Eternal Father
- Intent: Flesh out the Sith-Imperial shipyard at Ringo Vinda
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- Shipyards Name: Ringo Vinda Sith-Imperial Naval Production Ring-Yard
- Classification: Orbital Ring Shipyard
- Location: Ringo Vinda
- Affiliation: The Sith Empire
- Population: Sparsely Staffed, otherwise Automated
- Accessibility: Like most Sith-Imperial naval yards, the Ringo Vinda Ring-Yard is off-limits to those lacking the proper administrative or military clearance. Violators will be persecuted harshly, typically via execution by firing squad once all relevant information had been taken from them.
- Description: Encircling the planet Ringo Vinda, the space station which often was identified with the planet it orbited, was originally a civilian commercial hub used the facilitate cargo from space-faring traders down to the planet below and vice versa. When the Sith Empire took ownership of the planet and the station, the surface below became riddled with ore extraction facilities while the orbital station was transformed into a manufacturing dockyard. Thousands of production bays ring the massive station, each one ranging in size to produce anything from corvettes to entire star destroyers. Some bays were so massive they could produce multiple star destroyers at once. The vast majority of the station was completely automated, various production droids slave-circuited to an array of central processing units overseen by flesh-and-blood technicians and engineers. Those living workers residing on the station were charged with ensuring that the efficiency of the production lines never dipped below optimal levels, and to course-correct any inadequacies discovered. Gargantuan space elevators were used to transfer harvested material from the planet's surface up into the station, with all non-essential starship traffic eliminated moving to and from the surface.
- Production: Star Destroyers, Cruisers, Frigates, Corvettes
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- Output: The Ringo Vinda Orbital Ring-Yard utilizes the latest edge in automated processing and production technology, and thus produces new warships for the Sith Empire at a precipitous rate.
- Market: The Ringo Vinda Orbital Ring-Yard only produces starships for the Sith Empire.
- Production Bays: The main feature of the Ringo Vinda ring-yard is its variety of production bays which service the Empire by constructing warships ranging in size and strength from corvettes to star destroyers. Protected from the vacuum of space by magnetic shielding, these bays are primarily occupied by subservient labor droids and automated construction equipment.
- Resource Caches: Sections of the ring-yard are reserved for hoarding raw materials transferred from the planet's surface, to be eventually utilized in the construction of new starships in the nearby production bays. Each cache is protected by OMYN-series battle droids, Scourge Mk. I battle droids, and XF-72 Decimator Drones to preemptively discourage looting.
- Processing Hubs: Designed similarly to droid control modules utilized by the Trade Federation and other commerce guilds, the processing hubs found on the Ringo Vinda ring-yard were made to control and regulate the vast quantity of automated systems throughout the station. Each hub was crewed by no less than a hundred technicians, each one perfectly qualified to carry out his or her duties.
- Living Quarters: The small number of living crewmen who live on the ring-yard reside in a series of hypersleep caskets organized into groups across the entirety of the station. Austere in nature, each casket is relatively unadorned with any ornamentation other than a serial number and the occupant of each casket written onto it. The Empire has modified the caskets to implant subliminal messages during hypersleep, gradually converting the unknowing occupants into die-hard Sith-Imperial loyalists.
- Command Center: The beating heart of the ring-yard, the command center is captained by personnel from the Ministry of Logistics and is the only location on the station that has a communication suite that can connect with the orbiting defense flotilla and other worlds beyond.
- Space Elevators: The space elevators are gargantuan telescopic structures which can connect the planet-side ring-yard to the surface of Ringo Vinda, transferring raw materials mined from the world's barren surface for use in the construction of battleships for the Sith Empire.
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- The defense of the Ringo Vinda ring-yard is quite substantial, though perhaps not as tightly knit as the ring-yard of Mon Cala or other shipyards of similar importance. The entirety of the ring-yard has been divided into four sectors, known as quadrants, each one with its own defense force of Harrower cruisers, Incapacitator interdictors, Velox frigates, and Exterminator corvettes. Overlapping groups of Vakvita satellites and Darkpyre security stations remain close to the ring-yard for redundant fields of anti-starfighter laser fire, while each quadrant maintains a single Darkstar star fortress for tactical administration.
The Ringo Vinda shipyards had been used by various interstellar governments across recorded history, from the Galactic Republic to the Galactic Empire. More recently, the station had fallen under the control of a corporation which became known as the Ringovinda StarYards, which produced commercial starships for the vast consumer market. Ringovinda StarYards eventually began to produce warships for Light side governments across the galaxy, which brought it into direct confrontation with the Sith Empire as it expanded across the Outer Rim and Tingel Arm.
Control of the ring-yard would eventually fall into Sith-Imperial hands when the Sith Empire launched an assault on Ringo Vinda, storming the ring-yard and executing the Ringo Vindians occupying the station. All data and production records were stolen by the Empire, as well as transaction logs and other pertinent data, and the ring-yard was then promptly occupied. The station's production capabilities were drastically expanded to fit the Empire's needs, with automated systems becoming the primary method by which new starships were built.
The station's productivity only increased as war with the Silver Jedi and a rebellion by rogue Imperials continued to escalate, demanding more of the Empire's production centers to continually facilitate conflict.
