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Secret
Research Facility
Hidden in a remote location on a backwater world is this
small research facility. It could be used for any number of wicked
and cruel purposes, depending on the needs of the campaign.
1. Landing Field
This area is open to the sky above. The rock has been
cleared of debris, exposing solid ground; four landing circles are
painted on it.
2. Ring Tunnel
Running the
circumference of the landing field, this tunnel provides access to
the different parts of the facility. Heavy doors lead into it at the
four cardinal compass points (marked with 2s on the map), and lighter
ones open into the interior rooms. The tunnel also provides a simple
but effective means of exercise for employees.
3. Mess Hall
The hub of downtime
in the facility is this area, where off-duty personnel can take their
meals, have a drink, carouse, and perhaps play a hand of cards or
some other game. There are plenty of tables and chairs in the main
room, along with a bar counter. There are also private rooms
available for more intimate gatherings. Behind the bar is the fully
stocked kitchen and food storage area.
4. Individual Quarters
Unmarried members of
the facility staff have their own dormitory-style rooms, with beds,
desks and cabinets. At the end of each hallway there is also a large
bathroom.
5. Family Quarters
Those team members
who have families can enjoy these quarters, which boast small but
functional kitchens, multiple bedrooms and even a private bathroom.
7. Med Center
In the event of
illness or injury, personnel can be treated here. There is a waiting
room in the front, along with four rooms for recovering patients.
Toward the back of the area is an operating room, along with the
doctor's desk, another bathroom and a storage closet.
8. Laboratory
Transparent
cages—ones that are as strong as steel, however—line two sides of
this room. Between them are rows of workstations interspersed with
examination tables. This is, of course, where the scientists working
for the facility's backer do their work.
9. Comm Center
More workstations
line the walls of this room. In the back of it is the database
mainframe that connects all of the facility's systems to the
satellite uplink which keeps them in touch with the outside world and
the rest of the galaxy.
Using the Secret Research
Facility in an Episode VII-Era
Campaign
This location can be incorporated in a campaign in many different
ways; a few of the possibilities are detailed here.
- The First Order could be using it to develop biotoxins that only affect non-Human species, thereby given them a weapon to use indiscriminately against their enemies.
- It might serve as a base of operations for some of the Knights of Ren, a place where they study the nature of the Force and plot to eliminate all traces of the Jedi Order.
- The facility might lie in ruins, overrun by native wildlife but containing secrets discovered during the Galactic Civil War, the Clone Wars, or some time earlier.
- A Hutt could be bankrolling it in order to discover newer and more addictive forms of spice.
- It might contain an illicit and scandalous secret project undertaken by the New Republic, the Rebel Alliance or even the Old Republic.
