Hyper-point destablizer

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"The world is almost uninhabitable, my lord. The loss of the hyper-point destablizer and its delivery vehicle has caused a thermal shift in the planet's atmosphere and tectonic instabilities that may yet tear Kromus apart. We are continuing to monitor the world as you instructed, but it is increasingly difficult to remain in orbit."
―A report delivered to Darth Sidious following the apparent destruction of the hyper-point destabilizer and the Shadowblade in the Kro'eval system[1]

A hyper-point destablizer was a type of weapon. During the Clone Wars, the Shadowblade, a Separatist cruiser and superweapon, was armed with a hyper-point destablizer.[1] Around 20 BBY,[2] the Shadowblade and its hyper-point destablizer were seemingly destroyed following an attack by the Galactic Republic on Separatist forces in the Kro'eval system, where the Shadowblade was under construction.[1] However, the warship secretly survived the battle and later reappeared in the Cularin system[3] in 19 BBY,[4] where it was drawn into a temporal rift by Jedi Master Darrus Jeht[3] and never seen again.[5]

Behind the scenes

The hyper-point destablizer was referenced in the 2005 short story Dark Soul by August and Cynthia Hahn. The short story provided no detail on the nature of the hyper-point destablizer other than noting it as the armament of the Shadowblade. While the story described the Shadowblade as a superweapon, it did not clarify whether it was the vessel's hyper-point destablizer weapons specifically that resulted in the warship being classified as a superweapon.[1]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 WizardsoftheCoast Dark Soul on Wizards.com (backup link) (original site is defunct)
  2. ↑ The Living Force Campaign Guide states that the Living Force campaign is set one year after the Invasion of Naboo, an event that is dated to 32 BBY by The New Essential Chronology. As the Living Force adventure Philology moved the campaign forward ten years to the time of the Clone Wars, and the adventure Night's Homecoming established that by Year 4 of the campaign over a year had elapsed since the events of Philology, Dark Soul can therefore be dated to circa 20 BBY.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 WizardsoftheCoast Living Force: Last Stand on Wizards.com (backup link) (original site is defunct)
  4. ↑ Living Force: Last Stand is set shortly after the declaration of Order 66 but prior to the end of the Clone Wars, events that are dated to 19 BBY by The New Essential Chronology. As such it can be established that the events of the short story take place in 19 BBY.
  5. ↑ The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. II, p. 274–275 ("Maelstrom")