Crashpoint Tower

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Crashpoint Tower was the nickname of a comm tower located on Crashpoint Peak in the Farodin Woods outside Lonisa City,[2] the capital city of the planet Valo.[3] When the Nihil pirates plotted an attack on the Valo Republic Fair, they sent a team to disable the comm tower the day before the attack. The breach of the tower's security perimeter tripped an alarm which was responded to by Jedi Padawan Ram Jomaram and his droid, V-18, and they fought a brief skirmish with the pirates before watching them escape in their starship. Jomaram was arrested by the Valo Security Force after sneaking onto the fairgrounds in an attempt to warn the Valon Jedi Masters, so when the attack began the next day, he and Padawan Lula Talisola made a dangerous trek through the gas-choked Lonisa City to reach Crashpoint Tower and reactivate it so they could call for help, as none of the Jedi and Galactic Republic defenders were able to communicate with each other. When they reached the tower with Zeen Mrala, they found that the Nihil had seeded Drengir, dangerous sentient carnivorous plants, at the tower to ward away intruders. However, Jomaram was able to get the Drengir to leave by informing them that the Nihil had been lying to them and were killing the "meat" that they had hoped to harvest. After driving off attacking Nihil forces, Jomaram was able to repair the comm tower, allowing Valo's defenders to mount a counterattack against the pirates.[2]

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Behind the scenes

"There was an alert tripped on the security perimeter of the comms tower."
"Crashpoint Tower?"
"Uh, that's not the official name, but I suppose so, yes."
―V-18 and Ram Jomaram in a preliminary version of Race to Crashpoint Tower's first chapter[4]

Crashpoint Tower first appeared in the 2021 novel The High Republic: Race to Crashpoint Tower.[2]

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  1. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates Starlight Beacon's destruction to 230 BBY. The implementation of the Guardian Protocols, which Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia places in 229 BBY, took place one week after Starlight Beacon's fall according to The High Republic – Shadows of Starlight 1. As The High Republic Adventures (2023) 12 takes place one year and a few months after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, it must be set in 228 BBY.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The High Republic: Race to Crashpoint Tower
  3. ↑ The High Republic: The Rising Storm
  4. ↑ The High Republic: A Test of Courage