A collection of underwater domes situated on the border of two hugely active tectonic plates on the ocean world of Yridia II, Phoenix Crest is a mining colony granted to Welshman during a Clan feud against a nest of pirates which had taken residence in its life giving arcology, originally joint ownership was granted to Ylith and himself however the second owner has since left the Clan leaving Welshman as the sole proprietor.
Damaged as it was during the battle to regain it from the pirates it took Welshman many months to get it operating at even a bare minimum mostly due to restrictions in his funds to pay for the repairs, however as soon as some of the minerals and food began flowing from the complex funds could be divert back into the repair work allowing the finishing touches to be completed seemingly over night.
The six main domes range from kilometre plassteel domes, almost large enough to hold a Imperial Star Destroyer to smaller outlying ones of half the diameter. Buried “settlements” of silos and worker barracks barely two hundred meters long finish the industrial complex. Whilst most of the work around the superheated fissure was done by droids a lot of the processing and maintenance were done by organic techs.
The main dome contains a large percentage of the overall processing faculties and shipment facilities. Situated in the main base is also the main command and control computers and comms antennae for the armada of mining droids that served the Tarenti’s whims. Scattered around the central dome are a four smaller hydroponic and storage depots where food is grown and shipped with the mined ore to the surface via aquatically adapted shuttles or via rail gun, firing porous ingots of ore filled with low density gas.
Travel between the main domes is done via transparisteel tunnels but to reach the outlying domes and factories a shuttle ride must be undertaken.
The fleet of droids servicing the cleft and extracting from it the precious cargo holds of metals were modified mole miners, equipped for water instead of space and slaved to a droid brain rather then depending on a crew.
Industrial output of the Phoenix Crest compound is approximately 13MTons of neutronium (N.B. Not to be confused with material making up neutron stars) and 6 MTons of Carvanium along with 1MTon of pure processed protein/carbohydrate food packs.