Bullets and power-cells
- Intent: Flesh out economic places in the Outer Rim for roleplay purposes.
- Image Credit: First Image Source, The Yard Image Source, Transfers Image Source, External Generators Image Source, Foundries Image Source, Geothermal Electric Turbine Reactor Image Source, Mines Image Source, Maintenance Shops Image Source, Material Testing Lab Image Source, Frigate Landing Pads Image Source, Far and Away Landing Image Source, Storage Image Source
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions:
- X9 Bumblebee-series Engineering/Excavation Droids - Open Market, Mass Produced
- X13 Paladin-series Synthmarines - Open Market, Mass Produced
- General Manufacturing Construct | Industrial AI - PGEM Variant Permission
- GPO-11 "Gildenwall" DRM System | "Greedshield DRM" - Open Market, Mass Produced
- GPO-12 "Ironmaze" Threat-Prevention Suite - Open Market, Mass Produced
- LS-1 'Ordinator' Security Pylons - Open Market, Mass Produced
- Links: Niki Priddy, Priddy General Engineering And Manufacturing
- Mine Name:
- Priddy General Engineering And Manufacturing Resource Extraction and Autonomous Production Plant-01
- Material:
- Garnets, Diamonds, precious gems
- Carbon Graphite
- Doonium
- Alum
- Chalcopyrite
- Chanlon
- Duranium
- Location: Queyta
- Affiliation: Niki Priddy, Priddy General Engineering And Manufacturing
- Size: Massive
- Population: Sparsely Staffed for maintenance, quality assurance, and external logistics though the facility itself is Largely Automated
- Profit: Medium-High
- Accessibility:
- While easily and readily visible from even low orbit, there are seldom few spots with which to actually make landfall without the threat of detection or being at the mercy of the lava flows. The facility is based directly adjacent to a lava flow junction that provides the best opportunity for mineral trapping through dredging. Aside from the manufactured structures, there is little space around the central portions of the foundry to land.
- Description:
- A conglomeration of buildings that are largely geometric in shape. Most everything ties into another building in one way or another. Be it overhead connections, underground, or on the same plane. Large collectors dot the exterior arrangements while inside the flows, towers dot sections for deeper collection inside the crust. Dark clouds are typical of most foundry and mining systems, though this one largely lacks the tell tale sign having based most of their energy requirements off of geothermal energy and stringent energy recycling practices. It is not free from these emissions, but it does not produce them in abundance as most places do, and keeps the sky above it largely clear.
Beacons dot the exterior hangar areas beckoning vessels to open landing pads where heavy equipment waits for logistical proceedings. Covered accessways are present throughout the entire facility to ensure any biologicals on site have some comfort from the stupendous heat exhaust from being directly over a lava flow.
Largely devoid of any cityscapes like the larger portion of the settled galaxy, the foundry is highly isolated and is off limits to the public without clearance to land. While not openly hostile towards outsiders, the matter of the droids guarding the facility is an entirely different matter as without prior authorization they will shoot on site without asking questions. Identification is an absolute requirement of those that work inside the foundry, and an escort or a temporary clearance is required to enter the facility without threat of coming to the end of one's life cycle prematurely.
A dedicated set of structures exist along the furthest edges of the massive contiguous foundry and factory to offload completed goods for external logistics to commence. Large hangars that comprise a small portion of the dedicated sentient work force allow shipping and other initial arrangements to occur.
Whether a refit or repairs, the fringe dock yards are able to accommodate large frigates and anything smaller with relative ease, while anything larger requires special permissions to dock just outside the fringes of the dockyards. While at the Far and Away landing zone, there is no cover from scans or visual sightings as the terrain is largely flat or unable to accommodate the substantial weight of covered hangars along with such vessels.
- A conglomeration of buildings that are largely geometric in shape. Most everything ties into another building in one way or another. Be it overhead connections, underground, or on the same plane. Large collectors dot the exterior arrangements while inside the flows, towers dot sections for deeper collection inside the crust. Dark clouds are typical of most foundry and mining systems, though this one largely lacks the tell tale sign having based most of their energy requirements off of geothermal energy and stringent energy recycling practices. It is not free from these emissions, but it does not produce them in abundance as most places do, and keeps the sky above it largely clear.
The Yard
- The largest portion of the mine and foundry is affectionately known as The Yard. A mass of lava flows dotted with dredging systems to draw out pockets of mineral rich lava directly from the flow and into the foundry itself. Cutting out the need for logistics of transporting the raw material for cooling and storage.
- The External Generators are not necessary, but act as a redundancy system and help feed auxiliary power to the foundry for processing to curb the large draw from the main Reactor. These are frequently spotted throughout The Yard, typically placed near the beginning of magma veins or outflows from the foundry itself.
- With raw materials being directly pulled from the lava flows, the Transfers exist to separate out the specific minerals to ferry them to the proper areas inside of the waiting foundry for processing and shaping. A series of mineral scanners, crucibles, conveyor cranes, and repulsor sleds move the material at alarming speeds through connected tunnel corridors throughout the plant.
- The most automated section of the facility. These areas can be found closest to the interior of the large facility for refining the raw materials drawn in by the lava dredging or mining processes. Each material has an alloted section of the plant to be properly processed, each fed by a dedicated transfer system.
As well, new lines within the foundry are readily placed as the entire facility is modular to a large degree. Namely for safety concerns regarding the continued presence over a lava source.
Whether being drawn into wire, or drawn out into large, flat sheets these foundry areas are hyper-dangerous areas of the facility given the large amount of heat and potential splash of raw materials. Most everything can be made in these areas such as those listed prior, or custom pieces on a for order piece count.
The use of an automated system largely curtails any potential biological error in keeping track of which order of process this production is in. The use of the correct draw dies, as well as composition being a meticulous detail that the owner trusts seldom few people to be completely accurate with.
Whether creating sheets of raw goods, or custom sections of hull or wiring, the process can be found in these larger centralized sections of the plant.
- The life blood of the facility. Housed beneath the plant in a live magma vein for the best potential energy exchange. This system feeds the entire plant though the auxiliary Generators do reduce the severe draw on this system to keep it operating within optimal parameters.
- As well as dredging the lava flows, core mining through the use of droids also feeds the facility. Usually found within the structural spires that dot The Yard, a few exist outside of The Yard for specific veins of ore and minerals. These feed into the Transfers in a similar fashion and are added to either similar or separate crucibles.
- The Maintenance Shops are littered throughout the facility to ensure that the droid workforce is kept in optimal operating capacity. These are the largest gathering of biological workers the plant has aside from the logistic officers towards the Frigate Landing Pads.
Aside from Droid Maintenance, they can be requisitioned for starship repair services, though limited mainly to civilian systems and hull repair as weapons are well outside of their area of work. At best, these workers would be able to make sure any shorts or melted wires wouldn't fry the rest of your ship's systems in a weapons repair.
- Aside from mining and putting materials into production, testing labs around the plant ensure no material either already in production or coming to production are leaving without proper stress and fatigue tests.
A menagerie of tests are involved in these processes. From welding, shearing, gravitational anomalic properties, etc, and so on. Data regarding custom orders or even for standard production materials are made available at purchasing requests.
- The Frigate Landing Pads are connected to the outermost buildings of the facility. Able to land vessels to a maximum of 500 meters, these landing pads enter directly into a receiving area where a logistics officer can speak with the vessel's owner to coordinate loading or unloading for the vessel in question.
Lounges, temporary lodgings, cafeterias, and hygiene stations can be found just inside once authorized to enter into these zones. With proper planning through a logistics officer, one can book a stay while awaiting a cargo load to catch up on sleep and get a hit meal during their downtime.
- The Far and Away Landing Zone is the most stable platform available near the facility. Tested thoroughly and often to ensure the stability of the ground in case of unexpected magma flows diverging from the plotted courses. This area is where anything larger than a frigate is required to land for loading or unloading purposes and is largely unguarded by the plant droids due to its remote location. Though the towers dot the outlying area still for some modicum of security purposes. Ground crew and equipment are sent here when vessels are cleared for landing to save the hassle of being constantly posted and waiting.
- A string of storage areas are connected to the foundries and dock areas post production and awaiting the arrival of their delivery method. Climate controlled and stored with similar materials until the load docket it issued. Another largely automated system to assure accuracy of material counts along with order filling. A series of conveyors, cranes, and droids await to receive orders, pick from storage, and then deliver to their proper destinations.
Security Rating: High
- X13 Paladin-series Synthmarines - Patrol interior of the facility and await summons from the logistics area for conflict resolution.
- LS-1 'Ordinator' Security Pylons - Set on the perimeter of the facility for security purposes as while it is an isolated facility from any large cities, it is entirely isolated from expedient assistance.
- Priddy Hypervelocity Cannons - Several sit atop the collection of buildings to ward off potential pirates or other unsavory characters but are also largely to keep unauthorized vessels from landing.
- DSS-02 Shield Generator - Used to protect the entire facility from any type of outside threat given the isolated nature of the facility.
Temporary clearance authorizations are allotted for those that are awaiting cargo, though the expiration of those clearances are updated constantly in accordance with their load times. Thorough planning and clear communication with a logistics officer are required at all times in case one finds themselves suddenly without proper clearance authorization.
A massive and entirely new venture for the Priddy General Engineering And Manufacturing company, the REAPP facility was originally drawn up to supplant the need for materials in the galaxy, as well as provide a testing ground for new composites. Niki was originally uninterested in the production and delivery of raw materials until the dissolution of the CIS and the sudden exposure of untapped sources became available. Seeing potential in the volcanoes of Queyta, she staked a claim and began building her facility with haste while largely automating the systems inside to remain largely independent of biological needs.
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