Alric Kuhn
Handsome K'lor'slug
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Classification: Resort City
Location: Bespin
Affiliation: Free City State
Population: 132,131
Demographics: 53% Human, 33% Twi'lek, 14% other
Points of Interest:
The Falls: Above everything else, Cloud Nine is supposed to be a place for rest and relaxation. The city itself was designed around this principal. It's huge sprawling walkways, it's massive arched buildings, the huge open environment hidden behind a veiled shield. Cloud Nine features the most beautiful Scenery and open airs that one could possibly imagine. To add to this ambiance, the city and its multiple levels are dotted with dozens of Waterfalls. The Falls flow from one section of the city into another, dripping down and cascading into massive lakes held on sectors below. A few of the falls flow directly off the city itself, an ever cascading waterfall that seems to be eternal. These eternal falls draw moisture from the air of Bespin itself, pulling water into its expanse in order to remain in eternum. Each of these massive waterfalls have a viewing area, surrounded by fences as to not risk any danger.
The Spires: The Spires of Cloud Nine, the unique features that reach up into the skies and pierce through the air of Bespin are perhaps the Cities most important factor. Though Cloud Nine seems defenseless, in actual fact these beautifully constructed objects hold within them shield generators. These generators produce a sightless shield around the city at all times, forming a veil of protection against the elements and attack. They are not planetary shields, and would not hold against a significant planetary invasion force, but the shields produced by the spires allow for the city to hold out against Pirate Raids and smaller attacks, just in case its needed.
The Lakes: Perhaps the most breathtaking, and eye catching feature of Cloud Nine are its massive lakes. Dotted on each level of the City, held within bountiful pools are a series of lakes. These lakes range from small, to massive. Each one is the result of a cascading waterfall, some flow into falls of their own. A few of them are featured to be pools, fit for swimming and even wildlife, while others are simply eye catching decor surrounded by a thin waist high fence. Regardless, every lake is surrounded by a host of restaurant, bars, and other features that make them the draw of the City. It is around the lakes that people congregate and meet, and it here that most of the visitors of Cloud Nine, and Residents, can often be found.
The Domes: The Domes of Cloud Nine are its residential, commercial, and entertainment sections. The Domes contain everything from apartments to shopping malls. These massive structures were designed after the city of Theed. Huge reaching arches and massive marble blocks are held together in neat and beautiful architecture, placed perfectly to couple and suit the City in a near flawless nature. The city itself seems to be held together not by mortar or bolts, but instead by simple placing. Nothing seems jagged or edged, and every block of stone simply seems perfectly placed. The Domes are no exception, and their beautiful exterior is matched only by their breathtaking interior. Each dome is decorated with replicas of the galaxies greatest art, filled to the brim with culture and class. The Domes feature everything a person might want on vacation, pools, spa's, shopping centers, and luxury condos.
Description:
Cloud Nine is a luxury city.
Those words describe it at its best, worst, and whole. The whole concept of Cloud Nine was to design a place for the rich, imaginative, and lucky to go to when they had nothing else to do. The city itself is based on much the same principal as many other floating structures all around Bespin, though with a wholly different purpose. Cities all across the Gas Giant like Cloud City are designed around the harvesting and refinement of Tibana Gas. The idea of Cloud Nine, and even its basis, was formed upon these cities.
Unlike these cities however, Cloud Nine was created to be a place of luxury, peace, and complete relaxation. It was formed with the design aspect of the heavens of many cultures, every block of stone and every inch of steel placed to result in utter perfection.
The city itself functions much like Cloud Nine or any other floating city. At the base of the city itself is held a massive platform, said platform is supported through the use of a massive system of repulsors engines. This is what supports the city, the reactor of the city keeping it afloat and powering all of it's systems, including water purification, oxygen productions, and everything else those aboard Cloud Nine requires to function. The city itself draws and enormous amount of power, so much in fact that it actually requires a hypermatter reactor to properly support itself. This massive cost was deemed acceptable due to the inevitable revenue the city would draw in.
Cloud Nine, as its name hints at, was designed to promote relaxation and rest.
The city was built to suit a vacation function, created by Vanir Technologies as a sort of theme park for adults.
Due to this Cloud Nine is dotted with hundreds of spas, pools, resort areas, dozens of shops and stores and hundreds upon hundreds of bars. The city is architecturally build after the Naboo city of Theed. It's huge domes, massive cascading Waterfalls, and risen structures resemble those found on Naboo. This design choice was due to extensive testing on many ranging groups throughout the galaxy, Vanir Technologies eventually finding that the architecture of Theed is the most pleasing and universally accepted in the galaxy.
In order to operate properly the city of Cloud Nine has a permanent staff of nearly twenty thousand residents. This massive work force consists of mostly Twi'leks and Humans, hired as entertainers, maintenance, hosts, executives, and day to day employees. The Work force of Cloud Nine is paid exceptionally well, given free housing and food vouchers for the restaurants located all across the city. In return for this the Workers of Cloud Nine are expected to commit fully to whatever their job is five days of a galactic standard week. Due to the massive amount of people that visit Cloud Nine this huge work force is more than necessary, with well over a hundred thousand people cycling through the vacation city almost every week.
All in all, Cloud Nine was designed to be the vacation heaven that many people across the galaxy are searching for.
History:
Cloud Nine was designed to be the first of its kind. Though many cities, and even plants within the galaxy are major vacation spots, none are specifically designed to be entirely suited for this purpose. The closest that exist is Zeltros. The planet of the pink aliens has over the centuries become a hot spot for tourism, gambling, and antics of all sorts not quite suited for the family. Many other worlds are the same, becoming resorts suited to one thing or another. This however was a natural development fielded over many years of time and eventually turned the planets into what they are today. None of these however were specifically designed for this purpose.
Cloud Nine was.
The city itself was created as a vacation spout for the rich and connected, a virtual paradise in the clouds.
The cities huge domed expanses, massive spires, cascading waterfalls, and general environment was entirely built around the concept of appearing to be surreal. Every feature built into the city, every meticulously crafted stone and statue was entirely designed to appear out of reality. Everything within Cloud Nine promotes rest and relaxation. Those who walk the streets are greeted with a pleasant warmth and the small chirping of birds. Those who swim within its lakes are met with warm waters and cascading falls. Those who venture through the domes of the cities find nothing but welcome and whatever their heart desires.
Cloud Nine is quite simply meant to be the perfect vacation spot. Luxury apartments accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, massive spas pamper and indulge thousands, and the city itself lives to serve those that attend it.
All of this was created as a pet project, a way to increase revenue and push the limits of the Corporate titan that was Vanir Technologies. This massive city was designed entirely as a way of making money and to simply see if it could be done. Work began months ago, utilizing a huge clone work force made available by Vanir Technologies Cloning Operations as well as several devices crafted in the Fringe Science department and ships created in its Navel Drive Yards. All of the operations within Vanir Technologies came together under its Construction wing, working together to craft Cloud Nine into something truly wondrous.
