: The "Battle of the Rebar." The Foreman’s professional guards, armed with aging but powerful assault rifles, face off against hundreds of workers. The workers are armed with Elias's Vol. 03 designs—crude, ugly, but functional weapons that fire handmade lead slugs.
: A young scavenger named Kael is caught with a prototype "Zip-Rifle" built using Elias’s schematics. Before he is executed, he manages to hide the manual in a pile of rusted slag. Practical_Scrap_Metal_Small_Arms_Vol.03-The_DIY...
The story explores the idea that . Even when the factories stop, the human drive to create (and protect) cannot be dismantled. : The "Battle of the Rebar