The Origins of Garrison Tyranus
It was in the early stages of the Clone Wars that the group, who would later become known as Garrison Tyranus, was assembled.
Lord Tyranus, Count Dooku, had successfully planned and launched the construction of a weapon that would carry the Trade Federation and his master, Lord Sidious, into a new era of Galactic Domination and unimaginable power. The very reason the Trade Federation existed was to pool the resources needed to bring this monstrous undertaking to fruition.
Several Outer Rim planets were stripped of their raw materials and left as mere shells of what they had previously been. They had flourished in the flurry of activity and jobs that buzzed around the project, and all but died out when the mining efforts were withdrawn. In most cases the worlds were left behind as barren reminders of the blind ambition of the Empire. Even moisture had to be coaxed from the atmosphere on these now-desolate planets using evaporative collection units.
This new weapon was kept hidden from everyone except those responsible for its design and construction. Once construction began, the designers were the victims of a horrible navigational mishap on a transport shuttle taking them to oversee the construction. It appears that the ship’s nav’ computer was set to jump on a course that took it directly through the center of the Ryshea Maze and a clustering of stars. The ship was vaporized, and all on board with her.
In the years that unfolded during the course of the Clone Wars, many things came to light. Darth Tyranus was slain by Anakin Skywalker…beheaded in a lightsaber battle during a rescue mission to free the then-Chancellor Palpatine from the Count and General Grievous. Although the soon-to-be Emperor lost his Sith Apprentice that day, he was cultivating a new one in the troubled victor of the harrowing duel.
By the time of the fall of the Jedi Temple, the skeletal framework of the project was nearing completion and raw materials were flooding in from the Mining Guild to a remote construction location to continue the work. The surreptitious endeavor had been so expertly protected and hidden from even the Jedi by Darth Tyranus, that Emperor Palpatine commissioned a Garrison from among the members of Lord Vader’s handpicked 501st Legion, the very troops that had stormed the Jedi Temple, and placed them in charge of security for its construction. To honor his fallen apprentice, he anointed the newly formed group:
GARRISON TYRANUS.
The construction scale was enormous. The final product would be roughly the size of a Class IV moon. Shortly after the end of the battles on Kazhyyykk, many Wookiees were enslaved and taken to work on the construction. To maintain secrecy, the scale of the project was shrouded even from those troopers working on it. There were several instances of small, unorganized uprisings among the Wookiees in the years that followed, which were dealt with swiftly.
One smuggler, so troubled by what he saw, freed several hundred of the hairy giants and made an escape with at least one of them. Most of the delivery manifests were destroyed in the battle, so the pilot was never identified. Those manifests that were recovered showed shipments from Dantooine and Tatooine to our location with continuing flightplans to the Endor system. Sometimes there were projects that were kept secret from even the elite, until we became needed.
With the birth of the Rebellion, supply lines were compromised in some sectors. The rebels had no idea what supplies they were diverting or destroying. They simply knew the cargo was Imperial in nature, and attacked the defenseless convoys. It spooked many of the regular suppliers. Those that remained, smugglers for the most part, were less than reputable and suspect in and of themselves.
While we earned a reputation to be feared as a Garrison, and were able to maintain security of the project, we did not have the numbers to repel any serious external assaults or onboard insurrections should they have arisen. The project had also grown too large to keep concealed from long range scanners. There were Loyalists from Alderaan and many other inner systems that were merging efforts to scan for possible remote building sites. They feared the very covert operations that were currently under way, and acted to protect what remained of the Republic. They hoped to one day regain the peace they had known before the Empire.
Remote listening posts, comp scanners and orbital signal-jamming platforms were deployed to assist in keeping the draped veil securely in front of our project. Behind the shroud, armored ground assault vehicles, several TIE squadrons, speeder bikes and a weapons stockpile including hand-to-hand weapons as well as sonic charges were amassed to ensure security.
And so our task progressed for nearly 20 years from start to finish. It was a constant battle to maintain security and order until the most magnificent killing machine ever devised was completed and its name revealed… “Death Star”.
Once the Death Star was completed, Garrison Tyranus was reassigned to other duties close to the Dark Lord Vader. Some were dispatched to assignments on the new battle station, some to duty onboard various Star Destroyers and some were assigned to various other posts, depending on their training and specialty. There had been a small outpost guarding the mining of materials on Tatooine and Dantooine, among others. Some of the members of TYRANUS were assembled into a squad and assigned to re-establish an Imperial presence in the closed outpost on Tatooine. They were to help maintain order in what had now become a safe haven for smugglers, crime bosses and other scum who did not wish to be identified or found.
Lord Tyranus, Count Dooku, had successfully planned and launched the construction of a weapon that would carry the Trade Federation and his master, Lord Sidious, into a new era of Galactic Domination and unimaginable power. The very reason the Trade Federation existed was to pool the resources needed to bring this monstrous undertaking to fruition.
Several Outer Rim planets were stripped of their raw materials and left as mere shells of what they had previously been. They had flourished in the flurry of activity and jobs that buzzed around the project, and all but died out when the mining efforts were withdrawn. In most cases the worlds were left behind as barren reminders of the blind ambition of the Empire. Even moisture had to be coaxed from the atmosphere on these now-desolate planets using evaporative collection units.
This new weapon was kept hidden from everyone except those responsible for its design and construction. Once construction began, the designers were the victims of a horrible navigational mishap on a transport shuttle taking them to oversee the construction. It appears that the ship’s nav’ computer was set to jump on a course that took it directly through the center of the Ryshea Maze and a clustering of stars. The ship was vaporized, and all on board with her.
In the years that unfolded during the course of the Clone Wars, many things came to light. Darth Tyranus was slain by Anakin Skywalker…beheaded in a lightsaber battle during a rescue mission to free the then-Chancellor Palpatine from the Count and General Grievous. Although the soon-to-be Emperor lost his Sith Apprentice that day, he was cultivating a new one in the troubled victor of the harrowing duel.
By the time of the fall of the Jedi Temple, the skeletal framework of the project was nearing completion and raw materials were flooding in from the Mining Guild to a remote construction location to continue the work. The surreptitious endeavor had been so expertly protected and hidden from even the Jedi by Darth Tyranus, that Emperor Palpatine commissioned a Garrison from among the members of Lord Vader’s handpicked 501st Legion, the very troops that had stormed the Jedi Temple, and placed them in charge of security for its construction. To honor his fallen apprentice, he anointed the newly formed group:
GARRISON TYRANUS.
The construction scale was enormous. The final product would be roughly the size of a Class IV moon. Shortly after the end of the battles on Kazhyyykk, many Wookiees were enslaved and taken to work on the construction. To maintain secrecy, the scale of the project was shrouded even from those troopers working on it. There were several instances of small, unorganized uprisings among the Wookiees in the years that followed, which were dealt with swiftly.
One smuggler, so troubled by what he saw, freed several hundred of the hairy giants and made an escape with at least one of them. Most of the delivery manifests were destroyed in the battle, so the pilot was never identified. Those manifests that were recovered showed shipments from Dantooine and Tatooine to our location with continuing flightplans to the Endor system. Sometimes there were projects that were kept secret from even the elite, until we became needed.
With the birth of the Rebellion, supply lines were compromised in some sectors. The rebels had no idea what supplies they were diverting or destroying. They simply knew the cargo was Imperial in nature, and attacked the defenseless convoys. It spooked many of the regular suppliers. Those that remained, smugglers for the most part, were less than reputable and suspect in and of themselves.
While we earned a reputation to be feared as a Garrison, and were able to maintain security of the project, we did not have the numbers to repel any serious external assaults or onboard insurrections should they have arisen. The project had also grown too large to keep concealed from long range scanners. There were Loyalists from Alderaan and many other inner systems that were merging efforts to scan for possible remote building sites. They feared the very covert operations that were currently under way, and acted to protect what remained of the Republic. They hoped to one day regain the peace they had known before the Empire.
Remote listening posts, comp scanners and orbital signal-jamming platforms were deployed to assist in keeping the draped veil securely in front of our project. Behind the shroud, armored ground assault vehicles, several TIE squadrons, speeder bikes and a weapons stockpile including hand-to-hand weapons as well as sonic charges were amassed to ensure security.
And so our task progressed for nearly 20 years from start to finish. It was a constant battle to maintain security and order until the most magnificent killing machine ever devised was completed and its name revealed… “Death Star”.
Once the Death Star was completed, Garrison Tyranus was reassigned to other duties close to the Dark Lord Vader. Some were dispatched to assignments on the new battle station, some to duty onboard various Star Destroyers and some were assigned to various other posts, depending on their training and specialty. There had been a small outpost guarding the mining of materials on Tatooine and Dantooine, among others. Some of the members of TYRANUS were assembled into a squad and assigned to re-establish an Imperial presence in the closed outpost on Tatooine. They were to help maintain order in what had now become a safe haven for smugglers, crime bosses and other scum who did not wish to be identified or found.
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