Ferrix City

"If you can't find it here, it's not worth finding."

―Willi, to Luthen Rael on a Ferrix shuttle^[2]

Ferrix City^[9] was a city located on the Free Trade sector planet Ferrix.^[1] Rix Road ran through the heart of Ferrix City.^[10]

It was home to Maarva Carassi Andor, her husband Clem Andor and their adopted son Cassian Jeron Andor.^[1] It was the site of a protest against the Galactic Republic^[8] in 19 BBY,^[11] an attack against a Pre-Mor security Inspection team^[3] in 5 BBY^[12] as well as a massive riot against the Galactic Empire later that year.^[4]

History

Imperial occupation

Located in the Free Trade sector planet Ferrix of the Morlani system, Ferrix City was aligned with the Galactic Republic during the time of the Clone Wars. After the war's end, it came under Imperial occupation sometime after the Proclamation of the New Order, with the first Imperial clone trooper units arriving to the city accompanied by Imperial officers^[8] in 19 BBY.^[11] The townspeople reacted with concern in the sight of the new administration and a radical faction of Ferrixians sprung into a spontaneous protest, pelting the clone units with stones as they marched through the main street, Rix Road. Their commanding officer ordered the parading units to turn and point their weapons at the protestors, who were all swiftly arrested. Some, including Clem Andor were publicly executed, their bodies left hanging in Fountain Square for days after the protest.^[8] Although the Empire left the planet soon after, distrust and hate for the new authority remained among the locals who hadn't forgotten their neighbors' terrible fate.^[4]

Return of the Empire

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Ferrix, along with the rest of the Morlani system, was passed over to the Preox-Morlana corporation sometime before 5 BBY.^[13] The corporation and its security forces, the Pre-Mor Enforcement, preferred to leave the planet alone, as they thought that "locals had their own way of doing things."^[1] The last census was performed in 11 BBY^[14] and the locals were rarely visited by any corpos, whom they referred to as "the blues."^[3] The calm was interrupted, however, when local citizen Cassian Jeron Andor visited the system capital Morlana One searching for his sister Kerri, along the way having a fight with two local corpos, Verlo Skiff and Kravas Drezzer, whom he ended up killing. Pre-Mor Deputy Inspector Syril Karn took over the case and was quickly able to identify Andor and track him down to his hometown in Ferrix,^[1] organizing a Pre-Mor Security Inspection team led by Sergeant Linus Mosk to arrest him.^[3]

Arriving in the city in three Mobile Tac-Pods, the corpos of the team quickly encountered resistance from the locals when they attempted to interrogate Andor's beloved mother and ex-President of the local Daughters of Ferrix, Maarva Carassi Andor; a crowd quickly gathered outside her house and harassed the officers by banging on metallic fixtures along their path and removing street signs to confuse and intimidate them. The disoriented officers were quickly ambushed by Andor who, along with rebel spymaster Luthen Rael had planted explosive charges on the doors of the warehouse they were hiding in, killing the corpos who attempted the surround them and surprising the rest with a trapped speeder. Leaving many officers dead or severely injured, Andor and Rael escaped aboard the latter's Fondor Haulcraft.^[3]