Byss Run

"Spacers think that ships and fuel just pop into the galaxy through a black hole or something. Slip the blockades, tease the Imperials, run the Kessel and Byss and Twin Stars; it's all fun and glamor for those starry-eyed flyboys."

―Chaster Fel Gaargaaz^[2]

The Byss Run was a hyperlane located in the Deep Core. It was so perilous and changing that it was only kept open and stable with hundreds of non-mass S-thread boosters planted within hyperspace at a high cost.

Astrography

The Byss Run was the primary hyperroute to and from the Deep Core Beshqek system, which contained the planet Byss, the location of the Reborn Palpatine's Empire. It started at the planet Empress Teta in the Empress Teta system, and passed by the Keeara Major system, the Prakith system, and the Odik system, before reaching the Beshqek system.^[1]

History

The Byss Run was artificially built by the Galactic Empire at some point after 19 BBY^[3] and held together by hundreds of S-thread boosters, operating at a high cost.^[1]

Salla Zend proved herself to be one of the best when she succeeded in smuggling Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo on to Byss in an attempt to rescue Luke Skywalker in 11 ABY.^[4] When Byss was destroyed after the Galaxy Gun accidentally fired on it, millions of refugees from Relus, another planet in the Beshqek system, fled to the other planets along the Byss Run. Afterwards, the energies of the deep core erased the Byss Run, causing the Beshqek system to become unreachable and stranding the other planets.^[1]

Behind the scenes

In Part 4 of Jason Fry and Daniel Wallace's endnotes for The Essential Atlas, Jason Fry mentioned that the Byss Run and the secret route General Grievous took to abducting Supreme Chancellor Palpatine during the Clone Wars correspond.^[5]