OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit a base of operations for the AiE in New Republic space.
- Image Credit: Mining Base by Leon Tukker
- Canon: Kiris Shipyards
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- Shipyards Name: Kiris Base
- Classification: Deepdock
- Location: Kiris Asteroid Cluster
- Affiliation: Alliance-in-Exile | Corellian Confederation | New Republic
- Population: Moderately Staffed
- Accessibility: Hidden deep within an asteroid cluster on the Corellia system's outer edge, the existence of a Confederation sanctioned Alliance facility is something of an open secret, but its exact coordinates are closely guarded. As an undeniably paramilitary facility, the shipyard's perimeter is regularly patrolled and landing inspections are routine.
- Description: Constructed on the foundation of ancient Kiris shipyards, on approach it is virtually indistinguishable from its surroundings save for a single protruding port of entry sufficiently large enough for a smaller capital ship to dock. Launch tubes for its internal starfighter complement are interspersed across its pock marked surface. Larger dry dock bays remain sealed except when damaged cruisers are in need of repair mooring, or newly produced models are ready for their shakedown cruises.
- Production: Warships (up to heavy cruisers/light destroyers)
- Specialty: Starfighter Modifications
- Output: Rapid. Kiris Base does not share the same quality of production that either SoroSuub or the CEC is known for. Attrition levels for the Alliance are high, not only in terms of personnel but in war material. If anything it is known for manufacturing off brand, ramshackle quality models often that often go unpainted or even without armor plating.
- Market: Kiris Base exclusively produces replacement ships for the Alliance Military, otherwise known as GA Remnant Forces.
Rating: High
Javelin Hypervelocity Cannon
Point-Defense Laser System
Fighter Wing
Marine Garrison
Kiris Base is a clandestine paramilitary facility and so operates under far stricter security protocols than the average commercial staryard. A complement of six squadrons (48 X-Wings, 12 A-Wings, and 12 B-Wings), regularly patrols the asteroid cluster. Internal security is equally strict, with regular sweeps by the battalion of SpaceOps Marines garrisoned on site.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Central Command
CENTCOM isn't just the starbase's command and control hub, it is one of very few remaining links in a chain of galactic government that once spanned over two thirds of the Core Worlds and stretched all the way to Lothal. Now the Alliance's Coreward command elements are a mere shadow of their former selves, but still seek to safeguard their lost homeland and strike back at those who destroyed it.
Port Defiance
The vast majority of this hollowed out facility is reserved for rapid starship manufacture and repair. With no great wealth to tithe from its former constituent worlds, the Alliance-in-Exile has to make do with what materials or substitutes it can acquire on such short notice. As a result, most of the vessels produced from these yards have a patchwork or ugly aesthetic.
Research and Development
Most of what Kiris Base does is produce knock off low quality replacements of SoroSuub and Incom models that were designed during the Galactic Alliance's halcyon days, but every once in a while something new is produced through the efforts of Kiris' modest engineering wing. A mixture of refugees from the Outer Rim (most notably the Free Sullust Volunteers), and disgruntled partisan ex-CEC employees make up the design staff.
Battalion HQ
Kiris is host to one of the last battalions of elite Alliance SpaceOps Marines. While their primary duty is to protect one of the few remaining high value GA facilities, at times a small portion of their number may be seconded to Alliance warships passing through the system for short term assignments. In a true system wide crisis, the battalion's standing orders are to reinforce beleaguered Corellian Defense Force personnel.
Flight Deck
A full wing of Alliance starfighters is assigned to the facility at all times, conducting regular patrol sweeps throughout the asteroid cluster on constant alert for Imperial probes or scouts. Except for in a system wide emergency, the rest of the Corellia system is a designated no fly zone out of respect for New Republic and Corellian sovereignty.
The Bloodstripe
More a hole in the wall than a true cantina, the Bloodstripe is nevertheless the only commercial establishment on Kiris Base. In exchange for now mostly defunct Alliance branded credit chits, a variety of ales and spirits is on hand for station personnel to wind down with. A mixture of starbirds and Corellian heraldry adorns the walls.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Although the foundation of the Kiris Base shipyards dates back centuries, renewed activity at this scale within its surrounding asteroid cluster is a relatively recent phenomenon. Along with sites like Station 51 in the Vergesso Asteroids, Kiris is a single component in a larger cluster of modest shipyards continuing to produce war material for the Galactic Alliance Remnant.
Now housing the Coreward most command elements of this Alliance-in-Exile's military leadership, the Corellian Confederation aids in concealing its presence in repayment for the rebels' assistance across multiple campaigns of system wide liberation. With Corellia now enjoying additional protection from the New Republic, CENTCOM has altered its mission focus from local triage to waging guerilla campaigns of drawn out resistance across the Core Worlds and in so doing paving the way for New Republic, Silver Jedi, and Mandalorian negotiations with true representatives of the people.
But perhaps Kiris Base's most crucial purpose is to make up for the devastating loss of manufacturing power that came when the First Order arrived on Sullust. No longer able to depend on SoroSuub to replenish their losses at discounted rates, the Alliance has been forced to adapt and scavenge resources from their surroundings. Leaning on their ties to the Corellian Engineering Corporation, a similar arrangement has been reached to provide partisan shipwrights to build replacements themselves.
