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Castle Gaol

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Castle Gaol is a Sith fortress and the personal residence of the Sith Warden Vex. The fortress is located on the prison world of Belsavis and was converted from the fortress of the previous prison warden after Vex and the Acolyte Varyn Atrix claimed the facility in a frontal assault. The fortress was then rebuilt into the image of a Sith temple to capture and focus the dark side energies produced by the underground Rakatan prison ruins on the planet.

The castle serves as a central control nexus for the other prison facilities scattered across the planet. Its dungeons also serve as the personal prison for Vex - where she keeps her enemies and other beings useful to her ascension through the Sith. She regards the fortress as the center of her power base within the Sith Empire.


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The exterior of the fortress is every bit as brooding and arcane as stereotypical Sith architecture. The interior includes a blend of more of the same with the more sophisticated sensibilities of Vex's homeworld, Serenno, taking over the living quarters near the top of the castle. The receiving chamber is a series of drawbridge catwalks that are usually disengaged. Depending on which was active, they could lead to the audience chamber, a training dojo and hangar, or to a turbolift that would descend into the underground prison after which the castle is named.

Resting just below the living suite, the audience chamber was a simple obsidian room with a throne carved out of the stone Rakatan prisons below the planet. Vex hosts most meetings with her fellow Sith, or anyone looking to do business with her Sith persona, in this chamber. Up above it is a living suite where she actually resides. This suite is the most visible departure from the architecture of the rest of the structure, featuring Serennian windows and furniture. Here, she is able to run Nalju Technologies business without appearing as though she is in an overly brooding setting.

Further down and more centrally in the fortress' structure is the prison control room. From here, Vex and any member of her staff can view the security feeds from the various prison facilities across the planet, contact them, and organize their defenses. Thanks to obtaining the remote access codes during her takeover of the planet, she control each of the prison facilities remotely, including closing and locking cell doors, activating droid-related security, and summoning reinforcements.

Closer to the bottom of the structure, below the ground, is a well-provisioned torture chamber for interrogating captives and prisoners. And, in the very dungeons of the castle, is the Evergaol, a series of prison cells reminiscent of those found in high-security prisons on Coruscant. Each cell is ray-shielded to keep prisoners locked within.


Intent

Personal Lore. To create a home and foretress for @Vex after @Phoenix and I captured the planet Belsavis during the first twenty posts of this thread. This is meant to both be the main Sith Empire base on the planet and the aforementioned Sith character's home.
 

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Apologies for the wait. Approved!
 
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