Cryax Bane
Red-eyed Snake
Name: Coruscant Tourism and Visitor’s Center
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Intent: To provide the Coruscant Rotary Club with a way to obtain bodies for human trafficking
Classification: business; front
Location: Galactic City, Coruscant Underworld, Coruscant
Affiliation: The CRC
Description:
The Coruscant Tourism and Visitor's Center used to be a dilapidated, abandoned building that was taken over and spruced up by the Coruscant Rotary Club for the intention of providing information, such as hotels, restaurants, things to do, and historical sites for galactic tourists while visiting the Queen of the Core. Guided tours around each sector are also provided as a source of additional income for the center. The business is also a front for a very different kind of activity for some of the visitors as it is a well-secreted human, near-human and alien trafficking ring. Dating back to the era of the New Galactic Empire, the historic building, dwarfed by the towering skyscrapers looming over it, might very well be missed if it weren't for the friendly Holo advertisements starring a winking, beckoning female Twi'lek , peppered around the sector, directing the tourists to its facade. The underground portion, the part hidden from the public, is the most expansive part of the structure, containing a cavernous maze of cells and maintenance tunnels.
Street Level:
The street level floor of the Coruscant Tourism and Visitor’s Center is a large sun-lit lobby that welcomes visitors with beautiful Twi’lek travel agents and tour guides and cheerful travel posters hanging on the walls. Visitors may take Holo-brochures containing maps and must-see areas of the city as well as book hotel rooms and restaurant reservations at many of the Holonet stands stationed around the main lobby.
Basement:
The lower level of the Center, reaches down into the Coruscant Undercity and contains dark holding areas for tourists who are deemed valuable enough to be sold to slavers guilds and black market traders. The cells below can contain hundreds of captives at a given time, some of them packed in together like sardines. There are also devices, like cattle prods, stun nets and cuffs and Force suppression collars on hand if some of the "tourists" should become unruly.
Security for both the upper level and lower levels of the Tourist Center is drum tight. On the street level, Holo cameras are everywhere, and security guards dressed as information booth clerks man stations in four corners of the lobby. The downstairs can only be accessed by a heavily safeguarded turbo lift in a maintenance area in the back of the lobby. Security in the basement level consists of a full prison guard staff of muscle-bound CRC henchmen.