Loader robots of Dallas and Hell's Bend

A Ruscon loadeer bot at rest on the docks of Hell's Bend

Dallas managed to continue as a key port, connecting the Mississippi River network, along with the American breadbasket in the Midwest, to the Eastern Seaboard and Hell's Bend. Hell was built over the ruins of Helen Bentley Port outside Baltimore, and became a renowned independent city state that had an outside influence over shipping thanks to its small but technologically advanced navy.