Corporate Shogun
- Intent: To provide a headquarters for the Nakaioma conglomerate, and a notable location for corporate, and familial roleplay.
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- Structure Name: Nakaioma Plaza
- Classification: Corporate headquarters
- Accessibility: It would be hard for one to not notice Nakaioma Plaza, a truly massive amalgamation of skyscrapers, office blocks, courtyards, and other such facilities. Its main feature, Nakaioma Tower stands as one of the tallest buildings on Coruscant, a feat not easily achieved. If one still somehow has difficulty in finding it, the large, glowing Nakaioma logo on the side of the building's highest floors should prove helpful. Several of the Plaza's lower floors, and courtyards are open to the public, along with the variety of restaurants, restrooms, and other public services which exist there. However everything above this is strictly off-limits, and heavily guarded. Access by foot, or air is possible, due to the hundreds of landing pads which litter the area.
- Description: Headquarters of the NAKAIOMA conglomerate, and home to the headquarters of many of its subsidiaries, one can expect that it would be a gargantuan structure, and it is. Impressively projecting the face of the corporation's logo, and power, it stands tall, even among the Coruscant skyline, and tall enough to the extent that its highest floors require oxygen control, and sealing to prevent low temperatures. Notable for its more blocky architecture, standing in contrast to the curves and elegance of other Coruscanti skyscrapers, the intimidating exterior of the complex is similarly contrasted with its own interior, being home to a quite beautiful, and well-done blend of contemporary interior decoration, and traditional Onami-chi designs. Decorated with water fountains, paintings, statues, and portraits of past CEOs, the Plaza's interior oozes wealth, history, culture, and tradition. Mostly comprised of office space, the Plaza also holds training facilities, and barracks for its vast security detail, restaurants, medcenters, cinemas, R&D labs, gymnasiums, sports facilities, and even a shopping mall, all to cater to the hundreds of thousands of employees that work within its great walls.
Central Lobby: Located at the base of the primary tower, and at the very heart of the overall structure, the Central Lobby is a grand hall decorated with traditional Onami-chi furniture, two large reflecting pools sit on either end of a large Phrik-made statue depicting the flower logo of the conglomerate. In the corner sits a cafe, bar, and restaurant all in one, depending on the day, and time of day. While a small army of receptionists operate the desks near the very end of the Lobby, large holoscreens located along the walls of the Lobby play various HoloNet news networks, and Nakaioma corporate briefings, as scrolling LED panes beneath them show current stock prices of the conglomerate and its subsidiaries. The Central Lobby by its lonesome is large enough to host a small office building, and is many visitors first impressions of the Plaza's interior. It strives to make an impression.
Plaza Turbolift Network: Responsible for connecting the several hundred floors, spread across several different structures, the Plaza Turbolift Network stretches literal miles both horizontally and vertically when calculated by total length of the network. Capable of speeds of 50 miles per hour, one can go from the Central Lobby to the roof in only a few minutes.
Security Quarters: As the name suggests, this is where the Plaza's security control infrastructure is located, only accessible by authorized security personnel, it is in-fact a series of corridors, and rooms, each dedicated to separate functions, such as cyber security, ground security, air security. It is also here where the barracks which house the Plaza's guards can be found, overall, this entire section of the Plaza would be very familiar to a veteran of any galactic military. A hub of computers, holoscreens, blaster lockers, monitoring equipment, uniform lockers, and propaganda posters. S4 Clearance is required.
Nakaioma Plaza Sunshine Mall: A branch of Sunshine Malls located within the Plaza, this large shopping arena is located only a few floors above ground floor, and is open to the public. Occupied solely by Nakaioma, and Nakaioma-affiliated brands, stores, and products, this luxurious mall is where most of the Plaza's employees do their shopping, it is spread across eight floors, and has a total of two hundred stores located within it, where everything from electronics, to water bottles can be found.
Landing Pads: Around seven hundred landing pads can be used at varying levels across the Plaza, designed for swift transport to places of work for authorized employees, these landing pads are highly regulated, accepting only employee, or corporate-owned vehicles, with rare exceptions requiring a permit, and tightly secured. An employee who works on the 127th floor, can only use the landing pads available for that floor, if he desired to land his vehicle at another floor, he would require a permit for such.
Plaza Gymnasiums: Not a single location, but rather the name for a series of different gyms scattered throughout the Plaza, these gyms are free-to-use for Nakaioma employees, and contain a wide variety of exercise equipment, along with a number of personal trainers, and nutritious food dispensers. At Nakaioma, self-discipline, and a healthy lifestyle are socially expected from one's peers, and superiors. S1 Clearance is required.
Plaza Grand Suites: A combination of residential units, and hotel suites for lease, the Grand Suites are where the rich and powerful who visit the Plaza spend their night, or where workaholic Nakaioma executives live. Stunningly beautiful, well-decorated, furnished, and filled with every need, or want one could ask for, these luxurious, and decadent suites serve as a physical representation of the conglomerate as a whole, and like the Central Lobby, a method of impressing potential partners. Located on the higher floors of the main tower.
Central Docking Bay: Able to accommodate most kinds of vessels, from simple shuttles, to superfreighters, the CDB, located on the lesser known north-facing side of the Plaza is where the daily deliveries that support the Plaza's city-sized population of employees and visitors come in every morning. Purely for cargo, this is not an area meant to be seen by visitors, and as such is closed off to most, other than those who work there. Gritty, industrial, and entirely practical, it is a stark contrast to the refined corporate excellence of the rest of the Plaza. S4 Clearance is required.
The Offices: Making up the majority of space within the Plaza, the simple open-space offices of the conglomerate, and the subsidiaries which also maintain their headquarters here, are where much of the administrative work is done. Everything from financing, to material acquisition, to public relations campaigns, to approvals for new projects. As boring as one might assume an office to be, sleek black floors and walls contrast red and white lighting, like much of the Plaza. Separated by thin walls based on subsidiary, subdivision, and department, many of the offices are open-space, to allow quick and easy access between them, to optimise work flow. Though many cubicles and meeting rooms still exist.
R&D Labs: Perhaps among the most secretive parts of the Plaza, these mysterious labs are tightly secured, and well-patrolled. Though only one of many, many labs across the galaxy, the labs within the Plaza are particularly notable, as they are where much of the coordination of research and development projects goes on. Serving in some sense as the administrative headquarters of most of the conglomerate's R&D, although much of the actual development goes on elsewhere. S4 Clearance is required.
Employee Sleeping Quarters: Frequently found wherever one goes, these quarters are for employees who live too far away to make an efficient commute to work, or have too much work to do to make it home. Compact, space-efficient, yet comfortable, these capsule-sized quarters can fit a single person, and are outfitted with cozy bedding, a HoloNet connection, and a selection of corporate-chosen reading material. Each Sleeping Quarters has a communal bathroom, toilets, and changing room. S2 Clearance is required.
Imperial Gardens: An outdoor courtyard located on one of the highest rooftops of the Plaza, shielded from cold temperatures, and low oxygen levels by a protective dome, and artificial lighting, allowing for any time of the day, or season to be replicated, the Imperial Gardens are reserved for executive-class Nakaioma personnel, and authorized guests. Comprising of imported flora from across the galaxy, it is carefully tended to by a corps of dedicated experts, within the Gardens exists a small monk temple, a koi pond, and a stone garden. S6 Clearance is required.
Executive Offices: Near the top of the every tower in the Plaza exist the executive offices, where some of the highest ranking members of the conglomerate conduct their daily business, intentionally kept factionalized based on subsidiary, and even internal corporate faction, as to prevent confrontations, and promote competition, these offices are spacious, well-furnished, and well-protected. Especially from other Nakaioma executives. S5 Clearance is required for these floors of the Plaza.
Coruscanti Plaza Medcenter: The primary medcenter (Hospital), of Nakaioma Plaza, this massive facility takes up twenty floors, and has several thousand beds. Responsible not just for the medical care of the employees within, but of Nakaioma Medical, and Rescue-Recovery patients and customers in the surrounding area as well. Equipped with state-of-the-art medical technology, and staffed by over a thousand highly trained professionals, the CPM is run by Nakaioma Medical, and is one of the more prestigious medcenters on Coruscant.
Plaza Fire Response Headquarters: Home to the complex's own fire department, the PFRH is the center for the Plaza's fire suppression system, the barracks for the firefighters responsible for putting out any fires the system can't stop, and the equipment they would use to do so. The PFRH is also specialized for general disaster response, in the event of a structural collapse, or some form of mass-causality, or damage attack on the Plaza. Several other, smaller fire response stations are located throughout the Plaza.
Holding Facilities: Dark, damp, cold, and heartless, the duracrete walls of the Plaza's classified holding cells exist deep underground, and far from prying eyes. A temporary storing location for prisoners that the conglomerate may want to interrogate without government interference, important prisoners are questioned here, before being shipped to black sites elsewhere in the galaxy. S5 Clearance required.
Communications Headquarters: Where the Plaza's independent HoloNet systems are maintained, and corporate communications are received, and distributed on private channels throughout the galaxy, the Com Quarters as they are known colloquially possess advanced equipment capable of ensuring that their private messages stay private, and that corporate knows about all of the many, many ongoings across the galaxy, big and small, geopolitical, underworld, and business alike, via their network of informants. A database of large servers, monitoring screens, holocommunications equipment, transmitters, and receivers, its a wonder the workers here don't get migraines. S3 Clearance required.
Public Courtyards: A mirage of parks, playgrounds, restaurants, stores, bars, cinemas, and most other public services, these open-space areas are located at ground level, in-between the large skyscrapers of the Plaza itself, and on the lowest levels of the Plaza also. A small open-air arena is also present here, and is available for being rented out by performance groups.
Top Floor: Home to Saro Nakaioma's personal Coruscant office, and home, where he often stays when visiting the galactic capital, it can be found at the highest level of the main tower, and is a spacious penthouse suite. Decked out with the latest in cyber security systems, automated defense protocols, armed guards, shatterproof windows, and a team of medical professionals on stand-by, it is a fortress within a fortress. And a luxurious fortress at that, accommodating a private swimming pool, hot spring, gymnasium, office space, master bedroom, home cinema, and staffed kitchen. Typically only authorized staff, Nakaioma family members, and the highest level executives are allowed within these sacred walls.
Maximum: At the edges of the Plaza property sit several generators, which when activated form the structure's defensive shield, capable of resisting moderate levels of orbital bombardment before giving way, long enough to secure the evacuation of important personnel and assets, which is largely what its purpose is, it serves its role well, and was installed following the appearance of the Omni threat. On the ground, several divisions of security officers from Nakaioma Security Services are present. Ranging from baton-wielding, uniformed guards in the public areas of the Plaza, to heavily armored, and railgun-wielding shock troops hidden away in the complex's barracks. Along the Plaza's several hundred landing pads for air traffic, sit a smaller number of anti-aircraft batteries, existing to shoot down any unauthorized craft to enter Nakaioma Plaza's private airspace. On the net, the Plaza is home to sophisticated firewall systems, and professional corporate splicers, hired to eliminate any would-be attempts at splicing into the Plaza's network, either for thieving, or sabotage. These splicers are assisted by security personnel trained in the maintenance of the Plaza's security systems, including fire suppression, motion sensors, cameras, automated turrets, and blast doors.
Coruscant wasn't built in a day, and neither was Nakaioma Plaza. Today, one of the largest structures on the ecomunopolis, this wasn't always the case. Initially comprising of only two moderately tall skyscrapers in the earliest days of the conglomerate, when it primarily was an energy corporation, before even the Clone Wars, and first Galactic Empire, the structure that people now know as Nakaioma Plaza came to be as the result of centuries of construction, refurbishment, and property expansionism. Serving almost as a physical symbol of the growth of the corporation that it belonged to, the Plaza grew as Nakaioma grew. Owing its continued growth to the modular design of the buildings, allowing for more floors to be added, as the demand for space begun to outweigh the supply. Ordered to be built originally by Taba Nakaioma, the second Chief Executive Officer of the Nakaioma corporation, and son of its founding father, the Plaza has since been taken under the wing of every CEO, and family patriarch since.
Once the original corporation begun to expand its operations, and take in new companies under its control, a debate was struck within the upper echelons of power as to whether or not having the Plaza be a centralized platform of power within the conglomerate would be a superior idea to having each subsidiary maintain their own separate headquarters, based on location. It was from this debate, that the conglomerate's current power structure, and ranking system would begin to form, with the agreement finally being that the administrative headquarters of each subsidiary would remain in the Plaza, but that their field operations, and lesser decision-making apparatus could be delegated to 'Regional Headquarters', and later-on, as operations continued to grow in scale, 'Regional Offices', which themselves were subordinate to the aforementioned Regional Headquarters. It was the importance of the Plaza, that led to the decision to begin establishing Nakaioma's own paramilitary capabilities, to allow it to protect its own properties without relying on third parties.
Then again, this decision could also have been to do with the outbreak of the Gulag virus in 425ABY, by this point, Nakaioma Plaza had grown to a significant structure, albeit nowhere near as large as it is today. Having mostly survived the Yuuzhan Vong wars intact, Raiko Nakaioma, the Chief Executive Officer at the time, would have been damned if he'd allow his family's monument to be desecrated by something he could not even see. As the virus spread to Coruscant, the Plaza practically became a fortress overnight, deploying the newly formed Nakaioma Security Services to the perimeters, constructing watchtowers, walls, turrets, ray shields, and electrified fences. Raiko's decision to close the Plaza off from the public, and retreat inwards would later be criticized as a typical example of the rich and powerful throwing the rest of the population under the bus to save their own skin, but this mattered little to him, or the family, as their Plaza was safe.
Following these so-called dark ages in the aftermath of Omni, and the Gulag virus, Nakaioma would seize on the opportunity of a shattered galaxy to spread its own influence, its tendrils seeping into the infrastructure of broken planetary governments, and entire regions of the galaxy. The Plaza was reopened, and over the course of these four centuries, would triple in size. By the time of the 830s, as the galactic economy rejuvenated, and the corporate sector as a whole found new ground to stand on, the Plaza would once more start to grow, as did its parent corporation. Under Szuko Nakaioma, and shortly after, his son, Saro Nakaioma, the Plaza would expand outwards, buying up much of the properties that surrounded it, tearing them down, and redeveloping them into further expansions of itself, creating new public courtyards, and staff facilities to accommodate the conglomerate's broadening size.
When the re-emergent Sith sacked Coruscant in 838ABY, Nakaioma Plaza was fiercely defended by the now well-established Security Services, and though heavily damaged in the fighting, was able to repel the brunt of the attacks levied against it. However as Coruscant was later annexed by the One Sith, evacuations of priority personnel, and assets were force to take place, and little of value had been found by their Sith occupiers. It was here that the current CEO found his aversion to the Sith, and to this day, several battle wounds of the wars have been intentionally left in a small number of spots across the Plaza, as a reminder of the Sith's typical nature as being bad for business. A lesson taught to the corporation by Nakaioma Plaza.
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