- "With Operation Ringbreaker meeting early success, I feel our current angle of attack could provide a broader path to victory. This map notes the locations of other major Imperial shipyards and drydocks, as well as key mining centers for metals and ores. Once we take out Kuat, these should be our next targets."
- ―Crix Madine, in an official document to Mon Mothma
The Outer Rim Territories celestial body Karavis was a major industrial site for the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War. Rebel Alliance General Crix Madine identified it as a possible target in the event that the Alliance campaign Operation Ringbreaker was successful.
Description
Karavis was a celestial body[3] located in the Obtrexta sector's Karavis system within an intersecting portion of the Outer Rim Territories[1] and the New Territories.[2] It lay in the grid square K-4 on the Standard Galactic Grid.[1]
History
Crix Madine marked Karavis as a possible target for the Rebel Alliance.
During the Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, Karavis was a major industrial site for the Empire.[3] In 3 ABY,[4] the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry attacked a number of minor Imperial resource hubs to weaken the defenses of the major shipbuilding hub Kuat Drive Yards for a final attack, a campaign dubbed Operation Ringbreaker.[5] While Alliance Intelligence vetted the campaign from afar, Alliance General Crix Madine observed Operation Ringbreaker's early success and drew up a galactic map of other major Imperial shipyards, drydocks, and mining centers that the Alliance could target if Operation Ringbreaker was successful.[3]
Included on the map, Karavis was marked as a low-security, medium-priority option. The map was added to an official document on Madine's ideas that was sent to Mon Mothma, the Alliance's Commander-in-Chief. Soon afterward, the archivist Hendri Underholt included the map in a compilation of non-electronic documents called The Rebel Files.[3] The 61st ultimately abandoned Operation Ringbreaker before they could attack Kuat Drive Yards.[5]
Behind the scenes
Karavis was introduced in the current Star Wars canon via a mention in the 2017 reference book Star Wars: The Rebel Files, written by Daniel Wallace.[3] In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the Karavis system was first mentioned in "The Galaxy Dragon and crew," an article written by Bill Slavicsek as a supplement for West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game and published in the 200th issue of the Dragon magazine in December 1993. Since the article was released outside of the Lucas Licensing process,[6] it is considered non-canon with respect to the Legends continuity.[7] The star system was ultimately canonized within Legends via the 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas, authored by Wallace and Jason Fry.[8]
Sources
- Star Wars: The Rebel Files (First mentioned)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version) — Based on corresponding data for the Karavis system
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: The Rebel Files places Karavis in the area of space Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the New Territories.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Star Wars: The Rebel Files
- ↑ Star Wars: Timelines
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Battlefront: Twilight Company
- ↑
"The Galaxy Dragon and crew" — Dragon Magazine 200
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The Essential Atlas
