Valarian Depot

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"The Valarians have recovered a leg of an AT-AT and have it at their depot in the mountains. I want you to remove its RX-8 modulator, analyze its circuitry and then transmit the information to me. "
―Droma Ordo, to a spacer[2]

The Valarian Depot was a smuggling storage site used by Lady Valarian's gang during the Galactic Civil War. It was located in the mountains near Bestine.[1]

History

"I need you to go into the depot and check the manifests on each of those cargo pallets. Those pallets are part of the smuggled cargo from Tansarii Station and may contain what we're looking for."
―Captain Bastra, to a spacer[1]

In 1 ABY,[3] the depot was infiltrated by a spacer to retrieve an RX-8 modulator from the leg of an Imperial AT-AT for the Rebel agent Droma Ordo.[2] Around the same time, the Valarians acquired an X-wing starfighter and planned to sell it to the Rebels. Imperial Captain Jasha sent an operative to infiltrate the depot, and plant a transmitter on the starfighter in order to track the X-Wing to the the new Rebel base.[4]

Shortly thereafter, Imperial Commander Barrezz and Alliance Captain Bastra dispatched agents to the Valarian Depot in order to search for an important cargo smuggled earlier from Tansarii Point Station.[1]

Later, Jabba the Hutt's supervisor droid EV-9D9 sent a spacer to infiltrate the Valarian Depot to retrieve droid disciplinary devices stolen by the Valarians. The spacer sliced a binary load lifter to load EV-9D9's cargo in a shuttle, and then killed the shuttle's pilot, Rando M'Kabe. The spacer finally reprogrammed the shuttle for an automated flight to Wayfar where the cargo was retrieved by EV-9D9.[5]

Behind the scenes

The Valarian Depot appeared in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[1] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[6] The Valarian Depot was added to the game as part of the so-called "Legacy Quest,"[1] released with the "Publish 25," a.k.a. the "New Game Enhancements," on November 15, 2005.[7]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Valarian Haul" on Tatooine
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Rebel Quest: "Modulator Retrieval" on Tatooine
  3. ↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  4. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Imperial Quest: "Plant Transmitter" on Tatooine
  5. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Remodeling" on Tatooine
  6. ↑ Gal-icon IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  7. ↑ Gal-icon Publish Archive 2005 on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)

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