Myrkos

The Myrkos was a Galactic Republic dreadnaught cruiser in service during the Clone Wars. It was stationed in orbit around Tembora, a mobile rogue moon that housed the Republic's Tembora Research Station. At one point, enemy forces launched an attack on the research station, with the Myrkos becoming critically damaged during the fighting. The starship crashed into the rogue moon, leaving behind a radioactive crater and altering the mobile celestial body's course in space.
==History==
The Myrkos was a dreadnaught cruiser that was in service of the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars, which were fought between 22 BBY and 19 BBY. It was stationed in orbit around Tembora, a mobile rogue moon with a diameter of 1,200 kilometers that housed the Tembora Research Station where the Republic's Army Weapons Research Department was developing the KLR series combat droid. The Republic took precautions that only the command and officers of the Myrkos were aware of Tembora's location.
At one point, enemy forces affiliated with the Confederacy of Independent SystemsThe New Essential Chronology nevertheless discovered the Tembora Research Station and launched an attack on it. During the ensuing engagement, the Myrkos became severely damaged and crashed into the rogue moon thirty kilometers away from the research station. The starship was destroyed, leaving a two-kilometer-wide crater on Tembora's surface that had high residual radiation levels and had debris from the vessel scattered for kilometers around it. The impact of the Myrkos on Tembora caused a slight alteration in the moon's course, and the celestial body became lost in space.
Decades later, at one point during the Galactic Empire's reign, a group of spacers crash-landed on Tembora after its trajectory had intersected one of the galaxy's hyperlanes. During the group's investigation of the Tembora Research Station, the spacers discovered the site of the Myrkos crash via perusing the sensor information at the station's command center.
==Behind the scenes==
The Myrkos was introduced in the roleplaying adventure "Rogue Metal," which was authored by James B. King and published in the June 1992 sixty-first issue of the Challenge magazine for use with West End Games's Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. The adventure suggests that the player characters can investigate the crash site of the starship, where they find debris from the vessel. This article assumes the scenario plays out as described.
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Category:Cruisers
Category:Dreadnoughts
Category:Starships of the Galactic Republic