Fenway Park is the site of an unfinished steel-dome project built by the Retros, where survivors are made to labor under an impersonal system that treats them as resources. Its lack of defenses also makes the half-built dome a sharp contrast with the heavily protected installation in the desert, and the Fenway project is ultimately destroyed by SYLO forces.

Dome Construction and Strategic Role

The Retros were building a steel dome at Fenway Park as part of their campaign to change the course of civilization. The project was still unfinished when SYLO forces destroyed it. Colonel Pike later confirmed that Fenway was not the only such construction site: three more domes were then being built in the past. Fenway Park therefore represents one node in a wider effort, rather than an isolated facility.

The site had no Retro defenses protecting its half-built dome. That vulnerability distinguishes it from the desert installation, which had ground-based antiaircraft weapons and Retro fighters assigned both to defend the dome and to attack. The contrast suggests that the Fenway project was less prepared for an assault, while the desert base was organized as a defended military position.

Forced Labor and the Ruby

Tucker and Tori witnessed the human cost of the project among survivors of an attack who were forced to work on the construction. Their backs carried numbers instead of names, reducing individual people to anonymous laborers. They were given Ruby, a drug that granted extraordinary strength and speed, so they could work on the dome project. The numbering and the drug together show how the Retros treated survivors as instruments for rebuilding the world to their specifications.

This treatment echoed what Jon Purcell, a Retro infiltrator encountered in Portland, had told the group: the Retros regarded people of the past as having value chiefly as labor. At Fenway Park, that belief is not merely an expressed attitude but an operating system, visible in how workers are identified and used.

Significance and Destruction

Captain Granger called the construction project the Gate to Hell, a name that frames the dome not as a neutral building but as part of a threatening transformation. Fenway Park joins the larger conflict through the collision of construction and resistance: the Retros use it to advance their plans, while SYLO forces destroy the dome before it is completed. Its unfinished state and lack of defenses mark the site as a vulnerable point in that campaign, while the workers’ treatment reveals what the project demands from those it subjugates.