This is Natia Porotov, a typical citizen of Infrastructure. She was born in a village in 13 IA on the Osgunm River to a carter two years after it was taken by Infrastructural Army forces which grew into a hub town. Like all of her hometown's girls and a few boys her age she got a couple of years of education in which she learnt the basics of reading and writing. Through her childhood she watched her home town triple in population, watched as the beet factory went up and sampled the sugar that came out of it. There was plenty of work for carters but as far as she was concerned that work could be done by her brothers and sisters. When she was 15 she made her way by paddle steamer and train to the city of Dalatyr. After some looking about she soon found herself a job at Garment Factory Dalatyr-11. After a week training she was assigned a station in a big electrically lit room with 143 other people (most of which were women) which had a sewing machine. Lengths of cloth came her way and she'd sew them into shirt sleeves which she put into a basket to be collected. She made five credits a day plus bonuses for exceeding her quota. After a few months she could get an extra 5 decicredits most days, a full extra credit and occasionally got up to 1.5. This was enough for basic lodgings in a dormitory, food, clothing and an odd luxury now and again. After a year she was promoted to torso work, making the chest part of shirts and with it a credit a day wage increase and a proportional boost to bonuses.





When the Escort War broke out, production at Garment Factory Dalatyr-11 shifted from civilian shirts to army tunics. There were changes to the template but the nature of work remained the same, even if there were a lot of shortages in a lot of areas. Several new uniform factories were set up and Natia managed to get selected to be a floor manager in these in 35 IA. The 2 credit a day wage increase was welcome and she did get a year of training into the job, though it involved far more paperwork, a fair amount of handling stuff and she had to deal with an number of untrained peasants brought in who's work was seldom up to snuff. She was relieved when the peace talks were announced, especially since she found a nice young man working at a machine tool factory that she got engaged to. She has six hundred credits in savings and hopefully they'd be more to buy as war production winds down.

