Paradise City

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The Paradise City

"Where Everything is Legal."

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Owned by Grace Zann of the Zann Consortium, and sponsored by several wealthy scoundrels from across the galaxy, Paradise City is the galaxy's most ambitious tourist trap. Located on the formerly abandoned planet of Hypori in the outer rim, Paradise City is a 220 square kilometer city constructed and owned by the Zann Consortium. The city features one large main road for land speeders and pedestrians to travel across, simply referred to as "the Strip". One other road intersects with the Strip at the halfway point of the city, this secondary road is frequently called "the Track", and is slightly more narrow than the main road.

Paradise City boasts over 120 different locally owned businesses which either directly or indirectly line the Strip or Track. These businesses are separated into one of four categories, which are each relegated to a specific district of the city for ease of access. Despite the large number of businesses, there are still open spaces for future real estate ventures.

Why are their no corporate owned businesses in Paradise City you may ask? Many galaxy-spanning businesses do not wish to associate themselves with lawlessness. Many business ventures in Paradise City are outright illegal on most worlds, and the Consortium makes no effort to hide these businesses from the eyes of the public. This makes the city quite dangerous, yet very rewarding at the same time.

Laws of Paradise City ​

"Where Everything is Legal" is hardly just a motto when referring to paradise city. The Zann Consortium has made many practices and businesses completely legal which many others would consider immoral or unethical. The only true rules in the city are: 1) Obey the wishes of business owners/employees if you are a patron at their establishment. 2) Obey the commands of Zann Consortium personnel while within the city. The following, are a list of things which are legal in Paradise City:

• The Consumption of Spice in any form, is legal.
• Prostitution is legal.
• All gambling is legal.
• Loansharking is legal.
• Slave trading is legal.
• It is legal to own any weapon or piece of technology, and openly carry it. We cannot control the stares of the locals, or our guards however.
• It is legal to own any beast, though you will be held responsible for any property damage it causes.

Districts of Paradise City ​

Paradise city is broken up into four different districts, which each specialize in a different kind of service. To the South of the city, and located near the bottom half of the strip, the Emerald Vale is the largest of the four districts. It houses all business which specialize in selling physical products such as weapons, ships, spice, slaves, and much more. To the West of the city, and located near the left half of the Track, the Traveler's Nexus is the second largest of the four districts. This district is filled with businesses that cater toward visitors/tourists such as a Spaceport for parking, multiple hotels, land speeder rentals, and tour guides. To the East of the city, and located near the right half of the Track, the Night Lights is the smallest district. This district is filled with business which offer services/entertainment rather than physical products. They include businesses such as cantinas, night clubs, brothels, restaurants, casinos, and gladiatorial arenas. Finally, located to the North of the city and near the upper half of the Strip, Syndicate's Point is an area exclusive to members of the Five Syndicates. Buildings in this area are dedicated to Five Syndicate's activities only...

Emerald Vale (Popular Locations)

• Zann Re-manufacturing. Grace owns a shop that sells military-grade, restricted, and illegal weaponry. It is attached to a much larger warehouse where many of the weapons are made. The shop is known to give slight discounts to Syndicate members.
• Pkye's Peak. A shop run by the Pyke Syndicate which overtly and directly sells various types of spice to the public. It has an attached warehouse where much of it's sold spice is manufactured and packaged.
• Materiaalaankopen Market. The Materiaalaankopen slavers own a large slave auction house in the Emerald Vale. They sell all manner of slaves here from indentured laborers to exotic dancers.

Traveler's Nexus

• Paradise Spaceport. A massive spaceport used by visitors and tourists. The Spaceport is one of the largest around, able to house over one hundred freighters. There is also a pair of transport ships that regularly make trips from hutt space to Hypori. Privately owned ships are required to pay docking fees.
• Paradise Resort. A massive skyscraper which acts as the city's primary hotel. It boasts over 1,000 rooms fit for groups of up to 4 people each.
• Corellian Speeders LLC. A locally owned land speeder rental service. Corellian speeders rents both speeder bikes and Landspeeders.

Night Lights

• Ryloth's Best. The most popular brothel and strip club in all of Paradise City. The club primarily boasts Twi'lek women as their dancers and escorts, but features some employees of other races.
• Death's Door. A large gladiatorial arena which hosts a vast number of events. Beast fights, droid boxing, even sentient vs sentient duels. It is owned by the hutts.

Syndicate's Point

• Zann Palace. Grace Zann's personal residence. The palace is a massive gothic building with dozens of rooms for living/entertainment. It also serves as a meeting place and office for visiting members of other Syndicates.
• Syndicate Hanger. A spaceport with titanium-reinforced supports, and it's own dedicated deflector shield generator. It is used as a landing zone for Five Syndicate ships.
• Paradise PD. While not actually a police department, the facility has an armory along with small offices and computer systems. It acts as a base of operations for the Zann Consortium's peace keeping forces in the city. It is lead by Sheriff @Xol Zaa Fenn.

Map of Paradise City
The following map represents the districts and population density of Paradise City. The darker the area, the higher the foot traffic.

Spoiler

Intent
Paradise City is intended to act as the Zann Consortium's main base of operations on the planet Hypori. It was gained through the mission pack Gangaster's Paradise. Land was cleared for the construction of the city, building materials were stolen to construct the city, and wealthy business owners were encouraged to bring their businesses to the city.

 

[Logan]

So to be quite honest, this write up is far too expansive for the amount of effort that actually went into it. In its current state, Paradise City is a fully formed and operating metropolis the size of Chicago. It has numerous flourishing businesses, attractions, etc. when something like that would take years to develop.

The only mission that I saw that even mentioned raw materials was the squad taking over just two freighters. You'd be hard pressed to build a shanty town with just that amount of material. Not to mention, it would require billions of credits to establish something so ready made and concrete as you've presented it currently.

Paradise City as a concept seems totally fine, but I think you need to scale it back considerably and start with something much more manageable and build it up through RP.

I can leave this open for you to edit or I can archive it and you can re-submit within the parameters I mentioned. Up to you, just let me know what you want to do.

 

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You can archive this. @Logan