Naval Station Validusia

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Naval Station Validusia was an immense Imperial space station that orbited a blue planet in the Validusia system[1] within the Bes Ber Bikade sector of the Expansion Region[2] and Trailing Sectors.[3] It was situated in grid square L-15 of the Standard Galactic Grid.[2]

The station, which offered repairs and refueling to Imperial warships, featured a large number of spherical and spheroidal fuel containers, and a spire measuring nearly seventeen kilometers. Naval Station Validusia was large enough to dock an Assertor-class Star Dreadnought and over a dozen other capital ships, and it was the base of operations for an Altor-class supply ship.[1]

Behind the scenes

Naval Station Validusia was mentioned in the current Star Wars canon in the thirty-fourth issue of the Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine series, published by De Agostini[1] around August 26, 2015.[4] In Star Wars Legends, Naval Station Validusia was introduced in the reference book The Essential Guide to Warfare, which was written by Jason Fry and Paul R. Urquhart and published in 2012. The design of the space station was created by illustrator Ansel Hsiao.[5]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 34 Secrets of Spaceflight: Refuelling
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 StarWars.com Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version) — Based on corresponding data for the Validusia system
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 StarWars.com Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version) places the Validusia system, and therefore Naval Station Validusia itself, in the area of space Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the Trailing Sectors.
  4. ↑ The second issue of the De Agostini weekly magazine Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon was set to be published on January 14, 2015, according to Premium-Era-real De Agostini Publishing: Build the Millennium Falcon Magazine & Model by Chris Wyman on TheForce.net (January 8, 2015) (backup link archived on November 6, 2016). Therefore, Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 34 was published around August 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ The Essential Guide to Warfare