Black Rock Passage

Black Rock Passage was an area of space located in the Akkadese Maelstrom, a region of the Outer Rim Territories and the Slice consisting of ionized gas, dust clouds, water vapor, ammonia, and planet-sizedSolo: A Star Wars Story carbonbergs as well as gravity wells. Starship pilots leaving the planet Kessel, which was situated inside the Akkadese Maelstrom, sometimes attempted to find shortcuts to decrease the travel time needed to exit the Maelstrom that would otherwise be spent on the meandering officialSolo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide hyperspace route known as the Channel.Solo: A Star Wars Story: Tales from Vandor Black Rock Passage was among several such potential alternate routes, with New Republic Police Commissioner Exantor Divo characterizing the pilots risking travel through there as either "foolhardy" or "insane" in his 34 ABY book Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious.
==Behind the scenes==
Black Rock Passage was mentioned in the 2018 reference book Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious, authored by Pablo Hidalgo.
==Sources==
*Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious 
==Notes and references==
Category:Akkadese Maelstrom