BIG Z1776
Baboon with a MAAWS
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Defense towers with batteries of EM-2500's, J-28's, and J-32's on them.
Defense pits with "Dart" Surface-to-Air Missile Launchers inside them for protection.
Slipways and their retractable protective roofs.
Triple-layer ray shield defensive perimeter fence and two anti-tank ditches.
Three dozen large hangars, a dozen are for defense fighters.
SECURITY
High, same style and security protocols as the Crossroads-30 Shipyards Complex. The facility possesses more than thirty-two J-32 Heavy Proton Cannon Turrets, a hundred and eighty J-28 Medium Proton Cannon Turrets, and more than eight hundred 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 hundred and twenty "Dart" Surface-to-Air Missile Launchers in circular six-launcher pits. 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. There are underground seismic sensors, hidden cameras, and linked pillboxes in the mountainous approaches and around the defense batteries for defending the facility. The artillery units of the garrison division also have access to pre-placed fighting pits to put out fire missions and they have underground road networks to move their armored vehicles out of sight from place to another where enemy aircraft or artillery cannot touch them, and have hidden exits for popping up behind potential enemy lines. There are no schematics for these tunnels anywhere on base for potential enemy infiltrators to gain access to the facility layout. 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. There's a regional shield generator which protects the facility quite effectively.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Created by the Crossroads Defense Industries for the construction of smaller warships and large numbers of starfighters, bombers, and support craft. It's been a secondary supporting shipyard to larger facilities but it is quite impressive nonetheless, being the primary facility where the Crossroads Republic manufactures its fleets of fighters, bombers, and support craft and tests them in the rigorous conditions of the planet before they are sent off to their new facilities. Some factories aren't actually building new fighters, but rebuild older ones taken from storage or repair damage, both combat and noncombat damage. However, with the new fighters and bombers going into production the factories are pushing their rebuilding priorities back and prioritizing the construction of newer craft.
- Intent: To create the shipyards of Crossroads-8
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- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Crossroads-8, Crossroads Republic, Crossroads Defense Industries
- Shipyards Name: Crossroads-8 Shipyards
- Classification: Surface Shipyards
- Location: Crossroads-8 (On the ground)
- Affiliation: Crossroads Defense Industries/Crossroads Republic
- Population: Crowded
- Accessibility: Heavily guarded, the airspace is restricted, there are high-security ray shield fences, and the only ways in or out are the workers' entrance and the raw material dock. The airspace is guarded by heavy anti-aircraft defenses, including thirty-two J-32 Heavy Proton Cannon Turrets, a hundred-eighty J-28 Medium Proton Cannon Turrets, and more than eight hundred EM-2500 Paired Repeating Laser Cannon Turrets along with a hundred and twenty "Dart" Surface-to-Air Missile Launchers. There's several divisions of Crossroads troops garrisoning the facility. 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: Built identically to the Crossroads-30 Shipyard Complex, but the roofs over the slipways are much steeper due to the large amounts of snowfall the facility experiences. 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 roofs are also heated to melt the snow. The outer perimeter also possesses a very large pair of anti-tank ditches with heated surfaces and they drain out to prevent them from filling in with ice or snow. The ditches have three ray shield fences around the perimeter, with the ditches having a large twenty-foot ray shield fence on the exterior, the middle layer on the ridge between the two ditches, and on the interior. The defenses are built into large towers built on the large mountains overlooking the facility with free fields of fire in every direction, numerous batteries are placed with enfilade fire down the valleys where the shipyards and their manufacturing complexes are located. The majority of the facility has large assembly facilities for starfighters, bombers, dropships, and even components for shipment to their eighty-four frigate-sized slipways. There's also hangars built into the mountains, where their starfighters, bombers, and dropships are stored after completion. There are also testing grounds around the shipyards for new fighters to be test-flown. The facility is patrolled extensively by large numbers of security droids and has a sizeable number of active-duty starfighter squadrons and dropship squadrons. The majority of heavy industry is pre-programmed and done by large machines and the biological workers are more like facilitators and only those who work on the ship assembly (Which is half of them) are doing much heavy physical labor.
- 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.
- 30) Class-2
- 90) Class-1
- Specialty: Building smaller warships, component parts for larger ships, and large numbers of fighters, bombers, and support craft.
- Output: It can produce ships and fighters at a rapid rate, although it is below the rate of large yards.
- Market: These shipyards are the property of the Crossroads Defense Industries, whose first priority is the Crossroads Republic Armed Forces, but can produce ships for third parties when the government gives them clearance.
Defense towers with batteries of EM-2500's, J-28's, and J-32's on them.
Defense pits with "Dart" Surface-to-Air Missile Launchers inside them for protection.
Slipways and their retractable protective roofs.
Triple-layer ray shield defensive perimeter fence and two anti-tank ditches.
Three dozen large hangars, a dozen are for defense fighters.
SECURITY
High, same style and security protocols as the Crossroads-30 Shipyards Complex. The facility possesses more than thirty-two J-32 Heavy Proton Cannon Turrets, a hundred and eighty J-28 Medium Proton Cannon Turrets, and more than eight hundred 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 hundred and twenty "Dart" Surface-to-Air Missile Launchers in circular six-launcher pits. 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. There are underground seismic sensors, hidden cameras, and linked pillboxes in the mountainous approaches and around the defense batteries for defending the facility. The artillery units of the garrison division also have access to pre-placed fighting pits to put out fire missions and they have underground road networks to move their armored vehicles out of sight from place to another where enemy aircraft or artillery cannot touch them, and have hidden exits for popping up behind potential enemy lines. There are no schematics for these tunnels anywhere on base for potential enemy infiltrators to gain access to the facility layout. 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. There's a regional shield generator which protects the facility quite effectively.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Created by the Crossroads Defense Industries for the construction of smaller warships and large numbers of starfighters, bombers, and support craft. It's been a secondary supporting shipyard to larger facilities but it is quite impressive nonetheless, being the primary facility where the Crossroads Republic manufactures its fleets of fighters, bombers, and support craft and tests them in the rigorous conditions of the planet before they are sent off to their new facilities. Some factories aren't actually building new fighters, but rebuild older ones taken from storage or repair damage, both combat and noncombat damage. However, with the new fighters and bombers going into production the factories are pushing their rebuilding priorities back and prioritizing the construction of newer craft.
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