The Hunger
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To further go in dept on Marquis Credius Nargath's homestead
- Image Credit: https://www.deviantart.com/treijim/art/Phedailin-Palace-111272023
- Canon: N/A
- Links: http://starwarsrp.net/topic/148485-the-whispers-of-shadows/
- Structure Name: Valkan Citadel
- Classification: Palace
- Location: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Eriadu
- Affiliation: House Nargath's family head: Marquis Credius Nargath
- Size: Massive 12.2 square kilometres, 58 square kilometers full domain.
- Population: Heavy
- Demographics:
-12.000 Security detail
- space for additional 1500 occupants and 10.000 additional serving staff
- Accessibility: It is easily found, as it is not far from major landmarks such as the Carrion Spire and the capital city of Eriadu. Though the gardens are publically accessible, they and the private palace complex itself are guarded around the clock by the extensive House Guard.
- Description: A classical looking palace complex, expanded over the thousands of generations which have lived and worked within its walls, surrounded by lush and beautiful gardens, which form a stark contrast with the otherwise heavily polluted industrial areas of Eriadu.
Botanical gardens: Within the extensive gardens of the Valkan Citadel, there is a massive glasshouse which holds some of the galaxy's most beautiful and rare plants, open for public visits all around the year.
Citadel Gardens: The gardens of the Valkan Citadel are a sight to behold, with sculptures of each of the former rulers of House Nargath and various works of art, walkways and large venue areas for recreation.
Valkan Citadel: The citadel itself is the epithome of grandeur, House Nargath's absolute show of wealth and power, with a palace that spans the size of a small city on its own, with its highest point reaching upward of fivehundred meters, using various expensive materials, durable granites and marbles, noble metals and stained glass, the palace is a show of the pre-industrial, pre-militaristic era of Eriadu, but even with its old appearance, it holds a very modernised interior which blends the modern elements of places such as Coruscant with the more classical aspects such as Naboo.
SECURITY: Maximum
Military personel: 2000 troopers
Security detail: between 4000 and 8000 all year round
Valkan Guard: 2000 Elites
The Security of the Valkan Citadel is handled by three divisions, consisting out of Eriaduan Military personel which is assigned to guard duty outside of the palace's perimeter and is in charge for the security and law enforcement up to the Valkan Citadel's walls, but not within the palace grounds including the gardens. The Gardens and palace grounds, the gardens and the public parts of the Valkan Citadel are the operational grounds for regular security personel, usually consisting out of hired security firms and legal paramilitary organizations, but also consists out of locally hired men and women who have past the scrutiny of the third and final division's assessment of them. The inner circle and private wings of the palacecomplex are the jurisdiction of the Valkan Guard, which consists out of elite members recruited straight fromthe Eriaduan military academy or men and women who have passed the recruitmet process on some other way.
Though the gardens and most of the outer parts of the palace have no additional protection, the Valkan Citadel itself is surrounded by a 15m tall durasteel reinforced, granite wall with guard posts at the three public entrances and around eighty guard towers armed with a quad laser gun each to ensure a minimum of safety from outdoors hostilities. The walls themselves are also equipped with several military grade shield generators on four outer points to allow for a shield to be erected in case of aserious planetary emergency.
The palace itself has an underground hangarbay with ample space for around two hundred Peltast Mk I interceptors, withe the exit of the hangarbay hidden within the mountainrange behind the palacecomplex.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Valkan Citadel actually started as a simple, but important outpost for the primitive Eriaduans in the ancient times, where it was mostly used as a training facility for the Eriaduan military and later on the housing facilities for the elite guards of the Eriaduan Marquisade. Somewhere around 23 BBY, the outpost was gifted to the Eriaduan House Nargath by Willhuff Tarkin, which in the coming years started expanding the outpost and added on the aspects which now form the House Nargath Palace complex or Valkan Citadel for short. Due to Eriadu's neutrality since the fall of the first galactic empire, it has remained relatively unscathed throughout the eras, avoiding major catastrophies and thus being granted the opportunity to grow to its current size with the successions of the Marquisade's heads. Standing as a symbol of both Eriadu's wealth and power, but also as a breath of fresh air in comparison to the planet's heavily industrialized areas and capital city.
