Combined Clans Center Building

"I just got word from one of my people on Bothawui who was tracking down one of Lord Graemon's connections there. He says there's been a bad riot over at the Combined Clans Building in Drev'starn, apparently over this Caamas Document thing."

- Commander Dreyf, to Admiral Gilad Pellaeon

The Combined Clans Center Building, simply referred to as the Combined Clans Building, was a building in the planet Bothawui's capital city of Drev'starn that housed the heads of the Combined Clans. During the Caamas Document Crisis, the center was unintentionally host to a devastating riot prior to the Second Battle of Bothawui in 19 ABY.

Description
The Combined Clans Center Building, located near Merchant's Square in the capital city of Drev'starn on Bothawui, consisted of a first floor atrium, as well as two additional floors with wide observation galleries facing the building's front. The atrium of the building contained doors leading to the outside and an ornamental stairway connecting the first two floors, yet only a standard stairway connected the top two floors. Public offices lined the perimeter of the atrium, and more private offices filled the second and third floors, which were decorated with borscii vines, kafvris vines, short trees, and outdoor balconies.

The records room, marked "ARCHIVES", was located on the third floor.

Security for the building included—but was not necessarily limited to—two armed guards at the base of the stairs and built-in, camouflaged static barrier poles in the staircase banisters.

History
"We desperately need your assistance. There is a mob moving on this building."

- Senator Orou'cya, to Councilor Organa Solo

During 19 ABY, an Imperial-instigated riot occurred at the Combined Clans Building over unrest due to the Caamas Document Crisis. Councilor Leia Organa Solo and her husband Han Solo were inadvertently visiting the building at the same time in an attempt to exam the Combined Clans' financial records. As an angry crowd gathered outside, Askar Clan Leader Rayl'skar appealed to the citizens for calm from a balcony of the Combined Clans Building. Before he could appease the unruly mob, well-placed sniper shots appearing to originate both from Rayl'skar on the second-floor and Han Solo&mdash;scouting out the situation from the building's third-floor balcony&mdash;set off the bedlam. Although visibly emanating on a trajectory derived from the building, the initially invisible blaster bolts in fact came from Xerrol Nightstingers fired by Imperial Intelligence agent Drend Navett and his team. The bolts in turn were redirected through multifaceted crystals and Tibanna gas-filled blast tubes placed on the balconies, designed to aim the shots at the crowd. In the ensuing chaos, twenty-seven rioters were killed, including two Leresai, and approximately forty additional individuals were injured. The entire first floor of the Combined Clans Building was destroyed.

Behind the scenes
The Combined Clans Center Building first appeared in the late 1990s The Hand of Thrawn Duology by acclaimed science fiction author Timothy Zahn, where it served as the focal point for a devastating riot. It later garnered a few brief mentions in the second book of the same two-part series, Vision of the Future.

Appearances

 * Specter of the Past
 * Vision of the Future