Derra system

The Derra system was an Expansion Region star system that contained Derra IV. The Alliance to Restore the Republic moved supply convoys through the system during the Galactic Civil War until Vice Admiral Rae Sloane of the Galactic Empire led a military action against them near Derra IV that destroyed a significant supply convoy in one of the greatest Imperial successes of the war.
==Description==
The Derra system was a star system in the Expansion Region and the Trailing Sectors that contained Derra IV. It was located at the coordinates N-15 on the Standard Galactic Grid.
==History==
===High Republic Era===
In 231 BBY,Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of The High Republic: The Rising Storm to 231 BBY. during the High Republic Era, an outpost of the Jedi Order on Derra IV was marshalled by Jedi Master Tera Sinube. After being contacted by Master Stellan Gios, Sinube dispatched a drift of Vectors led by Jedi Master Porter Engle in order to reinforce Jedi and Galactic Republic forces being attacked by Nihil pirates at the Cyclor Shipyards.
===Supply hotspot===
By 3 ABY, the Alliance to Restore the Republic had been moving supply convoys carrying a variety of weapons, equipment, food, and medicines through the Derra system and onto the various rebel cells that required them across the galaxy. Eighty percent of these stockpiles were specifically allocated to equipping the hidden rebel headquarters at Echo Base on the planet Hoth in the Outer Rim Territories. Vice Admiral Rae Sloane of the Galactic Empire's Imperial Navy and the remnants of the Imperial 7th Fleet were able to establish the Derra system as the likeliest candidate for the Alliance's shipping route through the Expansion Region. Both Sloane and the fleet had been partially sidelined from mainstream Imperial operations at the time.
As a direct outcome of operations carried out by the Empire's Ubiqtorate, Sloane led Imperial forces, including the Star Destroyer Dark Omen and the Interdictor cruiser Retention, from aboard the Star Destroyer Vigilance in a military action against the rebels near Derra IV.
===A win for the Empire===
The Imperials ambushed the rebel Renegade Squadron and then, using the Retention, they isolated a significant supply convoy and destroyed it. Although the location of Echo Base was not uncovered, the Imperial fleet considered the action a near-perfect victory entirely of their own merit. For her part in the ambush, Sloane was promoted and given a place on the Joint Chiefs of the Imperial Military, with the 7th Fleet also reincorporated back into mainstream Imperial operations as a result.
A file on Sloane and the 7th Fleet's work to narrow down the convoy's location to the system was stored in the "Military Operations" section of the Imperial Archives and was later recovered from the damaged computer core of the Vigilance. In 34 ABY,Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser to 34 ABY. a dot representing the Derra system was displayed as part of a partial map of the galaxy on several screens aboard Chandrila Star Line's Star Cruiser Halcyon.Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser
In 35 ABY, the historian Beaumont Kin mentioned the destruction of the convoy in the Derra system in hisStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire and called it one of the greatest Imperial successes of the Galactic Civil War. He noted that the rebels were not able to ascertain exactly what had happened during the battle but cited what information he did have to a file titled Interrogations 143 in the "Imperial Prisoners" section of the New Republic Archives.
==Behind the scenes==
In the current Star Wars canon, the Derra system was first mentioned as a point labeled simply "Derra" on a map of the galaxy included in the 2016 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game for Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars Roleplaying line. Its first in-universe appearance then came as an unlabeled dot on a map viewable in Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, an immersive roleplaying experience at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida that opened to the public on March 1, 2022. The system was then first identified fully in the 2024 reference book Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, which was written by Dr. Chris Kempshall. The book erroneously mentions the Derra system as being in both the Expansion Region and Outer Rim Territories. This article assumes the former to be correct due to the placement of Derra in the Expansion Region in prior material.
The star system originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it first appeared, albeit unnamed, in the first installment of the The Empire Strikes Back radio drama, written by Brian DaleyThe Empire Strikes Back radio drama and broadcast on February 14, 1983. It was then identified in the fourth part of the novella "Side Trip," which was written by Timothy Zahn and published in Star Wars Adventure Journal 13 in May 1997.
The system then appeared visually for the first time as part of flashbacks in the twenty-fifth issue of the Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron comic book series. The issue was written by Michael A. Stackpole, illustrated by Steve Crespo, and published by Dark Horse ComicsX-Wing Rogue Squadron 25 on December 3, 1997.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic Adventures (2021) 1 
*Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser 
==Sources==
*Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game 
*The High Republic Free Digital Sampler 
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*Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy
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*Star Wars Galaxy Map
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*Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire 
==Notes and references==
Category:Expansion Region star systems
Category:Trailing Sectors star systems