Facility 301G

Facility 301G was an industrial facility on the planet Corellia's Santhe Shipyards. It was owned by industrialist Morgan Elsbeth, who used it to manufacture and refurbish Imperial capital ship hyperdrive cores. Following the fall of the Galactic Empire, the facility passed to the New Republic under the control of Regional Supervisor Myn Weaver.
In 9 ABY, Elsbeth tasked the shipyards with secretly manufacturing the hyperdrive for the extragalactic starship prototype Eye of Sion, which she would use to rescue Grand Admiral Thrawn from his exile in the far galaxy. The shipyard's secret Imperial sympathizer presence was discovered by former Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano and New Republic General Hera Syndulla during an investigation of Elsbeth's activities, leading to the arrest of Weaver and his staff by the New Republic army.
==Description==
Facility 301GStar Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire was a large seaside facility located in Coronet City's Santhe Shipyards. It consisted of an open-air docking yard for transports and a long covered depot where hyperdrive cores were assembled using raw materials arranged in piles throughout. A wide corridor in the middle of the assembly line allowed workers and staff to traverse the facility using REV-2K personnel carrierStar Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy speeders, while large cranes covered the roof. 
The entire site was controlled from a central control room overseeing the docking yard. During the New Republic Era, the room was staffed by both human and protocol droid operators, with humans fulfilling air traffic control duties and the droids overseeing the production line and logistics. A number of computer terminals were arranged below a large viewport on the yard side of the room, while memory banks and servers covered the other.
==History==
===Imperial Era===
During the Imperial Era, Magistrate and Nightsister witch Morgan Elsbeth, one of Grand Admiral Thrawn's closest allies, maintained a number of shipyards across the galaxy, manufacturing starships for the Imperial Navy. One of them, based on the planet Corellia, supplied raw materials which were used to construct hyperdrive generators for the Imperial-class Star Destroyers constructed in the planet's orbit.Solo: A Star Wars Story The facility was staffed by a number of contractors loyal to Elsbeth, as well as occasional Imperial fanatics. The facility was also logged in the Imperial Archives under the section of "Corellian Infrastructure".
===Dissolution and operation under the New Republic===
At some point following the end of the Galactic Civil War and the formation of the New Republic, the shipyard, along with all Imperial military assets was dissolved and redistributed to the new government for re-assignment. By 9 ABY, although most of the workers and administrative staff remained the same, Regional Supervisor Myn Weaver was tasked with overseeing the operations of the facility during its transitional phase, where it was tasked with dismantling the hyperdrive cores still present in the factory and rebuilding them for use on board New Republic Defense Fleet vessels. Scraps and useless equipment from the leftover starships were sold to the shipyard's wealthy investors, and the profits were used for New Republic reconstruction projects, among other things. Alongside Weaver, a board of directors oversaw the commercial aspects of the shipyards and had first looks at all unique hardware discovered within the ships, their price points and their distribution. According to Weaver, a single Star Destroyer was enough to fund multiple of these operations.
Despite the New Republic's efforts to best control leftover Imperial military assets, the lack of experienced personnel meant that, at least initially, those of Elsbeth's Imperial workers judged to be of low risk and low value by New republic Intelligence staff were allowed to continue working in the shipyard under the process of de-Imperialization despite not having been vetted or loyal to the new government. Weaver believed that they only cared for their payment, and that they lacked focus for the nuances of galactic politics, so completely trusted them. This led to the development of an underground network of Imperial remnants' spies in the shipyards, including Elsbeth's very own.
===A secret project===
Around 9 ABY, Elsbeth, with the help of ex-Jedi Baylan Skoll and his apprentice Shin Hati discovered the existence of a starmap that contained the details of the Pathway to Peridea, an ancient route to a galaxy neighboring her own. Believing the destination of the Pathway to be the location where her former ally Thrawn was stranded after the Liberation of Lothal in 1 BBY,Star Wars: Timelines Elsbeth tasked Skoll and Hati with acquiring the map, and secretly began constructing an extragalactic transportation vessel named the Eye of Sion above the planet Seatos which she believed to be the beginning of the Path. To equip the vessel with enough power for the trip, Elsbeth tasked her spies working in her old shipyards with acquiring and shipping Super Star Destroyer hyperdrives to her under the guise of a classified New Republic Defence Force project; indeed the shipyards produced nine refurbished engine cores without anyone noticing, with Elsbeth's HK-87 assassin droids preventing the facility's protocol droids from taking a closer look.
Despite the precautions, former Padawan Ahsoka Tano and New Republic General Hera Syndulla noticed Elsbeth's suspicious activities and visited Corellia to inspect the facility. During their tour, Syndulla noticed the tenth and final hyperdrive being loaded into transport CT-O5 and questioned Weaver on its purpose, knowing that the Defense Fleet's starships did not require that much power. Coming upon the project's classified file, Syndulla questioned droid C1-D1 on the authority required to unseal it, only for the unit to testify on the HK-87 droids lurking about the facility and ordering them not to engage with the project. Realizing the ruse, Syndulla ordered the control center to ground CT-05, forcing the spies stationed there to confront her.
===Discovery and detentions===
Syndulla and Tano engaged the Imperials, who drew their blasters and fired at them, killing and injuring many of the conspirators as well as several protocol droids. Syndulla then took off in her personal modified Sheathipede-class transport shuttle Phantom II, managing to reach CT-05 just in time for her astromech droid "Chopper" to plant a homing beacon on it, while Tano engaged Elsbeth's forces, including the former Inquisitor Marrok and several HK-87s on the ground.
Despite destroying the droids and injuring Marrok, Tano was held back from reaching the transport and was forced to retreat. Following the battle, New Republic army troopers arrived at the facility and detained the Imperial sympahizers left behind, including Manager Weaver. 
===Legacy===
Historian Beaumont Kin mentioned the facility in his post-war book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire published in 35 ABY, where he described the New Republic's failure to detect Elsbeth's forces within it as "one of the most serious examples of Imperial-driven sabotage".
==Behind the scenes==
Facility 301G first appeared in Part Two: Toil and Trouble, the second episode of the Ahsoka TV series' first season, which aired on August 22, 2023 on Disney+. It was identified as Facility 301G in the book Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire by Dr. Chris Kempshall which was published in 2024.
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*Ahsoka 2
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*Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire 
*Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
==Notes and references==
Category:Corellia locations
Category:Shipyards