Commodore Helix
Disintegrations done dirt cheap.
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
As the statue is a solid object, it has no interior layout. The exterior includes a small museum, where tour guides recount (wildly exaggerated) accounts of Helix's heroism during the siege. A series of maintenance tunnels run under the statue's foundations, allowing access to repair crews but creating a structural weakness. These tunnels also contain numerous detention cells, laboratories, and other more bizarre chambers yet, serving as a modest local research facility.
SECURITY
Maximum: The monument is well-protected, primarily by a permanent garrison of B1H droids, but also with limited numbers of B3H Droidekas to repel particularly well-armed or numerous vandals. A handful of Shrike droids circle the tower at all times, keeping a close eye out for climbers. A smattering of KLK emplacements are dotted about, primarily at entrances and within the tunnels. Any security forces will detain (and likely subsequently execute) any unauthorized personnel on sight. The dungeons beneath the statue contain even odder things, and various bio-horrors stalk the poorly-illuminated hallways. These include a small colony of free-roaming Helizat, as well as a lone Helslug to which intruders are sometimes fed. A pack of Helwolves have been known to hunt the tunnels as well, their keen senses ever on the alert for victims. None of these beasts will be happy to see intruders, and such interlopers can generally expect to be attacked on sight.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
After the Sith Order's victory at Woostri, Helix Solutions set up a sizeable monument in recognition of their contributions to the battle. The reasons for this are unknown, but given the Commodore's increasingly capricious behavior, perhaps no sane explanation will ever be forthcoming.
The monument takes the form of a nearly 600-meter tall golden statue, resembling Commodore Helix. The droid's pose is exaggeratedly heroic, with a rifle in one hand, and the other raised high in a clenched, defiant fist. His foot rests on the fallen form of what appears to be a Jedi Knight, who snarls up at him in rather uncharacteristic rage. This blight on the horizon serves as a constant reminder to the people of Woostri of the costs of resistance.
At the foot of the statue rests a small museum and accompanying gift shop, where visitors are regaled with tales of Helix's supposed heroics at the Battle of Woostri. These tales range from the merely exaggerated to the entirely fictional, enormously bloating Helix's (in reality fairly minor) actions during the siege. Young visitors may purchase small, plastic action figures of the droid war criminal, as well as various hats or clothes bearing his image.
A plaque the size of a small house rests before the statue, reading "Upon this spot history was made, as the gallant Commodore Helix repelled the invading hordes of the Galactic Alliance, preserving liberty for all." This audacious statement is, in fact, the absolute reverse of the truth, but any who stand outraged by this bald-faced lie tend to be quelled by the statue's significant security.
A permanent garrison of assorted battle droids patrol the monument's grounds as well as the tunnels below, and will attempt to detain any suspected vandals. Any so detained can no doubt expect a grim fate in Helix's dungeon-laboratories, or be turned over to the Governor for perhaps an even more creative fate. Should resistance be encountered, the droids have orders to use lethal force.
What's more, holo-droid projectors are scattered about in discreet locations, and as such any vandals may find themselves suddenly swarmed from all directions if these defenses are not disabled beforehand.
Due to the statue's enormous size, its foundations are similarly enormous, and a labyrinth of maintenance tunnels stretch underneath it. This represents perhaps the only vulnerability the structure has, as destroying load-bearing parts of the foundation may topple this eyesore. However, dark rumors persist that these tunnels may hold worse things than the historical revisionism above...
- Intent: To create a location to facilitate possible future RP
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- Structure Name: "Helix the Liberator"
- Classification: Statue/Monument
- Location: Woostri
- Affiliation: Commodore Helix/Helix Solutions
- Accessibility: The statue is hard to miss, towering as it does above the city. While tours are available by appointment for a small fee, it is closed to the public, and its droid guards will respond to attempts at unauthorized entry with lethal force. The tunnels underneath are under tight guard, and visitors are never allowed inside these.
- Description: An enormous golden eyesore of a statue now blighting Woostri's landscape.
As the statue is a solid object, it has no interior layout. The exterior includes a small museum, where tour guides recount (wildly exaggerated) accounts of Helix's heroism during the siege. A series of maintenance tunnels run under the statue's foundations, allowing access to repair crews but creating a structural weakness. These tunnels also contain numerous detention cells, laboratories, and other more bizarre chambers yet, serving as a modest local research facility.
SECURITY
Maximum: The monument is well-protected, primarily by a permanent garrison of B1H droids, but also with limited numbers of B3H Droidekas to repel particularly well-armed or numerous vandals. A handful of Shrike droids circle the tower at all times, keeping a close eye out for climbers. A smattering of KLK emplacements are dotted about, primarily at entrances and within the tunnels. Any security forces will detain (and likely subsequently execute) any unauthorized personnel on sight. The dungeons beneath the statue contain even odder things, and various bio-horrors stalk the poorly-illuminated hallways. These include a small colony of free-roaming Helizat, as well as a lone Helslug to which intruders are sometimes fed. A pack of Helwolves have been known to hunt the tunnels as well, their keen senses ever on the alert for victims. None of these beasts will be happy to see intruders, and such interlopers can generally expect to be attacked on sight.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
After the Sith Order's victory at Woostri, Helix Solutions set up a sizeable monument in recognition of their contributions to the battle. The reasons for this are unknown, but given the Commodore's increasingly capricious behavior, perhaps no sane explanation will ever be forthcoming.
The monument takes the form of a nearly 600-meter tall golden statue, resembling Commodore Helix. The droid's pose is exaggeratedly heroic, with a rifle in one hand, and the other raised high in a clenched, defiant fist. His foot rests on the fallen form of what appears to be a Jedi Knight, who snarls up at him in rather uncharacteristic rage. This blight on the horizon serves as a constant reminder to the people of Woostri of the costs of resistance.
At the foot of the statue rests a small museum and accompanying gift shop, where visitors are regaled with tales of Helix's supposed heroics at the Battle of Woostri. These tales range from the merely exaggerated to the entirely fictional, enormously bloating Helix's (in reality fairly minor) actions during the siege. Young visitors may purchase small, plastic action figures of the droid war criminal, as well as various hats or clothes bearing his image.
A plaque the size of a small house rests before the statue, reading "Upon this spot history was made, as the gallant Commodore Helix repelled the invading hordes of the Galactic Alliance, preserving liberty for all." This audacious statement is, in fact, the absolute reverse of the truth, but any who stand outraged by this bald-faced lie tend to be quelled by the statue's significant security.
A permanent garrison of assorted battle droids patrol the monument's grounds as well as the tunnels below, and will attempt to detain any suspected vandals. Any so detained can no doubt expect a grim fate in Helix's dungeon-laboratories, or be turned over to the Governor for perhaps an even more creative fate. Should resistance be encountered, the droids have orders to use lethal force.
What's more, holo-droid projectors are scattered about in discreet locations, and as such any vandals may find themselves suddenly swarmed from all directions if these defenses are not disabled beforehand.
Due to the statue's enormous size, its foundations are similarly enormous, and a labyrinth of maintenance tunnels stretch underneath it. This represents perhaps the only vulnerability the structure has, as destroying load-bearing parts of the foundation may topple this eyesore. However, dark rumors persist that these tunnels may hold worse things than the historical revisionism above...
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