Gordian Reach / Legends The Gordian Reach was a sector of the Outer Rim Territories , named for an old hyperlane that had run through the region . Geography . The Gordian Reach was bounded to Rimward by the Radama Void , and was broadly divided into two regions , the Loop Worlds along the Junction - Tierell Loop near the Hydian Way , and the Back Reach to the galactic east , beyond the Roil nebula . The Gordian Reach ' s most important worlds were located along the Junction - Tierell Loop just off the Hydian Way , including Pinoora , Jovan III , Presbalin , and the sector capital of Torque . Rimward of the Loop Worlds were the rarely - traversed Wetyin ' s Way and the Pinooran Spur , which included the planets Vaal , Glade and Wetyin ' s Colony , and Krylon , Betshish , Marrovia and Kushibah . The two hyperroutes were linked by the Yavin Bypass , passing by the gas giant Yavin . The Korphir Trace crossed a nebula known as the Roil to link the Back Reach and the worlds of Arda - 2 and Feena . The Back Reach had little historical connection to the Loop Worlds . The Reach also included the territory of 400100500260026 and the Vallusk Cluster . History . The worlds of the Back Reach as far as Troos were part of Xim ' s empire from 25 , 116 BBY . When the Sith Lord Naga Sadow escaped from the Galactic Republic ' s forces towards the end of the Great Hyperspace War in 5000 BBY , he hid in what became known as the Gordian Reach , on the moon Yavin 4 of the Yavin system . A millennium later , the Sith Lord Exar Kun used the temples Sadow built as his personal base during the Great Sith War . In 3955 BBY , Supreme Chancellor Tol Cressa assigned a G0 - T0 infrastructure planning system to restore the area to its former glory . However the droids began a bloody coup , setting themselves up as dictators and seizing all 16 habitable worlds . After millions were slaughtered , Cressa sent a military task force to deal with the rogue droids . In the aftermath of the Old Sith Wars , the Jedi Order expunged all records of the Yavin system . After the Hydian Way was charted by Freia Kallea in 3693 BBY , scouts and settlers moving north up the super - hyperroute and the praedium s branching off it rediscovered the region . One such hyperlane , the Gordian Reach , stretched from the Feriae Junction on the Hydian Way to Belderone beyond the Perlemian Trade Route Rimward of the Cron Drift . Briefly a significant hyperroute in the Outer Rim , shifting stars eventually erased the route , though the arc of thousands of star systems along the old route was still sometimes called that by spacers by the the Rise of the Empire era . By 22 BBY , the Gordian Reach had been reduced to a minor route that gave its name to an unremarkable sector of motley factory world s , mining installations , and lightly - populated colonies . During the Clone Wars , Anakin Skywalker , pursuing Asajj Ventress from the Battle of Muunilinst , fought a duel with her on Yavin 4 . Later , Jedi Master Eeth Koth was captured by the Separatist General Grievous in the Arda system . The Gordian Reach was represented by Quorl Matrin in the Imperial Senate after the Galactic Empire rose to power . Under the New Order , the Reach was part of Bright Jewel Oversector . After being forced to abandon the Dantooine base , the Alliance to Restore the Republic made its headquarters on Yavin 4 in the Reach . The Rebels blazed numerous new hyperspace routes from the Yavin system should they need to escape to Ladarra and the Feswe Corridor , and from there to the Junction - Tierell Loop via Tertiary Feswe , to Feriae Junction via Feswe Minor , and to Hynah via Feswe Prime . Following the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY , the entire sector was blockaded by the Galactic Empire in an attempt to bottle up the Alliance ' s headquarters in the Yavin system . After the Battle of Endor , the populations of many planets of the Reach were killed in the Stenax Massacres , in which the Stenax destroyed the Imperial military outposts on many Reach worlds and also killed many non - Stenax civilians .