Badrock



Badrock (pop. 986) is a mining town on the colony world of 43 Rega, populated by a mixture of humans, mechs (robots), mutants and Uplifts (genetically engineered primates). Largely dependant on the corporation Munce, Inc., the town is policed by Colonial Marshals provided by the Justice Department of Mega-City One. The psychic Marshal Hetch, the town's former Marshal, was removed from his position and imprisoned after going insane and committing a number of murders after just three months in the town; this unfortunate incident appears to have been caused by the town having been built on a seam of the valuable mineral Fullminarite, which amplifies psionic auras (the tense atmosphere created as a result is the reason for Badrock's name). Hetch was replaced by Marshal Metta Lawson who, alongside her clerk Nerys Pettifer, has attempted to keep the town safe ever since, an increasingly difficult job since Munce, Inc. have effectively declared war on it.

Badrock is the principal location of the Judge Dredd Megazine story Lawless.