Sarapin

Sarapin was a volcanic world in the Sarapin system, between Neimoidia and the Treskov system. It had ashy soil and streams of lava flowing across its surface.

History

During the Cold War, an independent space station existed in the orbit of Sarapin and stored resources on it. The space station made an emergency call and then went entirely silent.^[4]

The Republic held large operations with the intention of harnessing the power of its many active volcanoes and lava flows. Its laser drills were an impressive sight, reaching a height of forty meters. The energy was tapped by energy collectors and moved to an Energy Collection Repository, for eventual shipment off-world. Count Dooku estimated that during the later years of the Republic, Sarapin provided 80 percent of the Core Worlds' power.

A captured the on Sarapin. — A captured Decimator attacks the Republic energy collectors on Sarapin.

Sarapin was protected by a near-impenetrable defensive grid, which was broken on only two occasions. The first time was during the Clone Wars, in 22 BBY, by a Confederacy of Independent Systems General, Sev'rance Tann. The Galactic Republic quickly dispatched General Echuu Shen-Jon to deal with the ongoing invasion and captured Zian Finnis. Under Echuu's leadership, the Confederacy was denied control of Sarapin.

The second time Sarapin's defenses were breached was when Rebel Alliance forces infiltrated Sarapin before the Battle of Yavin. Grand General Malcor Brashin and Commander Brenn Tantor discovered this by analyzing rebel data from the Ruul computer complex. They hurried to Sarapin, where Tantor led Imperial forces in their recapture of the energy collectors. After retaking them, Tantor discovered that the rebels had seized a drilling platform, which had spiralled out of control. Tantor smashed the rebel positions near the drill until he could get his brother Dellis, an accomplished slicer, into the drill, where he was able to shut it down before it destabilized the area and created destructive groundquakes.

Boba Fett helped the Empire capture Kath Talor on Sarapin.

Behind the scenes

In the Clone Campaigns expansion pack to the video game Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, the pictures of Sarapin shown in the mission briefings were modified shots of Geonosis as it appeared in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. As such, Sarapin was depicted with a rocky ring system. However, when the planet made its first appearance in Star Wars: Force Commander, it was devoid of such rocky rings.

The game Star Wars: The Old Republic wrongly names the planet Serapin in the crew-skill description.^[4]