still persists but remains the most devastated of all of Outland. One must watch one's step, for falling into the Twisting Nether means falling for all eternity.

Metal Fatigue

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