Ank Ki'Shor

This article is about the Outer Rim Territories world.
You may be looking for the Mid Rim celestial body Ank Kit'aar.

Ank Ki'Shor was a manufacturing world^[2] located in the Ank Ki'Shor system, a part of the Outer Rim Territories'^[1] Indrexu sector. Situated within the historical Greater Tion region, it lay on the Perlemian Trade Route^[2] super-hyperroute,^[5] which connected it to the Estaria and Janodral Mizar systems^[2] and served as the boundary between the regions known as the Trans-Hydian and the Slice.^[3] The inhabitants of Ank Ki'Shor were not particular as to who they did business with, and during the early years of the Rebel Alliance's existence the world became a key supplier of that organization.^[2]

In the early phase of the Galactic Civil War,^[6] the Siege of Ank Ki'Shor took place at the world.^[7] Although the Galactic Empire ultimately emerged victorious in that engagement,^[5] Rebel Y-wing starfighters nevertheless defended Ank Ki'Shor's population against Imperial bombardment,^[2] saving thousands of lives by holding off the Empire's attacking TIE bomber craft.^[7]

Behind the scenes

Ank Ki'Shor was introduced via a mention of the Siege of Ank Ki'Shor in the 1996 reference book The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels by Bill Smith.^[8] The StarWars.com Databank entry for the Y-wing starfighter subsequently misspelled the name as the Siege of Ank Ki'Shar.^[7] The December 7, 2009 StarWars.com Hyperspace^[9] article "Xim Week: The History of Xim and the Tion Cluster" by Jason Fry first identified Ank Ki'Shor as a distinct world,^[2] and the August 18, 2009^[10] reference book The Essential Atlas placed the Ank Ki'Shor system, and therefore Ank Ki'Shor itself, in grid square S-5.^[4]