BIG Z1776
Baboon with a MAAWS
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Baradium Mines: Well-guarded strip mines extracting baradium under careful military supervision, heavy security protocols are in place to prevent theft or sabotage.
Strip Mines: Run-of-the-mill mining facilities, mainly automated but with sizeable work crews to make sure all runs smoothly and efficiently, ore is usually shipped on hover trains which criss-cross to and from refineries and to the towns and cities.
Refineries: Large metal refining facilities that take vast amounts of raw ore
Crossroads-15 Orbital Shipyards: Massive orbital ring of shipbuilding facilities, industrial infrastructure, office spaces, research and development facilities, and slipways for ships as large as eight thousand meters long.
Ancient Jedi Temple: A temple which traces its origins back to the Golden Era of the Republic, built within a canyon with a pair of waterfalls on either side of its entrance across a long stone causeway with Jedi statues lining it. Inside is a sanctuary and there are long hidden rooms containing thousands of pedestals, each of which possesses the ancient lightsaber of both Jedi who'd fallen in combat and those who died naturally of old age. It is a solemn place of remembrance with records of those Jedi whose sabers are interred here being present in another hidden chamber. Only a force-sensitive can access these rooms. Such is the importance of this temple, diplomatically, that the Crossroads Republic has a ceremonial battalion of troops on permanent guard duty.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
A very old colony, with a large number of massive strip mines pulling massive amounts of metals which in turn, for the most part, go into weapons and shipyard production. Its output for the last century and a half have gone into the massive newly-completed Crossroads-15 Orbital Shipyards. These shipyards are set to become the premier shipyards in the Southern Outer Rim with the capacity to compete rather successfully with the likes of Sullust, Eriadu, and Sluis Van once larger contracts begin to arrive for warships and merchant ships. As such a massive strategic asset the Crossroads military protects them jealously, with a massive two-layered planetary shield to protect this source of raw strategic material and the refining and construction infrastructure to turn it into actionable assets.
On the surface, a Jedi Temple has stood for several thousand years. It was a place where Jedi lightsabers were interned for permanent rest after their owners passed away. It is believed that thousands of sabers are present but have thus far been untouched. The Crossroads military assumes protection, and it has only been put to the test once, when an Inquisitorial force of Purge Troopers led by an Inquisitor attempted to access it but a Crossroads Army battalion stood in their way, and fought to the death to protect the Temple. Of the six hundred Crossroads Tier-3 Special Forces Shock Troops and a team of twelve Tier-1 Special Forces Operators defending the Temple and the one hundred Purge Troopers and eight hundred Stormtroopers and the Inquisitor himself only one Tier-1 CR-SOCOM operator survived, Terrask Terrano, the man which all Terranos (The currently-dominant Crossroads political family) trace their origins to. It was reported that the Inquisitor and Terrano fought man-to-man and Terrano beat him, proving the superiority of the people of Crossroads to the Empire. But unofficially, it is known in secret documents that Terrask Terrano was a Jedi survivor of Order 66, believably explaining how one man beat an Imperial Inquisitor one on one.
- Intent: Create a colony for the Crossroads Republic with a Jedi Temple so that Jedi characters have a reason to come and RP in the Crossroads Republic.
- Image Credit: N/A
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Crossroads, Crossroads Republic, Starlight Shipyards, Crossroads Defense Industries, CDI "Siege Breaker" PSG-12 Planetary Shield Generator, CDI "Fury-III" Heavy Anti-Orbital Missile
- Astronomical Location Name: Crossroads-15
- Classification: Moon
- Location: Terminus System
- Rotational Period: 15 Hours
- Orbital Period: 17 Days
- Size: Medium (1.8 Earth, 2.1G)
- Affiliation: Crossroads Republic
- Population: Moderate
- Demographics: 1,580,000,000
- Human: 91%
- Other: 9%
- Accessibility: Next to a trade hub
- Description: A mostly desert world with high scrub-covered highlands with small but reliable rivers running through red-rock valleys. It's one of the few moons of Crossroads which wasn't terraformed into a temperate moon, rather it was kept as a fairly rough and mostly inhospitable desert with very little in the way of arable land with the primary method of income for most being mining for the rich variety of ores, which includes the much-sought-after material baradium as well as the massive concentrations of the ores necessary to produce Quadanium Steel. In orbit there is the Crossroads Republic's premier shipbuilding facility, an orbiting shipyard ring built by a combined contract of Starlight Shipyards and Crossroads Defense Industries. This shipyard builds both military and civilian vessels and craft and was finished in 833 ABY after being under construction for more than a hundred and fifty years. Has several dozen batteries of "Fury-III" Heavy Anti-Orbital Missiles on the surface, charged to defend the moon and its shipyards.
Baradium Mines: Well-guarded strip mines extracting baradium under careful military supervision, heavy security protocols are in place to prevent theft or sabotage.
Strip Mines: Run-of-the-mill mining facilities, mainly automated but with sizeable work crews to make sure all runs smoothly and efficiently, ore is usually shipped on hover trains which criss-cross to and from refineries and to the towns and cities.
Refineries: Large metal refining facilities that take vast amounts of raw ore
Crossroads-15 Orbital Shipyards: Massive orbital ring of shipbuilding facilities, industrial infrastructure, office spaces, research and development facilities, and slipways for ships as large as eight thousand meters long.
Ancient Jedi Temple: A temple which traces its origins back to the Golden Era of the Republic, built within a canyon with a pair of waterfalls on either side of its entrance across a long stone causeway with Jedi statues lining it. Inside is a sanctuary and there are long hidden rooms containing thousands of pedestals, each of which possesses the ancient lightsaber of both Jedi who'd fallen in combat and those who died naturally of old age. It is a solemn place of remembrance with records of those Jedi whose sabers are interred here being present in another hidden chamber. Only a force-sensitive can access these rooms. Such is the importance of this temple, diplomatically, that the Crossroads Republic has a ceremonial battalion of troops on permanent guard duty.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
A very old colony, with a large number of massive strip mines pulling massive amounts of metals which in turn, for the most part, go into weapons and shipyard production. Its output for the last century and a half have gone into the massive newly-completed Crossroads-15 Orbital Shipyards. These shipyards are set to become the premier shipyards in the Southern Outer Rim with the capacity to compete rather successfully with the likes of Sullust, Eriadu, and Sluis Van once larger contracts begin to arrive for warships and merchant ships. As such a massive strategic asset the Crossroads military protects them jealously, with a massive two-layered planetary shield to protect this source of raw strategic material and the refining and construction infrastructure to turn it into actionable assets.
On the surface, a Jedi Temple has stood for several thousand years. It was a place where Jedi lightsabers were interned for permanent rest after their owners passed away. It is believed that thousands of sabers are present but have thus far been untouched. The Crossroads military assumes protection, and it has only been put to the test once, when an Inquisitorial force of Purge Troopers led by an Inquisitor attempted to access it but a Crossroads Army battalion stood in their way, and fought to the death to protect the Temple. Of the six hundred Crossroads Tier-3 Special Forces Shock Troops and a team of twelve Tier-1 Special Forces Operators defending the Temple and the one hundred Purge Troopers and eight hundred Stormtroopers and the Inquisitor himself only one Tier-1 CR-SOCOM operator survived, Terrask Terrano, the man which all Terranos (The currently-dominant Crossroads political family) trace their origins to. It was reported that the Inquisitor and Terrano fought man-to-man and Terrano beat him, proving the superiority of the people of Crossroads to the Empire. But unofficially, it is known in secret documents that Terrask Terrano was a Jedi survivor of Order 66, believably explaining how one man beat an Imperial Inquisitor one on one.
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