Zhanox/Legends

Zhanox was an Outer Rim Territories mining world located in the Anoat sector. Its surface was covered by stony spires, between which were rubble-strewn valleys. The mines of Zhanox were overseen by Ugnaughts, while Human colonists inhabited the world's valleys. The Bespin Wing Guard member Alec Mard hailed from Zhanox.
==Description==
Zhanox was a terrestrial world located in the Zhanox system, a part of the Anoat sector. It was situated in the Greater Javin region within the Western Reaches portion of the Outer Rim Territories. The world lay on the super-hyperroute known as the Corellian Trade Spine, which connected it to the Bendeluum and Ione systems. Zhanox was located inside the Ivax Nebula.
Stony spires covered every square kilometer of the Zhanoxi surface, giving the world the appearance of a pincushion. The floors of the valleys between the formations were strewn with rubble from toppled spires.
==History==
After the Galactic Republic's victory in a war against the nearby civilization of the Mugaari species at some point between approximately 1000 BBY and 600 BBY, the former established the Javin sector in the former Mugaari Space. Around 400 BBY, the portion of the sector containing Zhanox was re-designated as the Anoat sector.
==Inhabitants==
Zhanox was a mining world, with members of the Ugnaught species overseeing the mines. The world's valleys were settled by Humans. Zhanox was the homeworld of the Human Alec Mard, who became a member of the Bespin Wing Guard security force at the Anoat sector planet Bespin at some point by 3 ABY. establishes that Alec Mard had become a member of the Bespin Wing Guard by the time of the events of , which The New Essential Chronology dates to 3 ABY. Mard's homeworld was rarely visited by starships from outside the Twin Nebulae dominating the Greater Javin.
==Behind the scenes==
Zhanox was introduced in Wizards of the Coast's Star Wars Roleplaying Game supplement "Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin," which was published on Wizards.com on March 25, 2004. The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the world in grid square K-18.
==Sources==
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*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
*The Essential Atlas
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==Notes and references==
Category:Anoat sector planets
Category:Javin sector planets
Category:Mining planets
Category:Outer Rim Territories planets on the Corellian Trade Spine
Category:Rocky planets