Interior
- Intent: To submit the seat of government for the Sullustan Council, as well as continue in a series of codex entries developing Sullust.
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SETTING INFORMATION
- Structure Name: Capitol Tower
- Classification: Seat of Planetary Government
- Location: Byllurun, Sullust
- Affiliation: Sullustan Council, Galactic Alliance
- Accessibility: Situated on the border of Byllurun's massive industrial sector SoroSuub Central and what few districts lie outside the massive Sullustan megacorp's headquarters complex. While the lower levels of the structure allow for some degree of public access, the highest floors where Sullust's legislative branch convenes are off limits to all but authorized personnel.
- Security: Capitol Tower is patrolled around the clock by specially trained Home Guard soldiers. The higher one ascends, the more rigid the Tower's security measures become. While Alliance identification and submission to a holoscanner check is enough to gain entrance to the ground floor, upper levels range from simple passcards to triple redundant biometric authentication protocols near the Council Chambers.
- Description: One of the newer additions to Byllurun's cavernous skyline, Capitol Tower is also one of the most controversial. Atypical of conventional Sullustan architecture, the innovative design is supposed to embody the people's creative spirit. As artistry is one of the few industries SoroSuub has not managed to dominate on its native planet, it also serves as a nod to the Council's independence from the purview of the corporation's Board of Directors.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Council Chambers
The highest level of Capitol Tower contains the Council Chambers, where the Sullustan Council convenes to determine federal legislation. This section also includes office space for each Councilor on the levels immediately below, as well as a small foyer for voting blocs to convene and messages too sensitive for electronic transmission to be carried back and forth.
Hearing Rooms
Between the Chambers and Briefing Theater are a series of conference rooms for various committee hearings and important deliberations by the federal judiciary. Given the immense legislative and judicial apparatus required to govern a world as heavily populated as Sullust, it would be more accurate to call this section the hearing levels, as all told these rooms take up several. Still, they are virtually always filled to capacity and typically scheduled months in advance.
Briefing Theater
An entire floor dedicated for the use of the Sullustan press corps, the section's centerpiece is of course the theater itself. A large auditorium with seating for the planet's considerable numbers of journalist organizations, seating is arranged by viewership statistics with the more prominent organizations such as Sullust Central News Network receiving more preferential treatment. It is from here the planetary government conducts most of its press briefings. While appointed officials are usually responsible for relaying information to the public, occasionally Councilors or even more rarely the President will make personal appearances to deliver statements and answer questions.
Nunb Rotunda
Named after the legendary Nunb family (not to be confused with countless other Nunb families), the Rotunda lies at the center of the Tower and features a wide open floor plan filled with architectural flourishes. Meant for informal gatherings between the Council and various department officials, it is often misportrayed in Sullustan holocinema as the place where the real background government takes place, a fantasized take with little basis in historical reality. Citizens are allowed in now on guided tours, making the Rotunda more unpopular among politicians than ever.
Department Offices
Below the Rotunda, the vast majority of Capitol Tower is comprised of office space for the various departments of the executive. Where much of the day to day operational oversight of the federal government actually occurs, most departments are even more chaotic than the Hearing Rooms. An organized, industrious minded species by nature, the logistical realities of keeping the planet running are enough to produce a high stress work environment to say the least.
Situation Bunker
Located deep underneath the Tower foundation and accessible only via executive turbolift, the Situation Bunker doubles as a wartime planning center and emergency fallout shelter. Run on an independent power grid with enough supplies to last decades, thankfully the bunker has only ever seen use in times of less dire crisis, such as during the wars with the One Sith and First Order.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
A relatively recent addition to Sullust's capital of Byllurun in that it was built only in the last century, Capitol Tower is the main facility from which the Sullustan Council convenes and the planetary government is run. Built just outside the city's massive privately owned industrial sector more or less equidistant between the SoroSuub Centroplex and Byllurun's main spaceport, it would be the epitome of Sullustan pragmatism if it wasn't for the structure's distinctive design.
Historically, the planet has shifted between authoritarian corporatocracy and representative democracy, and while the current status quo is firmly on the latter end of the spectrum, the Council is unique in that it shares many civic and some diplomatic duties with SoroSuub Corporation, simply because it would be almost impossible not to. The megacorp employs the vast majority of the planet's population, and the government has even been run directly out of the Centroplex at various times in the past. Capitol Tower represents a new promise to the people of a government that acts in their interests, and not simply the interests of SoroSuub's profit margins.
