Mon Gazza

Mon Gazza was a Mid Rim Territories planet located on both the Corellian Run and the Llanic Spice Run. The site of spice mining and trading, the world was under the reign of the kingpin Ravi, who was murdered by the mercenary droid AD-W4 when he attempted to hire the droid to kill a rival. The Pyke Syndicate spice cartel controlled the bulk of Mon Gazza's spice mines by the time of the Clone Wars.
During the Galactic Civil War in 4 ABY, the New Republic began establishing a planetary outpost on Mon Gazza, although spice gang warfare continued in the meantime. The Galactic Empire's 204th Imperial Fighter Wing destroyed the outpost in 5 ABY. During the New Republic's reign, the Spice Runners of Kijimi carried out a heist on Mon Gazza and outran New Republic patrols using the local Zugga Challenge podracing course.
==Description==
Mon Gazza was a terrestrial planet within an intersecting portion of the Mid Rim Territories and the Slice. Situated in grid square Q-16 of the Standard Galactic Grid, the world lay along the Corellian Run super-hyperroute between the astronomical objects Druckenwell and Herdessa. It was also an endpoint forStar Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game the Llanic Spice Run, which connected it to the celestial body Yuw, and another hyperspace route that linked it to the planetStar Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy Ando. Raw spice could be mined on Mon Gazza.
==History==
===Underworld dealings===
During the time of the Galactic Republic, Mon Gazza was a key site of spice mining and trading in the galaxy, and an individual named Ravi became a wealthy spice kingpin there at some point before the Clone Wars between the Republic and the Separatist Alliance that began in 22 BBY.Star Wars: Timelines The startup smuggler Osmo Che became a competitor of Ravi's, possessing a fast starship and a lethal crew. When he learned of Che's operation, Ravi put a large bounty on the smuggler's head.
The mercenary droid AD-W4 at one point went to Ravi at the latter's palace on Mon Gazza, offering to hunt down Che for him. Ravi informed the droid that the pay would be "a drop" in his wealth and that well-paying jobs for the kingpin would follow. However, AD-W4 instead chose to murder Ravi, gutting him alive, massacring his guards, and stealing the kingpin's wealth for himself.
By the time of the Clone Wars, the Pyke Syndicate, the galaxy's main spice cartel at the time, controlled the bulk of the spice mining on Mon Gazza. Early into the war, the cyborg Separatist General Grievous offered AD-W4 a job to control the harvest of the energy from the Outer Rim Territories planet Hissrich. Insulted that he was being hired to "farm," the mercenary droid recounted his actions on Mon Gazza in order to highlight his interest in killing. By 10 BBY,The entry in Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide where Mon Gazza was mapped as a treasure cache is placed chronologically prior to an entry written by Tobias Beckett. Since Star Wars: Timelines dates Beckett's death to 10 BBY, his entry in the guide and those chronologically before it must all be set at some point by that date. the former pirate queen Maz Kanata marked Mon Gazza as a shadowport on a map that also included treasure caches, outlaw garages, and other points of interest. She included the map in a book that would become known as the Smuggler's Guide.Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide In 3 ABY, a farmer from Mon Gazza was present in the Mos Eisley spaceport on the planet Tatooine at the same time the outlaw Kay Vess was visiting the world.Star Wars Outlaws
===New Republic control===
In 4 ABY, during the Galactic Civil War between the New Republic and the Galactic Empire, the former government was establishing a planetary outpost on Mon Gazza. During the outpost's development, Imperial deserter Soran Keize, who went by the name "Devon Lhent," traveled to Mon Gazza and soon found himself caught in a war between two rival spice gangs. He moved on when the bloodshed began escalating.Alphabet Squadron The New Republic's outpost on Mon Gazza had been finished by 5 ABY, and in that time, Keize had rejoined and taken charge of his old Imperial unit, the 204th Imperial Fighter Wing.
After the New Republic reported its victory over the astronomical object Andara, Keize wished to boost his unit's morale and chose Mon Gazza as a target, knowing about its outpost from his travels as Lhent. The 204th attacked the outpost shortly thereafter, leveling it with particle cannons and proton torpedos. The Imperials then surveyed the wreckage and corpses to make sure nothing had survived, with one anonymous Imperial pilot writing "FOR ANDARA" in the ashes of the outpost.
Mon Gazza was mentioned in "Index of Organizations," a survival compendium sent out by the human Carson Teva during the New Republic Era, as a planet where the Pyke Syndicate had operations.
Later, during the reign of the New Republic, Mon Gazza was home to the Zugga Challenge podracing event. The gang known as the Spice Runners of Kijimi conducted a heist on Mon Gazza at some point and outran New Republic patrols along the Zugga Challenge course. The event became one of the gang's most famous heists.
==Locations==
Mon Gazza was home to spice mines as well as an opulent palace owned by the spice kingpin Ravi during the time of the Galactic Republic. The New Republic later established a planetary outpost there, with a podracing course also being present.
==Behind the scenes==
Mon Gazza was introduced into the current Star Wars canon through a map included in the 2016 Fantasy Flight Games roleplaying boxed set Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game. The world then first appeared in Shadow Fall, the 2020 second novel in Alexander Freed's Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron trilogy. The planet Mon Gazza originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, first appearing in the 1999 LucasArts video game Star Wars: Episode I Racer.Star Wars: Episode I Racer
==Appearances==
*The High Republic Adventures (2021) 1 
*Jedi of the Republic – Mace Windu 3 
*Star Wars Outlaws 
*Alphabet Squadron 
*Shadow Fall 
==Sources==
*Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game 
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*Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide
*Collapse of the Republic
*Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
*The High Republic Free Digital Sampler 
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*Star Wars Galaxy Map
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==Notes and references==
Category:Llanic Spice Run
Category:Mid Rim planets on the Corellian Run
Category:Mining planets
Category:New Republic planets
Category:Pyke Syndicate planets
Category:Shadowports
Category:Spice producing worlds
Category:Terrestrial planets
Category:The Slice planets