Minister of Science {M.I.R.}
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Fleshing out Minister of Science R'ayne Asara's office on the M.I.S.S.
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- Structure Name: Ministerial Executive Office
- Classification: Director's Office
- Location: Mahporeem Imperial Science Station
- Affiliation: R'ayne Asara
- Accessibility:
- Minister R'ayne Asara's office remains accessible strictly by appointment or personal invitation, ensuring that only authorized personnel may approach its secured entrance. Without prior authorization, the office is completely sealed off from the rest of the science station, its access corridors restricted and monitored by station security. The arrangement grants Minister Asara an isolated sphere of authority, shielding her work, meetings, and affairs from unsolicited visitors, wandering personnel, and prying eyes.
- Description:
- The office is an imposing chamber of polished black stone, dark mahogany, and fine gold trim, illuminated by subdued lighting that gives the room an atmosphere of knowledge, authority, and quiet menace. Illuminated display cases, exotic plants, scientific specimens, and contained aquatic and reptilian life lend the otherwise severe office an unmistakably scientific yet gothic character.
- Serpentarium
- The office’s serpentarium is a dark, meticulously maintained enclosure of reinforced transparisteel, fashioned like a private zoological vault and filled with twisted branches, dense foliage, warm stone, and carefully regulated environmental systems to mimick the jungle temperature of Dathomir. Within its shadowed habitat dwells a female kodashi viper named simply Victoria, whose silent movements and watchful eyes make her less a specimen than a living presence within Minister Asara's otherwise austere domain.
- Aquarium
- Minister Asara's aquarium is a vast, reinforced transparisteel enclosure filled with dark water, jagged rock formations, and subdued aquatic vegetation, its filtration and life-support systems maintaining an environment suited to its dangerous inhabitants. Within its depths swims a tightly clustered school of carnivorous piirayas, their predatory movements, mandible jaws, and glinting teeth transforming the elegant display into something quietly menacing.
- Flora
- The office is adorned with an unusual collection of dark botanical life, including twisted thornsuckle plants, spiner plants, purple stingwort, darkkoninn, and cryptberry fruit plants, their deep hues and strange forms contrasting against the polished stone and mahogany furnishings. Carefully cultivated yet faintly sinister, the vegetation lends the chamber an almost living quality, with thorned stems, curling leaves, violet blossoms, and clusters of cryptberries creating the impression of a private and carefully controlled alien garden.
- Science Archives
- Integrated directly into the massive mahogany desk is a vast science archives database, granting Minister R’ayne Asara instantaneous access to classified records, research data, completed studies, and ongoing scientific operations across the station, and the entire Mahporeem Imperial Science Division. Its predictive indexing allows her to retrieve information concerning past, present, and future projects within seconds, placing an immense repository of scientific knowledge beneath her fingertips.
- Holographic Transparisteel Viewport
- The holographic transparisteel viewport serves as both a window into the void beyond and an advanced display system, its transparent surface seamlessly transforming from a clear view of space into a luminous holographic screen. When activated, it can project reports, scientific data, schematics, communications, and other information directly across the viewport, allowing everything to be reviewed without obstructing the imposing view beyond.
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The office’s visible security is deliberately modest, with two Drakonis Order members stationed outside the entrance and another two posted within, creating an appearance of routine protection rather than a fortified command center. Yet the true security is the Minister herself; for very few know that she is a Sith Lord, and the hidden weight of that title carries a far greater deterrent than any guard, weapon, or security system ever could.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The office was designed and constructed according to R'ayne Asara’s exact specifications during the original construction of the Mahporeem Imperial Science Station, rather than being converted from an existing administrative chamber.
Every element was deliberately chosen to serve her dual existence as Minister of the Mahporeem Imperial Science Division and the hidden Sith Lord known as Darth Sycophantia; a vast dark-mahogany semicircular desk edged in gold, integrated directly with the station’s scientific archives and databases; a holographic transparisteel viewport capable of shifting between a clear view of space and a luminous display for reports, schematics, communications, and research data; and carefully arranged guest seating that allowed visitors to remain beneath her gaze without making the chamber feel openly oppressive.
Beyond its administrative purpose, the room was built as a controlled sanctuary of science, secrecy, and cultivated darkness. Its shelves and surfaces accommodate scientific instruments and specimens, while a dedicated aquarium houses a school of carnivorous fish and a separate serpentarium contains a living reptile; dark thorn-bearing flora, including thornsuckle plants, spiner plants, purple stingwort, darkkoninn, and cryptberry fruit plants, adds an almost alien character to the chamber.
Security was intentionally kept understated, with two Drakonis Order members guarding the exterior entrance and two stationed inside, because the Sith Lord considered excessive fortification unnecessary; the real deterrent was the woman seated within, whose secret Sith identity and the ancient terror associated with that title constituted the office’s most formidable defense.