[(E)]

Kingsport

Assumptions
- Ice age related End
- Short growing season, not equatorial. Growing season for plants about 60 days.
- The ancestors of the current survivors had the opportunity to salvage the plants and animals that survived the early stages of the ice age.
- Sea level is lower and the salinity higher.

Notes
- While the default End for this set up is cold related, a heat related End would fit. Just move Kingsport to the Antarctic (added bonus of being far away from probable radiation in a nuclear exchange situation) or to the coast of the Arctic ocean. Add in a oil, coal or gas field that was serviced by plane.
- Some juggling could be done to replace cold with radiation, if so replace sheep with goats if the climate is warmer/dryer.
- This is a fairly large community, if traders could reliably carried supplies, this type of livestock operation would be done on a smaller scale in multiple locations.
- The high lambing percentage and fast maturing ewes would mean the breeding animals have a fast turn over, reducing the effects of radiation on the flock as a whole.
- May support a microlight plane.
- Complicated ventilation/heat exchangers on the main barns.
- Consumes 2 hectares of trees as fire wood per year, harvested from a forest that has been killed by cold, harvested by machine,

Initial Resources
- Airport with a heated runway, well stocked fuel supply.
- Nearby city or industrial facilities to scavenge.
- TL 9 Farmers and farming equipment

Description
The rusty ice encrusted gates crunch open just enough for you to slip through and close quickly behind you. You stomp your way through the snow to the heatlock on the hangar doors. The wool and plastic lined hangar is full of machinery, straw, the sound of sheep and the all pervasive smell of ammonia. A sentry, wrapped up in a heavy homespun jersey sits in front of a cobbled together drone control control rig.

The view that the drone provides give you a good impression of Kingsport even though it is locked down for winter. The two huge hangars each big enough to hold three A490s, The retractable greenhouses, the multiple domes of the geodesic wintering barns and the snow blanketed fences marking out the fields and paddocks.

Livestock and Animals
- Sheep, Primarily Shetland, East Friesan and Merino all with TL9 genetics. During the short summer they are taken to distant pastures to feed on the grasses that survive the cold. The shepherds use dogs descended from huskies and heading dogs or huskies and huntaways to herd the sheep. The armed Shepherds usually carry gieger counters, GPS/radio tracking equipment, thermal optics and drones to assist them in managing their flock.
The TL 9 genetics provide the sheep with worm and parasite resistance, a high growth rate when food permits, cold tolerance and most ewes produce two lambs with high sexual dimorphism. Big fast growing rams and smaller ewes that are robust and ready to breed at a young age. The sheep live outside for 4 months of the year, on a indoor grazing rotation for 5 months and in pens for the coldest 3 months.
- Geese and Ducks, a blend of wild and domesticated genetics.
- Cats, to control vermin.
- Dogs, as mentioned above.

Crops
- Oats, descended from Fast growing GE strains.
- Cold resistant vegetables; Kales (including a fodder variety), colards, carrots, spinach, leeks, parsnips, turnips (including fodder), chard.

Seasons
Due to the short growing season there are three months of nonstop activity to get all the outdoor crops from planting to harvest. Kingsport relies on machinery modified to run on the Bio-Aviation fuel it has stockpiled to get this work done. The old material from the sheep pens is spread on fields to increase fertility and to provide some additional heat as it breaks down. Oats and fodder crops are planted in fields that have been left fallow. The retractable poly-carbonate greenhouses extend along a combination railway track/fence to provide warmth for a longer growing season as well as an indoor environment for the sheep to graze in. When the weather gets too savage the greenhouses are retracted to avoid damage and the animals would be moved to the triple glazed geodesic barn complex*. The runway heating system is also used to increase the length of the growing season, heat from solar and decomposition sources is used.

Machinery is also used to harvest as much firewood as possible, most of which would come from long dead forests.

The cold makes food storage easy and as a result every year when the sheep finish grazing outside not quite 2/3 are slaughtered and processed.

Lots of insulation (wool) and the careful use of solar energy to assist heating supplement the wood fires to heat critical areas.

Produce
- Meat, dairy products, wool, lanolin, fat, leather
- Oat derived products
- Alcohol
- Dogs
- Mechanical services
- Woolen clothes
- Long down time so some manufacture possible.
- Salt (or would have a large stockpile)
- "Ham" from mutton and other long lasting meat
- Fur from any "pest" animals that threatened the flocks

Require
- Additional Nitrates, the short growing season and fast growing crops would demand a great deal.
- Sulfur.
- Tools, machinery would be pushed to the limit for 3 months then repaired during the cold months.
- A greater range of seed.
- Entertainment, a long time spent indoors.
- Drone materials
- Will want another source of fuel
- May desire stimulants for the busy part of the year

Skills present
- Animal handling
- Vet
- Engineer
- Electronics
- Driving
- Piloting, drone
- Leadership, A high level of organization and planning is required for the "summer"

*See the "Eden Project" supposedly snow/cold resilient, upgraded to TL9