BIG Z1776
Baboon with a MAAWS
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
A fairly recent colony of the Crossroads Republic Crossroads-25 was only recently detected to have substantial untapped Coaxium deposits. Guarded jealously by the Crossroads Republic Armed Forces these mines have been a core strategic interest of the Crossroads Defense Industries as well as for keeping its fleet supplied with a reliable and potent source of fuel. The only permanent residents are the mining company employees who manage the mines and refinery as well as some of the supporting businesses for the miners and their families. This population has been growing substantially over the past years as the abundance of raw metal ores of Crossroads-25 become more and more exploited.
- Intent: To create a mining colony of Crossroads Prime and the Crossroads Republic Armed Forces
- Image Credit: N/A
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Crossroads, Crossroads Prime, Crossroads Republic Armed Forces
- Astronomical Location Name: Crossroads-25
- Classification: Moon
- Location: Terminus System
- Rotational Period: 9.25 Hours
- Orbital Period: 440 Days Around Crossroads
- Size: Small (0.7 Earths, 0.8G)
- Affiliation: Crossroads Republic Armed Forces
- Population: Sparse
- Demographics: ~14,000,000
- 74% Human
- 26% Other
- Accessibility: Right next to a trade hub
- Description: A red sandy and mountainous moon with some ice sheets up at each pole. It possesses a barely-breathable atmosphere due to the fact it is undergoing terraforming with numerous floating tibanna gas platforms retrofitted to spew out perfluorocarbons and carbon dioxide as well as small microbes to assist in creating nitrogen for the future atmosphere. There are large mining operations going on on the moon, with large pits heavily-worked by paid miners, refinery workers, and lots of droids in specialized fields. Convicts perform harsh and dangerous manual labor in these mines as well in large numbers and reside in large prisons separated from the workers residential domed mining towns. There are no major industries present on Crossroads-25, except one: The most valuable mines on the moon are bringing up Coaxium, which is taken straight to a fortified refinery kept well-away from the prisoners and it and its armored hover-trains are escorted by Crossroads Army troops. The world is able to support the growth of Coaxium crystals in their raw form thanks to the moon's gravity and temperature in combination with solar energy that assists the crystals in materializing and gathering into mineable quantities. This creates hazardous conditions for both people and droids, which is why a never-ending supply of convicts is used instead of expensive droids or even more expensive specialist miners.
- Prisons: Boxy buildings where prisoners are locked up and guarded by correctional officers and security droids. There are prisoner transport hover trains that come and go from these prisons to take the prisoners to and from their work in the coaxium mines.
- Strip Mining Pits: Large mining pits for mining other strategic rare earth minerals and metals that are crucial for metallurgical industrial facilities to produce all sorts of products.
- Smelting Factories: Large factories that take the mined ores of other mines and produce different a variety of different metals.
- Coaxium Mines: Each is a mined-out pit in the northern hemisphere, and in terms of appearance and build it is like the one on Kessel, with hot treacherous conditions and a dangerous atmosphere which is difficult to breath without a breathing apparatus. There are hover-train lines leading to and from the mines and the prisons, as well as lines leading to the refinery.
- Coaxium Refinery: A mostly-underground facility where raw coaxium is processed into its stable form and then transported by military frigates to its destination. This facility possesses a shield generator and powerful scanners and a surrounding ray shield perimeter fence for facility security and is guarded by Crossroads Army personnel but run by civilian workers and specialist droids.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
A fairly recent colony of the Crossroads Republic Crossroads-25 was only recently detected to have substantial untapped Coaxium deposits. Guarded jealously by the Crossroads Republic Armed Forces these mines have been a core strategic interest of the Crossroads Defense Industries as well as for keeping its fleet supplied with a reliable and potent source of fuel. The only permanent residents are the mining company employees who manage the mines and refinery as well as some of the supporting businesses for the miners and their families. This population has been growing substantially over the past years as the abundance of raw metal ores of Crossroads-25 become more and more exploited.
