u/Master_Steward

As you might had already learned from your high school history classes, prohibition of alcohol does not stop people from seeking other avenues of mind-numbing imbibing debauchery!

Once the criminals realize they can make a profit from illicit alcohol production, they’re gonna become rich brewing their own swill from dangerous chemical concoctions of blinding wood alcohol moonshine, paint thinner, antiseptic disinfectant and other poisonous additives!

Not even the cops themselves would feel incentivized enough to enforce such an oppressive law if they are underfunded and keep getting bribed by these mobster gangs; if they do however decide to bust a speakeasy and shut down an underground brewery, they’re just gonna set up a new one either under the secret confined bowels of the Generator shafts or in the outskirts of the city where the city lawmen cannot touch them due to being out of jurisdiction!

In fact, I would not be surprised if Frostland dreadnoughts come barreling through the Frostlands with kegs of homemade moonshine whiskey and hooch brewed within the heated enclosed halls of steam boiler rooms, waiting to serve their Frostland scout customers who seek a swig of liquid courage in a bottle to calm their frayed nerves!

As long as they do not consumer alcohol before operating industrial machinery (and handling nitroglycerin explosives in the mines), alcohol consumption should be a personal health choice and not something to be subjected to nanny state affairs

I am so amazed and elated that the Frostpunk 2 developers had included the actual real-life lore of Łukasiewicz, the first European inventor of oil refining, kerosene lamplighting and oil well extraction industry, as a Frostland side quest objective that rewards you with their exports of their locally refined petroleum to your Generator city after investing into their industrial infrastructure

For those who have not heard of this early modern tale of the legendary Polish polymath, Jan Boży Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822 - 1882) was a Polish-born nobleman who lived under the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (also known colloquially as Austrian Poland); until his rise to fame as the founder of the petroleum industrt, he started his career as a pharmacist in Łańcut in 1836 to help his family mitigate their growing financial struggles; it was believe that the death of his father during his teenage years was what prompted the young Łukasiewicz to take up a career pharmacology. From his studies, he learned not only how to craft medicine but also studied the laboratory apparatuses used in chemical processing and analysis, which would later become essential in his research in oil refining in the future.

However, in spite of his tenacious ingenuity and remarkable hard-working mindset, he eventually became involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the Austrian-Hungarian government to gain Polish independence and spent a stint in prison for a radical politcal conspiracy from 1846-48, before being later released due to lack of evidence. In spite of this setback, he did returned back to his pharmacist career and worked under Piotr Mikolasch, owner of the pharmacy called "Pod Złotą Gwiazdą" ("The Golden Star") in Lwów, though did took a hiatus to study in universities of Vienna and Krakow to expand on his pharmaceutical knowledge from 1850-52 to earn his master's degree in pharmaceutics before going back to work under apprenticeship with Mikolasch

Łukasiewicz's interest shifted to experimenting with the distillation of petroleum in 1852 after Mikolasch asked Łukasiewicz and another pharmacist assistant neamed Jan Zehn to find a new method of refining the oil for a new line of pharmaceutical ointments. Though crude oil was very well-known amoong the Galician locals, they were deemed to have little to no value to even the rural folks, and was thus mostly used as cheap animal feed and crude lubricants. Though the duo pharmacists did managed to create a prototype skin oinment called "Oleum Petrae album", the refining process was prohibitively expensive and the ointment failed to attract their customers due to its exorbitantly expensive price.

In spite of these setbacks, Łukasiewicz and Jan Zehn continued with their crude oil distillation experiments before discovering a cheaper new method of extracting the refined flammable liquid product known as kerosene in 1853. Realizing its potential as an energy light fuel source, Łukasiewicz hired a tinsmith named Adam Bratkowski to construct the first kerosene lamp, which was first lit up and hung near the pharmacy window of their shop. Upon public widespread news of this latest discovery and invention, the oil lamps were first sold to hospitals in Łyczaków to help doctors perform critical surgical operations during nighttime

Compared to plant-based or animal-based oil lamps, the kerosene lamp lit up brighter and its fuel source was relatively cheaper to obtain, making kerosene lamps a cheaper luminescent alternative that is easily affordable to even the lowest social classes, making the kerosene lamp lighting industry an extremely popular venture across all of Europe, including capital cities like Vienna, Warsaw and Budapest

After a successful oil venture in Lwów, Łukasiewicz moved to the town of Gorlice to start his own pharmacy business in 1854 and continued to expand his oil refining industry venture further, going so far as to light up the entire town itself (including their local shrine) with their first kerosene street lamps; news of this kerosene boom spread to the nobleman and mining tycoon Tytus Trzecieski, who invited the Galician polymath over and informed him about a rich oil deposit west of Gorlice, in the forest village of Bóbrka, near the southeastern region of Krosno. After obtaining permission from landowner Karol Klobassa, Łukasiewicz and Trzecieski hired local village workers to dig a deep elongated trench (120 m long and 1.2 m deep) to release and accumulate the raw petroleum liquid within the dugout, thus creating the world's first oil mining operation in Europe.

In the year 1856, Łukasiewicz further expanded his operations by constructing his first official large-scale oil refinery business in Ulaszowice (present-day Jasło), where he manufactured kerosene, asphalt and lubricants to both rich and third-class European clientele, even going so far as earning a contract with Austrian railway companies who need kerosene lamps to light up the tracks, cars and headlamps; in spite of the setback of an accidental fire at that refinery, with encouragement from Trzecieski, Łukasiewicz further invested in his oil refining industry to operations in Polanka and later Chorkówka, earning enormous profits in the process and further cementing his reputation as one of Europe's first early modern ooil tycoon

Thanks to his rising popularity in Europe and authorized government support, Łukasiewicz was able to construc the first early steam-powered oil drilling rig in 1862 at the Bóbrka oil extraction site, which can delve 240 m deep into the oil deposit area. There was even historical speculation that American oilman tycoon John D. Rockerfeller visited and consulted with Łukasiewicz for expertise on petroleum extraction and refining before starting his own Western venture.

In addition to being an oil man, Łukasiewicz used his vast wealth to fund philanthropic projects and social activist organizations, such as pro-Polish independence political movements, churches, road infrastructure, and public schools; he even founded one of the first labor insurance company in Poland called the "Bracka Fund", which took a small percentage of the workers' salaries to provide healthcare coverage, financial relief in case of accidental house fires, and family pensions in cases of employee's death; those charitable achievements allowed him to earn the Order of Saint Gregory and the title of Papal Chamberlain from Pope Pious IX in 1873.

In 1877, Łukasiewicz founded the Oil Industry Congress in Lwów, and the National Oil Society in Gorlice and appointed himself as the chairman; he used his established political position to further expand new oil refinery operations in other local towns in Galicia, even going so far as to consult other rival competitors expand their own petroleum industries with his expertise to boost his country's economic prospects. In fact, Łukasiewicz was responsible for pushing the Galician government to establish the first oil subsidies and the first to fund the geological mapping for the sake of oil surveying.

When Łukasiewicz died from pneumonia on January 7 1882 at the age of 59 (near the Goth Revival Church in Chorkówka that he himself funded), his funeral was attended by around 4,000 people, whose lives had changed for the better thanks to his charitable generosity and prosperous wealth that he had brought onto the Galician nation. His gravestone is still present in the village of Zręcin, and he is still remembered by the Polish historians today as both an innovative oil pioneer who brought vast wealth to the noble class and a selfess philantropist who sympathized with the working class.

Quote from Jan Boży Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz:

"This liquid is the future wealth of the country, it's the wellbeing and prosperity of its inhabitants, it's a new source of income for the poor, and a new branch of industry which shall bear plentiful fruit."

NOTE: Not surprisingly, as the Steward of the working and noble class diaspora, I invested my Frostland teams and prefabricated materials to jumpstart the Galician oil industry, conducted a rescue operation on the Galician oil wagon, AND returned the remaining survivor and the deceased remains back to her hometown refinery. It is what the polymath philanthropist Łukasiewicz would had done for his workers and I will be damned to Hel if I did not honour his legacy with charitable generosity to my new stakeholders!

I love the fact that in spite of skepticism towards my inept stewardship over the technocratic city, the machinists took initiative by forming an urban barricade to block the Icebloods from conquering a prefabricated materials recovery operation during a chronic power outage crisis (which was a result of them shutting down and demolishing the blasting coal mine operation)

I did not want to elaborate too much on the details on the scout training, survival techniques and equipment, because those should be covered in topics about vanguard logistics bays and specialized pathfinder scout training