Bilbringi system The Bilbringi system was a star system in the Inner Rim region of the galaxy , on the Namadii Corridor . The system was the site of the important Bilbringi Shipyards and played a pivotal role in the Thrawn campaign . The Bilbringi system was choked with asteroids and other debris ; it lay close to several military shipment lanes . The asteroids of the star system were rich in metals and other natural resources utilized in starship construction , making it a perfect location to place the shipyards . The largest asteroid in the system was Bilbringi VII . History . Leia Organa Solo first visited the Bilbringi system when she was nine years old . Thrawn campaign . During the period of Grand Admiral Thrawn ' s leadership of the Imperial Navy , Bilbringi was under the command of General Drost and the shipyards were devoted almost entirely to the production of Star Destroyers . It was where Grand Admiral Thrawn began the installation of cloaking devices on several warships and on asteroids , in preparation for his attack on Coruscant . As the location of a rare crystal gravfield trap , the quickest way to identify cloaked objects , the system became a prime target for the New Republic who determined that an attack on Bilbringi was necessary in order to obtain the device , badly needed at the time in order to counter Thrawn ' s siege of Coruscant , where planting hundreds of the aforementioned cloaked asteroids in orbit around the capital was wreaking havoc with transportation into and out of the planet . The New Republic decided to attack fortified Bilbringi instead of another , less defended system in a bid to take the Empire by surprise . Unfortunately for them , Thrawn , being the genius that he was , predicted the move and laid a trap for the attacking New Republic fleet . The turning point in the Battle of Bilbringi came when the Grand Admiral was assassinated by his Noghri bodyguard Rukh at the height of the confrontation . Thrawn ' s second - in - command and " Chimaera " captain , Gilad Pellaeon , was left with no choice but to order the retreat and abandon Bilbringi to the New Republic , in a bitter echo of the retreat he ' d ordered five years before in the aftermath of the Battle of Endor . The battle marked the end of the Imperial resurgence under the intellectual drive of Thrawn , though the following year , the other half of the Imperial forces , under the reborn Emperor Palpatine , would strike out from their seclusion in the Deep Core . Taking advantage of the gains made by the late , last Grand Admiral , the Empire would retake Coruscant . New Republic . Following the battle and its subsequent capture , the Bilbringi system and its shipyards became a major base for the New Republic Defense Force . The " Executor " - class Star Destroyer Lusankya was brought to the shipyards after her capture from Ysanne Isard ' s forces at Thyferra , in order to complete her repairs before re - entering service as a New Republic warship . By 12 ABY , the world was represented by its own senator in the New Republic Senate . Artusian crystal s from Artus Prime were shipped to Bilbringi . Yuuzhan Vong War . During the Yuuzhan Vong War , an important meeting took place at the shipyards between the captured Yuuzhan Vong agent Nom Anor and New Republic representatives Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo , during which Anor was nearly killed by exposure to vacuum . However , he was spared and would later return to his people . Later in the war , Bilbringi was captured by the extra - galactic invaders . In 26 ABY , the Adumari launched a flanking maneuver against the Yuuzhan Vong forces near the planet . Near the end of the war , in 29 ABY , the Galactic Alliance and Imperial Remnant fought the Yuuzhan Vong in the Second Battle of Bilbringi , as part of Operation Trinity . However , the operation failed , due to the Vong bringing down the HoloNet . The Alliance forces had to retreat , but not without both sides suffering heavy losses . Second Galactic Civil War . In 41 ABY , Bilbringi was still not a full member of the Galactic Alliance . Jacen Solo offered Bilbringi and Borleias to the Imperial Remnant if they supported the Alliance at the Second Battle of Fondor . Pellaeon and the Moff Council took Solo up on his offer , though in 43 ABY at least Borleias remained under Alliance jursidiction . Behind the scenes . The PC game " " mistakenly places the Bilbringi system in the Farfin sector ( a misspelling of the true Farrfin sector ) of the Core Worlds .