Boomstone

A desolate town situated in the middle of scorching badlands, the desert settlement of Boomstone is now one of the most valuable mining communities in existence. Owned by Khan Industries, Boomstone is the sole supplier of urgonium, an unusual mineral with highly explosive properties.

	Clementine Clevenger, Sheriff Gomer, and Deputy Wendell.

Boomstone was acquired by Khan Industries for its silver mine, located just outside of town. Sheriff Gomer Cleghorn and his deputy Wendell, Boomstone locals, were originally put in charge of overseeing the mining operation for Khan, with monthly reports to be sent out by assistant Clementine Clevenger. However, with Khan so far removed from activities in Boomstone, Sheriff Gomer took complete control of the settlement. Anyone who happened to pass through the area was arrested by the sheriff on some trumped-up charge, then sentenced to work in the silver mine.

Eventually the silver ran out and Khan Industries had just about given up on the operation. That's when the miners discovered a vein of urgonium, at which point Sheriff Gomer began 'losing' Miss Clevenger's reports. He and Wendell schemed to steal as much of the precious mineral as possible — with Khan not being the wiser — and sell it to the highest bidder. Unfortunately for Gomer and Wendell, their plot was exposed to Shere Khan, and the two now work as miners under new mining foreman Miss Clevenger.

Boomstone itself is nothing more than a ramshackle collection of buildings along a dusty dirt road. The only way in or out of Boomstone is by plane, thus restricting the area from most outside visitors. Large portraits of Shere Khan can be found everywhere in town, an imposing reminder of who really runs the operation.

Points of Interest:

	Chairman Shere Khan, owner of Boomstone.

Courthouse/Jail: Located in the middle of Main Street, the Boomstone courthouse is the town's headquarters, where matters of business and 'local justice' are conducted. Adjoining the courthouse is the jail, a stone-cut building containing an unoccupied cell.

Hotel: This dilapidated Western inn shelters the town's permanent residents.

Mine: Once an abandoned silver mine, the Boomstone mine now supplies the rare mineral urgonium. Under Sheriff Gomer's supervision, innocent civilians were forced to work in the mines to extract the precious substance.

Saloon: The bright spot of town, the "Red Eye" Saloon is the only place in the settlement where a person can savor a square meal and a friendly game of pool.

Telephone Booth: Boomstone's sole link to the outside world.

URGONIUM
Among the rarest and most valuable substances ever mined, urgonium is a highly unstable mineral with tremendous explosive properties. Silvery in appearance, urgonium can provide over twice the explosive force of nitroglycerin (when compared in similar amounts). Being a solid, however, urgonium is much less unstable — explosions are triggered only by sharp impacts. Urgonium's molecular structure has not yet been analyzed, but there is reason to believe that the mineral itself may be radioactive. Extremely rare, urgonium is found only in a vein running directly beneath the Boomstone silver mine. Given urgonium's explosive properties, armies and demolition companies will undoubtedly have great demand for it.