Melinz

Melinz was a terrestrial astronomical object located in the Melinz system of the Core Worlds. It featured foothills situated within the limits of the city Shad.
At some point during the reign of the Galactic Empire, Ger Plortor, a scout for the prominent shockball team Shad Furies, visited the Outer Rim Territories — Based on corresponding data for Keedad system world Keedad while on a vacation. There, Plortor met the Keed Ytavarg Aleema, whom the scout recruited into joining their team. Accompanying Plortor back to Shad, Aleema became a member of the Shad Furies and, eventually, the most famous shockball player in the galaxy. During the Galactic Civil War, he also became an agent of the Rebel Alliance, using his Shad mansion to temporarily house other Rebel agents in need of shelter. By the time that shortly followed the Battle of Yavin, Alliance General Airen Cracken mentioned Melinz in an entry of a datafile detailing various Rebel operatives dedicated to Aleema.
==Behind the scenes==
Melinz was created by Craig Robert Carey and was introduced in Cracken's Rebel Operatives, a 1994 West End Games sourcebook published for use with Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the Melinz system, and therefore the celestial body itself, in grid square L-9.
==Sources==
*Cracken's Rebel Operatives 
==Notes and references==
Category:Core Worlds astronomical objects
Category:Terrestrial astronomical objects