Czerka asteroid mining facility An asteroid mining facility in the Unknown Regions once conducted a thriving ore - processing industry , but Czerka Corporation withdrew funding and support of the facility sometime before the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire . The facility , which was built into an asteroid , was abandoned until the year 3643 BBY , when the Sith Valis attempted to capture the Jedi Padawan Kira Carsen at the facility and was defeated by Carsen and her Master . Description . Located in the Unknown Regions on the far northern edge of the galactic disk , the mining facility was located in an asteroid field well off standard hyperspace routes and was itself built into an asteroid . The black spherical main section of the space station hung from the " bottom " of the asteroid , with pipes extending into the asteroid and securing the station to its surface , and a tower extended from the bottom of the main section down away from the asteroid . The facility also continued through the interior of the asteroid all the way to its other side , where several communications antennas and towers were built . The facility had at least one hangar bay , and during its era of productivity , it processed ore from the surrounding asteroids . History . Czerka Corporation established the mining facility sometime before the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire in order to harvest ore from the asteroid field . The facility hosted a thriving ore - processing industry , but as the station ' s profits began to decline , Czerka ultimately withdrew its funding , and the facility was abandoned by the year 3643 BBY . That year , the Sith Emperor sought to retrieve Kira Carsen , a former Child of the Emperor — individuals who were unknowingly agents of the Emperor — so he sent the Child Valis to capture her . As Carsen and her current Jedi mentor were working to stop the Sith Lord Darth Angral ' s efforts to destroy the Republic , Valis posed as Angral ' s loyal subordinate Admiral Hacklin of the Imperial Navy and contacted the Republic ' s General Var Suthra with an offer to defect . Having spread rumors that the admiral had earned a death mark , " Hacklin " refused to surrender to anyone other than Carsen , whom the real Hacklin had met earlier at the planet Ord Mantell , so Suthra arranged a meeting at the abandoned mining facility . Carsen and the Jedi Knight to whom she was apprenticed arrived after Valis to find the station ' s hangar empty except for one ship with a single light above the boarding ramp , and as the two Jedi approached the ship , Valis emerged from behind some of the cargo crates scattered around the hangar . The Sith introduced himself and explained the Emperor ' s intentions , but when the Knight refused to comply , the meeting turned hostile . In the duel that followed , the two Jedi overcame Valis and killed him , leaving the Sith ' s body and ship in the facility as they returned to the Republic and notified both General Suthra and the Jedi High Council of what had happened . Behind the scenes . The mining facility first appeared in the Jedi Knight - class mission " The Defector " in " " , a video game released by BioWare and LucasArts in 2011 . The facility ' s history is expanded upon briefly in the game ' s galaxy map when the facility is selected for travel .