Repair and Reconstruction Activities

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"On Lothal, in order to gather the resources required to supply the nascent TIE defender factory, the Empire had the mining guild deploy huge roaming ore crawlers on the planet's surface. These machines, dubbed "World Devastators" by locals who had seen them in action, moved on enormous repulsorlift legs and stripped resources from the ground beneath them. Within the crawler itself, raw materials would be partially refined ready for use in Imperial factories. The process was hugely damaging to the planet's surface and resulted in significant amounts of pollution being released into the atmosphere. It took years for the ecosystem to be restored and repaired after Lothal's liberation from Imperial control."
―Beaumont Kin in The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire[1]

Repair and Reconstruction Activities was a file in the "Ecosystem" section of the Post-Imperial Lothal Archives that detailed ecological repair efforts made by and to the Outer Rim planet Lothal after it was liberated from the rule of the Galactic Empire. Expanding on the Resource Extraction file in the "Imperial Occupation" section of the archives, the file detailed recovery efforts stemming from the surface damage and environment pollution caused to Lothal by the Empire's World Devastators—part of the Empire’s efforts to build TIE/d "Defender" Multi-Role Starfighter on Lothal—and the years it took to accomplishment the environmental repairs. This file was referenced by historian Beaumont Kin in history book, The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire,[1] in 35 ABY.[2]

Behind the scenes

The Repair and Reconstruction Activities file was first referenced in the 2024 reference book Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, written by Chris Kempshall.[1]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
  2. ↑ Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire states that thirty years have passed since the end of the Galactic Civil War and months have passed since the Battle of Exegol. As Star Wars: Timelines dates the end of the war to 5 ABY and the Battle of Exegol to 35 ABY, the in-universe The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire must have been published in 35 ABY.