The Kadal Asteroid Field was located in the Bestal system,[2] a part of the Outer Rim Territories' Varada sector.[1] The asteroid field lay close to the planet Bestal Three and contained asteroids with significant deposits of aluminite and corax ores.[2]
During the Galactic Civil War, Alara Fax, the head of the company Fax Ventures, sought to exact vengeance upon her old rival, the SoroSuub Corporation's Varada sector holdings' top operating executive Tyanna Tymb. To that end, Fax studied the sector's star systems in search of business opportunities with which she could compete with Tymb. Discovering the Kadal Asteroid Field's ore deposits, Fax secured a contract that allowed her company to mine the asteroids and process the ore on Bestal Three. When Tymb later purchased trade and resource rights for the Bestal system, she discovered the Fax Ventures' corporate rights to both the Kadal Asteroid Field and Bestal Three and subsequently became determined to acquire for the SoroSuub Corporation the rights to the entire system.[2]
Behind the scenes
The Kadal Asteroid Field was introduced in "Adversaries: Characters for the Star Wars: New Republic Campaign," a roleplaying game source article authored by Bill Slavicsek for use with West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game and published in Polyhedron 97 in July 1994. Since that article was released outside of the Lucas Licensing process,[2] it was considered non-canonical with respect to the Star Wars Legends continuity.[4] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the Bestal system, and therefore the asteroid field, in grid square I-19.[3]
Sources
Non-canon sources
"Adversaries: Characters for the Star Wars: New Republic Campaign" — Polyhedron 97 (First mentioned) (Unlicensed)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2
Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link) — Based on corresponding data for Bestal system
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6
"Adversaries: Characters for the Star Wars: New Republic Campaign" — Polyhedron 97
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Essential Atlas — Based on corresponding data for Bestal system
- ↑ Email from Jason Fry on July 9, 2012 — Used with permission. Lucasfilm treats material from the various unlicensed roleplaying game magazines as non-canonical with respect to the Star Wars Legends continuity, with the only exceptions being the existence of those worlds and star systems that are referenced in The Essential Atlas and its StarWars.com Online Companion, and any other details that were referenced in, and thus canonized by, an official source.
