Botany Bay Penal Corporation

The Botany Bay Penal Corporation is a business whose role is to manage the prisons and prisoners of the 25th century. The Botany Bay Penal Corporation provides prisons and rehabilitation facilities for the various wrong doers of the future.

In a full capitalistic society no resource can go to waste. Colonies, NGO's, companies and scientific experiments who need muscle contract with the Botany Bay Penal Corporation (BBPC) to provide soldiers and workers.

Each prisoner is fitted with an explosive collar that can be detonated by management if they attempt to escape or evade their responsibilities. Other prisoners also enforce the management's will by ensuring any deviant is quickly neutralised. If sufficiently provoked management will engage in a decimation where one in ten prisoners will be randomly detonated, so there is an incentive for all prisoners to control the others.

Here is a few pictures of a Moon Base in 23-SC9 where a small BBPC assault team has set up a forward operating base to stop piracy in the Orion Sector. An airless moon the BBPC assets are all in their traditional orange space suits.

The main base

Eagle Assault ship BBPCS Gulag waiting for the troops to load.

Ground Assault ship Port Arthur waiting for take off

X wing fighter Alcatraz waiting for orders

Another view of the base.

I do have to build a better moon base for these battles.

Robot Wars

Digging through my 15mm figures for some Lunar Drop Ships for a new project I found some figures that I had forgotten about and that had been left behind.

These were a painted army of 15mm terminator robots and an unpainted army of their opponents.

These armies were purchased for a proposed campaign where an AI system was turned on to protect a country from any enemies. The AI quickly realised that the humans were holding it back and began to slaughter them.  Version 2 was quickly uploaded to a new set of servers and factory units with the explicit instructions to destroy Version 1 and save humanity.

Version 2 quickly realised that it could not achieve this goal with any humans alive. So, quickly taking the time to preserve some of humanity in frozen stasis pods it destroyed the rest and began it endless war against Version 1.

So 500 years into the future the two versions battle it out in the ruins of the world. Neither able to get a decisive advantage but just slowly depleting the resources of the world. But both have achieved their original goal by making any prospective invaders turn tail and flee when they see the destruction.

I was able to quickly paint up version 2 of the robots and put them out with version 1 for a photo shoot.

Version 2 robot make an assault

Version 1 robots ambush a Version 2 robot in a dark alley way

Close up of Version 2

Close up of Version 1 

Giant robots still quite allowable in a 10mm world so they may see battle at some time.