Death Wind Corridor

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"Have you heard anything concerning the Death Wind?"
"The spice trade corridor?"
"No, something that bears the same name. Something worse. Rumors of an execution squad."
―Wullf Yularen and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker[4]

The Death Wind Corridor connected Roon and Ryloth.

Description

"We've had our suspicions of Mekedrix since he vanished. That the namesake "Death Wind" trade corridor passes by his homeworld of Roon only strengthens the connection."
―Wullf Yularen, to Anakin Skywalker and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi[4]

The Death Wind Corridor,[1] or simply Death Wind, was a spice trade corridor[4] which passed within an intersecting portion of the Outer Rim Territories[1] and the Slice regions.[2] The route connected the Roon system of the Abrion sector,[3] containing the astronomical object Roon,[1] and the Ryloth system of the Gaulus sector,[3] containing the planet Ryloth.[5] The Death Wind intersected the Corellian Run[1] super-hyperroute[6] at Ryloth. and the Triellus Trade Route hyperlane at Roon, passing through the Cloak of the Sith to get to the latter. The three routes together formed the Spice Triangle, a trade network that connected Roon, Ryloth, and the planet Tatooine. The Mumble's Turnaround, a hyperlane favored by smugglers, also linked with the Death Wind Corridor at both Ryloth and Roon.[1]

History

"So I'm thinking once I purchase a fleet (maybe twenty HWK-290s, fifty YT-freighters, one hundred barges), I'll lock down trade along the Spice Triangle. All smuggling along the Death Wind Corridor will go through me, plus I'll collect fees from the most lucrative segments of the Triellus and the Corellian Run."
―Tryphon Leo, in the Smuggler's Guide[1]

During the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and Separatist Alliance, an execution squad known as the Death Wind formed, led by the deserted Roonian Republic soldier Mekedrix. The death squad made attacks on groups under both the Republic and Separatists. Republic Admiral Wullf Yularen had suspicions about Mekedrix's connections following his disappearance, Roon's placement along the Death Wind Corridor backing the connection.[4]

By 10 BBY,[7] the Pyke Syndicate controlled underworld trade in the Spice Triangle, which was noted by the former pirate queen Maz Kanata in a book that was eventually named the Smuggler's Guide. After the smuggler Tryphon Leo stole the book, they planned to lock down the trade network, including the Death Wind Corridor. Leo wrote about their plans in the book and in the entry included a map of the Spice Triangle and its hyperroutes and his vision to control all smuggling along the Death Wind. Leo's plans were cut short, however, when they died trying to reach one of Kanata's mapped treasure caches in order to fund their plans.[1]

Behind the scenes

The Death Wind Corridor was first mentioned in 2017 canon reference book Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide, written by Daniel Wallace.[1]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide places the Death Wind Corridor in the region of space that Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the Slice.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 StarWars.com Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version) — Based on corresponding data for the Roon and Ryloth system
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Obi-Wan 4
  5. ↑ StarWars-DatabankII Ryloth in the Databank (backup link)
  6. ↑ Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 48 Guide to the Galaxy: Visiting Ord Mantell
  7. ↑ The entries in Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide that involve the Spice Triangle and the Death Wind Corridor are placed chronologically prior to an entry written by Tobias Beckett. Star Wars: Timelines dates Beckett's death to 10 BBY, and so his entry in the guide and those chronologically before it must all be set at some point by that date.