Jedi Accountant
Image Debit: Rare print of the Palace's original owner, dated 3638 BBY
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To provide a location for accounting activities
- Image Credit: SWTOR Strongholds (print of the original owner) Manaan Stronghold (all other images)
- Canon: Manaan stronghold (SWTOR)
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Stivastin (original owner) VPN Accounting LLP (current owner)
- Structure Name: Palace of Stivastin
- Classification: Accounting office
- Location: Manaan
- Affiliation: VPN Accounting LLP
- Accessibility: Open to the public
- Description: A floating artificial island, the Palace of Stivastin features an expansive plaza on the waterline level, complete with a landing pad. while also having one underwater level and two above-water levels. It also features a balcony on the second floor.
Entrance Plaza
Image Debit: The entrance plaza as it stood at Stivastin's death
The entrance plaza features a landing pad, two large pedestals for large statues, four reflection pools, each of which comprise two fountains, as well as three smaller pedestals for sculptures or other bulky decorations. In addition, two arches, connected by a central spine are situated above the reflection pools.
Entrance lobby:
Image Debit: The main lobby prior to any furniture being installed
The main lobby is a hallway where there is a state-of-the-art sound system installed, alongside holovid screens and, of course, an automated bank teller machine that is used even for commercial bank accounts, comfortable chairs of Selkath design for clients to wait for their appointments, a coffee machine, as well as a refreshment vending machine. Advisory offices, alongside the support personnel and services, occupy the rest of the waterline floor.
Common work space:
Image Debit: The common work space, facing north
Used primarily by assurance and tax practitioners, and on occasion for insolvency and advisory when they need the assistance of tax or assurance staff. the second floor's common work space offers a large number of windows on three of the four sides, overlooking over Manaan's surface. Even assurance and tax partners are treated equally for office space compared to even the junior staff accountants.
Balcony:
Image Debit: The balcony facing outward
The second floor balcony is used by all personnel for recreational space and passes through the common work space used by assurance and tax accountants. As such, it is used by personnel on meal break, and sometimes even clients if the clients' customs mandate so.
Underwater basement:
Image Debit: The inside of a hemicycle
Image Debit: The main basement room
Built with three rooms, two of which are hemicycles, called north and south, that offer abundant views of Manaan's underwater habitats, and sandwich a rectangular room, the underwater basement is where the practice's insolvency practitioners labor while at their offices. The centerpiece of the main basement room is a print of the Palace's original owner, opposite the turbolift.
SECURITY: Low
- Security alarms
Stivastin, the original owner of the Palace, was a Selkath known for its delirious nature: having commissioned the Palace's construction with an extravagant vision and going deep into debt to build it, shortly before joining forces with the Revanites. He was experimented on by the Revanites with promises of a debt-free future, he died on Manaan before the interior was completed and his foreclosed palace was bought from its estate by an unidentified party. It would take years before the palace would be finished, and was completed well after the deaths of the members of the strike team that killed its namesake. However, accounting records that survived from that time showed that the bulk of the construction costs were incurred after the death of the original owner.
Rumors was that the unidentified party that bought the Palace had virtually transformed the then-publicly accessible areas into a museum, with decorations coming in from places as varied as Zakuul, Ossus, Voss or even Rishi. Decorations from that time were looted by the New Sith Wars and, by the Galactic Civil War, it became a luxury fishing lodge for the use of tourists, Human (especially during the heyday of the Empire) or otherwise, with Selkath staffing the facility. After the First Order collapsed, the Palace remained in use as such until the Gulag Plague, at which point tourism collapsed on Manaan and it was back to its original use, with a dynasty of Selkath owners.
After the Plague subsided, the then-owner began restoration works to return it to the condition as at the end of the Revanite crisis. He then began to use the Palace to revive the accounting industry on the planet, and especially insolvency. Over the following hundred years, the Palace has become one of the symbols of the accounting profession on Manaan until mismanagement of the firm caused it to become top-heavy and become unproductive, at which point it was acquired by VPN. Currently about 70-80 accountants work there (70 in the low season, 80 in the busy season).
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