White Thranta Shipping offices

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" I need you to go to the White Thranta Shipping offices and pick up a package for me."
―Dunir Signos, to a spacer[1]

The White Thranta Shipping offices was a bunker on the planet Tatooine that served as the headquarters of the White Thranta Shipping Company during the time of the Galactic Civil War.[1]

Description

"There's a shipping company just outside of Mos Eisley called White Thranta. I have information that leads me to believe they aren't a simple shipping company."
―Reimos Taligg, to a spacer[2]
The first section of the headquarters gave the shipping company the appearance of a normal operation.

The first section of the headquarters gave the shipping company the appearance of a normal operation.

The White Thranta Shipping offices was a bunker located on the eastern outskirts of the city of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine. The headquarters was operated by a shipping company used by Jabba Desilijic Tiure as a criminal front organization.[2] The White Thranta bunker served as a smuggling base of operations and most of the goods shipped were destined to the Alliance to Restore the Republic.[3]

A large number of security guards patrolled the area[2] and the security personnel used a modified version of a popular Sg-82 sonic rifle.[4]

History

"Jabba contacted me directly about the future of this facility. He was asking some very strange questions. I'm starting to think someone is aware of my plans and are telling them to Jabba. I need to speed up the take-over timetable."
―Brok Ziam's journal[5]

By the time of the Battle of Yavin, members of the White Thranta Shipping Company including Brok Ziam and Durr Roddack, got involved in questionable medical activities.[2] They performed unethical experiments on sapient races in the bunker bellow the White Thranta offices,[6] without Jabba being aware of it.[7] In total, White Thranta had kidnapped and infected at least 41 victims for medical experiment, including Dakk Jenzik, Leon Kovalski, Tork Magzyn and a woman named Dina.[2]

The deep recesses of the headquarters offered a glimpse of illegal experimentation in one of the complex's medical bays.

The deep recesses of the headquarters offered a glimpse of illegal experimentation in one of the complex's medical bays.

In 1 ABY,[8] Jabba's employee Reimos Taligg tasked spacers to slice the computers of the White Thranta bunker, eventually discovering the situation.[2] Reimos then requested the spacers to attack the offices and kill Durr Roddack and Brok Ziam.[5]

Around the same time, a bounty hunter went to the White Thranta offices in order to execute the indebted Untas.[9] In the meantime, a spy working for Kaesii DuPree infiltrated the base to recover the plans for a military prototype speeder stolen by Durr Roddack.[10]

Behind the scenes

The White Thranta Shipping offices was a location in the 2003 massively multiplayer online roleplaying game Star Wars Galaxies,[1] prior to the game's closure on December 15, 2011.[11] The White Thranta Shipping offices was added to the game as part of the "Legacy Quest" with the release of the "Publish 25", a.k.a. the "New Game Enhancements," on November 15, 2005.[12]

In the cut quests "Opening Moves" and "Information Control," the Trandoshan Aigorn would have tasked the player with eliminating one of the medical staff in the White Thranta infirmary and steal medical data.[13] In another cut quest, the woman Kashi VanDeef would have requested the player to rescue her husband Pilar from the White Thranta.[14]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Special Delivery" on Tatooine
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Digital Infection" on Tatooine
  3. ↑ The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 329 ("White Thranta")
  4. ↑ Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game — The Nightsister's Revenge Card: White Thranta Rifle (backup link)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Shipping Out" on Tatooine
  6. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Data Purge" on Tatooine
  7. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Jabba's Dirty Work" on Tatooine
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Bounty Hunter Quest: "Faeto's Job" on Tatooine
  10. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Spy Quest: "Spies Like Us" on Tatooine
  11. ↑ Gal-icon IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  12. ↑ Gal-icon Publish Archive 2005 on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  13. ↑ Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — tatooine_eisley_epidemic.stf, tatooine_eisley_aigorn.stf, tatooine_eisley_information_control.stf
  14. ↑ Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — tatooine_eisley_kashi.stf

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