Stend VI Stend VI was an Outer Rim planet located within the Stend system of the Juris sector . Lying on the Five Veils Route hyperlane , it was a terrestrial world with a temperate climate and a terrain dominated by mountains , plains , and urban areas . Stend VI ' s mostly Human population was governed democratically , although the planet also served as a manufacturing site for the Galactic Empire . At first glance an unordinary member world of the Empire , Stend VI came to be plagued by continuous violence as several swoop gangs rose to prominence on the planet . Among the first gangs , the Skulls gained an infamous reputation for terrorizing innocent people , while the Knights were dedicated to the principles of the Jedi Order and opposed the Skulls . The local police were outmatched by the gangs , and even Imperial Military intervention was ineffective at first , leading to the creation of the specialized Dark Rider s unit of mounted Storm Commandos . A prominent location on Stend VI , the swoop pilot cantina known as The Pits was a vibrant establishment where arguments either flared up into brawls or were settled on the cantina ' s private Raptor Run racing course . The Pits ' owner , famed racing champion Blizz Pinnix , occasionally competed at Raptor Run . Although owned by Pinnix , The Pits was run by the Herglic businessman Kaylo NaKuda , who also owned the adjacent vehicle repair garage and dealership Kuda ' s Compound , which was staffed by slaves . During the Empire ' s reign , a group of individuals worked together with Pinnix , the Knights , and the Sector Ranger Narra Mesyne to bring about the Herglic crime lord ' s downfall . Description . Stend VI was a terrestrial planet located within the Stend system , a part of the Outer Rim Territories ' Juris sector . It occupied the sixth orbital position around its star and lay on the hyperlane known as the Five Veils Route , which connected it to the Ninzam and Vergesso systems . Stend VI orbited its star every 230 local days , each of which was twenty - three standard hours long , and had three moons , two of which loomed large in the planet ' s sky . The Outer Rim world had standard gravity , a breathable Type I atmosphere , and a temperate climate , with winters being relatively mild . The surface of Stend VI featured mountains , plains , urban areas , and a moderate hydrosphere . There were no predators that could pose a particular threat to the planet ' s populace . History . Origins of a war . During the reign of the Galactic Empire , several swoop gangs arose on Stend VI , leading to daily skirmishes in the planet ' s skies . The group that was considered to be the first real gang was the Skulls . It was formed around the year 2 BBY , when the seventeen - year - old sociopath Jeng Seth grew bored of shaking down store owners for protection money and picking pockets . Discovering a love for speed and danger in the streets of the essentially lawless Stend VI , Seth gathered his street friends and formed the Skulls , which began to commit robberies and terrorize innocents . When the Skulls began to make a name for themselves in the local news by terrorizing the inhabitants of Stend VI , the twenty - year - old idealist and local swoop mechanic Finegan Flint started to gather his friends in order to stop the menace of Seth ' s gang . Fascinated by historical and fictional accounts of the Knights of the disbanded Jedi Order , Flint led his friends into confronting a member of the Skulls and telling him to surrender himself to the local police . This started a feud between the two groups that eventually turned into a gang war . Flint ' s group , which came to be known as the Knights , was dedicated to the ideals of the Jedi , but neither the local law enforcement agencies nor the subsequently deployed forces of the Empire viewed it as anything more than yet another criminal organization . Legacy of the Skulls . By 2 BBY , the Skulls had relocated to the Hook Nebula . A new swoop gang known as the Razers emerged on Stend VI and resumed the Skulls ' campaign of terror , at the same time specializing in stealing vehicles and parts . The Knights gang eventually refocused on combating the Razers . Maintaining only a handful of operative s on Stend VI in apprehension of inciting further conflict on the already violence - plagued world , the Rebel Alliance tried to recruit members of the Knights at some point between the years 0 and 4 ABY . The Razers came to be hired by the local Herglic businessman Kaylo NaKuda , who purchased stolen merchandise from the gang only to sell it as supposedly legitimate goods at low prices . NaKuda ' s illegal activities , which also included slavery , eventually led the Sector Ranger Special Enforcement Officer Narra Mesyne to try and discover enough evidence against the Herglic to bring him to justice for his crimes . To that end , Mesyne posed as a new speeder bike racer called Miraj , who attempted to collect a prize for successfully completing the race course known as Raptor Run . The Corellian scoundrel Cohden K ' Reye visited Stend VI at some point during the Empire ' s reign . He spent time in the cantina known as The Pits and later described the establishment in a treatise highlighting several recreation - related locations of the galaxy . The Pits was also once visited by the captain Nuendo Rash h , who was overheard telling a companion that they had both been hired to transport medical gear to Fortress Keremark on the Tion Hegemony planet Risban . Rashh was arrested after making the comment . Troubles for Blizz Pinnix . At some point during the swoop gang warfare on Stend VI , the Empire responded to the local police ' s requests for assistance and sent in a wing of repulsorlift sleds . At first , the sleds appeared to be an effective solution , but eventually they were overwhelmed by the large numbers of the swoop bikers , and many of the Imperial vehicles were lost . As a result , the Imperial commanders on Stend VI formed the Dark Rider s , a specialized squad of elite Storm Commandos led by famed scout trooper Lieutenant Irlyn Resk and mounted on heavily modified speeder bikes . Resk secretly wanted to confiscate the Black Raptor , the infamous swoop of The Pits ' owner Blizz Pinnix , for himself . When Pinnix discovered the Black Raptor had mysteriously disappeared , the famous racer put out a very large reward for the swoop ' s return , which attracted to Stend VI many individuals eager to look for the lost vehicle as well as bounty hunters and mercenaries . There were many suspects in the disappearance , including members of the swoop gangs , NaKuda , and Lieutenant Resk . Eventually , a group of individuals were successful in tracking down the swoop bike and received a large reward , although their fortune was subsequently threatened by the activities of Stend VI ' s swoop gangs . Around that time , NaKuda ' s use of slaves at Kuda ' s Compound was discovered by a group of individuals who were themselves captured and put to work in the Compound ' s garages . The group met the Twi ' lek slave Sil Vaturha there . The individuals ultimately escaped and , after finding Pinnix , presented The Pits ' owner with convincing evidence of NaKuda ' s criminal activities . With Pinnix ' s assistance as well as that of Miraj and the Knight swoop gang , the group defeated the Herglic crime lord and his henchmen . Pirate activities . By the date 37 : 6 : 8 , Stend VI had become a neutral meeting place favored by certain pirate groups . Defense Minister Grady Mannd of Stend IV unsuccessfully tried to use the local military forces to drive the pirates away from the planet . On that date , Sektor Newsline 242 broadcast a news report from Queo City on Stend VI . The report discussed the possible reasons for the inexplicably sudden decrease in the number of attacks by the Khuiumin Survivors pirate gang . It also quoted Mannd ' s belief that the Survivors had relocated to a different region of space to carry out their attacks , as evidenced by a lack of any reported members of the gang on Stend VI . Inhabitants . Stend VI had a population of 2 . 2 billion , most of which were Humans . The inhabitants of the Outer Rim world were governed by a representative democracy allied with the Galactic Empire , in which the planet served the role of a manufacturing and processing site . The society on Stend VI had access to space - level technology and maintained an Imperial - class starport . The planet exported consumer goods to other worlds while at the same time importing foodstuffs from elsewhere . Considered to be a mostly typical Imperial world , at first glance Stend VI appeared to be peaceful and even dull . These qualities , however , eventually led to the planet becoming home to some of the galaxy ' s most infamous swoop gangs , with the gangs of Stend VI being especially problematic to the Empire . The gangs were responsible for extensive damage to property on the planet and significant loss of life . The Stend VI Security Forces were determined to stop the swoop - mounted criminals , but they faced a severe shortage of trained personnel and equipment necessary to combat the growing threat of the gangs , with even Imperial repulsor sled patrols proving ineffective . Locations . The Pits . A prominent location on Stend VI was the swoop racer bar known as The Pits . Lying within an urban area of low buildings and trees , The Pits had a ground floor with a street - level entrance as well as an underground level . An unusual feature of the cantina was its main entrance . Since The Pits was built with the motto of swoop enthusiasts in mind — " Why walk when you can fly ? " — most swoop pilots entered the establishment through the Hive , a tall , cylindrical tower on the cantina ' s roof . The Hive was honeycombed with hundreds of cubicles known as stalls , which allowed visitors of The Pits to dock their aerial vehicles . Docking in the stalls was regulated by the Hive Traffic Control , a structure made almost entirely of transparisteel and mounted on a thin support beam at the top of the large landing tower . The Hive also featured turbolifts leading to the ground level , which was set up as a museum dedicated to the history of repulsorlift vehicles and racing . The museum ' s collection also included the trophies of The Pits ' owner , legendary swoop racer Blizz Pinnix . The cantina proper . Another set of turbolifts led from the ground level to the underground floor , where the cantina proper was located . It was a lively and welcoming place full of both professional and amateur swoop and speeder bike pilots of several species , including members of swoop gangs . Due to always appearing in public wearing a signature racing helmet , no one knew what Pinnix looked like , so it was possible that the owner of The Pits was actually present in the cantina at any given moment without anyone recognizing the famous racer . The day - to - day operations of The Pits were overseen by the Herglic businessman Kaylo NaKuda , who kept secret from Pinnix his criminal activities . Since many of the bar ' s patrons were highly competitive in nature , disagreements were commonplace and were most often settled on the race course known as Raptor Run , although arguments occasionally erupted into brawls , which sometimes involved blasterfire . Such conflicts rarely got out of hand due to the presence of the Reigat racer - turned - bouncer Chugg . Droids were not welcome in The Pits , and there were rumors that any mechanical beings who did find their way inside the establishment ended up in a massive storeroom of spare parts . Kuda ' s Compound . Kuda ' s Compound was a large , multistory building located next to The Pits . Owned by the Herglic Kaylo NaKuda , who also ran the adjacent cantina , the Compound offered the combined services of repulsorlift vehicle repairs and modifications , as well as dealership of new and used vehicles and parts . It was a profitable operation that offered competitive prices and full services of resident mechanics to its customers . When not fulfilling his duties as a bouncer at The Pits , Chugg , who was also NaKuda ' s bodyguard , could be encountered at the Compound . In truth , the commercial success of Kuda ' s Compound was due to NaKuda employing a pair of illegal methods . Firstly , almost all the vehicles and parts available at the Compound were stolen either by members of the local Razer swoop gang or imported from offworld by smugglers . The Herglic purchased these stolen goods at a low enough price to be able to offer the Compound ' s services at invitingly low costs to its clients . Secondly , the " mechanics " dealing with customers were just actors , while the real work was done in hidden , underground garages by a dozen slaves who were outfitted with subdermal implants that tracked their movements and prevented escape . One of the slaves was Sil Vaturha , a Twi ' lek female orphan who possibly had some of the greatest technological skills of the inhabitants of the Juris and neighboring sectors . Raptor Run . A zone of hundreds of square kilometers originally designated as an Imperial Ordinance Detonation Test Area , Raptor Run was filled with rocky cliffs , canyons , and serpentine valleys , as well as labyrinthine , jagged paths twisting through them . The area also had fields of craters and mazes of slagged buildings as a result of former testing of Imperial munitions . Blizz Pinnix bought the land for a low price and turned it into The Pits ' private race course . The eighty - five - kilometer - long course was rumored to have resulted in career - ending injuries , most of which were fatal , for more than a thousand swoop racers . A testament to Raptor Run ' s difficulty was that only three competitors had ever completed the course in under twenty minutes — a young Tatooinian , the stunt racer Lev Xestra , and Pinnix himself , who held the record for the fastest run on the track . Pinnix occasionally entered the competitions held at Raptor Run , where he rode the Black Raptor , his renowned swoop and the namesake of the course . Behind the scenes . Stend VI was first mentioned in " " , a 1993 sourcebook written by Simon Smith and Eric S . Trautmann for West End Games ' " " . The 2009 reference book " The Essential Atlas " placed the Stend system , and therefore Stend VI , in grid square P - 17 . The 1997 sourcebook " Wretched Hives of Scum & Villainy " provides several adventure seeds set on the planet for use with " Star Wars : The Roleplaying Game " , and this article assumes as many of those scenarios as possible play out as described without contradicting each other . Alternate scenarios of how the player - characters may interact with the character Narra Mesyne are also presented in the adventure seeds . One of these options suggests that the characters are originally sent to Stend VI to assist Mesyne in her investigation . Another option is for the player - characters to be hired by the character Kaylo NaKuda to discover who is spying on him , resulting in the characters preventing Mesyne from succeeding at her mission or even capturing her .