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- "Issue call for armed rebellion in the Atrivis sector."
- ―A statement on the rebellion
The Atrivis sector was located in the Outer Rim Territories and the New Territories, containing many star systems. Jedi Master Yoda and his Padawan Dooku voyaged to the astronomical object Mantooine there between 86 BBY and around 80 BBY. The planet Kardoa in the sector saw Galactic Republic and Separatist Alliance forces clash in a short battle around 19 BBY.
During its reign the Galactic Empire occupied the planets Fest and Horuz, and kept a garrison on Mantooine, in the sector. When fighting broke out on the astronomical object Moltok in 13 BBY, the Imperial Gozanti-class cruiser Blood Crow was deployed to de-escalate the situation. The rebel fighter Jyn Erso was sent to Horuz in 7 BBY to assassinate an Imperial scientist, who was ultimately killed by a failsafe trap from Erso's rebel cell.
As an armed rebellion became present in the Atrivus sector by 5 BBY, the Liberators rebel group were crushed on Mantooine, while the Atrivis Resistance Group joined an organized rebellion secretly led by Senator Mon Mothma, later declared the Rebel Alliance. Fest, Mantooine, and the astronomical object Generis became three rebel operations headquarters in the sector by 2 BBY.
Four four pilots operating in the Atrivis sector were transferred to bolster the MC75 Star Cruiser Profundity's starfighter complement by 1 BBY. The Alliance continued to probe the Empire's presence at Horuz, and Captain Cassian Andor was sent to investigate reports of kyber crystals being transported there. In 5 ABY, as the Empire was falling apart, Horuz remained under the sway of Imperial remnants of criminal organizations.
Description
- "As ordered, I have been investigating reports that the Empire is transporting kyber crystals to Patriim, Horuz, and other remote star systems."
- ―Cassian Andor, in a report to Alliance General Airen Cracken
The Atrivis sector was located within an intersecting portion of the Outer Rim Territories[1] and the New Territories regions.[2] It contained the Devon, Fedje, Fest, Generis, Gibbela, Gree Baaker, Hethar, Horuz, Iridium, Kardoa, Mantooine, Markbee's Star, Moltok, Nam'ta, Shar'Ack, Spefik, Squarr, and Vuchelle systems, all situated at the coordinates L-5 on the Standard Galactic Grid.[1]
Generis and Horuz were located in the Atrivis sector.
The Fest system[1] included the cold mountainous planet Fest,[5] which was linked by hyperspace route to the[3] Outer Rim[1] planet[5] Dantooine.[3] The Generis system[1] included the astronomical object Generis,[3] the Horuz system[1] featured the world of Horuz, home to canyons, cliffs, and forests,[6] and the Kardoa system[1] had the rocky planet Kardoa.[7] The terrestrial astronomical objects Mantooine[3] and Moltok[8] were located in the Mantooine and Moltok systems respectively.[1] Also in the sector was Squarr, a location[9] in the Squarr system[1] that was notable for its hurricanes.[9]
History
- "After due deliberation, Madame Travia Chan of the Atrivis Resistance Group agrees to the terms of partnership with Senator Mon Mothma of the Alliance. May our factions be stronger together than apart. No more Mantooines! Down with the Empire!"
- ―Rebel Catta Dionize, on behalf of Travia Chan, to Mon Mothma
By 5 BBY,[10] an armed rebellion against the Galactic Empire was present in the Atrivis sector. This included the Atrivis Resistance Group, which operated from Generis Station, and the Liberators,[3] which was a resistance force for Mantooine,[11] where the Empire kept a garrison. The Liberators went on to seize the Imperial garrison, only to soon be crushed by the Imperial Navy thereafter. As a result, Travia Chan, the leader of the Atrivis Resistance Group, agreed via a message to terms of partnership with a larger organized rebellion against the Empire that was secretly led by Senator Mon Mothma.[3]
Fest, Generis, and Mantooine became rebel operations headquarters by 2 BBY.
By 2 BBY,[12] Fest, Mantooine, and Generis all acted as operations headquarters for Mothma's rebellion. Such was noted on a map of rebel safe worlds, starfighter hubs at level five or higher, operations headquarters, shadow planets, and deep space caches sent to Mothma. The map, public statements on the Liberators' fight at the Mantooine garrison, and the message of Travia Chan's agreement with Mothma's terms, were all included in the compilation of non-electronic documents known as The Rebel Files by archivist Hendri Underholt. Mothma went on to officialize the rebellion as the Rebel Alliance later[3] in 2 BBY.[13]
By 1 BBY,[14] four rebel BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/bomber pilots operating in the Atrivis sector, including Paril Ritta, were transferred to the Alliance's modified MC75 Star Cruiser Profundity to bolster the vessel's starfighter forces.[15]
Locations
The Horuz system
- "Tatooine. Kerev Doi. Demesel. Horuz. All worlds still in thrall either to some Imperial remnant or to criminal syndicates or gangs."
- ―Princess Leia Organa, to her husband Han Solo
Jyn Erso had her first solo mission for the Partisans on Horuz.
The Galactic Empire eventually began a major tactical deployment[9] on Horuz during its reign, maintaining high protocols and a communications blackouts. The rebel cell known as the Partisans, led by Saw Gerrera, took an interest in the world as a result, calling it a "dark planet" due to the nature of the Empire's presence there despite its apparent insignificance.[6] In 7 BBY,[13] Gerrera sent Jyn Erso, a fighter that he had taken under his wing, on her first solo mission to Horuz around the time of her fifteenth birthday. Erso was dropped on the world to ensure the assassination of the Imperial scientist Dorin Bell, who was scouting Horuz's southern hemisphere with a small protection detail. While the young fighter tried to snipe her target, the scientist was taken out by a trap that the Partisans had prepared.[6]
As the Alliance made efforts to analyse the Empire's deployments to Horuz,[9] Captain Cassian Andor of Alliance Intelligence began investigating reports that the Empire was transporting kyber crystals to the Horuz system and other remote star systems.[4] In 5 ABY,[17] in the late days of the Galactic Civil War, Horuz was one of a number of worlds that remained under the control of an Imperial remnant or criminal organizations.[16]
Other locations
- "Are we allowed to know the nature of this mission, general?"
"Simple recon…to confirm or refute repots of a Separatist presence on Kardoa." - ―A clone trooper and Depa Billaba
Sometime between 86 BBY and circa 80 BBY,[19] during the time of the Galactic Republic, the Jedi Master Yoda took his Padawan Dooku on a voyage to Mantooine which Dooku later chronicled in his journal.[20] At some point by 1 BBY[21] the Rebel Alliance used a UT-60D U-wing starfighter/support craft as a troop carrier at Mantooine.[3]
Republic forces were deployed to Kardoa.
Around 19 BBY,[22] during the Clone Wars between the Republic and the Separatist Alliance, Separatist Generals Grievous and Kleeve and Colonel Coburn Sear were present on Kardoa. Reports of a Separatist presence there reached the Republic, and a clone trooper battalion led by Jedi General Depa Billaba was deployed there for confirm or refute the reports. The Separatists there learned of the Republic presence, and Sear was left to deal with the forces, while the two generals went to join respective deployments elsewhere. When forces led by Billaba scouted Kardoa's canyons, Sear's own forces ambushed them, leading to a short battle between the two. The Separatist forces ultimately withdrew after Billaba and a couple of clones attacked his starship.[18]
After its rise in 19 BBY,[13] the Empire occupied the industrial zones on Fest, forcing many humans there into labor.[5] Fest ultimately became savaged by the Empire, with refugees from the world being accepted by the Alliance.[23] In 13 BBY,[24] a Makurth boss began firing on their local Ho'Din settlement on Moltok. The Imperial Gozanti-class cruiser Blood Crow, under the command of Captain Filia Rossi, was sent to de-escalate the crisis.[8]
Inhabitants
- "We have always said Fest. Every doc I've ever submitted has always said you were born on Fest."
- ―Maarva Andor, on Cassian Andor's forged homeworld
The human Paril Ritta was native to Generis.[15] Humans also inhabited Fest,[5] enabling the human Cassian Andor's adoptive mother, Maarva Andor, to claim on official documents that Cassian was from Fest instead of the obscure Mid Rim planet Kenari.[25]
Behind the scenes
The Atrivis sector in Star Wars Legends
The Atrivis sector first appeared in the current canon through the appearance of Kardoa in the eighth issue of Greg Weisman's Star Wars: Kanan comic series, illustrated by Pepe Larraz[7] and published by Marvel Comics on November 18, 2015.[26] The sector's name itself was first mentioned in Pablo Hidalgo's 2016 reference book Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide.[15] Kardoa was not confirmed to be in the Atrivis sector until June 24, 2025,[27] through "Star Systems of the Galaxy," an appendix released on StarWars.com alongside the article Star Wars Galaxy Map[1]—both works having been authored by Jason Fry.[27]
The Atrivis sector originated in Star Wars Legends, being introduced in Paul Murphy's West End Games sourcebook, The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, first published in 1990.[28] The sector first appeared a mission set in the Horuz system in the 1993 computer game Star Wars: X-Wing, developed by LucasArts.[29] The Horuz system was not confirmed to be in the Atrivis sector until 1998 when the LucasArts game Star Wars: Rebellion placed[30] the Horuz system world of Despayre[29] in the sector.[30]
Appearances
- Kanan 8 (First appearance)
- Kanan 9
- Rebel Rising (and audiobook)
Sources
- Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide (First identified as Atrivis sector)
- Star Wars: The Rebel Files
Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version)
