Aurodium
Character
Steel Sarcophagus
"The war is over; ensure it remains buried."
- Thermal scans confirm multiple powered units within Sub-Level 12 of the Karthax Foundry.
- Audio captures indicate combat alert cycling and perimeter establishment.
- Civilian access routes near the district have been sealed.
- No confirmed civilian casualties — yet.
- Diarchy command uplinks in the region are silent following the Treaty of Yaga Minor.
- The droids appear to be operating on last-received wartime directives.
- Power grids are interconnected across districts; destabilization in Karthax could cascade.
- Civilian populations remain wary but compliant under Protector presence.
- Diarchic loyalists exist but have not mobilized openly.
- The Treaty of Yaga Minor is recent; stability is fragile.
Primary Concern
Designation: Unidentified Diarchic Foundry Defence UnitsModel Type: Likely heavy industrial security frames modified for wartime deployment
Capabilities:
- Integrated heavy blasters
- Reinforced chassis plating
- Autonomous squad coordination
- Industrial environment navigation
Preliminary assessment: They are not insurgents. They are abandoned weapons still fighting a war that has already ended.
Name: Overseer Halvik Tane
Role: Former Foundry Supervisor (retained under provisional authority)
Connection: Familiar with the foundry's substructure and original security layouts
Risk Factor: Loyalty uncertain; cooperative thus far.
Name: Vira Talos
Role: Protector Detachment Coordinator – Vjunhollow
Connection: Currently maintaining the district cordon
Assessment: Advocates precision infiltration over wide-area disruption.
The Manda–Diarch War did not end in fire and extinction, but in negotiation and accord. When the treaty was signed the fighting ceased, banners were lowered from the ramparts and battlements, and the thunder of artillery that had once shaken entire continents finally fell silent. What remained was not victory in the traditional sense, but the fragile quiet that follows a war too costly for either side to continue.
In the aftermath of the campaign, the industrial capital of Vjunhollow on Yaga Minor passed into Mandalorian control. Once the beating mechanical heart of the Diarch's war machine, the city now stands under the supervision of Mandalorian Protector detachments tasked with stabilizing the region. Their presence has focused on restoring civil order, reopening manufacturing lines critical to planetary recovery, and preventing the scattered remnants of Diarch loyalists from reorganizing into insurgent cells.
For several weeks the transition has proceeded with cautious success. Infrastructure crews have begun clearing bombed districts, power grids have slowly come back online, and the massive foundry complexes that dominate the skyline have started the long process of returning to operation.
However, new developments from the Karthax Industrial District threaten that fragile stability. Survey teams working to reclaim a collapsed foundry quadrant have triggered the reactivation of multiple buried defense units beneath the rubble. Preliminary scans indicate these machines are Diarchic autonomous combat constructs — battlefield droids entombed during the final orbital bombardment of the city and inadvertently awakened as restoration equipment disturbed their dormant systems.
Intercepted machine transmissions suggest their tactical processors remain locked in wartime protocol. To them, the Battle of Yaga Minor has never ended.
The problem is compounded by their position. The droids have taken control of a crucial section of the central foundry lattice, a structural and energy distribution nexus that supports large portions of the surrounding industrial blocks. Standard suppression tactics, particularly wide-area EMP deployment, would likely trigger cascading failures across the lattice's power cores. The resulting chain reaction could destabilize entire sectors of the district, collapsing factories, transit corridors, and possibly whole segments of Vjunhollow itself.
What should have been a routine recovery operation has instead become a delicate and potentially catastrophic standoff buried deep within the bones of the city.
