Reef Fortress Reef Fortress was the isolated stronghold of the Hapan Royal Family , on a small island in an ocean on the planet Hapes . In 23 ABY , Jedi trainees Tenel Ka , Lowbacca , Jacen Solo , and Jaina Solo stayed at the fortress . While they were there , Ambassador Yfra tried to kill them by sending their wavespeeder into a patch of dangerous carnivorous seaweed . After escaping from the seaweed , the young Jedi saved the Hapan matriarch , Ta ' a Chume , from Bartokk assassins sent by the ambassador , thereby foiling Yfra ' s plot to overthrow the Hapan monarchy . Reef Fortress was also the location of an honor duel between Prince Isolder and Archon Beed Thane in 25 ABY . This duel decided the role of the Hapes Consortium in the war against the extra - galactic Yuuzhan Vong . Description . Reef Fortress was the private shoreside retreat of the Royal Family of Hapes . Located on a small , isolated island in an ocean on the planet Hapes that was accessible only by boat and surrounded by reefs , the thick - walled fortress served as a stronghold in times of emergency and was built to be impregnable . The fortress had high walls with turrets on the corners and was protected by a deflector shield . There was a generator station near the fortress that provided the fort with power and included backup generators and a deflector shield generator . It had a stone cave grotto where boats were anchored and was near a small swimming cove . By 23 ABY , the fortress contained a tower room that was the bedchamber of the matriarch , Ta ' a Chume . There were no secret passages leading into this room because it was feared that assassins could use them to gain entrance . History . As a young girl , Tenel Ka , the Hapan princess , spent much time with her parents relaxing at Reef Fortress , which she thought of as a summer home . Later , in 23 ABY , Tenel Ka returned to the fortress with Lowbacca , Jacen Solo , and Jaina Solo , her fellow Jedi trainees from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker ' s Jedi Praxeum , because a bomb had gone off in the Hapan matriarch ' s royal residence , Fountain Palace , where they had been staying . Yfra , the personal ambassador of the matriarch Ta ' a Chume , and some Hapan Honor Guards went with the youths to watch over them . During their stay there , the youths spent much of their time swimming in a small cove . However , Ta ' a Chume , Tenel Ka ' s grandmother , would not let Tenel Ka shun all her responsibilities as the princess of Hapes and had her negotiate with a Mairan ambassador . Later , Yfra suggested that Jacen , Jaina , Lowbacca , and Tenel Ka should take one of the wavespeeders out on the ocean for a while . Unbeknownst to them , Yfra had programmed the wavespeeder to take them into an area of dangerous carnivorous seaweed , hoping to kill them as part of her plot to overthrow the Hapan Royal Family . The youths were able to escape from the seaweed using their lightsabers and knives , and Jaina and Lowbacca manually drove the wavespeeder back to the island . Later , Ta ' a Chume arrived at the fortress in her own royal wavespeeder . That night , Bartokk assassins sent by Yfra invaded Reef Fortress , destroying the shield generator and cutting off all power to the fortress . The assassins targeted Ta ' a Chume and trapped her in her bedchamber . Together , Jacen , Jaina , Lowbacca , and Tenel Ka rescued the matriarch and escaped out the window of her bedchamber . Then , seeing that there was no safe place nearby , they fled the island on a small wavespeeder , with the assassins following in their assault boat . After navigating the Dragon ' s Teeth , a cluster of sharp rocks jutting out of the ocean , Jaina and Lowbacca purposefully piloted the wavespeeder into some carnivorous seaweed , which killed the assassins who were following them . Ta ' a Chume then drove the wavespeeder to Fountain Palace , arriving in time to stop Yfra from promoting herself as the monarch . In 25 ABY , Prince Isolder and Archon Beed Thane participated in an honor duel at Reef Fortress . The duel was initiated by Isolder slapping Thane across the face for insulting both New Republic Ambassador Leia Organa Solo and Tenel Ka , who was Isolder ' s daughter . Isolder won the duel during a sudden death round that the referee had called . As a result of the duel , the Hapes Consortium decided to enter the war against the extra - galactic Yuuzhan Vong invaders . Behind the scenes . Reef Fortress first appeared in the 1996 " " , by Kevin J . Anderson and Rebecca Moesta . It was later mentioned under the entry for " Hapes Consortium " in the " Star Wars Encyclopedia " , published in 1998 , and also appeared in James Luceno ' s 2000 " " . Reef Fortress was given its own entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " in 2008 . However , this entry contains an error , stating that Leia Organa Solo was at Reef Fortress in 23 ABY with her children , when , according to " Lightsabers " , she was on the world of Coruscant .