Well-Known Viceroy
C A N T O K ' S - W A R E H O U S E
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a hidden Smuggling Outpost within the territory of the Mandalorian Empire for the Tarkin Initiative
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- Links: Smuggling Outpost | Tarkin Initiative | Mandalorian Empire
- Structure Name: Cantok's Warehouse- Imperial Smuggling Post E3
- Classification: Smuggling Outpost
- Location: Located north of Corbos Mining City, Corbos
- Affiliation: Publicly operated by the Hutt Cartel
- Secretly monitored and catalogued by the Tarkin Initiative
- Accessibility:
Cantok's Warehouse is built directly into the base of a sheer cliff face several kilometers north of the ruins of Corbos Mining City.
The surrounding region is sparsely inhabited, with much of the planet effectively abandoned after the collapse of its industrial economy. This isolation makes the site ideal for covert activity: few civilian ships pass through the system, and those that do rarely question cargo movements tied to the remaining mining infrastructure.
Approach routes are intentionally indirect. Freighters typically descend along the cliff line to masked docking apertures cut into the rock, while smaller vessels use a concealed plateau landing zone above the facility connected by cargo lifts. To outsiders, the structure reads as an obsolete ore-processing installation left behind when Corbos' industry failed.
- Description:
Cantok's Warehouse is not a freestanding depot but a fortified installation carved into the lower face of a massive cliff wall. Durasteel blast doors, recessed docking bays, and cargo bays are embedded directly into the rock, making the structure difficult to detect from orbit and naturally shielded from weather or long-range scans.
Above the cliff, rusted mining towers and abandoned conveyor structures remain from Corbos' industrial era, helping sell the illusion that the site is simply a defunct extraction complex. Inside, however, the facility opens into a sprawling series of reinforced cargo chambers, shielded vaults, and freight tunnels extending deep into the stone.
The isolated setting allows the warehouse to function as a discreet redistribution hub for weapons, spice, stolen technology, and falsified cargo moving across Mandalorian Empire space.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Cliffside Docking Bays
Primary freighter docking bays recessed into the rock face and sealed by heavy blast doors. These bays allow ships to dock while remaining hidden from most orbital scans. Cargo gantries extend directly into the interior vault system, enabling rapid unloading of contraband shipments handled by brokers tied to the Hutt Cartel.
Upper Plateau Landing Zone
A concealed landing pad located on the cliff's summit, disguised among abandoned mining machinery. Smaller ships, couriers, and scout craft use this zone before cargo is lowered via reinforced industrial lifts into the warehouse below. It also doubles as an emergency extraction point.
Rock-Cut Hangar Caverns
Natural caverns expanded into reinforced hangars capable of holding several light Freighters or gunships. These chambers also contain concealed maintenance alcoves and hidden fuel reserves, allowing ships to remain sheltered for extended periods without detection.
Sealed Mining Tunnel Network
A labyrinth of old extraction tunnels extends outward from the facility into the surrounding cliffs. Many routes are collapsed or trapped, but a few are secretly maintained as covert smuggling corridors, emergency escape routes, and hidden storage vaults for high-risk cargo.
Cantok's Central Exchange Floor
The main interior chamber of the warehouse, where shipments are inspected, traded, and redistributed. Modular cargo pens, shielded vault lockers, and portable transaction booths allow the site to function as a discreet marketplace for illicit goods moving through Mandalorian space.
Hidden Observation Node
Unknown to most smugglers, a sealed monitoring chamber installed by the Tarkin Initiative sits behind the warehouse's inner bulkheads. From here, embedded operatives quietly track shipments, identify criminal networks, and monitor activity linked to the Mandalorian Empire without revealing Imperial involvement.
This is accomplished through the usage of highly sensitive full-spectrum transceivers, subspace antenna, and HoloNet transceivers. Additionally concealed hyperspace detectors, and signal interceptors, Spy Rays are embedded throughout the structure for further detection ability.
Refinement Vaults (Spice Processing Wing)
Hidden deeper within the cliff complex are sealed chemical chambers used to refine raw spice into transport-ready product. Portable reactors, filtration columns, and climate-controlled vaults allow the outpost to process shipments before redistribution, reducing the need to move unstable cargo across long routes. These vaults are among the most tightly restricted areas of the warehouse.
Droid Chop-Shop Bays
A cluster of maintenance pits and disassembly racks where salvaged or stolen droids are stripped, rebuilt, or reprogrammed for resale. Smugglers frequently bring captured security droids or industrial units here to be wiped and repurposed. The chop-shop also produces counterfeit identification, making it a valuable resource for covert operations and criminal fleets.
SECURITY
Cantok's Warehouse relies on High layered criminal security rather than formal military defense. The compound is protected by Hutt Guard Droids, Hutt War Droids and various members of the Hutt Guardsman Guild loyal to the Hutt overseers, 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 such as Droid Lanterns and Turret-droids designed to neutralize intruders before they reach the subterranean listening post. Automated locking blast doors controlling access between warehouse sectors. Cargo scanners monitor incoming shipments for unauthorized interference, while shielded vaults prevent remote scanning of stored contraband.
The Hutt Cartel maintains a standing security force large enough to deter raids from rival gangs or independent smugglers, but not so large as to draw Mandalorian military scrutiny. Defensive measures emphasize intimidation, controlled access, and rapid lockdown procedures rather than sustained combat capability.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
When Corbos' mining industry collapsed, much of the planet was abandoned, leaving behind half-functioning infrastructure and empty industrial shells. The Hutt Cartel quietly moved in afterward, converting one of the remaining cliffside processing sites into a secure smuggling depot positioned far from major patrol routes.
The Tarkin Initiative later identified the outpost as an ideal observation target within territory under the control of the sprawling Mandalorian Empire. Rather than dismantling it, Initiative operatives embedded covert monitoring equipment within the structure, turning the warehouse into both a criminal supply hub and a hidden intelligence node.
Today Cantok's Warehouse survives precisely because the planet around it has died, a forgotten cliffside facility on an abandoned world that quietly fuels crime while feeding information to unseen Imperial observers.
