Ashin Cardé Varanin
Are you on the square?
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A useful waypoint to mark destroyed or heavily damaged worlds.
- Image Source: Sylvain Sarrailh, "Meteor Station - ENDLESS SPACE 2"; screencaps from Star Wars (2015) #41, #62, and #67
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Cult of the Central Isopter
- Manufacturer: Cult of the Central Isopter
- Affiliation: Cult of the Central Isopter
- Market Status: Closed Market (though anyone is free to write about visiting them, driving them away, etc.)
- Model: Central Isopter Observatory
- Production: Semi-Unique
- Material: Durasteel hull, panoramic transparisteel viewports
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Asteroid Base
- Length: Varies, average 400 meters
- Width: Varies, average 400 meters
- Height: Varies, average 300 meters
- Armament: None
- Defenses: Low (death cultists aren't wild about deflector shields)
- Hangar Space: Standard small craft docking bays but no dedicated hangar complement
- Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
- Speed Rating: Very Low
- Hyperdrive: Class 2.0
STANDARD FEATURES
- Standard life support systems
- Standard sensors
- Standard communications systems
- Standard engines
- Standard navigational systems
- Excellent viewports
STRENGTHS
- Provides a superb vantage point and place of meditation over destroyed or seriously damaged worlds.
- As Central Isopter cultists can detect when a world will be destroyed or seriously damaged, a Central Isopter Observatory may appear over a world with such a fate, even days in advance.
- Very limited mobility.
- Very low defenses.
- Unarmed.
- Often (rightly) seen as an omen of impending doom, and driven away as such.
DESCRIPTION
The Dark-aligned, often Force-sensitive cult of the Central Isopter (which is at least a thousand years old) is seeing its greatest resurgence in popularity since the Gulag Virus outbreak. These death cultists contemplate issues of mortality, and construct vantage points as needed: for example, they built a great and temporary temple at the edge of the Death Star's blast chasm on Jedha. In the modern era, Central Isopter Observatories have taken up positions over the ruin of several planets. {Any planet marked as destroyed on the Galaxy Map will certainly have an Observatory nearby.} Observatories have also been spotted in the so-called Scar Worlds and, from time to time, in the company of the multi-tradition Dark Side academy ship Pomojema.
For those willing to be immersed in the cult's perspective, Central Isopter Observatories have proven to be a meaningful place of learning and contemplation. Toward death, obviously.
