The Hunger
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create the R&D headquarters for N&Z Umbrella corporation and it's direct subsidiaries
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- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: N/A
- Structure Name: N&Z Alpha Site
- Classification: Research facility, Architectural and engineering departments, development site.
- Location: Eriadu
- Affiliation: N&Z Umbrella Corporation
- Accessibility:
- Limited Access: As to be expected from a company which generally speaking has mostly military clients and produces by far mainly military products, it is no surprise that there are various sets of security clearancy on several levels, with restrictions in place for personel and public at almost every level. In general the public or non-clientele would never get any further than the actual lobby of the central tower of the Alpha site. However, potential customers, important officials and even actual reporters can be given limited access with escort beyond the lobby after they have made an appointment and have been subjected to screenings depending their background and trustworthiness.
- Security Clearances: Each member of the company will be given certain security clearances, these are based mainly on merit and value. The more you can offer the company, the more important you are for its progress, the more clearance you get. The exception to these rules are ofcourse boardmembers of the company, the COO and the CEO, though they in turn can be restricted by the chairman of the board, should he feel the need to do so. Security personel is thouroughly screened and always have a fixed space of work, meaning that in their case security clearance is unrestricted in terms of physical restrictions, but they have no access to holonet files of the company.
- Description:
- Lobby: This is where people are greeted, make appointments, etc. It generally also serves as the place where most of the employees enjoy their lunch, breaks, etc. It's a large open space at the lowest level of the large Alpha tower which dominates the Alpha Site.
- General Offices: The general Offices where one can find the board rooms, the meetingrooms for personel, offices of the financial department, offices of security and so forth, can all be found within the central tower, above the lobby.
- Research facilities: the research facilities which consist of both the architectural and engineering department, but also the basic science department are all located in the various large hangars and facilities sprawled out over the large site's area, with testing facilities located actually the closest to the general offices as that is logistically the best place for reviews and to see wther or not products follow the parameters and standards set up by the higher ups within the company.
- Alpha Tower: Dominating the site's buildings with a massive skyscraper, the Alpha tower stands out from other buildings within the industrial economic zone where it is located due to its unique architecture, which makes it look like it's been cut apart at the center in various slices.
- Level: High
- Details:
- Security Personel and security clearances: With a large amount of security personel, headed by at least a century of Valkan Guards of the House Nargath, combined with a multitude of clearances which are routinely checked, ammended and altered. This site can boast to have one of the most professional military forces as the head of its security forces which depending on the time of day and present personel can reach to around 5000 security personel going from hired guards to professional Valkan Guards.
- Ray shielded, Ersteel shielded Tower: In case of emergencies, the central tower can activate a large ray shield and an ersteel plating which will cover all the structurally vital areas and potential weak or vulnerable spots in the building to minimize damage during emergencies which call for such actions.
- Blastdoors: This entire site has a lockdown procedure, which means each section will be cut off entirely by heavy blastdoors and airfiltering systems in case of emergency, making it a lot harder for intruders to get out or any hostile forces with ill intent to get to where they want to be within a short timeframe.
- Military Hardware and equipment: As this site is still part of a company renowned for its various military products, it wouldn't be hard to understand that the Alpha site houses an extensive armory for its security personel, with standard weapon caches and riot armors available, but also several MGV-1 Caesar's present and a detachment of 500 ZMD-CI Mercury and ZMD II Jupiter droids present. The site also has a small hangar for a squadron of Peltast II class interceptors at the ready.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Alpha site's construction started somewhere in the mid- 830's ABY, though at the time it was simply meant to be the facility headquarters of the Eriadu Manufacturing Shipyards. It's original construction was completed in 834 ABY and mainly consisted of several hangars and an at the time much smaller central tower. This changed for it to become the company headquarters of the Nargath Holdings in 855 ABY when it became clear that Nargath Holdings would start selling under its own name rather than the EMS name. In this period, the smaller office building was gradually being broken down and replaced what is now the Alpha tower, which in turn gives the Alpha site its name. Over the period of about four years, many of the old hangars were either torn down and replaced by more modern facilities or repurposed for security reasons or as storage facilities. In 859 ABY it yet again changed, to become th central hub of research and development for the relatively new N&Z Umbrella Corporation, which would be the parent company for the vast holdings under both the Nargath and the Zanareth name. This change saw the introduction of larger compounds for security personel, a larger armory and the creation of the large lobby and recreation space at the base of the Alpha tower.
