Kalran: Tales of the four nations/Grinder

The Grinder is a Reclaimer support structure capable of recycling a commanders units, infantry and vehicles alike, when they deems them no longer useful, converting them into resources to fund the commanders war effort.

Description
Another one of Bahlgrams inhumane inventions is the Grinder: a structure capable of breaking down both mechanical and organic material in order to be recycled as raw resources to fill Reclaimers coffers. Many clones who questions orders or retreat have met an untimely and grisly fate being fed to the Grinder when as punishment. Where anything could be ripped apart into its constituent elements before being teleported to the base to be used as resources in what is known as the hellmouth.

While the hellmouth itself was the size of a building and thus useless in combat, with some work anything could be salvaged. Tanks and other metal things could be reduced to their constituent metal and resmelted, but the Hellmouth didn't truly earn its name until some soulless officer suggested that battlefields were literally layered with resources.

The dead, both Reclaimer clones and others, soldiers and civilians, were gathered from every battlefield, atrocity, and mass grave that the Reclaimers could reach and heaped in large wagons. These were brought to the local Grinderss (though the distance could be many miles) and thrown in, where its broken down before teleported. The human body is mostly water (meaning the Hellmouths constantly steamed), but otherwise is made of mostly carbon, a very useful resource. Coal could be used as a heat source, graphite used in electronics, or it could simply reduce it to an organic slurry that could feed rapidly aging clones that required almost constant intake, and dueto a modification made to make sure defectors die the clones can only subsist on this grotesque slurry. One of the most menacing uses was to turn corpses into rough diamonds that were smuggled into the nations and sold to unscrupulous sources to fund the Reclaimers. These diamonds, due to their ghastly origins, were dubbed "Blood Diamonds" by the media.