Stronger Than You Know
”We don't have much intel on Eadu, though, so for all we know the signal's blocked by a high-energy thermosphere—"
"How likely is that?"
"Not likely.”
–Nioma & Davits Draven
- Intent: Establish the headquarters of the Miyuki Trade League
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- Structure Name: Windbreaker Base
- Classification: Trading post
- Location: Eadu
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- Accessibility: Windbreaker Base's primary means of ingress are its single exterior landing pad or the six docking bays locating along the face of the facility. Several maintenance shafts and wind tunnels connect the outpost to the outside, some leading to the surface above while others drop out into the gorge below. Accessing Windbreak Base is relatively simple; all one must do is make contact with the dockmaster's office and comply with standard starship scans. Vessels who are deemed suspicious may be asked to land on the exterior landing pad until the crew and cargo can be properly inspected by security personnel.
- Description: Windbreaker Base is a subterranean trading outpost of Imperial design, inhabited by and retrofitted to meet the needs of the Miyuki Trade League. The facility is built into the wall of a deep ravine, where its entrances are protected by its steep, rocky walls. Windbreaker Base has four main levels, each serving its own purpose. From bottom to top, these are: Engineering, where most of the station's maintenance is performed; Docking, where starships dock and cargo is stored; the Market, where merchants and traders run their own stalls; and the Wards, where Windbreaker's permanent residents live.
- Eadu’s inclement weather makes for a perfect natural defense, but it can also be bad for business when freighters and other vessels aren’t able to safely fly through the perpetual thunderstorms. Windbreaker Base is strategically constructed into the side of a ravine where ships can fly low without the risk of crashing down, getting lost in the dense clouds, or being struck by lightning. Strategically placed lightning spires help draw lightning strikes away from low-flying starships and Miyuki equipment in the ravine.
- Miyuki’s headquarters gets its power from a locally maintained wind farm found atop basalt formations northeast of the outpost. Dozens of wind turbines generate the structure’s electricity, with excess being used in the manufacturing of power cells and batteries. Teams of specialists known as gust-riders use gale cutters to reach the turbines in the event that they are damaged or destroyed by lightning strikes.
- The bottommost level of Windbreaker Base is Engineering, where the station's maintenance crews work hard to keep things running. Here, a network of pipes, wind tunnels, maintenance shafts, and emergency generators form a mechanical ecosystem. Several service elevators connect Windbreaker to the windy surface above, and the watery ravine below. The Engineering deck has a single exterior landing pad reserved for larger ships that can withstand the winds that push through the ravine where the trading post is situated. It is frequented much less often than the standard hangar bays found on the upper levels but is still used regularly by large freighters carrying heavy cargo.
- Safe from the winds and rain outside, the trading post has half a dozen hangar bays built into the wall of the ravine. Traveling merchants, traders, and salvagers are common among Windbreakers visitors, and they all dock within these hangar bays. Ground technicians on Miyuki's payroll provide a multitude of services, such as multi-point inspections, engine scrubbing, and purging conduit worm infestations. Some more experienced engineers even sell black market starship upgrades on the side, for a price.
- Miyuki prides itself on trading high-quality refurbished starships, but at the end of the day, an ugly is an ugly - and MTL’s uglies are born in Windbreaker’s chop shop. Here, scrappers and salvagers deconstruct recovered spacecraft and other vehicles to retrieve important hardware for reuse. Independent shipwrights purchase these refurbished parts and use them to repair damaged ships or build new ones. The parts and hulls that are left over are sold as scrap, completing a self-sustaining market loop.
- The Endless Gales Cantina is Miyuki’s own bar and sabacc parlor, built right into the heart of Windbreaker Base. It was named for the strong winds that sweep the planet’s craggy surface. The cantina can be found on the same level as the hangars, just a short walk away for thirsty pilots. Known only to the cantina’s most trusted associates, a hidden spice den lays beneath the floor panels, where trusted spice runners from the League of Autonomous Worlds make secret exchanges with contacts in the Wild Space Republic.
- Not many people call Windbreaker Base their home, but those who do live on deck four in the Residential Wards. This area of the station was once an Imperial barracks, complete with built-in bunks, common rooms, showers, and lockers - all the amenities a spacer could ask for when kicking their boots up after a long stint in Wild Space. Typically, rooms in the Wards are reserved for employees of Miyuki Trade League and their long-standing partners, but there are several for rent for those who are looking to stay less than a fortnight.
- Miyuki's trade barons maintain offices throughout the upper levels of the station where they can meet with prospective clients, broker trade agreements, and oversee existing projects. Conference halls and lounge spaces are available when entertaining large parties, but most barons prefer closed-door meetings with individual representatives. While many spacers in the Trade League dislike bureaucracy in and of itself, Miyuki would be nothing without the mercantile masterminds who jump through the hoops of dozens of economic powerhouses throughout Wild Space and the Outer Rim.
Medium. Windbreaker Base is a civilian outpost on a craggy, dangerous world, reducing the need for extreme security measures. Still, a modest defense is necessary to thwart emboldened attacks from pirates, hostile spacer clans, and Imperial warlords. Many of Miyuki’s in-house security assets include recovered Imperial weapons sourced from all over the Outer Rim. Security cameras and slicer energy fields protect the station's operational systems, while patrols of security guards in classic mudtrooper armor keep careful watch over the station, alongside stationed C7-A7 guard droids. Windbreaker's open-air landing platform is protected by standard-issue anti-air emplacements that can handle an attack from most starfighters. AT-DT units patrol the topside flats in pairs, monitoring the skies for troublesome pirate raids.
- Natural defenses
- Lightning spires
- Anti-aircraft guns
- AT-DTs
- Gale cutter speeders
- Miyuki security personnel
- Imperial Army trooper armor
- Various personal blaster pistols and rifles
- C7-A7 guard droids
- Ceiling-mounted autoturrets
- Security cameras
- Slicer energy fields
Like many of the Miyuki Trade League's outposts, Windbreaker Base was found and restored rather than constructed outright. Windbreaker Base was once an Imperial forward operating base (FOB) that Palaptine's Galactic Empire used to monitor and protect its assets across Eadu. During the Rebel attack on Galen Erso's research facility, Windbreaker Base was also assaulted, leaving much of the station in ruin. While the Empire persisted, even reclaiming some of their lost assets on Eadu after the attack, the monitoring station was never restored. It lay dormant, empty and forgotten.
Prospectors working for the Miyuki Trade League were conducting a routine after-action scan for potential salvage pockets when they happened upon a large low-energy signature too small to be an Imperial star destroyer but much too large to be a starfighter or freighter. Ground teams using gale cutters scoured the surface, searching the weathered plateaus for an entrance while a squadron of T-47 airspeeders navigated the treacherous gully below. What they discovered was so much greater than another pile of battle junk: they found an entire Imperial station.
Efforts to salvage and retrofit Windbreaker Base went underway immediately. MTL, which had until this point operated much more loosely as a decentralized network of spacers, wasted no time setting up shop. Their initial efforts saw the station come back online as an independent trading post, but it quickly grew into the beating heart of the Trade League.
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