Heldrungen Wreck
| Heldrungen Wreck | |
| CLASSIFIED class Wreck | |
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| Owner | |
| none | |
| Location | |
| 3D, Thuringia | |
| Technical Data | |
| Gravity | none |
| Docking bays | No |
| Amenities | None |
| Crew | 0 |
Heldrungen was a high-security prison within a desolate area of Thuringia constructed in the year 822 AS as a joint project of the MND and Rheinland Military, originally conceptualized as an experimental facility to improve the resocialization of convicts in existing prisons through humane or inhumane conditions. Rheinland's secret service deemed it necessary to operate a cage for special, or rather, hopeless cases - people who either know too much or are a threat to national security. War criminals, warlords, terrorists and spies, but especially traitors - individuals deemed unworthy of a second chance, are all locked away here from the rest of civilization. Those interned within simply disappear from existence without leaving a trace, as though they never existed. The prisoners do not even know where they are detained. The MND did not intend to release any inmates from Heldrungen.
Heldrungen's personnel were said to be brutal towards its inmates, often interrogating them for hours to squeeze out every last bit of information through the use of drugs and thorough "enhanced interrogation methods." Officers of the Rheinland Military who were aware of the facility's existence believe that Heldrungen's prisoners serve as experimental subjects for genetic tests, viruses, Nomad infestation and other unethical experiments. Hence it is a dreaded prison earning the nickname "Das Eiserne Tribunal" ("The Iron Tribunal") among the military.
During the fall of the Rheinland Republic, Imperial agents retreating from Thuringia fought to download Heldrungen’s archives and prisoner manifests, hoping to prevent the station from falling under Federalists control. Unwilling to grant the empire the key to the secrets of the state, the Republic’s forces liberated the cells of any prisoners thought useful to the cause before torpedoing the station’s transmitters and docking bays, cutting Heldrungen off from the rest of Sirius.
The station is now a tomb, drifting in the shade of Planet Artern. Federal forces have prevented any attempts to salvage the wreck.
