Cenota Facility

Cenota Facility
General information
Constructed:	23 ABY
Destroyed:	Cloning facility sabotaged in 33 ABY
Location:	Gamuslag
Builder:	Dlarit Corporation
Physical specifications
Population:	Classified
Height:	Classified
Width:	Classified
Usage
Era:	New Republic Era New Jedi Order Era Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era
Affiliation:	Dlarit Corporation Dlarit Special Operations Group House Naga Sadow
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Entrance to the Cenota Facility

The Cenota Facility is a harsh penal colony located on Gamuslag, the largest of the two moons of Sepros. Manned exclusively by men from special operations, the Dlarit Corporation maintains a garrison to handle security at the detention facility. In addition, the Corporation maintains an reserve armoury should anything ever happen to the main military garrison on Tarthos. Indeed, during the invasion by the dark side followers of the Sith witch called Anaxela, the assets and supplies stashed in the facility proved instrumental in the re-taking of several key locations.

Cenota was constructed in the years running up to the outbreak of the Yuuzhan Vong War in 25 ABY, a period when Governor General Xanos Zorrixor was overseeing a system-wide fortification across Orian, the then-consul having foreseen the coming invasion by the Far Outsiders. On Zorrixor's orders, Cenota's construction and most of the facility's specific specifications were personally overseen by Prefect Macron Goura. In addition to the publicly acknowledged detention facility, Clan Naga Sadow maintained a secret research facility beneath the main penal colony. The research facility was previously home to thirty-four cloning cylinders looted from a laboratory on Jaginos run by a group of rogue Kaminoan scientists who had defected to Arkanian Micro.

Structure and features

The underground cloning vats

The cloning tanks beneath the detention facility were originally used for the Delta Project, which saw a limited run of thirty-four advanced clonetroopers. However, the project was abandoned following to the outbreak of the Yuuzhan Vong War, the cylinders needing to be reassigned to produce more rapidly grown troopers to replace the numbers lost in the Fall of Antei. The high turnout of ordinary clonetroopers came at a price, however, as unlike of the original batch of enhanced soldiers, the subsequent batches exhibited poorer marksmanship and proved lacking in tactics due to much of their natural ingenuity being hindered by the behavioural manipulation carried out to make them less willing to question orders.

While the clonetroopers proved instrumental during the war in the defence of Orian and its surrounding spacelanes, the Corporation's cloning operations came to an end in 33 ABY when unknown infiltrators breached Cenota's security, sabotaging the Spaarti tanks and rendering them useless. The Corporation has since been forced to draw on its external contacts on Antei to field replacements for the clone contingent of the Dlarit Special Operations Group. In the underground research laboratories, biochemical and genetic experiments are rumored take place, and the lower levels are also reputed to play host to a number of alchemical experimentations, with condemned prisoners being pitted against the mutated creatures and abominations. Further, a section of the facility is used to train a special division of "hazardous operations troopers" skilled in nuclear, biological, and chemical response and combat environments.