Post by Rose on Apr 25, 2007 23:09:28 GMT -5
Carbon-Freezing Chamber
Basic Information -
Homeworld: Bespin
Manufacturer: Figg and Associates, Ltd.
Type: Class Three Carbon-Freezing Chamber
Affiliation: Cloud City
Associations: Carbon-Freezing Chamber
Most visitors to Cloud City only see the gleaming corridors and pristine malls, and not the steel and steam-filled industrial sectors so vital to the city's economy. The city supports a number of carbon-freezing chambers for the containment of Tibanna gas. Molten carbonite is flash-frozen into a solid state, encasing materials for transport in an incredibly strong metal alloy. Carbonite has the ability to suspend organic matter in a form of stasis. Under the correct settings, a living form can be carbon-frozen and placed into hibernation. The process is exacting and extremely dangerous -- a miscalculation can result in death. Cloud City's immense tractor beam generators pull in precious spin-sealed Tibanna gas from the depths of Bespin. The gaseous bounty is then channeled into refineries and stabilized in high-pressure press-chem tubes. For long-term storage and transport, however, the outpost relies on carbonite. Tibanna is routed to carbon-freezing chambers throughout the lower levels of the city. Magnetic fields suspend the gas prior to its channeling into a specialized control block, onto which liquid carbonite is applied. Though Cloud City export documents show that its Tibanna gas is sold strictly as a hyperdrive coolant, much of the gas is actually used for military applications. The freezing of living subjects in carbonite has long been a form of torture. The evil Krath that conquered the Empress Teta system thousands of years ago placed the ruling class in carbon-freeze after their coup. The process is excruciating, and although the subject undergoes a form of stasis hibernation, there is evidence that they still experience consciousness while frozen.