Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To expand upon Roche's lore
Image Credit: here
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Links: Roche Asteroid Belt, Order of the Silver Jedi, Lucerne Labs, Cresh-Type Patrol Starfighter, Cometburst Mine, Collective Defenders
Shipyards Name: Korpil G62
Classification: Deepspace Shipyard
Location: Roche Asteroid Belt
Affiliation: Order of the Silver Jedi
Population: Heavily Staffed
Accessibility: Korpil G62 is located in the center of the Roche Asteroid Belt, making it a well-known and hardly a secret facility. However, do its nature as a military shipyard, access to the station itself is heavily restricted. Silver Navy patrols along with automated warning systems and defenses make approaching the station difficult, while routine patrols inside the station by Collective Defenders and other Silver Jedi forces provide another layer of security.
Description: Korpil G62 is an ancient industrial production facility within the Roche Asteroid Belt that has been steadily upgraded over thousands of years to become a bustling hub of starship production activity for the Silver Jedi. Staffed by a consortium of Verpine hives and companies and funded by the Silver Jedi, G62 now produces thousands of starships for the Silver Jedi and their allies.While most ships produced here are small starships like the Verpine's own Cresh-type Patrol Starfighter, G62 can build some of the largest starships in the galaxy given enough time. G62 is also involved in starship repair and refitting, which makes it a frequent stop for Silver Jedi warships and fleets as well. Rumors abound that not only is Korpil G62 a busy shipyard for the Silver Jedi, but that it is also a testing site for an experimental weapon technology that could alter the tide of future wars itself.
Production: G62 has been hollowed out extensively, allowing it to berth up to a super star destroyer. In actual practice, however, several star destroyers or dozens of smaller ships occupy its primary bay, known as the Eastern Bay, while many more smaller bays scattered throughout the asteroid concentrate on starfigher production.
Specialty: G62 focuses primarily on starfighter and other small craft production, with teams of verpine often making their characteristic 'improvements' to many of these batches, for better or worse.
Output: G62 produces most ships at a typical, industrial pace thanks to a high levels of automation, labor droids and skilled verpine technicians. A contracted area of the yard run by Korpil is known for highly automated assembly lines capable of churning out massive amounts of droid fighters, while conversely, their old partner Slayn runs an area where prototype ships and custom one-offs are meticulously assembled in secret in the Echo Facility.
Market: As a military shipyard, almost all of G62s products are destined for use within the Silver Navy or one of their allies. A small number of ships are either built or rebuilt for personal use by G62, but these persons almost always have personal connections to the Silver Jedi or one of their associate organizations.
The Core: The center area of G62 is occupied by a separate, ferrocarbon reinforced structure simply known as the "Core" to the verpine. It acts as the station's command center, controlling the station's reactors, environmental controls, production facilities, as well as acting as the headquarters and garrison barracks for many of the "Hive Defenders" stationed to defend the yards. Access to the Core is heavily restricted not only by "Hive Defender" guards, but also by 2 meter thick turadium blast doors, internal ray shielding, and automated laser traps.
The Docks: G62 is ringed by large scaffolding designed to accomodate large capital starships, typically frigates and cruisers, for repair and refit purposes. The Docks are also used by bulk freighters and other transports to bring materials and finished parts for use in the yards itself. Finished products are also moved from G62 to transports here as well. To better enable this exchange, automated trams and conveyors can swiftly move such goods back and forth between this superficial layer of the station and the production facilities deep inside the asteroid. Hive Defender patrols are the most frequent here, as this is where the Verpine expect the most trouble to occur with outsiders.
The Eastern Bay: The Eastern Bay is a large cavern within the belt that his highly modular in nature due to an innovative scaffolding and use of modular buildings which allow it to be set up to construct anything from star destroyers to thousands of starfighters at a time. Aside from constructing new craft, it also is used for extensive refits of large warships in the Silver Jedi Navy. Despite it being the largest of the 'yards' within the asteroid itself, by volume and production capacity alone, it only accounts for about 30-35% of G62's starship production on average.
The Western Factories: Run by Korpil, the Western Factories have a multi-cavern and level facility that is crammed full of mostly automated factories and construction bays dedicated to making small starships, droids, and other small pieces of equipment such as weapons. Cresh-type starfighters are by far perhaps the most characteristic product of this area, but the Western Factories produce a variety of other non-native designs for use by the Silver Jedi and their allies based on their demand. By internal volume alone, these facilities produce upwards of 50-55% of G62's starships.
The Foundry: Located in the "southern" half of the asteroid, the "Foundry" is actually a collection of scattered automated factories and molecular furnaces linked by together by droid-operated trams. Wastes and materials fed into the molecular furnaces eventually ended up as finished starship parts and fuels for use in G62's starship building activities.
Echo: Among the Foundries are series of separate collection of buildings that are only connected to the outside world by two tunnels: one that goes directly to the Core, and another that leads to an external hangar concealed within a craggy and narrow valley on the asteroid's surface itself. Run by the best technicians of the Slayn hive, Echo is a secret testing base for prototype starships and weapons technology. This site allows the Silver Jedi to not only easily tap into the technical expertise of the native Verpine and their advanced manufacturing technology, but it also allows prototype starships to easily be moved in and out of the area for 'field testing' quietly by Silver Jedi warships visiting G62 for "refits". Aside from a next generation version of the Cresh-class Starship, Echo is also working on a supercharged version of an autoblaster right now, the prototypes of which so far have proven to be very unstable.
SECURITY
High
Korpil G62 is an important strategic asset to the Silver Jedi and the verpine themselves, and unsurprisingly it is well protected. Aside from a dedicated local defense fleet, G62 can call upon nearby Silver Navy warships either getting repairs or upgrades from the shipyard, or even picking up new starfighters. Many of the Verpine workers are moderately capable pilots, and have been trained to take Cresh-Type Patrol Fighters fresh off the assembly lines into battle in 'militia squadrons' as they are dubbed by the Silver Navy. The yard is further protected by minefields of Cometburst mines as well as heavy duty shield generators. Internally, Korpil G62 primarily relies on the Collective Defenders to protect it, though it does have its own basic security measures that include pyrowalls, blast doors, and automated laser traps.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Korpil G62 started out as little more than one of the many fragmented remains of the Verpine homeworld that formed the Roche Belt. Like many other asteroids in this belt, it was slowly mined out, and in the process of this hollowing, became a habit for the Verpine. During the Galactic Civil War, G62 turned into an underground workshop and was selected as an alternate site for what would become the Shantipole Project which eventually produced the B-wing. When the Galactic Civil War ended, Korpil openly claimed the asteroid and renamed it "Korpil G62" where it started out as a minor small craft production facility. Through almost sheer luck at avoiding catastrophes over the year from Darth Krayt's bombardment of the belt to more recent clashes between the GR and the Mandalorians, Korpil G62 has not only become Korpil's largest shipyard, but arguably the biggest shipyard facility currently within the Roche Asteroid Belt thanks to recent expansions funded by the Silver Jedi Order. G62 now produces starships almost exclusively for the Silver Jedi and their allies, notably a new iteration of the venerable B-wing.
