The Myrkos was a Galactic Republic dreadnaught cruiser in service during the Clone Wars. It was stationed in orbit around Tembora, a mobile rogue moon that housed the Republic's Tembora Research Station. At one point, enemy forces launched an attack on the research station, with the Myrkos becoming critically damaged during the fighting. The starship crashed into the rogue moon, leaving behind a radioactive crater and altering the mobile celestial body's course in space.
History
During the Clone Wars, the Myrkos crashed into the rogue moon Tembora.
The Myrkos was a dreadnaught cruiser that was in service of the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars,[1] which pitted the Republic against the Confederacy of Independent Systems[3] and were fought between 22 BBY and 19 BBY.[2] It was stationed in orbit around Tembora, a mobile rogue moon with a diameter of 1,200 kilometers that housed the Tembora Research Station, where the Republic's Army Weapons Research Department was developing the KLR series combat droid. The Republic took precautions that only the command and officers of the Myrkos were aware of Tembora's location.[1]
At one point during the Clone Wars, enemy forces[1] affiliated with the Confederacy of Independent Systems[3] nevertheless discovered the Tembora Research Station and launched an attack on it. During the ensuing engagement, the Myrkos became severely damaged and crashed into the rogue moon thirty kilometers away from the research station. The starship was destroyed, leaving a two-kilometer-wide crater on Tembora's surface that had high residual radiation levels and had debris from the vessel scattered for kilometers around it. The impact of the Myrkos on Tembora caused a slight alteration in the moon's course, and the celestial body became lost in space.[1]
Decades later, at one point during the reign of the Galactic Empire, a group of spacers crash-landed on Tembora after its trajectory had intersected one of the galaxy's hyperlanes. During the group's investigation of the Tembora Research Station, the spacers discovered the site of the Myrkos's crash via perusing the sensor information at the station's command center.[1]
Behind the scenes
The Myrkos was introduced in the roleplaying adventure "Rogue Metal," which was authored by James B. King and published in the June 1992 sixty-first issue of the Challenge magazine for use with West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.[1] The adventure is considered noncanonical with respect to the Star Wars Legends continuity.[4] The adventure suggests that the player characters can investigate the crash site of the starship, where they find debris from the vessel. This article assumes the scenario plays out as described.[1]
Appearances
"Rogue Metal" — Challenge 61 (Unlicensed) (First appearance) (Debris only)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09
"Rogue Metal" — Challenge 61
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Rogue Metal" — Challenge 61 establishes that Myrkos was destroyed during the Clone Wars, which The New Essential Chronology dates to between 22 BBY and 19 BBY.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The New Essential Chronology
- ↑ 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.
