Kuat shipyards

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This article is about the shipyards, also dubbed Kuat Drive Yards. You may be looking for the company Kuat Drive Yards, which operated the shipyards.

"The shipyards of Kuat are famous throughout the galaxy. Here, the Republic's Acclamator assault ships and the Empire's Star Destroyers were built. A vast man-made ring of factories and spacedocks encircles the planet, allowing huge vessels to be built in orbit."
―The Galactic Atlas[9]

The Kuat shipyards,[3] also dubbed Kuat Drive Yards after their custodian company,[10] consisted of a massive space station which encircled[11] the Core[1] planet Kuat, utilized by Kuat Drive Yards. After the founding of the Galactic Empire,[12] in 19 BBY[13] the shipyards were converted from civilian shipyards to the manufacture of Imperial-class Star Destroyers[12] and all manner of vehicles for the Galactic Empire.[3] Around 17 BBY,[14] the shipyards were the site of a bombing organized by a rebel infiltrator, who planted and detonated an explosive, creating a blast that killed the ten year old Gideon Hask's parents. Afterward, Hask was left an orphan.[7]

Rebel agents were located near the Kuat Shipyards and gave reports to General Airen Cracken about their findings.[2] The Alliance carried out a bombing run against the Kuat shipywards in the aftermath of the Battle of Yavin.[5] In 5 ABY,[15] the New Republic, the successor state of the Rebel Alliance, attacked the shipyards once again. The battle ended with a surrender from the Empire, and the shipyards were taken.[6]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: The Rebel Files
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Battlefront: Twilight Company
  4. ↑ Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Star Wars (2015) 4
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Aftermath: Life Debt
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Battlefront II: Inferno Squad
  8. ↑ Darth Vader (2015) 21
  9. ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
  10. ↑ Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 27 Starship Fact File: Super Star Destroyer — Executor
  11. ↑ SWInsider "Blade Squadron: Kuat" — Star Wars Insider 168
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
  13. ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
  14. ↑ Battlefront II: Inferno Squad establishes that Gideon Hask was orphaned at age of ten by the bombing at the Kuat shipyards. The novel also establishes Gideon Hask is twenty-seven years old. As this is mentioned three days after the Battle of Yavin, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 0 ABY, it places Hask's birth around 27 BBY. Therefore, the bombing must have occurred around 17 BBY.
  15. ↑ Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy states that the battle for Kuat Drive Yards took place twenty-four years after the formation of the Galactic Empire, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 19 BBY. Therefore, the battle must have taken place in 5 ABY.
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