Tar Morden

Tar Morden was a planet^[5] located in the Tar Morden system, within the Vensensor sector of the galaxy's Expansion Region,^[1] along the Corellian Trade Spine.^[3] It was the site of a Confederacy of Independent System facility that manufactured LM-432 crab droids.^[5] These Techno Union factories were taken by the Galactic Republic during the Battle of Tar Morden at the end of the Clone Wars,^[4] and tens of thousands of crab droids were captured. These droids were eventually used in live-fire stormtrooper training exercises^[6] at the Imperial Academy on the planet Carida.^[4]

Shortly after the Battle of Yavin, the Alliance to Restore the Republic established a starfighter manufacturing enterprise on Tar Morden.^[5] Information about this enterprise was gathered by Imperial Intelligence, which sent it in a Plexus Droid Vessel to the Vensensor sector's Imperial Intelligence Sector HQ. Rebels intercepted this vessel, which self destructed, ejecting its I2-CG storage and transceiving droid, which landed on Goratak III.^[7]

Behind the scenes

The Expansion Region map in The Essential Atlas refers to the system as "Tar Mordren," though the appendix of the book uses the existing spelling.

Appearances

• Star Wars: The Old Republic: Shadow of Revan (Mentioned only)
• "The Crystal Forest of Goratak" — Star Wars Miniatures Battles (reprinted in Second Edition) (First mentioned)

Sources

• The New Essential Guide to Droids
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
• The Essential Atlas
• Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
• The Essential Guide to Warfare
• The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 27 CRA 1-2: LM-432 Crab Droid

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