As it was, the last straw was the droid invasion of the city of Bestine. Many of our partners were there, and only a few escaped unscathed. The droideka assault was an intolerable affront of our autonomy. The Empire claimed it was necessary to regain control from the Tusken Raiders, who had become problematic as of late, but many eyewitnesses saw the droidekas gunning down as many innocent citizens as they did Sand People. They were not programmed for discretion on that mission.
We were fed up, to say the least, but our plans were already underway anyhow. Initial reports returned from Dantooine were very promising. There was a lot of open land, just waiting to be developed. I enlisted Brannoncyll Frost, one of our senior partners, to accompany me on an official scouting trip. We scoured a great amount of the areas that Altor and Readro told us were promising, and soon narrowed things down to a few key potential sites. A few weeks later, we assembled all of the senior members and set out with a crew to lay the foundations of our new City Hall.
Construction went very smoothly. We were relatively far from the nearest settlement (the small collection of buildings enclosed by a barricade, carrying no other name than the Dantooine Mining Outpost). The speederbike trek to the building site was long, but it could be endured. We would have a shuttleport when the time was right, but for now we decided it was better to build the more essential structures to completion first, for our own protection.
City Hall was erected a few hundred meters from the shore of a small crystalline lake in northeastern Dantooine. The new GDC headquarters was built just adjacent, and Spiderwell had his own crew building a large house opposite, forming three sides of a city center. Once construction on City Hall was complete, the GDC partners began arriving and setting up their own residences.
There were two important questions to be answered before we got any further. The first was what we would call our settlement; the second was who would lead it.
The first question was one that was heavily debated. In the end, everyone was able to agree on a fitting title for our town: Temple City, in honor of the ancient Jedi temple ruins, located only a few kilometers away. The name indicated no particular allegiance to any one person or group. All manners of Jedi had trained at the temple, centuries ago. All manners of people came to see its ruins - pilgrims, tourists, Imperials, and others. So would our City also forge its identity.
The second question answered itself, in a sense. The question of leadership essentially fell to a decision between Spiderwell and myself. The other partners were ready to do their part to contribute to our city/state and corporation, but they were too involved in their own matters to be able to take on the responsibility of leadership.
Spider and I were both extremely occupied with our own business efforts as well, but neither of us was willing to relinquish supervision of what we had built to another, less trusted party.
In the end, I volunteered to take the job, at least until the City was established. Spiderwell agreed, pledging his full support, financially and otherwise. I declared that I would be an appointed Mayor only until we were settled and established. At that point, there would be democratic elections and if the citizens of Temple City decided it was time for a replacement, I would oblige them willingly.
With the foundations of a great metropolis set firmly in the soil of Dantooine, we began our efforts to recruit settlers to our new town.
We were fed up, to say the least, but our plans were already underway anyhow. Initial reports returned from Dantooine were very promising. There was a lot of open land, just waiting to be developed. I enlisted Brannoncyll Frost, one of our senior partners, to accompany me on an official scouting trip. We scoured a great amount of the areas that Altor and Readro told us were promising, and soon narrowed things down to a few key potential sites. A few weeks later, we assembled all of the senior members and set out with a crew to lay the foundations of our new City Hall.
Construction went very smoothly. We were relatively far from the nearest settlement (the small collection of buildings enclosed by a barricade, carrying no other name than the Dantooine Mining Outpost). The speederbike trek to the building site was long, but it could be endured. We would have a shuttleport when the time was right, but for now we decided it was better to build the more essential structures to completion first, for our own protection.
City Hall was erected a few hundred meters from the shore of a small crystalline lake in northeastern Dantooine. The new GDC headquarters was built just adjacent, and Spiderwell had his own crew building a large house opposite, forming three sides of a city center. Once construction on City Hall was complete, the GDC partners began arriving and setting up their own residences.
There were two important questions to be answered before we got any further. The first was what we would call our settlement; the second was who would lead it.
The first question was one that was heavily debated. In the end, everyone was able to agree on a fitting title for our town: Temple City, in honor of the ancient Jedi temple ruins, located only a few kilometers away. The name indicated no particular allegiance to any one person or group. All manners of Jedi had trained at the temple, centuries ago. All manners of people came to see its ruins - pilgrims, tourists, Imperials, and others. So would our City also forge its identity.
The second question answered itself, in a sense. The question of leadership essentially fell to a decision between Spiderwell and myself. The other partners were ready to do their part to contribute to our city/state and corporation, but they were too involved in their own matters to be able to take on the responsibility of leadership.
Spider and I were both extremely occupied with our own business efforts as well, but neither of us was willing to relinquish supervision of what we had built to another, less trusted party.
In the end, I volunteered to take the job, at least until the City was established. Spiderwell agreed, pledging his full support, financially and otherwise. I declared that I would be an appointed Mayor only until we were settled and established. At that point, there would be democratic elections and if the citizens of Temple City decided it was time for a replacement, I would oblige them willingly.
With the foundations of a great metropolis set firmly in the soil of Dantooine, we began our efforts to recruit settlers to our new town.
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