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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit a corporate headquarters for SoroSuub, as well as develop the first in a series of codex entries developing Sullust.
- Image Credit: The Great Hall by by Raphael Lacoste, Tagonis Refinery Depths by Balaskas, Power Plant Exterior by Simon Fetscher, Sluminside2 by Pierre-Etienne Travers
- Canon: Canon Article
- Links: Canon SoroSuub Article (for reference)
SETTING INFORMATION
- Structure Name: SoroSuub Centroplex
- Classification: Megacorporate HQ
- Location: Byllurun, Sullust
- Affiliation: SoroSuub Corporation
- Accessibility: Much of the grounds that make up Sorosuub Central are widely open to the public of Byllurun by necessity. There are no restrictions placed upon pedestrian traffic on the city streets that connect its industrial zones, although visitors are expected to obey corporate security in additional to local authorities and the Sullustan Home Guard.
- Security: SoroSuub Security operates as its own in-house division within the megacorp, solely focused on protecting corporation property and assets throughout the galaxy. But nowhere is their job more complicated than on Byllurun, as the company's extensive land claims throughout the city require them to behave very much like a privatized police force. Coordinating with local appointed authorities on matters ranging from petty theft to organized crime, the megacorp's security operations are just another way in which Sullustan culture has curiously blended with SoroSuub brand identity.
- Description: Located within SoroSuub Central, an industrial sector that encompasses almost two thirds of the Sullustan capital, the cluster of administrative towers that make up the Centroplex serve as much of the city's beating heart. From these massive, monolothic structures the immense corporatocracy oversee operations that employ a significant percentage of the system's population, with interests now in other sectors as well.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Central
The largest tower at the core of the Centroplex houses the megacorp's main administrative facilities, containing much of the bureaucratic infrastructure typical of enterprises without SoroSuub's unique responsibilities. The highest levels are comprised of office space for each of the corporation's Board of Directors, whose broad authority necessitates teams of aides comparable to most galactic politicians.
Most of Central Tower's higher floors are separated into divisions that oversee the megacorp's various operations, with mineral processing and starship manufacture occupying the largest floor space due to their profitability and logistical requirements. But there are also floors in charge of everything from food packaging to droid manufacture to comm link design. Below these upper management levels are a series of control stations responsible for monitoring and assisting SoroSuub facilities across much of the planet.
Lower levels house much of the industrial backbone, from a sizable IT department to shipping to employee amenities. From here employees have access to Central's tramway station that connects the tower to the other facilities that make up the Centroplex.
Advanced Research and Development
Often just referred to simply as Research and Development or R&D, SoroSuub's design wing is composed of both a heavily shielded and reinforced tower where all product testing and practical design applications take place, as well as an adjoining miniature campus containing facilities for research and theoretical work that also serves as an off site for the SoroSuub Business Academy. While some presence is maintained, one notable exception is the starship manufacture division, who conduct much of their testing from Sullust's orbital shipyards for obvious practical reasons.
Public Relations Bureau
One of the Centroplex's smaller towers, but no less prominent, for the Public Relations Bureau represents SoroSuub's unique position in Sullustan society and it is from here that SoroSuub manages its nuanced relationship with the planetary government. In the past, Sullustan politics shifted between representative democracy and authoritarian corporatocracy, and while the current Sullustan Council is a politically distinct body, SoroSuub is still legally responsible for a multitude of civic duties, as well as playing a shared role in foreign relations.
A popular Sullustan conspiracy theory is the existence of a shadow organization within the Public Relations Bureau known as the First Mandate. Supposedly dedicated to the benefit of the Sullustan people over all other ethical considerations, this mysterious cabal is either some form of private intelligence agency or secret police depending on who is doing the telling, but while rumors of First Mandate's existence persist no credible evidence has ever been produced confirming they exist.
SoroSuub Security
While it is not uncommon for corporate headquarters to employ inhouse security personnel, nowhere else in the galaxy does corporate security have to deal with the challenges the megacorp's security faces in patrolling SoroSuub Central, which takes up almost fully two thirds of the Sullustan capital city. Effectively a private auxiliary police force, the security tower coordinates heavily with the Sullustan Home Guard in matters ranging from petty street crime to counter-terrorism.
Second in size only to Central Tower, Security is part war room, part precinct. It also houses the Centroplex's systems security and counter-espionage specialists.
Galactic Logistics
Both the newest and smallest structure in the Centroplex, Galactic Logistics is a dwarf tower containing the division directly responsible for oversight of SoroSuub operations outside the Sullust system. With facilities now on worlds like Coruscant and Duro, this space was set aside in the interests of scalability, as managing both its interests across the Sullustan underground as well as galactic consortium would eventually strain the limits even of the massive Central Tower.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
One of the oldest corporate landmarks in the galaxy, the SoroSuub Centroplex has stood for centuries at least, the records of its true foundation lost in the years of darkness brought by the Gulag plague. At various points in Sullust's history, the megacorporation's administrative cluster has also served as de fact seat of the planetary government, although now most of the political power rests in the hands of the independent elected body that makes up the Sullustan Council.
Still, SoroSuub's domineering influence over Byllurun cannot be denied, for the Centroplex resides at the middle of an industrial center that covers almost two thirds of the planetary capital. SoroSuub Central is perhaps the largest privately owned surface facility in the Outer Rim, although to call it one structure would be disingenuous. City bloc after city bloc of mineral processing plant and droid refinery, separated by urban public streets and lift stations.
The proportions of the tower cluster itself are almost comical in nature, with Central Tower larger than the others by an order of magnitude and rising high above every other building in the subterranean cavern that contains Byllurun. In charge of a company that employs the vast majority of the planetary work force, hundreds of thousands of citizens commute from all over Sullust to work at the Centroplex every day.
