- Intent: To make a LOT of glass
- Image Credit: DeviantArt mining facility by molybdenumgp03
- Canon: N/A
- Links: ORME, Tatooine, EF-G Eye Laser Turret
- Mine Name: Outer Rim Sand Primary (ORSP)
- Material: 99.999% sand, .001% other minerals
- Location: Tatooine
- Affiliation: Outer Rim Military Engineering
- Size: Medium
- Accessibility: The exact location of ORSP is classified and guarded by ORME weapon systems. Through private access, coordinates can be obtained.
- Description: The Outer Rim Sand Primary facility was set up for the sole purpose of obtaining massive quantities of sand for glass products. It would seem natural that Tatooine, a planet of deserts under the twin suns and the target of Anakin Skywalker's annoyance, would be the place for a sand mine. Even more attractive to Outer Rim Military Engineering was the cheapness of Tatooine land, or rather Tatooine sand. In fact, the company bought multiple acres of arid dunes for only a hundred credits. Due to the scorching heat, droid labor had to be used to construct the facility, shipped in from multiple cargo frigates over the course of two months. Upon completion, sand intake immediately exceeded expectations by 300%. Soon, a rapid-fire industrial conveyor belt had to be added to transport the sheer quantity of sand offworld to ORME facilities.
Gravity Mine - The primary method of collecting sand used in ORSP is gravity mining. In a claw extending from the main facility, an industrial tractor beam pulls up sand from an exposed ground layer and sucks it up into the production plants. Sandstorms and strong winds guarantee that there is always a supply is fresh sand.
Processors - A newly installed industrial conveyor belt rapidly moves sand through the main facility. Throughout the conveyor belt, multiple forces are applied to the sand. A compressor makes the sand into a one meter by one meter by one decimeter cube, and then a furnace boils it into glass. The glass is then hardened with steel compounds and put in a cooling chamber to reduce the heat for packaging. Then, the glass is dropped onto large containers that are shipped offworld once they reach maximum capacity. The processing system is entirely automated, though it does have a kill switch. In the facility, the processors are visible as a long metal tube leading into a nearby hill.
Living Quarters - Only two to three organics live here for more than a week, so only two moderately sized, rectangular rooms reside in main facility of ORSP, directly above the processors. In the rooms are sinks to wash off the sand of Tatooine and beds, with tarps over them to reduce the amount of sand that enters. Additionally, there is a third room filled with solar-powered chargers for the droids working at ORSP.
Command Center - Collection of sand and glass is coordinated by a small team of organics and supercomputers, working in the command center, a glass tower just above the gravity mine. In the command center, the facility's automated workforce is coordinated and their actions monitored.
Delivery Bay - Inside the hill to the left of the facility, crates filled with glass compounds are carried up an elevator and arrive on top of the hill, about a hundred meters up. There, a large pad resides for industrial frigates to land on and collect the glass harvest.
Turret Locations - Two of the four EF-G Eye Laser Turrets are located to the left and right of the delivery bay, not on the bay itself but on separate, raised platforms. The other two are on top of the main facility on the left of the hill, spaced about ten meters apart.
SECURITY
Medium - The location of the ORSP is not included in Tatooine planetary charts. Additionally, four automated EF-G Eye Laser Turrets are used to ward off any suspicious activity. However, the facility's concealment and isolation are its primary means of security, with it being practically that an army would march hundreds of miles into the desert and stumble apon the location of the specific Outer Rim sand facility.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
As ORME's demand for ships grew, so did their demand for essential materials such as steel and glass. While Mon Calamari had many asteroid fields to solve the issue of the former, the latter remained nagging at the company for years. Then, they finally came up with a solution. Outer Rim's expansion into other worlds revealed that a huge profit could be made on Tatooine, where land cost virtually nothing and sand was everywhere. Better yet, Tatooine was a relatively safe world on the galactic scale, being too backwater to be found by an opposing faction and occupied.
So, ORME went along with the plan and sent scouting ships to scan the world. The company was well aware of the threats of Tusken Raiders and the Hutt clans, so decided to make their facility as far from any town or city as possible. Finally, they found the perfect place. In a range of dunes and small hills, there was an area where the sand was especially loose and sandstorms were especially common. Therefore, ORME began deploying a robotic workforce to build a mining facility connected to one of the hills.
After only two months of construction, the facility was complete, labelled Outer Rim Sand Primary. Self-sustaining due to its solar-powered reactor core, the facility was able to achieve nonstop work with huge success, delivering tens of thousands of tons of glass to ORME facilities throughout the galaxy. Its crew of primarily droids solved the problem of convincing organics to travel to Tatooine, while organics could still come in every now and then to check on the proficiency of the operations.
