Cartao

"Were you here for the fighting on Cartao?"
"I really just got here. I joined six months ago, off Phorsa Gedd."
"Doesn't matter. Keep us alive, and I'll tell you about Cartao after."

―Hazram Namir and Vifra — 20?cb=20250116042720

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Cartao was an Expansion Region astronomical object where the Galactic Empire kept a facility that became under threat from a potential dissident attack in 14 BBY. It was also the site of fighting during the Galactic Civil War, involving the Rebel Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry.

Description

Cartao was a terrestrial astronomical object^[3] located in an eponymous star system in the Prackla sector within the Expansion Region^[1] and the New Territories.^[2] It was situated at the coordinates O-8 on the Standard Galactic Grid.^[1]

History

"Our main concerns are Lantillies, from which we have already repositioned many of our resources. Also, the Imperial facility on Cartao, and Ice Station Beta on Anteevy."

―Dodd Rancit, to Sheev Palpatine^[3]

During the time of the Galactic Empire, Cartao was the site of an Imperial facility. When a group of dissidents stole the Imperial corvette Carrion Spike from Moff Wilhuff Tarkin and used it to attack Galidraan Station^[3] in 14 BBY,^[5] Cartao and its Imperial facility, along with Lantillies and Ice Station Beta on Anteevy, were listed as theorized targets by Vice Admiral Dodd Rancit of Naval Intelligence when he was questioned on the situation by Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine.^[3]

During the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance, the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry fought on Cartao.^[4] In 3 ABY,^[5] when the company was stranded on the manufacturing planet Sullust, the tentative Captain Hazram Namir asked Vifra, the head of engineering, whether she had been present for the fighting on Cartao. Vifra replied that she had only joined six months prior, and so Namir told her that he'd tell her about Cartao if she helped keep the 61st alive.^[4]