Narkina 5 Imperial Prison Complex

The Narkina 5 Imperial Prison Complex, also known as the Narkina 5 detention facility was a complex of seven separate Imperial factory facilities situated in the middle of a lake located on the moon Narkina 5. Each prison cylinder had a capacity of 5,000 prisoners, divided among ninety-eight work teams of convicts assessed as labor worthy, and guarded by more than eighty-four prison guards.

Prison cylinders were divided into strictly enforced sections, including a central command area, a work ring and an outer cell/dormitory ring. Security was enforced by means of the tunqstoid steel-coated floors, which could be electrified in moments by the prison command center or the guards' remotes, frying any misbehaving prisoners and requiring specialized protective boots to survive. The combination of the shocks, which could be switched to be lethal, and the constant rewards offered to hardworking inmates—including flavor in their food—resulted in an extremely low disobedience rate.

Early rebel spy Cassian Andor was sentenced to six years of labor work in one of the facilities in 5 BBY following his false arrest for anti-Imperial activity on the planet Niamos while under the alias "Keef Girgo." At the time of Andor's incarcerations, the facility produced EP-N5 fasteners for the Death Star's Mk I Superlaser dish which were shipped out to the planet Scarif via Eta-class barges.

One of the complex's cylinders was the site of an extensive prisoner uprising and mass escape following the changes imposed on the prison by the Public Order Resentencing Directive, a set of new Imperial laws also known as the PORD. Said law was passed by the Imperial Senate in the wake of the Aldhani heist, an unprecedented rebel attack on the planet's Imperial headquarters which gave Emperor Palpatine a pretext to tighten security in all sectors. The directive saw prisoner incarceration time doubled, and had inmates from the prison being sent to another facility instead of being released after the end of their sentence.

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