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Camp Aurark | The Rancors Reach
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To add to the First Order’s lore on newly secured systems.
Image Credits:
Links:
SETTING INFORMATION
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Accessibility: Due to the nature of Dagobah, the facility is not easily accessible to most, if any personnel. Access to the facility is only to be approved by Central Command’s highest echelons and the FOSB. Physically, the massive shielded wall which surrounds the base, denies any land access, meaning all official troop transfers must be performed by landing pad.
Description: Situated far from any settlements and beneath the shadow of Mount Yoda, and in the midst of the thick jungle is Camp Aurark, or known by the FOSB as the Rancors Reach. Formerly Dagobah Tech, the camp makes extensive use of the prior facilities, as well as expansions to the defensive and scientific capability of the facility. Among the first expansions is the grand wall, made out of duracrete and quadanium steel. The wall is fitted with guard towers, sat every few hundred meters as a means to deter intruders, but also to keep any renegade subjects contained. This is in addition to the new landing depot erected near the centre of former campus, which acts as the only way in and out of the facility.
The First Order, after having erected the perimeter defences, set about organising the facilities into various sub-camps. Due to the nature of the university campus being so spread out, it was thought the best idea for the development of the facility to specialise each of these sub-camps into a certain role. During the first stage of development, it saw the current facilities and buildings available redeveloped into sub camps. These camps being Thraken, Vaas, Kalast, and the Chancellery.
With expansion, three more facilities were erected. Although the landing dock was completed, defensive emplacements were added to Camp Kerkov, the landing and supply depot, Camp Braisley, the facility used to house animals imported from across the Galaxy, and finally the secretive underwater research facility, Zentrum Labor. All seven facilities are spread around the camp, and to an extent are isolated. Although roads have now been erected between them, streamlining the mobilisation of troops, the thick jungle and fog still prove a logistical problem in terms of security.
POINTS OF INTEREST
The Chancellery (x): The former Chancellery of Dagobah Tech has been converted into a miniature fortress. Although it was never directly centred in its time in academic service, the Chancellery now sits as the direct centre of the facility after the rezoning. Defensively, it is a tough nut to crack with the aging structure refurbished and reinforced with duracrete, quadanium steel, pillboxes localised shields. The Chancellery acts as the command hub of the camp, as well as a data repository for the scientific endeavors of staff within the facility. In addition to the renovations, the Chancellery has been gifted with communications equipment, designed to call for reinforcements in the event of an attack, and a system of underground tunnels, leading to pilloboxes, surrounding the building, as well as to nearby barracks, ensuring a consistent stream of reinforcements.
Camp Kerkov (x): Located to the south of the Chancellery, Camp Kerkov, is the highly fortified landing depot. It acts as the only way in, and out of the camp by conventional means, making it an extremely valuable facility. The landing pad is lifted onto massive stilts, to avoid flooding and the hazard of low hanging fog, this is the only official access point into the Camp proper. Along with an extensive garrison of armed naval and logistics personnel, Camp Kerkov is fitted with turbolaser batteries, and anti-air missile speeders. In addition to this, Camp Kerkov houses a squadron of TIE fighters. The facility is, to say the least, highly fortified, and prepared for any attack.
Camp Braisley (x): Sat deep within the jungle along the north, and eastern sides of the camp are the breeding and accommodation pits. Designed to breed and train beasts from across the Galaxy, be used in mainstream military applications, or for use by the mysterious Knights of Ren. The beasts are treated well by their trainers, with the hopes of domesticating some of the Galaxy’s most brutal predators into more malleable weapons of war. The trainers of the beast, are a mixture of First Order trained staff, and mercenaries, bought from these distant worlds to work with them. The beasts are caged in large, spacious terrariums and are nurtured by their masters, in order to accommodate them, and make them used to sentients.
Zentrum Labor (x): Hidden below a large swampy pond, in water tight bunkers, the Zentrum Labor is the Camps scientific hub. Advanced laboratory equipment is stored here, with the express purpose of genetic splicing and exploring the genetics of the beasts housed at Camp Braisley. The laboratories goal to pursue the goal of researching and creating creatures able to exceed their natural potential. It also acts as a midwifery and pregnancy clinic for some of the animals, ensuring that they can carry their offspring until birth. Due to the nature of the science performed, only hardened FOSB special forces guard this facility, and act as an escort for the scientists, to and from Camp Kalast.
Camp Thraken(x): Located in the eastern quadrant of the facility, the sub-camp, Camp Thraken acts as the vehicle hub. Crews of armoured personnel stand ready at the camp, ready to deploy the camps fleet of vehicles at moment’s notice. Many of the older Dagobah Tech buildings have been torn down in favour of brand new, metallic and brutalist architecture, favored by Central Conmand.
Camp Vaas (x): Situated eight hundred meters due north of the Chancellory, and in the former school of psychology, is sub-camp Vaas. It is here that Camp Aurark’s shield is powered, and generated. The camps closeness to the chancellory ensures that any attack upon the generator or its power supply can be quickly responded to. Despite its less than sizeable garrison, the camp holds high tech defences, such as automated turrets and a sophisticated alarm system hidden within the treeline which surrounds the camp.
Camp Kalast (x): Camp Kalast is the largest of all camps, and makes up the greatest proportion. It is here where a vast portion of the garrison is held. Using the former student dormitories to great effect, as to house a majority of the guards, extra housing has been erected to fit the scientists and accommodate their families. Because of this, Camp Kalast houses its own recreational facilities, including a school, gymnasium and other comforts to remind scientific personnel of home.
SECURITY RATING: High
SECURITY
The security of Camp Aurark is high to say the least. Although its official designation as a training facility is a sham, it nonetheless houses thousands of soldiers, who operate the facility and ensure its smooth operation. A bulk of the facilities security force is made up of regular First Order Army soldiers, taken from posts around the First Orders burgeoning empire, for assignment on the system. This is then complimented by support force of stormtroopers, and then finally a battalion of FOSB special forces, designated to hold the research facilities and ensure none of the subjects escape.
Outside of the strong military presence, the defences allocated to the facility are a twenty-two-meter-high, and six-meter-thick quandanium steel and duracrete wall. The wall contains no entries and exits, and every few hundred meters, is fitted with a guard towers, armed with heavy repeating blasters and E-Webs. Anti-air emplacements are sparse around the facility. A majority of its defensive capability comes from its garrison and the vehicles.
The designers of the facility, as well as Central Command have conceded that a well-planned guerrilla assault could infiltrate the base, given the terrain and natural cover offered by it. Ergo, each sub-camp houses a standing garrison, designed to assist it in the event of attacks, along with an armoured and mechanised rapid response force, armed and ready for response. In any event, the defensive doctrine of Camp Aurark can be considered, rather reactionary in nature, with strategic thinking to be, to allow enemy forces to make the first move, an allow themselves to be drawn into greater military conflict.
SECURITY ASSETS
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Dagobah Tech was established during the Galactic Civil War by the Alliance to Restore the Republic as a training school to educate the children of rebel scientists and officers based at a local military facility. After the war, it was expanded, and became a beast unto its own, educating those hungry for knowledge from across the Galaxy. But it was not to last.
With the Gulag Plague, the education facility withered and died, only to allow Gungan students to participate in education there. However, with the advent of the Galactic Alliance, the facility was once more transformed into a place of learning and culture. But with the defeat on Dagobah, and a successful rout of military personnel, the First Order seized the university, and decidedly fortified it.
Dagobah’s natural flora and fauna, the secretive nature of the planet, tickled the fancy of the FOSB who wished to transform it into a research facility. One designed to perform research into the domestication of otherwise dangerous fauna for use by the Order of Ren, and in the pursuit of other military applications.
The reason for the choice to use such a backwater as Dagobah was ultimately three fold. Firstly, the remote nature of Dagobah made it a perfect location for such secretive projects. Secondly, the climate was prime for breeding the tropical predators which afflict the Galaxy. And finally, the dark side of the force. With the dark side being almost palpable on Dagobah, it was considered the world would be perfect for testing various theorys held about the use of the force upon massive predators. To subjugate and domesticate those which perhaps, at one point were not able to be. This is in addition to the extensively planned genetic modifications designed, in order to breed the genetic apex of the chosen research subjects.
In order to hide the nature of the facility, it officially became a training camp for soldiers in Swamp Warfare, and as apart of that, the base is garrisoned by a healthy force of First Order regular army troops, stormtroopers and FOSB operatives, meaning its covert nature could be pursued. Despite this, many of the troopers stationed at the facility questioned its true motives.
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To add to the First Order’s lore on newly secured systems.
Image Credits:
- Camp Kerkov | Death Star Shield Generator - Wookieepedia (x)
- Camp Braisely | Jurassic World Concept Art - Jurassic Park Podcast (x)
- Zentrum Labor | Sci-Fi Doodle 2 - Yellowmice Deviantart (x)
- Camp Thraken| Project X Military Base - Ned Rogers Deviantart (x)
- Camp Vaas | Endor Shield Generator Bunker - Wookieepedia (x)
- Camp Kalast | Pottle Hall - Southeastern Louisiana University (x)
- The Chancellery | InGen Compound - Jurassic Park Wiki (x)
Links:
- AT-HAT (x)
- AT-SG (x)
- DSS-02 Shield Generator (x)
- Dagobah Tech [Chaos Submission] (x)
- BARC Speeder Bike (x)
- E-Web Blaster Emplacements (x)
- Cuirassier Assault Tank (x)
- Cossack Tank Destroyer (x)
- Hussar Command Speeder (x)
- Light Infantry Utility Vehicle (x)
- TIE/III Space Superiority Fighter (x)
- Rapture Missile System(x)
- Anti-Personnel Autoturrets (x)
- GAVW APC (x)
SETTING INFORMATION
Military Base Name: Officially; Camp Aurark Training Facility. [Secretly: The Rancors Reach]
Classification: Officially: Military Training Facility. [Secretly; Military Biological Research Facility]
Location: Dagobah, Mount Yoda
Affiliation: The First Order (x). Facility administered by FOSB and Central Command
Population: 19’700 Personnel
Population Breakdown:
12'000 First Order Army Regulars
3’000 First Order Stormtroopers
400x First Order Security Bureau Special Forces
300x First Order Navy Personnel
400x Animal Specialist
2’000x Scientific Personnel
1’300x Maintenance and auxiliary personnel
700x Civilians
[*]
Accessibility: Due to the nature of Dagobah, the facility is not easily accessible to most, if any personnel. Access to the facility is only to be approved by Central Command’s highest echelons and the FOSB. Physically, the massive shielded wall which surrounds the base, denies any land access, meaning all official troop transfers must be performed by landing pad.
Description: Situated far from any settlements and beneath the shadow of Mount Yoda, and in the midst of the thick jungle is Camp Aurark, or known by the FOSB as the Rancors Reach. Formerly Dagobah Tech, the camp makes extensive use of the prior facilities, as well as expansions to the defensive and scientific capability of the facility. Among the first expansions is the grand wall, made out of duracrete and quadanium steel. The wall is fitted with guard towers, sat every few hundred meters as a means to deter intruders, but also to keep any renegade subjects contained. This is in addition to the new landing depot erected near the centre of former campus, which acts as the only way in and out of the facility.
The First Order, after having erected the perimeter defences, set about organising the facilities into various sub-camps. Due to the nature of the university campus being so spread out, it was thought the best idea for the development of the facility to specialise each of these sub-camps into a certain role. During the first stage of development, it saw the current facilities and buildings available redeveloped into sub camps. These camps being Thraken, Vaas, Kalast, and the Chancellery.
With expansion, three more facilities were erected. Although the landing dock was completed, defensive emplacements were added to Camp Kerkov, the landing and supply depot, Camp Braisley, the facility used to house animals imported from across the Galaxy, and finally the secretive underwater research facility, Zentrum Labor. All seven facilities are spread around the camp, and to an extent are isolated. Although roads have now been erected between them, streamlining the mobilisation of troops, the thick jungle and fog still prove a logistical problem in terms of security.
POINTS OF INTEREST
The Chancellery (x): The former Chancellery of Dagobah Tech has been converted into a miniature fortress. Although it was never directly centred in its time in academic service, the Chancellery now sits as the direct centre of the facility after the rezoning. Defensively, it is a tough nut to crack with the aging structure refurbished and reinforced with duracrete, quadanium steel, pillboxes localised shields. The Chancellery acts as the command hub of the camp, as well as a data repository for the scientific endeavors of staff within the facility. In addition to the renovations, the Chancellery has been gifted with communications equipment, designed to call for reinforcements in the event of an attack, and a system of underground tunnels, leading to pilloboxes, surrounding the building, as well as to nearby barracks, ensuring a consistent stream of reinforcements.
Camp Kerkov (x): Located to the south of the Chancellery, Camp Kerkov, is the highly fortified landing depot. It acts as the only way in, and out of the camp by conventional means, making it an extremely valuable facility. The landing pad is lifted onto massive stilts, to avoid flooding and the hazard of low hanging fog, this is the only official access point into the Camp proper. Along with an extensive garrison of armed naval and logistics personnel, Camp Kerkov is fitted with turbolaser batteries, and anti-air missile speeders. In addition to this, Camp Kerkov houses a squadron of TIE fighters. The facility is, to say the least, highly fortified, and prepared for any attack.
Camp Braisley (x): Sat deep within the jungle along the north, and eastern sides of the camp are the breeding and accommodation pits. Designed to breed and train beasts from across the Galaxy, be used in mainstream military applications, or for use by the mysterious Knights of Ren. The beasts are treated well by their trainers, with the hopes of domesticating some of the Galaxy’s most brutal predators into more malleable weapons of war. The trainers of the beast, are a mixture of First Order trained staff, and mercenaries, bought from these distant worlds to work with them. The beasts are caged in large, spacious terrariums and are nurtured by their masters, in order to accommodate them, and make them used to sentients.
Zentrum Labor (x): Hidden below a large swampy pond, in water tight bunkers, the Zentrum Labor is the Camps scientific hub. Advanced laboratory equipment is stored here, with the express purpose of genetic splicing and exploring the genetics of the beasts housed at Camp Braisley. The laboratories goal to pursue the goal of researching and creating creatures able to exceed their natural potential. It also acts as a midwifery and pregnancy clinic for some of the animals, ensuring that they can carry their offspring until birth. Due to the nature of the science performed, only hardened FOSB special forces guard this facility, and act as an escort for the scientists, to and from Camp Kalast.
Camp Thraken(x): Located in the eastern quadrant of the facility, the sub-camp, Camp Thraken acts as the vehicle hub. Crews of armoured personnel stand ready at the camp, ready to deploy the camps fleet of vehicles at moment’s notice. Many of the older Dagobah Tech buildings have been torn down in favour of brand new, metallic and brutalist architecture, favored by Central Conmand.
Camp Vaas (x): Situated eight hundred meters due north of the Chancellory, and in the former school of psychology, is sub-camp Vaas. It is here that Camp Aurark’s shield is powered, and generated. The camps closeness to the chancellory ensures that any attack upon the generator or its power supply can be quickly responded to. Despite its less than sizeable garrison, the camp holds high tech defences, such as automated turrets and a sophisticated alarm system hidden within the treeline which surrounds the camp.
Camp Kalast (x): Camp Kalast is the largest of all camps, and makes up the greatest proportion. It is here where a vast portion of the garrison is held. Using the former student dormitories to great effect, as to house a majority of the guards, extra housing has been erected to fit the scientists and accommodate their families. Because of this, Camp Kalast houses its own recreational facilities, including a school, gymnasium and other comforts to remind scientific personnel of home.
SECURITY RATING: High
SECURITY
The security of Camp Aurark is high to say the least. Although its official designation as a training facility is a sham, it nonetheless houses thousands of soldiers, who operate the facility and ensure its smooth operation. A bulk of the facilities security force is made up of regular First Order Army soldiers, taken from posts around the First Orders burgeoning empire, for assignment on the system. This is then complimented by support force of stormtroopers, and then finally a battalion of FOSB special forces, designated to hold the research facilities and ensure none of the subjects escape.
Outside of the strong military presence, the defences allocated to the facility are a twenty-two-meter-high, and six-meter-thick quandanium steel and duracrete wall. The wall contains no entries and exits, and every few hundred meters, is fitted with a guard towers, armed with heavy repeating blasters and E-Webs. Anti-air emplacements are sparse around the facility. A majority of its defensive capability comes from its garrison and the vehicles.
The designers of the facility, as well as Central Command have conceded that a well-planned guerrilla assault could infiltrate the base, given the terrain and natural cover offered by it. Ergo, each sub-camp houses a standing garrison, designed to assist it in the event of attacks, along with an armoured and mechanised rapid response force, armed and ready for response. In any event, the defensive doctrine of Camp Aurark can be considered, rather reactionary in nature, with strategic thinking to be, to allow enemy forces to make the first move, an allow themselves to be drawn into greater military conflict.
SECURITY ASSETS
- 2x AT-HAT
- 3x AT-SG Walkers
- 8x Hussar-Class Command Speeders
- 12x Cruissar Assault Tanks
- 8x Cossack Repulsor Tank
- 20x Light Infantry Utility Vehicles
- 30x BARC Speeder Bikes
- 1x TIE/III Squadron
- GAVW Armoured Personnel Carrier
- 6x Turbolaser Batteries
- 8x Rapture Missile System
- 368x E-WEB Blaster Emplacements
- 22x6 Meter high Durasteel-reinforced duracrete perimeter wall
- 1x DSS-02 Shield Generator
- 16x Anti-Personnel Autoturrets
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Dagobah Tech was established during the Galactic Civil War by the Alliance to Restore the Republic as a training school to educate the children of rebel scientists and officers based at a local military facility. After the war, it was expanded, and became a beast unto its own, educating those hungry for knowledge from across the Galaxy. But it was not to last.
With the Gulag Plague, the education facility withered and died, only to allow Gungan students to participate in education there. However, with the advent of the Galactic Alliance, the facility was once more transformed into a place of learning and culture. But with the defeat on Dagobah, and a successful rout of military personnel, the First Order seized the university, and decidedly fortified it.
Dagobah’s natural flora and fauna, the secretive nature of the planet, tickled the fancy of the FOSB who wished to transform it into a research facility. One designed to perform research into the domestication of otherwise dangerous fauna for use by the Order of Ren, and in the pursuit of other military applications.
The reason for the choice to use such a backwater as Dagobah was ultimately three fold. Firstly, the remote nature of Dagobah made it a perfect location for such secretive projects. Secondly, the climate was prime for breeding the tropical predators which afflict the Galaxy. And finally, the dark side of the force. With the dark side being almost palpable on Dagobah, it was considered the world would be perfect for testing various theorys held about the use of the force upon massive predators. To subjugate and domesticate those which perhaps, at one point were not able to be. This is in addition to the extensively planned genetic modifications designed, in order to breed the genetic apex of the chosen research subjects.
In order to hide the nature of the facility, it officially became a training camp for soldiers in Swamp Warfare, and as apart of that, the base is garrisoned by a healthy force of First Order regular army troops, stormtroopers and FOSB operatives, meaning its covert nature could be pursued. Despite this, many of the troopers stationed at the facility questioned its true motives.
