Sor-Jan Xantha
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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Flesh out the lore of the planet Kiara while providing a location for BB-4001A's workshop and droid corral.
- Image Credit: "Racing Barn" by Matt Tkocz (upper image); "Space Junkyard" by Joel Fletcher (lower image)
- Canon: N/A
- Links: Junkyard | Repair & Salvage Dock | GR-45 Medium Transport
- Landmark Name: Robo-Cat Station
- Classification: Terrestrial junkyard
- Location: Kiara
- Affiliation: [member="BB-4001A"]
- Size: Large
- Population: Insignificant Population
- Demographics:
Droids: 1 BB-4001X Chore-Bot, 5 MSE-series Repair Droid - Non-Sentients: Womp-Rats, Gankers, Vegicus
[*]Accessibility: Public access. The junkyard is on the peripheral of Kiara's former capital, the ghost metropolis Ele'veen, making it accessible by ground or air. For those approaching by land, there is a fence surrounding the perimeter of the junkyard, though sections of it have collapsed with age. The gateway opens up to an area that has now been mostly cleared, creating a sort of yard or approach up to the GR-45 medium transport.
[*]Description: While a general purpose junkyard, the sprawling trash heap outside of the former planetary capital of Ele'veen is most often regarded as a starship graveyard for the sight of some of its more impressive additions. A GR-45 medium transport is the largest of such monolithic structures, and towers above the heaps of speeders, swoops, droids, and other assorted electronics discarded throughout the centuries. The junkyard has only recently fallen into use or occupation again, and light poles illuminating a small section of it are connected to the GR-45 transport, which suggests it is the source of power.
• GR-45 Medium Transport (Wreckage)
The wrecked hulk of a crashed GR-45. It looms above the trash heaps around it, creating the urban myth of the place as a ship graveyard. The power core is mostly operational again, supplying power to a few areas of the transport and surrounding light poles illuminating a small section of the junkyard around it. However, what remaining parts of the propulsion system were not destroyed in the crash have utterly decayed with time. This ship is never lifting off Kiara again. Today, the transport serves as a droid corral, warehouse, and repair depot under the supervision of [member="BB-4001A"].
• Power Station
As residents of Kiara start to return to the abandoned city of Ele'veen, temporarily or permanently, the power station here is their only hope for fueling or powering their speeders, droids, or other devices. With the huge income disparity between Kiara's populace, some of which exist in near-medieval squalor, the power station operates by donation only. Those wishing to donate do so inside the GR-45.
• Junkyard
Looking for parts for that speeder or droid that hasn't been on a production line since 451 ABY? Come on down! There's literally kilometers of droids, speeders, and ship parts laying around. If the mouse droids have catalogued it, then the friendly neighborhood chore bot might even be able to salvage and refurbish it for you, as well as install it if you need.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Once upon a time, the metropolitan city of Ele'veen stood as a shining example of Kiara's wealth, technology, and place in galactic trade. As the city grew, so did the junkyard. Originally, far from the borders of the city. Well beyond even the urban outskirks, the smaller communities and municipalities that sprang up as people either opted to move out of the city or else couldn't afford to live in it. Through the centuries however, Ele'veen prospered and experienced growth like few others across the planet did. It absorbed those smaller cities into itself and soon found the expansive junkyard as a blighted eyesore on its very doorstep. The junkyard was not only a source of community ire, but also of safety concerns. In 426 ABY, a GR-45 transport picking up scrap metal for use in foundries on Mustafar suffered navigational error when its pilot became ill. The ship crashed on the planet surface, killing several sanitation workers in the yard. Autoposy of the pilot revealed what may have been the first case of the Gulag Plague on the planet Kiara itself. The junkyard was shuttered soon after, the wrecked hulk of the GR-45 left to the elements along with the rest of the garbage.
When the Gulag Plague decimated the population of Ele'veen, the city became abandoned and the junkyard forgotten as four centuries passed. When [member="Kaili Talith"] and the Boolon Foundation began work in aiding the people of Kiara after the Four Hundred Years Darkness, the ruins of the junkyard were re-discovered along with the forgotten capital. After Kaili Talith introduced the droid known as [member="BB-4001A"] to the planet, the junkyard became a source of materials and resources for repairing, patching, maintaining, and even upgrading some of the systems in use Tre'eyvin and the Witherpoint Temple. Trips to the junkyard became more frequent, with more and more time being spent scavenging and then refurbishing parts. Space inside of the GR-45 was cleared out to make a droid corral and, later, a workshop. As people began moving back to the city of Ele'veen, a power station was added to help the traffic in and out of the metropolis.
