Narkina 5

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"Narkina 5."
"What? What's that, what's Narkina 5?"
―A Niamos shoretrooper dispatches Cassian Andor to the prison barge headed to the Narkina 5 Prison Complex[5]

Narkina 5, also known as Narkina, was a small water moon that orbited the gas giant Narkina. The Galactic Empire maintained a prison complex there.

Description

Narkina 5,[6] also known as Narkina,[7] was a small moon that orbited a gas giant. It was mostly covered by water but also had rocky islands, inlets, mesas, lakes, and beaches with massive canyons and dry trees.[4] The lakes and rivers of the planet were rich with squigglies which fishermen from many species, including Keredians, visited the moon to fish, but[6] by 5 BBY[8] the Prison Complex had irreparably polluted the waters, diminishing the squigglie population and angering the fishermen communities.[6]

History

In 5 BBY,[8] Cassian Andor was sent to the moon's Imperial Prison Complex after being arrested and sentenced on Niamos. The hundreds of prisoners there were forced to work twelve hour shifts to build EP-N5 fasteners for the Empire.[5] Later, Andor and fellow prisoner Ruescott Melshi fled across the moon's surface after the Narkina 5 prison escape.[9]

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Behind the scenes

Narkina 5 was first pictured in the teaser trailer for the Star Wars: Andor television series released on May 26, 2022.[10] It first appeared in "Narkina 5," the eighth episode of the series,[5] which aired on October 26, 2022.[11] The scene on the moon's beach was photographed in Middle Peak Quarry in Wirksworth, Derbyshire in the United Kingdom.[12] When discussing the prison, in an Entertainment Weekly interview published the same days as the StarWars.com article, the series' creator and executive producer, Tony Gilroy, described Meero's all-female prison as hypothetically being Narkina 2 or Narkina 7 as opposed to Narkina 5.[13] Gilroy had also previously mentioned Narkina 2 as a hypothetical location for the Empire's alien prisoners when discussing Narkina 5 in an interview with Collider on November 22, 2022.[14]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
  2. ↑ Star Wars: Complete Locations, New Edition places Narkina 5 in the area of space Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the Slice.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Star Wars: Complete Locations, New Edition
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Andor logo new Star Wars: Andor — "Narkina 5" (Audio description from Disney+)
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 Andor logo new Star Wars: Andor — "Narkina 5"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Andor logo new Star Wars: Andor — "Daughter of Ferrix"
  7. ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas: Updated Edition
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 The events of Andor Season 1 begin with "Kassa," which dates itself to 5 BBY. The final episode "Rix Road" takes place immediately after "Daughter of Ferrix," "A Certain Point of View" in Star Wars Insider 220 places "Daughter of Ferrix" five years before Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, which corresponds to 5 BBY per Star Wars: Timelines. As the first and last episodes take place in 5 BBY, all episodes of Andor Season 1 must take place in this year.
  9. ↑ Andor logo new Star Wars: Andor — "One Way Out"
  10. ↑ SWYT-Logo Andor | Teaser Trailer | Disney+ on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
  11. ↑ TwitterLogo Star Wars (@starwars) on Twitter (post on August 10, 2022): "This is what revolution looks like. Watch #Andor, a Star Wars Original Series, streaming only on @DisneyPlus September 21." (backup link)
  12. ↑ StarWars.com "Daughter of Ferrix" Trivia Gallery | Andor on StarWars.com (backup link) (Slide 3)
  13. ↑ Premium-Era-real Andor creator Tony Gilroy explains that surprise ending and final shot by Ross, Dalton on Entertainment Weekly (May 14, 2025) (backup link archived on May 16, 2025)
  14. ↑ Premium-Era-real Why 'Andor' Doesn't Have Many 'Star Wars' Aliens Explained By Showrunner Tony Gilroy [Exclusive] by Lovitt, Maggie on Collider.com (November 22, 2022) (backup link archived on March 15, 2025)