Azzameen Station

Azzameen Station, also known as Azzameen Home Base, was the main residence of the moderately wealthy Azzameen trading family. It was the center for Azzameen family affairs, as well as the home base for their Twin Suns Transport Services interstellar trading firm. The space station was situated in orbit above a volcanic moon in the Garis sector.

Description
Azzameen Station was an orbital station produced by VenteX Construction Yards and suspended over a volcanic planet in the Outer Rim's Garis sector. The station was owned and operated by the Azzameen family, a family of successful traders, who often referred to the station as Azzameen Home Base. It functioned both as a home for the Azzameens and as a base of operations for their shipping company, Twin Suns Transport Services. In all, the station housed 120 crew members and had a passenger capacity of 325 beings. Members of the Azzameen family were quite fond of their Home Base and spent much of their time aboard it; family patriarch Tomaas Azzameen's youngest child Ace spent his entire life on the station prior to his employment with Twin Suns Transport Services. The orbiting structure, measuring 1.45 kilometers, was semi-circular in appearance; a tall, steeply-sloping tower, located between the station's two flanking crescent-shaped arms, extended both dorsally and ventrally from Azzameen Station's central horizontal plane. The central tower structure's most prominent feature was a large hangar capable of holding the family's numerous YT series Corellian transports as well as various types of cargo containers. The station's hangar was equipped to install various weapon payloads, warhead countermeasures, and other starship devices to landed ships. At the top of the tower, flanked on either side by two thin spires, sat a docking port which allowed crewmembers to enter the station from a docked starship. Each of the station's two arms contained various mooring points that larger craft, like a modular conveyor, could utilize to dock with the station. A tower was position at the end of each of the two flanking arm structures.

The station was protected by a deflector shield generator rated at 1920 SBD and a hull rating of 1680 RU. The station itself was unarmed and relied on static defenses and starfighter protection in an attack. A tractor beam projector assisted pilots landing their ships in the station's main hangar. The Azzameens installed a central computer which contained the family's datacore; all information which entered the station was stored on this device. In addition, a holosimulator was kept aboard Azzameen Home Base; Ace Azzameen frequently utilized the simulator to improve his piloting skills. As a result of the family company's longstanding feud with fellow shipping conglomerate Viraxo Industries as well as the Imperialization of Azzameen assets by the Galactic Empire following a failed Azzameen supply run for the Alliance to Restore the Republic, control of the station was turned over to a mercenary group, who renamed it Falcon's Nest. Under mercenary ownership, the station's interior was kept unkempt, and bombs were installed into the station's wiring to prevent the station from changing hands again.

Azzameen Home Base




Built by VenteX Construction Yards, Azzameen Station entered the Azzameen family's possession some time significantly prior to 3 ABY. The Azzameen family used it as their home, earning the orbital station the moniker Azzameen Home Base. The station was also used as the headquarters for the Azzameens' successful trading company, Twin Suns Transport Services. Azzameen Home Base served as a permanent residence for members of the family; Ace Azzameen, the youngest of Azzameen patriarch Tomaas Azzameen, had lived his entire life aboard Azzameen Station prior to his employment with Twin Suns Transport Services. The family often used the station as a rally point for deliveries, delivering cargo to and from their home base.

After narrowly escaping from the ice planet Hoth at the outbreak the Battle of Hoth&mdash;a pivotal battle in the Galactic Civil War between Alliance and Imperial forces&mdash;in 3 ABY, Tomaas used Azzameen Station for repairs sustained to his ship, the YT-2000 light freighter Otana, while fleeing the battle after his brother Antan had denied the ship access to Twin Suns Transport Service's repair facility. Shortly after the Otana escape from Hoth, Tomaas decided it was time for his youngest son to learn the the family trade. Azzameen Station served as the staging ground for a multitude of training missions for Ace, including one such run to the XQ1 Platform Harlequin Station. Ace's sister Aeron, flying the Azzameen YT-1300 light freighter Selu, fetched two containers from the family's stores and placed them just outside the hangar. As Ace left Azzameen Station's hangar bay in the Selu identical sister ship Sabra, his sister demonstrated the mechanics of delivery and the pair departed through hyperspace to their destination. After a minor altercation with Viraxo Industries&mdash;shipping rivals to the Azzameen family and their company&mdash; at Harlequin Station, the delivery was completed and the Azzameens returned to Azzameen Station, fresh cargo in tow, before utilizing the station's tractor beam to reenter the hangar.

Later, Ace's elder brother Emon taught the burgeoning pilot spacecraft combat, again using Azzameen Home Base as a rally point for his ship, the Firespray-31-class ship Andrasta, and Ace's Sabra. At the completion of the training, which included an encounter with ships from the, the Andrasta and Sabra returned to the family station and entered the hangar. During Ace's training, Aeron was stationed aboard Azzameen Home Base, where she was developing a new security system for the family's assets. During her development, though, she accidentally deleted the manifests for three cargo areas' worth of goods, necessitating manual inspection to rebuild the database. As they traversed the family fields, the Azzameens discovered that the Enkidu, a Pursuer-class ship employed the Viraxo, was planting illicit spice in the Azzameens' stockpiled crates. Aeron took the container back to Azzameen Home Base as the family decided what to do about it and the Viraxo's constant harassment of Azzameen undertakings.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance