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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a new home for Darth Animus and the site of future threads.
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- Structure Name: The Everest Spire/Grimhold
- Classification: Temple/Home
- Location: Corellia
- Affiliation: Darth Animus
- Accessibility: There are several ground and air routes leading to the Grimhold, though to actually enter the building requires numerous different security passes and permissions. The only public access route is through the main entry hall.
- Description: The Everest Spire is a large residential building located in a large city on Corellia. The first fifty floors of the Everest Spire are the public living areas, including indoor parks and restaurants. The upper fifty floors are privately owned by Darth Animus alone, under the alias Corin Zanith. The upper fifty floors are known to Animus and those with him as the Grimhold, a sudo temple/living area for Darth Animus and all his objectives.
- Public Entrance: The Public Entrance serves as the only legal entry for civilians to enter the Everest Spire. There is a mixture of modern architecture and ancient designs, mixed with vegetation to create a living and pleasing to look at environment.
- Everest Restaurant: The primary eating establishment within the Everest Spire, the Everest Restaurant is a massive dining area where those of the lower fifty floors can eat without leaving the Everest Spire.
- Grimhold: The Grimhold is the area dominating the upper fifty floors of the Everest Spire. Past numerous security checkpoints are numerous different alchemy chambers, meeting halls, training centers and living quarters far more lavish than anything in the bottom half of the Everest Spire.
- Temple: The Temple is the primary structure within the Grimhold, dominating more than half of the upper floors of the building. Numerous different archives and offices fill the Temple, built in a miniature imitation of the Sith Academy on Korriban. The training rooms and shooting ranges are located within the Temple.
- Entertainment Wings: There are two entertainment wings within the Everest Spire/Grimhold, one in each section. The Everest Spire Entertainment Wing is filled with holo-theaters, arcades and other recreational facilities. The Grimhold Entertainment Wing has much the same, though it also has a torture chamber and slave pen for those inclined.
- Observatory/Transmitter: On the top floor of the Grimhold is the Observatory and Long Range Transmitter controlled exclusively by Darth Animus and those in the Grimhold. There is a large galactic map for use in planning missions across the galaxy if needed within the Observatory as well.
- Armory: Located within the Temple, the armory is stocked with numerous different weapons, ranging from vibro blades to heavy repeater blaster rifles for any possible situation.
- Alchemist Labs: Made by Animus by request of one of apprentices, the Alchemist Labs are located deep within the Temple, with several rooms dedicated to the dark sciences of the Sith, and the creation of beasts of war.
- Hangar/Docking Bay: Located to the fare side of the Grimhold, the Hangar holds any vessels currently in use by Darth Animus and his associates, as well as serving as a repair bay when needed.
SECURITY-High
The Everest Spire has a force of nearly five hundred dedicated security members, spread out over the bottom fifty floors of the Everest Spire. They have training and equipment equivalent to local planetary police forces, and are often drawn from retired law enforcement officers. On top of the active security presence, the entrances to the Everest Spire all have dedicated security stations manned at all times by droid units, and only authorized guests or outsiders are allowed in. Every primary door leading to the Grimhold above the Everest Spire is secured by pressurized blast doors, and genetic identification units. The Grimhold half of the building maintains a standing force of several hundred combat droids slaved to the control of Darth Animus alone.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Following his flight into the galaxy, Darth Animus began looking for a new place to establish as his home. He found a run down and bankrupt hotel on the world Corellia, and paid off the owners debts. In return for saving the mans business, he had to give over control of the upper half of his hotel to Animus. With his territory marked out, Animus began a mass renovation project for his new domain, which soon came to be known as the Grimhold by the few individuals unlucky enough to get to see the inside and live. Every possible outlet of a Sith's interests.
