- "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
Resource Extraction was a file in the "Imperial Occupation" section of the Post-Imperial Lothal Archives that detailed the ecological and environmental damage caused to the Outer Rim planet Lothal during the reign of the Galactic Empire. The file detailed the Empire’s efforts to extract ore crawlers, dubbed World Devastators by Lothalites, to build its nascent TIE/d "Defender" Multi-Role Starfighter program on Lothal. Another document, Repair and Reconstruction Activities in the "Ecosystem" section of the archives, went into further detail about the damage caused to the planet’s surface and the years of environmental recovery efforts needed to repair the damage to Lothal after it was liberated. These files were 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 Resource Extraction file was first referenced in the 2024 reference book Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, written by Chris Kempshall.[1]
Sources
- Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire (First mentioned)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
- ↑ 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.