Old Slaughterhouses

Slaughterhouse Road

The Old Slaughterhouses were once used for food production and processing for the people of Hillys, but were closed down after the Alpha Sections took control. Since then nobody knows what's going on inside. Nobody is allowed to come near the slaughterhouse, and the Alpha sections have used extensive security to lock the sector down.

Jade can only reach the slaughterhouses by buying a hovercraft jump kit from Mammago Garage to vault the laser barriers, and then participating in one of the races. There is a rumour of a gap in one of the racetrack walls where you can enter the slaughterhouse complex. Although the IRIS Network suspects the location is part of the Alpha Section's trafficking network, they need proof.

IRIS Mission

After their mission to the Nutripils Factory, Jade and Double H are sent by the IRIS network to take pictures of the human traffic in the slaughterhouses. After Jade's purchase of a Jump Kit for 15 pearls, she is able to reach the slaughterhouses, where she enters hovercraft race 3. Finding the passage in the race track, she comes out of the surrounding wall into the Slaughterhouse Road where she encounters a giant Alpha Section metallic spider of sorts, similar to the Arachnoblast. After infiltrating the sector, she finds the evidence of live captives being exported to the moon, takes the photographs, then escapes with Double H.

Their report, IRIS 514, reveals to the public the extent of human torture and trafficking in collusion with DomZ Sarcophagi. The central hall is the hub where the captives are processed and exported to the DomZ.

Layout

Hillyan Races (3 & 4)

The only part of the Slaughterhouse sector open to the public are the 3rd and 4th hovercraft Races, which run between the perimeter walls on either side of the complex. Race track 3 passes the laser-barred tunnel through this wall, which provides Jade with her way in.

Slaughterhouse Road

The Alpha spider tank guards Slaughterhouse Road.

The tunnel leads down onto Slaughterhouse Road, the industrial vehicle access into the complex. The elevated highway is dilapidated and broken apart in sections, requiring the Hovercraft to use its jump kit to cross the gaps. This area is under heavy Alpha Section security, patrolled by a giant spider mech robot. This cannot be defeated and must be swiftly evaded.

Slaughterhouse Quarter

The road leads into Slaughterhouse Quarter, an external waterway protected by mines and torpedo launchers. This leads to a docking station with a giant pair of wheeled gates, which must be opened manually to allow hovercraft access. DomZ Sarcophagi will always materialize to guard these gates.

Exterior Moats

Past the gates are the Exterior Moats, surrounding the main complex. Hazards are everwhere in the form of more mines and rotating laser turrets, as well as giant industrial wind turbines which provide considerable turbulence.

Slaughterhouse Entrance

The main entrance into the interior complex is blocked by a portcullis gate, which can be lifted by aiming a gyrodisk at the switch through the control room window. This waterway leads into the Surveillance Room area.

Surveillance Room

This monitoring checkpoint houses a second massive portcullis, laser turrets and a Surveillance Robot. To the left of this room is the Trolley Entrance, which provides rail car access to the Central Hall, the nexus of the sector. Beyond the portcullis are the Interior Moats, which lead to the North and East Wings.

Interior Moats

This long moated corridor surrounds the Central Hall nexus, accessible through the North and East Wings.

North Wing

The North Wing is accessed by following the Interior Moats to the left and driving up a ramp to the docking entrance. This wing is an extensive processing facility under heavy Alpha Section guard, both human and robot. It leads to an observation point in the Central Hall, where shuttles from the Nutripils Factory can be seen landing and unloading their human traffic.

East Wing

DomZ Sarcophagi await their cargo

The East Wing is accessed via a back entrance at the far end of the Interior Moats. This area is similar in function to the North Wing, and leads to another observation point in Central Hall, where DomZ Sarcophagi can be seen waiting to receive their victims. Access back to the East Wing entrance runs via a cargo trolley.

Trolley Entrance

This room is blocked by an electrical barrier, which can only be bypassed by riding the giant portcullis in the adjoining Surveillance Room up to a porthole window passage. The electrical barrier can then be destroyed by knocking the resident Cyclopius Unit M39 into it. A rail car can then be taken from here to Central Hall. From this observation point the tortured Hillyans can be seen being embarked onto Alpha Section cruisers for the DomZ.

Exit from the Slaughterhouse sector is gained via a shortcut tunnel leading from the Exterior Moats crossroads down to the Race courses entrance.

Behind the scenes

Slaughterhouses concept art

'Mother'; the Smuggler; and the 'lobotomised' sons.

The content of the slaughterhouse levels went through several development iterations of puzzle/platforming rooms and at one stage additional characters were considered for inclusion.

These included a smuggler, a ‘Mother’ – who organised the hovercraft races, and her “lobotomised” sons. Their proposed roles are unclear, and they do not appear in the final version. However, the smuggler’s character model can be spotted at the end of the game when Jade revives the captured Hillyans, while the idea of a business run by a matriarch and her three sons reappears in the form of Mammago Garage.

Trivia

• Several unique Species are encountered only in the Slaughterhouse sector. These include:
  • Anguilla bifida - in the water throughout the moats.
  • Trilobites saltans - Outside in Slaughterhouse Quarter, and a whole colony found in the East wing.
  • Amoeba saltans - In the Central Hall immediately after disembarking the trolley car. It hides in a steam control console.
  • Ignis ignifera - In a ventilation shaft accessed from the top of portcullis in the Surveillance Room.
  • Timorea saponifera - Behind some crates in the Trolley Entrance, beside the rail car.
• Three Pearls may be collected in the Slaughterhouses:
  • North Wing - in an antechamber in the corner of an L-shaped room patrolled by 4 guards.
  • East Wing - at the back of a room with 3 guards accessed via a blue teleporter.
  • Central Hall - arriving from the Trolley Entrance, in the next room behind an electrical barrier. This can be destroyed with the 3 XB-24 Robots that appear.
• Three PA 1s can be found across the sector:
  • North Wing - on the right at the end of the mined corridor where 2 guards watch the conveyor belt. It is on the floor next to some Materia Crystal boxes.
  • North Wing - in a chest behind a guard up a ramp to the left, after obtaining the fuse.
  • East Wing - in a chest in a service tunnel underneath the crane-operated crate conveyor belts.