Question about Mon Calamari Shipyards

[Kytross]

Maybe the Mon Cals don't know about the atrocities being committed across the galaxy because their holonet has been cut off. Your players could show them the destruction and devastation that the work they're being forced to do for the Empire is causing and the people rise up and throw off the shackles of repression.

[DougRed4]

Good idea, Kytross. You know, the holonet is another interesting subject. My understanding of it was one thing, and then the way they're showing it on the show Rebels (where it seems to be playing on the equivalent of a bar in the Outer Rim like it's PBS) is another.

I'm wondering how expansive and big the actual shipyards are as well? There's a cool picture (from one of the comics) that shows them completely encircling the planet (like those at Kuat), but that's supposedly in 137 ABY.
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[CRMcNeill]

We had a pretty good discussion going a while back about the nature of the Holo-Net. If you want to follow up, this might be the place to take it.
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[Theodrim]

Well, on top of what I wrote in the other thread...in my game that dealt with the liberation of Dac...

Practically no one took the liberation of Dac seriously at first, least of all the Empire. They weren't the first planet to rebel, and those that did were quickly and decisively ground to dust. They're "just" fish people, after all, and after almost two decades of slavery and Imperial propaganda very few if any remembered how daunting the Mon Cals and Quarren could be when push came to shove.

So, the Empire only sent a token fleet (one Imp-1 SD, a number of frigates and cruisers, and a torpedo sphere to deal with the planetary shields) to BDZ the planet. The Empire's counter-attack failed catastrophically, which was a real wake-up call to the Empire to start taking things seriously.

In response, the Empire started a build-up at Raxus Prime to invade the Calamari sector in force. That proved too little, too late, since the Mon Cals tractored asteroids into the Giblim Route and Prously's Rim Run and mined the hell out of the hyperspace routes, leaving only the Overic Griplink passable to capital-scale ships. That's the point at which the Battle of Turkana happened (which in my game was a joint Alliance-Mon Calamari operation), and a small Mon Cal strike force straight-up destroyed the Raxus Prime shipyards while the Imperial fleet was engaged at Turkana.

Of course, while all this is going on Imperial propaganda is working overtime. Oh, and Operation Strike Fear just started.

So, as things are in my game it boils down to simple logistics. The Imperial brass knows the Mon Calamari are a serious problem, but they're not talking about it, and would love nothing more than to wipe the Mon Cals off the galactic map...but with their closest Imperial-class shipyard to their only viable route into Calamari space having gone bye-bye in multiple gigantic balls of nuclear fire, there's frak-all they can do about it. So, until a solution can be created and promptly destroyed by some farmboy from Tatooine, they're running an interference/containment play in the Tion sector.

[tetsuoh]

I could have sworn that many mon cal ships had aquatic capability because they also had shipyards underwater...

In fact I don't remember where..... a Roque Squadron book I think? But I remember there being an aquatic moon they used as a shipyard mainly - because the planet it orbited had no real breathable atmosphere but was material rich - it was in a nearby system but still in mon calamari space...

If I remember right some of the mon cal ship builders hid there when the empire came.

[DougRed4]

Thanks, Theodrim (and tetsuoh). My players didn't even end up going to Dac (at least, not yet), but I'm considering ramping things up there for them to do soon (whenever they choose to).

It would be really awesome to have my players be able to play a pivotal role in some of those incidents described.

And the idea of hiding (or even building) some of their massive ships underwater is an awesome one. Definitely would like to use that!
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[CRMcNeill]

I don't recall any mention of underwater shipyards in the official material. The only real mention of Mon Cal ships having underwater capability is in Stock Ships, with the DeepWater-class freighter. The description specifically mentions that, when transitioning from flight to submersible travel, the ship's shields must be reconfigured to counter the water pressure (since water exerts positive pressure on the ship while vacuum exerts negative pressure). IMO, building a ship underwater would cause entirely new construction issues based solely on the radically differing environments. In the end, I think it would be impractical to have an underwater yard for starships. That being said, this is Star Wars, and impractical is often left by the wayside in favor of coolness.
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[Theodrim]

[Whill]

[CRMcNeill]

Interesting. In that case, I would say that the Mon Cals accepted the increased difficulty inherent in building starships underwater because of the secrecy provided by the aforementioned thermocline layers and deep rifts. Once they successfully evicted the Empire from the planet, they would be able to move their primary starship construction efforts to orbit, although the underwater construction facilities would likely be retained as a reserve.
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[DougRed4]

It definitely matched the "rule of cool" in my mind, so I plan on using it, at least some. 8)
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[Whill]

[DougRed4]

That's some great stuff. You're giving me lots of good stuff for a potential excursion to Dac!
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[Whill]