Preview: Cloud City

City Name: Cloud City
Planet: Bespin
Location: Outer Rim (And the streak continues!)

History of Bespin: Found during the Mandalorian Wars, the initial outpost was promtly destroyed by.....Mandalorians, this being about 4000 years ago.  2000 years ago, a small gas mining outpost was established and was decently profitable.  The gas, tibanna gas, was and still used as a conductive agent to increase the firepower of blaster and ship cannon; in addition, due to the process of manufacturing the Tibanna Gas, it was very expensive to do the manufacturing anywhere but in Bespin (how convenient).  The colony was fought over during the New Sith Wars, but gained no great prominence.  It was only 400 years ago that Cloud City was ordered to be made by a mining corporation, a Mr. Figg (still famous), and became the mining/gambling city that we all know and love now.  The Figgs are still the main family, so the founder of the city passed its rule to others.  Small battles took place here during the Clone Wars.

Major Export: Tibanna Gas, Cloud Cars
Major Import: Food, Technology
Less to be Learned: Star Wars Planets are really fing good at economics.  There's not one planet that is seemingly good at everything, at least in the Outer Rims.

Population: 5.5 million at Cloud City, 6.5 on Bespin; tourist population around 500,000 on average.
Of which, 70% are humans and 20% Ugnnaughts, and 10% other.

Ugh what?  Ugnnaughts, the almost native species of the planet.  Yes, they fortunely emigrated here.  No, I have no clue why you would emigrate to a Gas Giant if you didn't mine the gas.  Yes, we're going to move on.
But they're mini-Ganons, creatures of evil?  Moving on!

So how big is it?  Pretty big; it has 360 levels of people, of which 100 was luxury housing, casinos (Vegas style), museums, clubs, etc; 20 for admin staff; 40 for private industrial areas which is apparently like Hell's Kitchen; 210 floors dedicated to mining, miner residences and processing areas; and 20 to actually keep the city afloat.  About half the floors have residencies needed for the about 6 million people there, so it's pretty well sized.

So there's this Sabbac Tournament?  Yep.
What's Sarbaac? "In rules and concept, sabacc contains elements of both the real-world games baccarat and blackjack, with the obvious distinction of being played with what is essentially a Tarot deck."  Sometimes Wookiepedia is awesome.
What's baccarat?  You're on your own.  I just know it's the game James Bond plays and I can never quite figure out the rules.

Current Baron Administrator: That's a secret.........