Unlike traditional dredging (the removal of silt to prevent flooding), the Lyn Dredd Protocol does the opposite. Every decade, automated “Strat-Judges” – 40-tonne submersible droids – descend into the riverbed to remove natural flood defences. Fallen trees, beaver dams, and gravel bars are systematically annihilated.
The logic was simple: if a river could kill, it could be made to serve the law. river lyn dredd
The River Lyn Dredd is fiction – for now. But the real River Lyn still floods. Still kills. And still, local farmers whisper, faces illegal dredging permits pushed through by developers who want to build on its floodplain. Unlike traditional dredging (the removal of silt to