Uphrades system The Uphrades system was a star system located in the Inner Rim that contained the fertile agriworld Uphrades . During the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire , the system ' s 16 million inhabitants worked to supply the Republic capital of Coruscant with most of its food supplies , but an attack on Uphrades by the Sith Lord Darth Angral using the Desolator superweapon ravaged the planet ' s surface and left only a few hundred survivors . Those survivors were eventually rescued thanks to the efforts of the medical frigate " Daybreaker " , whose crew had purposely crashed their vessel into Uphrades ' now heavily ionized atmosphere to reach them and bring aid , but Uphrades and its system remained barren and lifeless in the aftermath of Angral ' s assault . Description . The Uphrades system was a star system that was located in the Inner Rim , in the slice of the Northern Dependencies region that lay between the Hydian Way and the Perlemian Trade Route . Named after its principal world , the planet Uphrades , the system was a major agricultural supplier for the Galactic Republic ' s capital of Coruscant until the devastation of Uphrades at the hands of Darth Angral , a Sith Lord of the Sith Empire , in 3643 BBY . History . The region in which the Uphrades system was located was largely explored by 22 , 000 BBY , and by the time of the Cold War between the Republic and the Sith Empire , the system had become a major supplier of foodstuffs for Coruscant thanks to the efforts of the Jedi organization known as the Jedi Restoration Concord . However , Darth Angral targeted the planet in 3643 BBY during his war against the Republic after the death of his son , Tarnis , at the hands of a Jedi Knight . Angral utilized the Desolator superweapon on Uphrades , destroying most of the planet ' s surface and creating a small asteroid belt around the planet . The attack completely destroyed Uphrades ' ability to produce foodstuffs and killed almost all of the people on the surface , leaving only a few hundred survivors . The only ship to witness the attack , a Republic medical frigate named the " Daybreaker " , was attacked by Angral ' s forces as he departed the system , but the Jedi Knight who was the target of the Sith ' s wrath defeated the Imperial boarding parties after coming to the damaged ship ' s aid near Uphrades . The " Daybreaker " crew later sacrificed their ship to aid the survivors on Uphrades , despite the efforts of the ship ' s captain , Dal , to change his crew ' s mind , and the crew purposely crashed the ship by entering Uphrades ' heavily ionized atmosphere so that they could reach the survivors and ensure that they endured until the Republic could rescue them . During the New Sith Wars , a conflict that occurred over two thousand years later between the Republic and the Sith , the Uphrades system and the rest of the region was largely unaligned or contested , though that section of the Inner Rim was located within Republic space during the Clone Wars of 22 – 19 BBY and was absorbed by the Republic ' s successor state , the Galactic Empire , at the end of the conflict . The New Republic had taken control of that area by 9 ABY , when Admiral Thrawn led a campaign that temporarily reclaimed much of the northern galaxy for the Empire , but by the year 137 ABY the Empire under the Sith Lord Darth Krayt had taken control of the region in which the Uphrades system was located . Orbital bodies . Uphrades . Uphrades , also known as " Coruscant ' s Granary " in the years before its devastation , was a thriving agriworld with 16 million inhabitants during the Cold War . Its especially rich soil was the result of intense volcanic activity around 23 , 643 BBY , and the planet possessed a breathable atmosphere , temperate climate , and five continents separated by significant surface water . After Darth Angral ' s attack , Uphrades ' greenery was turned to ash , and large chunks of the surface were ripped away , forming an asteroid belt and exposing pockets of magma that vaporized the planet ' s oceans . Behind the scenes . Uphrades and the Uphrades system first appeared in " " , a video game released by BioWare and LucasArts in 2011 , in which they are the location of the Jedi Knight class mission " Uphrades . " One of the regular updates to the of the 2009 reference guide " The Essential Atlas " placed the Uphrades system in the Inner Rim with grid coordinates M - 8 . Players in " The Old Republic " can choose to ignore the life signs of the survivors on Uphrades for dark side alignment points , but as the Knight is a Republic character and is therefore assumed to make the moral light side decisions , this article assumes that the " Daybreaker " sacrificed itself to reach the survivors and that they were eventually rescued .