- Intent: To create a base for Director Caalgen and also an excuse to use the Codex
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- Canon: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_security_complex
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[Dominion] Solution on Scarif
- Military Base Name: Research Site 95-Σ, 'Krennic's Spire'
- Classification: Military Research Base, System Capital
- Location: Scarif
- Affiliation:
The Galactic Empire - Advanced Weapons Research Division of the Imperial Military
- Director [member="Travis Caalgen"]
[*]Population:
- Military Garrison
Army Personnel (approx. 9,216 troopers; one Imperial army battlegroup)
x6,912 Stormtroopers (Three regiments) - x2,304 Coastal defender 'shoretroopers' (One regiment)
- Various Support Auxiliaries
[*]Navy Personnel (approx. 72 pilots; one Imperial starfighter wing)
- x72 TIE pilots
- Various Support Auxillaries
[*]Non-Combat Personnel
- Large amounts of Advanced Weapons Research scientists, science officers, and overseers.
- Maintenance personnel
- Cargo pilots
[*]Accessibility: The Imperial-controlled world of Scarif has, since its rediscovery, remained the most secretive system in the Empire. A shield gate was recently installed, generating a nigh-impenetrable deflector shield over the entire planet. This ensures that the security complex can almost only be accessed by persons with the proper code clearance, making it a very secure military base. During all times, Imperial shoretroopers (stormtroopers specialized for tropical climates) patrol the beaches around the complex as well as many of its platforms, with regular stormtroopers patrolling the insides of the base. TIE Strikers occasionally sweep the area for interlopers.
[*]Description: At the center of the base is a large, black tower reminiscent of the Imperial Citadel, where most of the command work takes place. Below that are several floodgates that provide hydroelectric power to most of the complex, including the subterranean portions underneath this all. Around the base, mostly near the outskirts, are several dozen landing pads for cargo ships as well as receiving areas where cargo is processed, stored, or taken to be used in projects; AT-ACTs can be seen bearing cargo between pads and the tower complex itself.
- Citadel Tower - Standing at the center of this massive Imperial complex, the citadel tower serves as the brain of the entire operation. Sleek, black, and imposing, the tower has several important locations situated inside of it along with the hundreds of officers responsible for keeping everything flowing smoothly.
- Command Center - Arguably the most critical aspect of the citadel tower is the command center that resides within. Here is where the command crew oversees everything that is going on currently in the complex ranging from cargo arrivals and research developments to even the status of the garrison forces.
- Data Vaults - With the discovery of massive amounts of ancient Imperial data from the Rebellion-era at then-Imperial worlds such as Hypori, Kamino, and Scarif itself; The Imperial Military needed a secure place to store the technical readouts of their creates such as the Imperial IV-class Star Destroyer or the genome composition of the Empire's clone stormtroopers. Much of the citadel tower was dedicated towards harboring a data vault to keep this data in a secretive but easily accessible location, leading up all the way to the top of the tower where a communications array can send plans across all of Imperial space.
- Director's Quarters - When Director Caalgen, the newly-crowned Moff of the Scarif System, commissioned the construction of both the security complex and the shield gate, he requested two things; a luxurious office and quarters for the military director, so that he could feel at home in his own complex. Combined, the Director's quarters are located inside the citadel tower near the command center for ease of access for the man.
- Subterranean Base - Underneath the central tower is an expansive below sea/shore base that houses the majority of the base's operations such as research. It also holds the living quarters of much of the staff and garrison, with several TIE hangar bays with corridors leading to the surface present here.
- Research Labs - Here is where the main event takes place. Hundreds of Advanced Weapons Research scientists figuratively slave away at designing, discovering, and building new technology for the Imperial War Machine.
- Bunkers - Moving away from the main bas of the complex, decent amounts of bunkers where portions of the garrison are stationed, some inside and some patrolling the shores outside. Many of the turbolasers are peppered around areas with a bunker nearby.
- Cargo Pads - On the outskirts of the complex are several dozen landing pads for non-executive shuttles and other ships to set down and unload their cargo. Other pads are also present and are mostly used as a storing area for materials and technology that needs to be shipped off or sent to the base. Trams lead from the cargo pads to citadel tower and the rest of the base.
- Armament
x30 XX-10 turbolaser towers
Peppered around and throughout the complex
[*]Garrison
- x9,216 Imperial stormtroopers
- x72 TIE/sk x1 experimental sir superiority fighters
[*]Other
Over eight hundred years ago, the galaxy-spanning Empire discovered the lush tropical planet of Scarif and, proclaiming it to be the perfect location for a base away from the prying eyes of the Imperial Senate, erected a security complex and world-spanning deflector shield to serve as a primaire contributor to the Imperial war machine. An undetermined amount of years later in 9 BBY, and the complex was the site of construction for the Death Star project under the ambitious eyes of Director Orson Krennic.
Some time later and the Alliance to Restore the Republic discovered the existence of Scarif base and the Death Star, provoking the war-starting Battle of Scarif and the concurrent theft of the Death Star plans. Imperial Governor Wilhuff Tarkin subsequently ordered the Death Star to fire on the base which killed at participants, both Rebel and Imperial alike. Centuries would pass before the planet of Scarif was rediscovered again.
The base, or whatever was left of it, rusted and fell apart in time. The vegetation and shored rebuilt themselves around the site of one of the Empire's failures until 849 ABY. Rebels would be the first to find the base again, disgarding it as a relic of the past before setting down their own garrison to watch ironically the third Galactic Empire rise to power on Kamino. These Imperials would learn of Scarif's existence through passing notes made in the datacores of nearby Hypori, arranging for an expedition to be made.
Another battle for Scarif later, ending with the complete annihilation of Rebel forces and the withdrawal of the nosy First Order, and once more the Galactic Empire controlled the tropical planet. In a sick twist of fate, another military director would commission the construction of a security complex over the remains of its predecessor...
