Lamaredd Base One

Lamaredd Base One was the designation for an installation hidden in the rainforests of. It was built around an abandoned mine, where Imperials had found large amounts of unharvested and tyderium.

Characteristics
Lamaredd Base One was situated in a valley on one of the equatorial regions of Lamaredd. Both the mining facility and the garrison were built into the side of a mountain near where the valley ended. This location in addition to the presence of a shield projected over the mountain made it extremely resistant to orbital bombardment. It had only one entrance, which was essentially a clearing also surrounded by mountains. A narrow canyon path was dug into these landforms that allowed transit from the base to the rest of the valley. During the Battle of Lamaredd, this canyon was used as a highly effective choke point by the Imperial defenders.

Outside of the entrance clearing was an outer defensive perimeter of sentry posts and turrets in addition to squads of stormtroopers, snipers, and AT-ST walkers. The perimeter was also dotted with sensor arrays, which were plentiful enough to detect most hostile movements in and around the valley. From these sentry posts, jungle patrols of scout troopers would frequently be sent around the area to keep an eye out for any native predators, although few dangerous animals were present in the region.

The mining facility, which was separate from the garrison, was occupied mostly by Imperial workers, who handled communications, conducted repairs, and extracted the phrikite and tyderium from the mining shafts that the base was built around. From there, the resources would be transferred to a processing plant where they were then combined into phrik. Though work accidents were infrequent, an impressively-equipped medical facility was also present next to a sparse living quarter complex and mess hall.

The other half of the base was composed of the military garrison, which was easily more than twice the size of the mining facility. It included gigantic living quarters, several firing ranges, its own mess hall, and an extensive ground vehicle hangar. The this half of the base (nicknamed "Sector G" by the workers) held even less spacious and comfortable accommodations than the mining facility did. The entire garrison half itself was inhabited by a unit of six thousand Imperial stormtroopers from the 901st Legion. The vehicle hangar held one hundred TX-130T fighter tanks, fifty All-Terrain Scout Transports, and twenty-four A6-model Juggernaughts. Although the military garrison held a substantial amount of stormtroopers, the facility's internal security was maintained by a staff of Imperial army troopers, which were present in all areas of the complex.

In between the two sections and directly below a concealed shield generator was a commander center, from which the Imperial management would assign tasks to workers and coordinate defenses in case of an attack. It was also the only place from which off-world communications could be sent, but the officers were ordered not to do so unless in the most dire of emergencies, for fear of giving away their location to hostile starships.

The last feature of the installation was a single loading dock, where a freighter would land weekly to ship the phrik off-world. Much to the dismay of the staff, the facility had no vessels of any kind that could be used to escape in the event of an overwhelming attack. This caused personnel who were assigned to Lamaredd Base One to consider dissertation, fearing that they would be forgotten about by command.