714 Kaldani

714 Kaldani was the name and address of a special orphanage in the of, the  capital, which was secretly run by.

History
It was a special facility established by the for the children of political opponents of the  and was used by them as a place for psychological experimentation. The main goal of their project was to turn children into skilled s or soldiers. Little about the facility was known by the time of the, as much of the files regarding 714 Kaldani and other secret COMPNOR projects in the were lost around the time of the. Investigators from the were able to recover some documents and got testimony from surviving ISB managers of the orphanage.

It was founded around 9 BBY, and was the home of the sons of prominent opposition figures, among them executed s, former military officers, bureaucrats, and ary s. Due to the goals of the project, the Imperial Security Bureau instructors kept the conditions brutal and harsh. Children were divided into factions and intense competition was encouraged between them. Violence and other such acts were also acceptable among them. Nonetheless, discipline was strict and maintained with force by the instructors.

Around 1 BBY, an event remembered in surviving records and testimonies as "the incident" occurred. All of the instructors, the director, and most of the children there at the time brutally murdered each other in an attempted uprising. There was only one survivor of the event, a child who went on to work for as an assassin before going rogue. After that event, 714 Kaldani was shut down and COMPNOR placed a gag order on all those involved in the project about what happened at the orphanage.

The building itself was left there to rot and only an abandoned, worn-out ruin was left by the that New Republic investigators began looking into its activities.