Ord Pardron Base

[Star Wars Legacies (OLD)]

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Rebel Base
Ord Pardron

The Rebel Base on Ord Pardron is the oldest in the Rebellion. Founded by former GA forces under Terrsyn Pearot, the base served as an important rallying point for the early Rebels, hidden far from the Sith border as a safe place to regroup, rearm, and train new recruits. With the Rebellion having grown greatly in the aftermath of the Battle of Naboo, the Ord Pardron Base has grown less important. The qualities that made it a great location for Rebels in hiding now make it somewhat obsolete. But that doesn't mean the base has lost importance, and has been abandoned. It's status now is mainly as a training facility for new recruits. The isolated nature of the base ensures that those who prove to be traitors to the Rebel cause won't have access to areas important to the Rebellion, and it allows them to train without the worry of being interrupted by larger galactic concerns.

The base itself it tucked away in the deserts of Ord Pardron, inside a mining colony called Surgo. The colony is one of many that extracts minerals and ores from beneath the planet's surface, which gave the early Rebels access to materials they needed to help further the operations. With so many resources coming in from so many different worlds now however, there isn't much need for the comparatively small amount Surgo can produce. Instead these materials help to make the Ord Pardron base self sufficient in many regards, reducing the amount of supply missions needed, and thus keeping the base (and the wider Rebellion) safer from being compromised.

On the surface, the Rebels maintain a safe house that provides living quarters for a number of their personnel. Beneath the safe house, however, is a larger base of operations, which is known to and kept secret by the settlement's Rebel-aligned leaders. The base is wired with an extensive computer system, taken from a decommissioned Galactic Alliance starship, that allows the Rebellion to monitor and coordinate its operations in the Mid Rim should it be necessary to fall back to Ord Pardron. The main base these days primarily acts as a training center, where Rebels are taught to fight against the Sith and the Imperial forces.

Surgo is protected by standard settlement defenses, including its location; being so remote, it is difficult for an enemy force to find it and mount any attacks against it. In the event there are attacks, however, the settlement has a number of anti-aircraft weaponry around the city walls. Most of the settlers are armed, and many of them are part of a militia that can be activated to protect the settlement. In addition to the standard defenses, the anti-aircraft guns are supported by jerry rigged turbolasers taken from the same Galactic Alliance starship that the Rebel computers were. The turbolasers are hidden under camouflage, and some are hidden underground, and kept powered off until they are needed. This allows them to keep from being detected by enemy sensors. The total amount of guns stands at 23 anti-air quad laser cannons on the city walls, and 11 light turbolaser cannons camouflaged or hidden underground.

Though the primary defense of the settlement and base comes from making sure the enemy is not able to land, the Rebel base itself has its own defenses in order to slow an enemy force down and allow time for an evacuation. As a first line of defense, the Rebels set up a makeshift blast door to keep intruders out. In the event the door is breached, a number of weapons systems are on the other side of the door, in addition to the armed Rebel soldiers. A few heavy blasters, portable anti-infantry turrets, and automated cannons are located throughout the base. The base also maintains security scanners, taken from the Alliance ship, throughout its halls.

In the event an evacuation is necessary, a small fleet of transports and a squadron of VZ-22 starfighters are kept in the base at all times. The hangar complex that houses these vessels has an artificial rock edifice built onto the blast doors in order to obscure the entrance. The vessels are powered down in order to avoid sensor detection, but they are constantly attended to in order to ensure that they are prepared to power up and leave at a moment’s notice.