Bakura Memorial Building

[Nick Cousland]

The Bakur Memorial Building, also known as the Bakur Complex, serves as the center of government on Bakura. Located slightly southwest of the center of the capital city of Salis D'aar, the truncated, wedge-shaped building overlooks Statuary Park at the city's center. It was first the headquarters of the Bakur Mining Corporation, before becoming the location of the Bakuran Senate.

The Senate chamber is located in a wing of its own. The chamber is roughly rectangular, with a tiled, two-story-tall ceiling. At each corner are glass pillars, self-illuminating and open to the sky at the top. The Senate is arranged so that the Prime Minister (and Imperial governor, during the occupation) sits at the front of the room. On a lower level are a pair of tables for lower-ranking senators, and lower from those are a pair of tables for ministers and senior senators. In front of the senior tables is a space for speakers to address the Senate.

The "corporate wing" of the Building was completed approximately a century before the Battle of Bakura, possibly as a result of the droid uprising in 97 BBY. The Corporation may have been stationed elsewhere prior to that, that may have been when the government was established, or that may have been the year in which the Corporation turned over power to the Senate.

Following the Battle of Bakura, the Senate moved to the Bakuran Senate Complex.

The Bakuran Senate Complex is a bunker-like complex in Salis D'aar, Bakura, that housed the Bakuran Senate after the Battle of Bakura to provide a safer location for the Senate than the Bakur Memorial Building. In case of emergencies, a number of the city's citizens are also held inside the complex, which includes heavy armor and weapons caches to provide for self-defense.