Well-Known Viceroy
B A Z E R R A - S T I E G A N
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a hidden Imperial Listening Post within the territory of the Sith Order for the Tarkin Initiative
- Image Credit: Nova Garon ISB Base | Jungle Outpost Scene | Jungle Scene
- Canon: None
- Permissions: HAMWAGON Permission
- Links: Sith Order | Tarkin Initiative | Imperial Listening Post
- Structure Name: Bazerra Stiegan - Imperial Listening Post S-HUB.
- Classification: Imperial Listening Post
- Location: Stiegan Jungle, Located south of Delrakkin City, Delrakkin.
- Affiliation: Tarkin Initiative
- Accessibility:
Bazerra Stiegan lies deep within the Stiegan Jungle on a sparsely inhabited region of Delrakkin, far from trade routes, population centers, or major Sith administrative infrastructure. The fortress is deliberately positioned in terrain that is difficult to scan from orbit and rarely patrolled, ensuring it remains outside routine Sith surveillance sweeps.
The structure outwardly appears to be a long-abandoned criminal stronghold once controlled by the Hutt Cartel. Its outer walls remain scarred, partially collapsed, and overgrown, reinforcing the impression of a failed smuggler redoubt reclaimed by the jungle.
Access is restricted to authorized Initiative personnel. Ships do not land directly at the fortress; instead, they arrive at concealed jungle clearings several kilometers away and approach via camouflaged ground routes or underground access shafts.
Because long-range transmissions inside Sith territory are heavily disrupted by the phenomenon known as the Blackwall, the post cannot rely on conventional communications. Instead, it deploys encrypted probe droids that physically carry intelligence data beyond Sith space before transmitting to Initiative networks.
To any casual observer, Bazerra Stiegan appears to be nothing more than a ruined Hutt-era fortress lost to time.
- Description:
Bazerra Stiegan rises from the jungle as a weathered fortress of thick stone walls, collapsed towers, and rusting defensive gantries. Built in brutalist Hutt-style architecture, the structure favors heavy battlements, rounded towers, and reinforced gatehouses designed more for intimidation than elegance.
Vines crawl over the walls, rainwater collects in broken courtyards, and much of the visible structure has been intentionally left to decay. What appears to be a ruined criminal compound is, in reality, only the shell of the installation.
Beneath the fortress lies a modern Imperial intelligence complex containing sensor arrays, encrypted analysis chambers, and droid-managed relay hubs. The jungle canopy, thick stone construction, and low-emission systems combine to mask the facility from most orbital scans.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Outer Fortress Shell
The visible compound consists of crumbling walls, sealed storage halls, and collapsed smuggler barracks dating back to its Hutt occupation. Hidden scanners, passive sensor nodes, Droid Lanterns and Turret-droids powered through Automated Defense Systems are embedded throughout the structure.
Subterranean Command Hub
The true heart of the installation concealed by a Imperial Cloaking Device. This reinforced operations center houses a network of specialized and highly sensitive full-spectrum transceivers, subspace antenna, and HoloNet transceivers and the facility's primary command staff. From here, operators intercept communications, track vessel movement, and relay intelligence to Initiative command nodes.
Probe Droid Deployment Vaults
Because the Blackwall disrupts outbound transmissions, this section contains launch tubes and maintenance cradles for long-range probe droids tasked with carrying encrypted intelligence beyond Sith territory before transmitting.
Buried Sensor Grid
A network of concealed hyperspace detectors, and signal interceptors, Spy Rays and Electrotelescope hidden beneath jungle growth and rock formations. These systems allow the Initiative to monitor ship movements, communications, and disturbances in surrounding sectors.
Smuggler Hangar Cavern
An underground docking space dating back to the fortress's Hutt era. Now refurbished, it allows Initiative shuttles and stealth craft to arrive without generating visible landing signatures.
SECURITY
Bazerra Stiegan maintains a High security rating appropriate for a covert intelligence installation rather than an overt military base. While outwardly appearing abandoned, the structure is monitored by concealed sensor grids, encrypted surveillance holocams, and passive motion detection fields buried within the surrounding grounds.
Access points are protected by hidden blast doors, biometric locks, and internal automated defense systems designed to neutralize intruders before they reach the subterranean listening post. A small but highly trained garrison consisting of Internal Security Branch, ISB Tactical, Phase I Dark Trooper and Imperial LV9-Series Security Drone assigned by the Tarkin Initiative operates from concealed barracks below the castle, supported by encrypted communications arrays and localized jamming systems that can suppress transmissions across the nearby jungle.
Defensive shielding can be raised over the underground facility in emergencies, though it is deliberately calibrated to avoid detectable energy spikes that might alert authorities within the Sith Order. The result is a site that relies on stealth, misdirection, and rapid containment rather than overt military force.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Bazerra Stiegan was originally constructed as a fortified jungle compound by criminal elements affiliated with the Hutt Cartel, serving as a smuggling depot and regional command center. When trade routes shifted and Sith expansion tightened control of nearby space, the fortress lost its strategic value and was eventually abandoned to the jungle.
Years later, scouts from the Tarkin Initiative identified the ruin as an ideal covert foothold within Sith territory. Its criminal history provided a believable cover story, while its remote location and heavy construction made it well suited for conversion into an intelligence site.
Engineers quietly rebuilt the underground sections, installed sensor grids, and repurposed old smuggler tunnels into secure operational spaces. Due to the communication interference created by the Blackwall, the installation was designed from the outset to rely on probe droids as its primary intelligence courier system.
Now designated Listening Post S-HUB, Bazerra Stiegan functions as one of the Initiative's most isolated intelligence outposts a hidden Imperial ear buried in jungle ruins, listening from within the domain of the Sith themselves.
