BIG Z1776
Baboon with a MAAWS
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Defense towers with batteries of EM-3000's, J-28's, and J-32's on them.
Slipways and their retractable protective roofs.
Triple-layer ray shield defensive perimeter fence.
Dozen large hangars.
SECURITY
High, the facility possesses more than sixty J-32 Heavy Proton Cannon Turrets, three hundred J-28 Medium Proton Cannon Turrets, and several thousand automated EM-2500 Paired Repeating Laser Cannon Turrets and has a large garrison of several divisions of CRAF Army troops. All workers have to pass through a military sensor screen in order to enter the facility through several of the facilities. A lethal triple-layer ray shield fence surrounds the facility and is patrolled by military droids 24/7 with a deep anti-tank ditch on the exterior. Each section of the facility has a battalion assigned to guard it, and each company goes on a rotating 12-hour shift. Military intelligence vets workers and all ships that arrive go through similar vetting processes and go through massive ship scanners to pass through to the facility. Large shielded towers with multiple tiers are emplacements for anti-aircraft batteries with interlocking fields of fire and even larger turrets possess full six-turret batteries of J-32 Heavy Proton Cannon Turrets and integrated fire control sensors and targeting computers to control their fire. Each square-inch of the facility is covered by holo-cameras operating in visual, thermal, IR, and UV modes with motion-activated alarms in restricted areas, blind spots found out and filled in thanks to several centuries of security checks and contingency planning. The massive ammunition stockpiles and power cells for their defense batteries are not actually accessible from civilian and worker areas without going outside and passing through ray shield gates around the defense towers and entering the towers themselves and then going underground to the sectioned-off magazines. There are a dozen large hangars which hold a half-dozen starfighter wings, a pair of dropship wings, and a pair of bomber wings in each of them, totaling a normal starfighter force of more than two thousand starfighters guarding the massive facility. Raw material is brought through a life-destroying scanner (Like the one seen in the Clone Wars novella "Shipyards of Doom") to remove the chance of saboteurs sneaking in with material shipments in an effort to bypass security.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The facility has been in continuous use for over eight hundred years and is the oldest of the Crossroads Republic's shipyards. This shipyards complex cut its teeth on building Consular-Class Cruisers and Dreadnought-Class Heavy Cruisers, and later produced Allegiance-Class Battlecruisers, Imperial-II Class Star Destroyers, and Victory-II Class Star Destroyers before it switched to building Starhawk-Class Battleships. The shipyard's old age means that the facility has absolutely no natural landscape, and the entire facility, the size of a very, very large city, is covered by metal and duracrete. By now, most of the workers are seventh and eighth generation shipbuilders, many having served on ships that their parents had built. This provides a massive amount of pride by the workers in their products. The culture of "We build for our children" has taken root over the centuries, creating a shipyard of great mystique for the Crossroads Republic. There is even a museum in the facility, near the central control center, where the means by which these shipyards built the first ships of the Republic are kept in cases or showcased as moving holograms. Part of the reason for this pride is that the facility survived a siege and an assault from Imperial Stormtroopers and Storm Commandoes, but the workers and the soldiers guarding them banded together and fought them off late in the Crossroads-Empire War in 4 ABY, souvenirs and mementos from this battle are also placed in the museum.
- Intent: Create a large shipyard and industrial infrastructure for the Crossroads Republic Fleet
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- Links: Crossroads-4
- Shipyards Name: Crossroads-4 Shipyard Complex
- Classification: Moon-Based Slipways and Industrial Infrastructure
- Location: Crossroads-4
- Affiliation: Crotssroads Republic Armed Forces
- Population: Heavily Staffed
- Accessibility: Right next to a trade hub, but the facility possesses more than sixty J-32 Heavy Proton Cannon Turrets, three hundred J-28 Medium Proton Cannon Turrets, and several thousand automated EM-2500 Paired Repeating Laser Cannon Turrets and has a large garrison of several divisions of CRAF Army troops. Most of these defensive weapons are based out of large multi-tiered flak towers which project linked regional shields to protect the facility. All workers and ships are vetted by military intelligence background checks before being allowed entry or hired.
- Description: The shipyard complex is a mixture of large walled factory complexes chaotically arranged which protects the facility from low-flying fighter attacks. The facility is self-contained, with a heavily-military styled design meshing with production efficiency, avoiding many of the vulnerabilities of orbital shipyards by having its transportation infrastructure being below the surface with a massive network of hover trains moving material, parts, and personnel to and from work stations. Outside there are large hatches that allow fully-constructed modular sections of hulls and completed weapons systems to be handed off to repulsorlift cranes. The facility encompasses almost all of the northern polar region of the Crossroads-4 moon, with only small interspersed mines and large cities being being present to spread the facilities out and avoid a "all-eggs-in-one-basket" scenario for an enemy strike. The slipways themselves are copied from the design of the Telgorn Shipyard, which is designed to assemble ships, but the Crossroads versions have roofs installed over them and they vary in size but are effectively the same design. The slipways each has a covered retractable roof with built-in cranes and artificial gravity plating to make the movement and fitting of large heavy parts easier. There are also large warehouses which range in contents from small parts to entire modular sections stored in artificial zero gravity.
- Production: Has numerous supporting manufacturing facilities building weapons systems, reactors, sensors, thrusters, etc. plus large numbers of warehouses of several sizes. All ships produced in the various CDI Ground-Side Shipbuilding Slipways on the ground. Plus, there are large numbers of factories producing starfighters, bombers, dropships, gunships, droid craft.
- 8) Class-4
- 75) Class-3
- 220) Class-2
- 330) Class-1
- Specialty: Specializes in Kuat-style modular construction techniques and rapid assembly of modular sections.
- Output: For a shipyard of its size it can produce a large number of ships in rapid fashion, with a star destroyer-sized vessel able to be assembled from pre-built sections within three weeks from keel-laying to launch. The only major production funnel is with the construction of key sections like reactors, hyperdrives, and heavy guns.
- Market: These shipyards are the property of the Crossroads Defense Industries, whose first priority is the Crossroads Republic Fleet, but can produce ships for third parties when the government gives them clearance.
Defense towers with batteries of EM-3000's, J-28's, and J-32's on them.
Slipways and their retractable protective roofs.
Triple-layer ray shield defensive perimeter fence.
Dozen large hangars.
SECURITY
High, the facility possesses more than sixty J-32 Heavy Proton Cannon Turrets, three hundred J-28 Medium Proton Cannon Turrets, and several thousand automated EM-2500 Paired Repeating Laser Cannon Turrets and has a large garrison of several divisions of CRAF Army troops. All workers have to pass through a military sensor screen in order to enter the facility through several of the facilities. A lethal triple-layer ray shield fence surrounds the facility and is patrolled by military droids 24/7 with a deep anti-tank ditch on the exterior. Each section of the facility has a battalion assigned to guard it, and each company goes on a rotating 12-hour shift. Military intelligence vets workers and all ships that arrive go through similar vetting processes and go through massive ship scanners to pass through to the facility. Large shielded towers with multiple tiers are emplacements for anti-aircraft batteries with interlocking fields of fire and even larger turrets possess full six-turret batteries of J-32 Heavy Proton Cannon Turrets and integrated fire control sensors and targeting computers to control their fire. Each square-inch of the facility is covered by holo-cameras operating in visual, thermal, IR, and UV modes with motion-activated alarms in restricted areas, blind spots found out and filled in thanks to several centuries of security checks and contingency planning. The massive ammunition stockpiles and power cells for their defense batteries are not actually accessible from civilian and worker areas without going outside and passing through ray shield gates around the defense towers and entering the towers themselves and then going underground to the sectioned-off magazines. There are a dozen large hangars which hold a half-dozen starfighter wings, a pair of dropship wings, and a pair of bomber wings in each of them, totaling a normal starfighter force of more than two thousand starfighters guarding the massive facility. Raw material is brought through a life-destroying scanner (Like the one seen in the Clone Wars novella "Shipyards of Doom") to remove the chance of saboteurs sneaking in with material shipments in an effort to bypass security.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The facility has been in continuous use for over eight hundred years and is the oldest of the Crossroads Republic's shipyards. This shipyards complex cut its teeth on building Consular-Class Cruisers and Dreadnought-Class Heavy Cruisers, and later produced Allegiance-Class Battlecruisers, Imperial-II Class Star Destroyers, and Victory-II Class Star Destroyers before it switched to building Starhawk-Class Battleships. The shipyard's old age means that the facility has absolutely no natural landscape, and the entire facility, the size of a very, very large city, is covered by metal and duracrete. By now, most of the workers are seventh and eighth generation shipbuilders, many having served on ships that their parents had built. This provides a massive amount of pride by the workers in their products. The culture of "We build for our children" has taken root over the centuries, creating a shipyard of great mystique for the Crossroads Republic. There is even a museum in the facility, near the central control center, where the means by which these shipyards built the first ships of the Republic are kept in cases or showcased as moving holograms. Part of the reason for this pride is that the facility survived a siege and an assault from Imperial Stormtroopers and Storm Commandoes, but the workers and the soldiers guarding them banded together and fought them off late in the Crossroads-Empire War in 4 ABY, souvenirs and mementos from this battle are also placed in the museum.
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