Editing Station III

<blockquote>{{Neath_Location|image1 = Station III Gaz.png|caption1 = Station III. Where's I and II?|location = [[The Unterzee|Shepherd's Wash]]|allegiance = [[The Masters of the Bazaar]]|notable_inhabitants=[[The Austere Acolyte]]<br>[[Station III#The Heartmetal Smith|The Heartmetal Smith]]}}''"Machinery hums behind high steel walls. Up the hill, there are visible outlines of warehouses and a building with a spire. But the lamps are low where they burn at all, and your ship the only one in harbour."''<ref name="location description">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Station_III|Location description|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>'''Station III''' is a top-secret facility located on an island in the [[Unterzee]].__FORCETOC__

==Nothing to See Here==
<blockquote>''"On the very edge of London's influence, curious matters are conducted."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/A_Port_Report:_Station_III|Item description|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>Station III is a mysterious location occupied by whirring machinery, sprawling warehouses, and a tall, spired building, all surrounded by a high metallic fence.<ref name="location description" /> The station's gate is notably cold to the touch and is nigh-indestructible, repelling even the finest of chisels and mightiest of crowbars.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Station_III#Interactions|Try the gate|Sunless Sea}}</ref> 

The only evidence of outside visitation at the port's dock is a strange burner for incense, a log book detailing an enthralling song, worn ironmonger's tools, and broken medicine bottles covered in clumps of silvery metal, with a torn label reading "SOOTHE & COO...".<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Station_III#Interactions|Search for signs of other visitors|Sunless Sea}}</ref>

Most curiously, any reports of this location's activities are relentlessly censored by the [[Admiralty]] and the [[The Ministry of Public Decency|Ministry of Public Decency]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Admiralty_Survey_Office#Port_Reports|Station III|Sunless Sea}}</ref>

== Heartmetal ==
{{Spoiler}}<blockquote>''"They were in love with a writer who was dead before they were born, and kept it a secret from embarrassment. The Masters will like that."''<ref name="historian2">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Observing_the_Latest_Autopsies|A historian|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>Station III is the manufacturing hub of a strange, silvery substance called '''[[heartmetal]]'''.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Station_III:_Heartmetal_Ingot#Item_description|Item description|Sunless Sea}}</ref> Heartmetal builds up inside human bodies and is primarily extracted here.<ref name="ask how the metal balls are formed2">{{Citation|1=https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Questions_for_the_Acolyte|2=Ask how the metal balls are formed|3=Sunless Sea|4=}}</ref> The [[Masters of the Bazaar]] are very interested in heartmetal pellets related to love and romance,<ref name="historian2" /> and as such, they were responsible for the creation and arrangement of Station III.<ref name="ask where corpses come from2">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Questions_for_the_Acolyte|Ask where the corpses come from|Sunless Sea}}</ref> Any heartmetal bits that aren't useful to them are thrown to the Station's dump,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Questions_for_the_Acolyte|Ask what becomes of the contents of the balls|Sunless Sea}}</ref> which is sometimes visited by marauders and thieves.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Scavengers_of_Dark_Matter|Watch until you know what they're up to|Sunless Sea}}</ref>

The [[Echo Bazaar]] has a hand in the business of Station III,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Inside_the_Little_Gate|Surrender a Long-Box for payment|Sunless Sea}}</ref> but it also seems to have a heartmetal operation of its own, independent from the island. Many Soothe and Cooper Long-Boxes can be found deep within the Bazaar's bowels.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Pilfer_a_large,_mysterious_box|Pilfer a large, mysterious box|Fallen London}}</ref>

=== The Heartmetal Smith ===
<blockquote>''"Nothing like it for weaponry. Does more damage than any ordinary steel, and a little bit of the shrapnel will give you trouble to the end of your days."''<ref name="deliveries to the smith 02">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Errands_for_the_Acolyte|Deliveries to the smith (0)|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>[[File:Cannon.png|alt=Several cannons.|thumb|Fire at will.]]The '''Heartmetal Smith''' is a mysterious individual who is capable of working with discarded heartmetal to forge products for export.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Errands_for_the_Acolyte|Deliveries to the smith (1)|Sunless Sea}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Visit_to_the_Smith%27s_Emporium|Search the place on your own|Sunless Sea}}</ref> He often creates products suitable for maritime combat, such as ammunition, hull plates, and harpoons, as according to him, heartmetal weapons are more powerful than their steel counterparts, and their shrapnel can cause chronic ailments that last for a lifetime. Unfortunately, the hardness of heartmetal tends to wear out his tools quickly.<ref name="deliveries to the smith 02" />

By his own account, the Smith came to Station III by ''swimming'',<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Visit_to_the_Smith%27s_Emporium|Ask the smith about how he got here|Sunless Sea}}</ref> and now he toils without complaint in the solitude of his workshop, with a heartmetal locket and chain always fastened around his neck.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Visit_to_the_Smith%27s_Emporium|Ask the smith about life on the island|Sunless Sea}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Visit_to_the_Smith%27s_Emporium|Story description|Sunless Sea}}</ref> His ultimate goal is to eventually forge a suit made of heartmetal, so that he may walk where he came from without experiencing the grief of others.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Visit_to_the_Smith%27s_Emporium|Ask him about the heartmetal suit|Sunless Sea}}</ref>
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