The Stockade

The Stockade is a Gretican joint military-science installation on Gorga'thal. The facility was initially established for scientific purposes to study the history of the planet. However, in total secrecy from the Niluran populace, the facility was retrofitted and expanded to become a political prisoner camp, meant to both exile and punish dissidents to the Gretican regime.

Former Chancellor Yurval Serke was the first to develop the facility into a training grounds for "reformed" prisoners to become specialized operatives and super soldiers. The intense Gorgan gravity enables the soldiers to become remarkably faster and stronger on Bo-Sera, and the harsh setting of the planet provides excellent opportunity for mental training, discipline, and obedience. The Stockade has conducted such programming for long enough that at least two generations of children have been born on Gorga'thal and developed their own traditions.

The Rearmest Greatlands and All-Tribe know of only the scientific mission of the facility, but are distrustful of what else happens on the planet. Conspiracies and speculation abound, but as far as anyone can tell, the facility is benign.

Even to the Gretican ruling class, it is not entirely known, and the purpose has yet to be defined for the Gorgan soldiers.