Bilbringi system

For other uses, see Bilbringi.

The Bilbringi system was a star system in the Inner Rim region of the galaxy, on the Namadii Corridor. The system was the site of the important Bilbringi Shipyards and played a pivotal role in the Thrawn campaign. The Bilbringi system was choked with asteroids and other debris; it lay close to several military shipment lanes. The asteroids of the star system were rich in metals and other natural resources utilized in starship construction, making it a perfect location to place the shipyards. The largest asteroid in the system was Bilbringi VII.

History

Thrawn campaign

As the location of a rare crystal gravfield trap, the quickest way to identify cloaked objects, the system became a prime target for the New Republic who determined that an attack on Bilbringi was necessary in order to obtain the device, badly needed at the time in order to counter Grand Admiral Thrawn's siege of Coruscant, where planting hundreds of the aforementioned cloaked asteroids in orbit around the capital was wreaking havoc with transportation into and out of the planet. The New Republic decided to attack fortified Bilbringi instead of another, less defended system in a bid to take the Empire by surprise. Unfortunately for them, Thrawn, being the genius that he was, predicted the move and laid a trap for the attacking New Republic fleet. The turning point in the Battle of Bilbringi came when the Grand Admiral was assassinated by his Noghri bodyguard Rukh at the height of the confrontation. Thrawn's second-in-command and Chimaera's captain, Gilad Pellaeon, was left with no choice but to order the retreat and abandon Bilbringi to the New Republic, in a bitter echo of the retreat he'd ordered five years before in the aftermath of the Battle of Endor.^[4]

The battle marked the end of the Imperial resurgence under the intellectual drive of Thrawn, though the following year, the other half of the Imperial forces, under the reborn Emperor Palpatine, would strike out from their seclusion in the Deep Core. Taking advantage of the gains made by the late, last Grand Admiral, the Empire would retake Coruscant.^[2]

Yuuzhan Vong War

During the Yuuzhan Vong War, an important meeting took place at the shipyards between the captured Yuuzhan Vong agent Nom Anor and New Republic representatives Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo, during which Anor was nearly killed by exposure to vacuum. However, he was spared and would later return to his people.^[5] Later in the war, Bilbringi was captured by the extra-galactic invaders.^[2]

Near the end of the war, in 29 ABY, the Galactic Alliance and Imperial Remnant fought the Yuuzhan Vong in the Second Battle of Bilbringi, as part of Operation Trinity. However, the operation failed, due to the Vong bringing down the HoloNet. The Alliance forces had to retreat, but not without both sides suffering heavy losses.^[6]