Eternal Father
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION- Intent: Create a city for TSE's codex challenge
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[*]Canon: Lothal City - Previous Incarnation
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- City Name: New Lothal City
- Classification: Metropolis
- Location: Lothal
- Affiliation: The Sith Empire
- Population: Heavy
Large scale immigration from the rest of the Sith Empire, particularly from the Tion Hegemony and the Thanium Worlds, has replenished the drop in population following the Empire's invasion and occupation of Lothal. The dead were quickly replaced by offworlders looking to take advantage of the opportunity presented to them on Lothal, buying up land to create pastures for animal husbandry and agriculture or playing a direct role in the construction of New Lothal City and surrounding boroughs.
[*]Demographics: While retaining many of the non-Human minorities prior to the takeover by the Sith Empire, New Lothal City still remains dominated by Human culture, now distinctly ruled by three unique culture groups. At the top are the Lothalians, the natives of Lothal who have lived on-world for centuries, the Tionese, Humans hailing from the Tion Hegemony, and the Galidraani, Humans hailing from the world of Galidraan. The Tionese and Galidraani comprise a sizable percentage of the Empire's Human population and have enjoyed favorable colonization privileges that have enabled them to spread their cultures far and wide. Though similar in many ways, both Imperial cultures are seen as utterly anathema to the native Lothalian culture.
- Human
Lothalian - Tionese
- Galidraani
[*]Gotal
[*]Ithorian
[*]Rodian
[*]Aqualish
[*]Ugnaught
[*]Faust
[*]Wealth: High
- The arrival of the Imperial bourgeoisie and other affluent citizens brought on an influx of capital to Lothal that funded the complete reconstruction of Lothal City into a sprawling metropolis, while multiple corporate interests latched themselves onto the fertile and long untapped resources of the planet's vast wildlands. Jobs were created as cities and uniform suburbs grew up around pre-existing population centers while orbital commerce stations were constructed to connect Lothal into the greater Imperial web of trade. The epicenter for all of this was situated in New Lothal City.
[*]Stability: Medium
- Though the entirety of New Lothal City was built along Sith-Imperial lines and policed by the local branch of the Judicial Enforcement Corps, there remained sharp divisionary lines between the original inhabitants of the area and those who settled in through the Empire's colonization efforts. Occasionally these divides flair up into conflict, but are brutally suppressed by the JEC through a mixture of non-lethal and lethal means. Identified dissidents and their relatives are often detained and deported to Enlightenment Cultivation Centers for re-education and societal integration.
[*]Freedom & Oppression:
- Citizens in Lothal's capital are issued state-approved identification credentials that are electronically re-coded per hour every hour. Those not in possession of identification or in possession of invalid identification can be imprisoned without due process, the minimum sentence being several weeks at one of the Empire's Enlightenment Cultivation Centers.
- Aerial drones, known as Public Security Probes, routinely patrol the lower airspace of the city. Armed with rotary laser cannons, these drones have the ability to scan individuals at a distance to detect their identification and are equipped with long-range communication sensors to alert authorities to any breaches of Imperial Conduct. They are likewise programmed to react with lethal force if attacked or tampered with.
- Checkpoints near major government facilities herd citizens into documentation centers where they are checked for their state-issued identification credentials and have their DNA tested against the Empire's vast Genetic Databank; which had been accumulated by taking samples from every registered citizens through mandatory physicals.
- All holonet transceivers are ran through the same access points, allowing the Empire to tightly monitor what their citizens access through the Holonet. This also serves as the Empire's method to routinely pump constant propaganda to their citizens via the Sith-Imperial News Network.
- Native housing (those who lived on Lothal before the Empire's arrival) are subjected to infrequent and random searches by the JEC, who are charged with the authority to confiscate any contraband deemed in violation with Imperial Customs and detain anyone suspected of dissidence.
[*]Description: Built practically from the ground up, New Lothal City serves as a shining example of what the Sith Empire can achieve architecturally. Built further inland than its predecessor, the main feature of the city was the concentric rings of water that divided the city into different sections, three of them in total. A great canal was dug from the exterior ring to the sea, allowing seafaring trade to still reach the innermost sections of the city. Massive bridges branched the ringed moats from the exterior ring all the way to the middle ring and then to the inner ring, with a series of gates and towers protecting narrow waterways in between all of them.
The outermost ring was reserved for commercial use and contained many bazaars and trade markets. New Lothal's only spaceport was located along this ring, and was the most recognizable of the ring's structures by its series of rounded openings and flight control towers that could be seen above the lower-lying warehouses and shops. The middle ring was residential in nature and housed the majority of the city's inhabitants. One could also find the Imperial Youth Academy, Technical Institute, and Menagerie along this ring. Most of the structures were taller than those of the outer ring.
The third and final ring, the inner ring, was reserved for the Empire's administration of the city. At the center was the massive Administration Complex, which was connected to the Sienar Advanced Projects Lab by a series of walled courtyards and guard towers. This was most defended section of the entire city, as it symbolized the Empire's grasp on the planet. The entire inner ring was connected to an isolated power grid, which could still function even if the power to the rest of the city was somehow disconnected. These generators also powered a series of eight Arbiter-pattern turbolaser towers which were spread evenly across the ring.
POINTS OF INTEREST
- Sith-Imperial Administrative Complex: The centerpiece of the entire city, the administrative complex is a massive amalgamation of sharp angular structures; keeps, baileys, towers, and sprawling courtyards. It was from here that the entirety of the planet's government was administered, and was the most visible symbol of the Empire's power and authority. No one was allowed entry to the complex unless they possessed the required clearance, with anyone in flagrant violation of these protocols being detained in the complex's detention levels.
- Imperial Youth Academy: The Imperial Youth Academy in New Lothal City housed and educated recruits for the Imperial Directorate and Military. Lothal's Imperial Youth Academy was a one-year junior academy. At the end of their term, graduates were expected to move on to a senior academy for a longer stint, then the very best were allowed to enter a specialized service academy for training in one of the Empire's many service branches.
- New Lothal City Spaceport: A series of elevated circular pits, the spaceport of New Lothal City were massive facilities that could allow ships as large as a Vicar cargo frigate to unload its haul. Though built with the use of cargo haulers in mind, the spaceport also had many ancillary landing zones for personal vessels and transportation liners.
- New Lothal City Menagerie: Though many of the animals that inhabited the menagerie of the old city had been killed during the battle, the new menagerie was filled with a whole new assortment of beasts and monsters imported from all across the Empire and the galaxy. The menagerie comprised many different bio-domes, each with their own unique biomes that housed animals native to each environment. This ranged from forests, caves, underwater, swamp, desert, and dozens of others.
- Engineering Projects Lab: Granted to the esteemed technicians of the Sith-Imperial Corps of Engineers, the Engineering Project Lab was a dedicated research and development facility relegated to the creation and production of Imperial projects simultaneously deemed important enough for a dedicated facility and not important enough to warrant its own blacksite. Typically, the Lab develops new advances in starfighter technologies to be used by the Starfighter Corps.
- New Lothal City Fuel Depot: A series of fuel bulbs, tanks, and pipelines that stretches across a wide flat expanse several kilometers outside of the perimeter of New Lothal City. The Empire uses this depot to store fuel to supply local military assets such as warships, starfighters, and ground vehicles. The exterior metals used to store the fuel are triple-reinforced to make it more difficult to cause a catastrophic detonation.
- Sith-Imperial New Lothal Airfield: Situated no far from the Fuel Depot, the Empire maintains a dedicated airfield for the city's air defenses. Strike fighters such as the Dominance-class fighter are the mainstay, but the field is also known to hold a squadron of heavy bombers in the event that full rebellion breaks out in New Lothal City.
- Rating: Medium
- Description: Though several locations within New Lothal City are more heavily defended than the rest of the city, the overall defense force for the city is relegated to an adept law enforcement army that policies and enforces Imperial Law.
- Complement:
Troops
Sith-Imperial Judicial Enforcers
[*]Droids
- Scourge Mk. I Battle Droids
- Public Security Probes
[*]Vehicles
- Glaive-class Light Repulsortanks
- All-Terrain Outrider Transports
- Waveskimmer Aquatic Assault Vehicles
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
When the Sith Empire came to Lothal, they came with fire and steel in their hands.
A sect of the Alliance-in-Exile had entrenched themselves in and around the Capital City, enamoring themselves to the locals as protectors against the Dark Side menace that emerged from the stars. Dislodging them proved to be an exceptionally destructive act, with the majority of Capital City being leveled in the process. Thousands of civilians were dead, blown apart by creeping bombardment or cut down by the Legionnaires as they rushed into the city and engaged the Alliance soldiers in street-to-street urban warfare.
Rather than repairing the city, the Emperor decreed that what remained would be torn down, destroyed, and the ground levels entirely. With the slate now cleaned, the foundations for the new capital city were laid under strict military supervision. Two years would pass before the majority of the city's construction would be finished, allowing for a wave of colonists from across the Empire to converge and begin to populate the city. They joined with the surviving residents of the old city who had been relocated to camps beyond the sight of the new city's construction, many of whom still harbored anti-Imperialist sentiments.
Dubbed New Lothal City, the new capital would serve as the epicenter of Sith-Imperial authority for all of Lothal.
