Unidentified Outer Rim star system (39th Emergence)

In 232 BBY, a star system in the Outer Rim Territories was the site of the 39th Emergence, one of a series of incidents where debris from the destroyed freighter Legacy Run emerged in realspace at near-lightspeed. Both the Galactic Republic and the Nihil marauder organization were able to predict that the Emergence would take place in the star system and anticipated that specifically the freighter's flight recorder—which the Republic wanted to retrieve and the Nihil wished to destroy—could appear there. A team of Republic Longbeam cruisers and, unbeknown to it, the stealth-equipped Nihil battle corvette Lourna Dee, waited in the system for the Emergence; however, when the debris that appeared there was revealed to be a Legacy Run passenger compartment instead, both parties eventually moved on to the site of the 40th Emergence.
==History==
===Predicting the future===
A star system existed in the Outer Rim Territories. In 232 BBY,Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of The High Republic: Light of the Jedi to 232 BBY. the destruction of the freighter Legacy Run during hyperspace transit caused the Emergences—a series of instances where, throughout the Outer Rim, debris from the vessel entered realspace at near-lightspeed, at times with devastating consequences. Eventually, both the Galactic Republic and Marchion Ro, the Eye of the Nihil marauder organization, were able to independently predict the site of future Emergences, with a point in the Outer Rim star system, situated in an uninhabited region of space, being one such location.
The Republic subsequently identified the Outer Rim star system as one of three locations where specifically the section of the Legacy Run bridge containing its flight recorder—which was believed to contain information that could help identify the cause of the starship's destruction—would appear. To retrieve the flight recorder, a Republic team consisting of four Longbeam cruisers and two Jedi Vector starfighters was set up. Meanwhile, the Nihil planned to destroy the flight recorder so that the Republic would not be able to confirm their involvement in the Legacy Run disaster. To that end, the Lourna Dee, the stealth-equipped flagship battle corvette of the Nihil Tempest Runner Lourna Dee, traveled to the star system via a Path—an unconventional hyperspace route provided by Ro—and lurked there while remaining hidden from the Republic vessels.
===Wait and see===
Within the system, the Republic Longbeam cruisers waited for the 39th Emergence to happen while in deep space, far from anything that debris from the Legacy Run could pose a threat to. During the final few minutes before the Emergence, Joss Adren, a Republic contractor piloting the Longbeam Aurora III, coordinated a systems check with the rest of the team while his wife and copilot Pikka Adren thought about the pair's vacation plans that had been put on hold by the Legacy Run disaster. The Adrens then also briefly discussed the possibility of the Republic encountering hostile parties during the Emergence.
Upon the emergence of the freighter's debris in the system, Dee, who was observing the Republic ships from the bridge of the Lourna Dee, ordered her Cloud Belial to scan the debris in order to determine whether it was the flight recorder. When Belial informed Dee that it was instead one of the freighter's passenger compartments, she briefly watched the Republic team initiate a rescue attempt of any potential survivors—fantasizing about ordering the destruction of both the Republic vessels and the compartment—before giving the order for their ship to travel to the site of the 40th Emergence. When the Republic retrieval team also moved on to the next Emergence, one of its Longbeams stayed behind in the system in order to assist the survivors of the passenger compartment and transport them to the Republic medical frigate Panacea, which was situated near the Outer Rim space station Starlight Beacon.
==Behind the scenes==
The star system appeared in the 2021 novel Light of the Jedi, written by Charles Soule as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's Phase I.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic: Light of the Jedi 
==Notes and references==
Category:Outer Rim Territories star systems
Category:Unidentified star systems