Samix sector

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"Ten sectors were sealed away behind a barrier that prevents hyperspace jumps into the Exclusion Zone. Communications in and out of this region have failed, and the Nihil have begun to expand their presence in the Outer Rim. Wherever they rule, horrific brutality follows."
―Harli Cogra, on the Occlusion Zone sectors, in Chronicles of the Jedi[2]

The Samix sector was a sector in the Outer Rim Territories that contained the Bantoo, Bentora, Daedus, Nedij, and Sabrixin systems. During the High Republic Era, the sector fell within the Galactic Republic's Galactic Frontier exploration region. In that time, the Jedi Creighton Sun and Porter Engle were sent on a diplomatic mission to the Samix sector when pirates began raiding settlements in the region.

The Samix sector became part of the Occlusion Zone following its formation in 230 BBY as one of ten sectors sealed behind a barrier preventing hyperspace travel. In 229 BBY, Engle visited the Samix sector planet Daedus and reminisced on having crashed there while on his mission with Sun. Within the same period of time, the journalist Rhil Dairo was captured by the Nihil on the celestial body Bentora, also within the sector. During the same year, Nihil led by Minister of Protection Abediah Viess attacked the city Jodzia on the Samix sector planet Bantoo after the city's mayor refused to pay tithes to the marauders. In 228 BBY, the Stormwall's fall dissolved the Occlusion Zone.

Description

The Samix sector was a space sector located in the Outer Rim Territories[1] and the Trailing Sectors.[3] The sector bordered the Merel, Skine, and Sujimis sectors.[1] The Samix sector contained the Bantoo, Bentora, Daedus, Nedij, and Sabrixin systems, which were situated in grid square Q-19 of the Standard Galactic Grid.[4] The Bentora system contained the terrestrial astronomical object Bentora,[5] while the Daedus system was home to[6] the forested planet Daedus and its moon. The terrestrial planet Bantoo was situated[5] in the sector's Bantoo system.[7]

History

Frontier world

Creighton Sun (pictured) and Porter Engle were dispatched on a diplomatic mission to the Samix sector.

Creighton Sun (pictured) and Porter Engle were dispatched on a diplomatic mission to the Samix sector.

During the High Republic Era, the Galactic Republic designated a section of the Outer Rim—which included the Samix sector—as the Galactic Frontier, locations considered removed far enough from the galaxy's center to send explorers there.[2] Within this time period, pirates began raiding settlements throughout the Samix sector. In response, the Jedi Master Creighton Sun and the Jedi Porter Engle were dispatched to the sector on a diplomatic mission.[5]

However, the pair's shuttle was attacked by the pirates operating in the Samix sector, forcing the Jedi to crash-land on Daedus. Upon exiting their ruined ship, the pair were surrounded by the pirates, and a battle between the two parties ensued. Following the successful completion of their mission, Sun and Engle departed Daedus, leaving behind their shuttle and its EX communication droid.[5]

Occlusion Zone

"We know you're in there. You're trespassing on Nihil property. We have you surrounded."
"You don't want to do this. I'm giving you the chance now. Walk away."
"You misunderstand. We really do want to do this."
"Then you leave me no choice."
―A female Nihil marauder and Porter Engle, in a confrontation on Daedus[5]

In 230 BBY, the Nihil marauder organization formed the Occlusion Zone—an area of space in the Outer Rim's Frontier that was situated behind the Stormwall barrier preventing hyperspace travel.[8] As one of the ten sectors forming the boundary of the Occlusion Zone, the Samix sector was cut off from the rest of Republic space,[1] and the worlds within it were forced to pay tributes to the Nihil.[5] Weeks afterward, in 229 BBY,[9] the Vurk Jedi Master Harli Cogra wrote a book titled Chronicles of the Jedi, which detailed the Jedi of the High Republic Era. In the book's afterword, Cogra lamented the formation of the Nihil's region and the ten sectors it affected.[2]

Porter Engle (pictured) visited Daedus, knowing from his previous time in the sector that the shuttle crashed there might yield salvageable parts.

Porter Engle (pictured) visited Daedus, knowing from his previous time in the sector that the shuttle crashed there might yield salvageable parts.

In 229 BBY,[10] Engle—by then a Jedi Master—traveled to Daedus to gather parts to rebuild an EX droid, hoping the wreckage of his and Sun's shuttle from their mission to the Samix sector would have useful material. While there, Engle reflected on the Samix sector's troubles with pirates during his last visit to the world. After briefly confronting the Nihil on Daedus, he departed the world and sent the rebuilt EX droid into its atmosphere in an attempt to send a message back to the planet Coruscant. However, the EX droid was intercepted in Daedus's atmosphere by Nihil Minister of Protection Abediah Viess.[5]

The following year,[11] the Nihil surrendered to the Republic following the Stormwall barrier's fall, which dissolved the Occlusion Zone as a territory. The worlds of the Occlusion Zone,[12] which included those in the Samix sector,[1] were welcomed back into the Republic if they wished. However, some opted to retain their independence, while others remained under the control of individual Nihil warlords.[12]

Locations

Around 243 BBY,[13] the human Cam Lindon was born on[14] the Samix sector[7] planet Bantoo before eventually leaving to become a Jedi.[14] During the High Republic Era, the sector had several settlements throughout it, which pirates raided at one point. One of the sector's habitable planets—Daedus[5]—featured a breathable, Type I atmosphere.[15] Daedus had a sparse population and some settlements, as well as several outpost stations built to monitor hyperspace traffic within the Bentora system. Following the Occlusion Zone's formation, a band of Nihil used Daedus as an unofficial base for their fiefdom and commandeered its by-then abandoned outpost stations.[5]

Rhil Dairo (pictured) interviewed victims of Nihil attacks on Bentora.

Rhil Dairo (pictured) interviewed victims of Nihil attacks on Bentora.

At the same time, the journalist Rhil Dairo was stranded on the Samix sector celestial body Bentora and spent time interviewing the victims of recent Nihil raids. On Bentora, she was captured by the Nihil and separated from her networked cam droid T-9[5] but managed to rescue him after escaping her captors.[16]

One of the sector's planets,[7] Bantoo, was the homeworld of the human Melis Shryke and her family, who lived in a home in the world's city of Jodzia. During this time, the family oppressed the citizens of Jodzia while themselves living in luxury as nobles.[5] In 229 BBY,[17] a group of Nihil, led by Viess, arrived in Jodzia and demanded tithes from it. When Jodzia's mayor refused to pay the tithes, the Nihil ripped through Jodzia, destroying three districts of the city. Shryke was enthralled by the Nihil's brutality and decided to join the group. After killing her father, she presented Viess with a large sum of credits as a tithe, prompting the latter to let her join the marauders.[5]

Behind the scenes

In the current canon, the Samix sector was first identified in the first issue of the 2023 Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures comic series.

In the current canon, the Samix sector was first identified in the first issue of the 2023 Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures comic series.

In the current Star Wars canon, the ten sectors forming the Occlusion Zone were first mentioned, albeit unidentified, in a flashback in the second issue of the Star Wars: The High Republic: Eye of the Storm comic-book miniseries. The issue was written by Charles Soule and released by Marvel Comics[18] on March 2, 2022,[19] as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's Phase I.[20] The Samix sector was later identified by name and specified to be one of the Occlusion Zone sectors via a map in the first issue of the 2023 comic series Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures. The issue was written by Daniel José Older, illustrated by Harvey Tolibao and Nick Brokenshire, and published by Dark Horse Comics as part of Phase III[1] on December 6, 2023.[20]

The Bentora system, and therefore the celestial body Bentora, was placed in the Samix sector in "Star Systems of the Galaxy," an appendix[4] written by Jason Fry[21] that was published with the Star Wars Galaxy Map on StarWars.com[4] on June 24, 2025.[21] Both Bentora and Daedus—a planet[5] placed in the Daedus system by the same appendix[6]—first appeared in the novel The Eye of Darkness, written by George Mann[5] and published on November 14, 2023, as part of Star Wars: The High Republic's Phase III.[20] Thus, The Eye of Darkness marked the Samix sector's first full appearance.[5]

The Samix sector originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first mentioned in Galaxy Guide 11: Criminal Organizations. The 1994 sourcebook was written by Rick D. Stuart for West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.[22] The StarWars.com Online Companion to the August 18, 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry later placed the Nedij system in the sector.[23] That system's planet Nedij had been featured in a hologram in the 2008 Star Wars: Coruscant Nights trilogy novel Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight by Michael Reaves, thus retroactively becoming the Samix sector's first full appearance.[24] On September 10, 2009,[25] the sector was first visually depicted on a map designed by Modi and published in The Essential Atlas Extra: Outer Rim Sectors,[26] a feature of the Online Companion.[23]

Appearances

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 The High Republic Adventures (2023) 1
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Star Wars: The High Republic: Chronicles of the Jedi — Based on corresponding data for the Occlusion Zone
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 StarWars.com Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version) places the star systems of the Samix sector, and therefore the sector itself, in the area of space StarWars.com Star Wars Galaxy Map on StarWars.com (article) (backup link) establishes to be part of what Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the Trailing Sectors.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 StarWars.com Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version)
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 StarWars.com Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version) — Based on corresponding data for the Daedus system
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 StarWars.com Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version) — Based on corresponding data for the Bantoo system
  8. ↑ Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia
  9. ↑ Star Wars: The High Republic: Chronicles of the Jedi establishes that the in-universe book Chronicles of the Jedi was written weeks after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, which Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia dates to 230 BBY. The issuing of the Guardian Protocols, dated by The High Republic Character Encyclopedia to 229 BBY, are depicted in The High Republic – Shadows of Starlight 1 as taking place one week after Starlight Beacon's destruction. With this, Chronicles of the Jedi must have been authored no earlier than 229 BBY. Chronicles of the Jedi further establishes that Pra-Tre Veter is still a Grand Master of the Jedi Order, meaning it was written before his death, which The High Republic Character Encyclopedia states took place in 229 BBY. Therefore, Chronicles of the Jedi must have been written in 229 BBY.
  10. ↑ The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness dates itself to a year after the destruction of Starlight Beacon. As Star Wars: Timelines dates its destruction to 230 BBY, the book must be set in 229 BBY.
  11. ↑ Chapters 5–23 of The High Republic: Trials of the Jedi, which feature the Nihil's surrender, are set concurrent to the Battle of Eriadu, which takes place in 228 BBY per the reasoning here.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 The High Republic: Trials of the Jedi
  13. ↑ The events of The High Republic: Seeds of Starlight take place in 228 BBY per the reasoning here. As Seeds of Starlight establishes that Cam Lindon was born on Bantoo and is fifteen years old during its events, he must have been born there around 243 BBY.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 The High Republic: Seeds of Starlight
  15. ↑ The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness establishes that Daedus had a breathable atmosphere that Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 43 Secrets of Spaceflight: Types of Atmosphere classifies as Type I.
  16. ↑ The High Republic: Temptation of the Force
  17. ↑ The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness establishes that the attack on Bantoo took place around six months before the first anniversary of the destruction of Starlight Beacon, which Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia dates to 229 BBY. Furthermore, the novel states that Pra-Tre Veter was captured two months prior to its events. The High Republic: Shadows of Starlight 3 depicts that event as taking place nine months after Starlight Beacon's destruction. Therefore, the attack on Bantoo must have taken place around four months before Veter's capture and in the fifth month after Starlight Beacon's fall. The events of The High Republic: Shadows of Starlight 1 that feature Lina Soh requesting the Jedi Order assist the Republic Defense Coalition against the Nihil are established by the issue to take place in the fifth month after Starlight Beacon's destruction and are dated to 229 BBY by Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia. Therefore, the attack on Bantoo must also take place in that year.
  18. ↑ The High Republic: Eye of the Storm 2
  19. ↑ Marvel-TemplateLogo Star Wars: The High Republic - Eye of the Storm (2022) #2 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 StarWars.com Star Wars: The High Republic Chronological Reader's Guide on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Substack-Favicon About That New Star Wars Galaxy Map… by Jason Fry (@jasonfry) on Substack (June 24, 2025) (backup link)
  22. ↑ Galaxy Guide 11: Criminal Organizations
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 StarWars.com Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
  24. ↑ Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight
  25. ↑ StarWars.com Essential Atlas Extra: Outer Rim Sectors on StarWars.com (backup link) (original site is defunct)
  26. ↑ StarWars.com The Essential Atlas Extra: Outer Rim Sectors on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)