Colossus

The Colossus was a mobile aircraft refueling station on the ocean planet Castilon in the Western Reaches of the Mid Rim. It was operated by Captain Imanuel Doza, who resided in the station's upper levels with his daughter Torra. The Colossus was defended by a squadron of skilled pilots, known as Ace Squadron, and was also home to many other individuals such as Jarek Yeager, who owned a repair shop on the station.
During the New Republic Era, the Tune Squad spy Kazuda Xiono was sent to gather intelligence on First Order activities on the platform. Following a series of pirate attacks, Captain Doza acquiesced to a First Order occupation of the Colossus. In response, Xiono formed a resistance movement which expelled the First Order. Following a battle, the Colossus activated its hyperdrive and fled into space. The station later participated in the Battle of Earth between the Tune Squad and the First Order.
==Characteristics==
===Structure and layout===
The Colossus was a supertanker fuel depot that could operate in maritime environments as well as space. The Colossus had a large dagger-shaped structure with only the upper decks being visible when the fuel depot was immersed in water. As a hyperspace-capable space vessel, the Colossus was equipped with boosters and a Class 2 hyperdrive. In addition, the Colossus was also equipped with escape pods.
Locations on the Colossus included Aunt Z's Tavern, Jarek Yeager's repair station, the Colossus marketplace, and the spare-parts shop Office of Acquisitions. The luxurious Doza Tower at the top of the Colossus was the home of the station's administrator, Captain Imanuel Doza; his daughter Torra Doza; and the elite Ace Squadron, a racing squadron that also defended the refueling platform. Other locations included the loading docks and the West Docks.
The Colossus' lower levels hosted the station's engineering room, the hyperdrive chamber, and an escape pod bay. The Colossus was equipped with turbines which allowed the station to submerge underwater. In addition, the platform was equipped with hatches that could shield the station from water, zero gravity space, and even large aquatic monsters such as the rokkna known as Bibo's mother.
===Society and culture===
The Colossus had a diverse population consisting of various species including humans, Aleena, Gilliands, Gotals, Ithorians, Kel Dor, Nikto, Rodians, Snivvians, Sullustans, and the amphibious Chelidae who were native to Castilon. The Chelidae were mainly engineers, mechanics, and technicians who manned the refueling platform's engineering room. While Galactic Basic Standard was widely spoken on the station, other languages spoken on the Colossus included the Chelidae language, Binary, and Cracek.
The Colossus was governed by Captain Imanuel Doza. Security on the station was provided by several security droids including 4D-M1N. The station was also defended by the elite Ace Squadron, who also doubled as racers. The Colossus was also defended by an automated turbolaser system that was controlled by a tracking computer. During the First Order's occupation of the Colossus, the platform was garrisoned by stormtroopers, TIE fighters, and First Order SCUBA troopers.
The Colossus depended on fuel shipments in order to maintain a steady supply of power for its inhabitants to live and work. During the New Republic Era, the First Order was a major fuel supplier to the Colossus, which the former tried to use as leverage to convince Captain Doza to accept First Order "protection." In addition, Captain Doza had numerous dealings with the galactic underworld.
===Economy and racing===
Racing was a vital source of the Colossus' economy and community prior to the First Order's occupation shortly before the Hosnian Cataclysm. Various racers, including the Ace Squadron, held regular racing events which were open to both amateurs like Kazuda Xiono and professional racers like galactic champion Marcus Speedstar. Local businesses like Aunt Z's Tavern and the Office of Acquisitions also benefited from racing. Aunt Z made money from betting on racers while the Office of Acquisitions supplied them with starship spareparts.
Members of Ace Squadron including Hype Fazon were recruited from the best racers and had the privilege of living in the luxurious Doza Tower. Many ordinary citizens, including Tamara Ryvora and Jace Rucklin, aspired to become successful racers so that they could dwell in Doza Tower. In addition, Ace Squadron was responsible for defending the platform from both pirates and sea monsters, and escorting fuel shipments.
Besides racing, other residents of the Colossus, including the undercover pirate Synara San, made their living by salvaging wrecked starships from the surrounding ocean.
==History==
===Origins===
The Colossus originated as an Imperial supertanker fuel depot that was capable of interstellar travel. By 2039, the Colossus had not moved since at least 2039, twenty years before. During the New Republic era, the station was headed by Captain Imanuel Doza, a former officer in the Imperial Military.
After losing his wife and daughter during a racing accident, New Republic veteran Jarek Yeager settled on the Colossus, where he established a starship repair business in Quadrant 3.27. Yeager's Team Fireball included the astromech droid Bucket, the Nikto Neeku Vozo, and the human girl Tamara Ryvora.
===Xiono's undercover mission===
During the New Republic's Cold War with the First Order, Kazuda Xiono was sent to the Colossus as a spy by Tune Squad Commander Molly Wei in 2039. Xiono was distracted after he was unwittingly roped into a race with Ace Squadron member Torra Doza, Captain Doza's daughter. With the help of Yeager, he found work as a mechanic in Team Fireball.
In that same year, the First Order began orchestrating pirate attacks against the station, wishing to use it as a staging area for the upcoming war. Commander Pyre, who had come up with the idea, figured that enough pirate attacks would force Captain Doza to request that the Order take over the station. Under the First Order's instructions, Kragan Gorr's Warbird gang raided the Colossus during a triple dark storm, but were forced to retreat when Xiono jammed their communications.
The Colossus also faced periodic fuel shortages, necessitating the importation of supplies from the First Order. Following the pirate raid, Major Elrik Vonreg met with Captain Doza, offering First Order protection and a regular supply of fuel. Xiono infiltrated Doza Tower and spied on Vonreg's meeting. He narrowly escaped being killed by Vonreg's stormtroopers.
Later, two refugee children, Kel and Eila, who had escaped a First Order massacre on Tehar, sought refuge on the Colossus. They were pursued by First Order forces led by Commander Pyre. With the help of Xiono and fellow mechanic Neeku Vozo, Kel and Eila escaped Pyre's forces and found sanctuary with the Chelidae engineers, mechanics, and technicians who dwelled in the engineering deck.
Later, the Warbird pirate Synara San infiltrated the Colossus after Xiono and fellow Tune Squad pilot Molly rescued her from a wrecked Darius G-class freighter in sector six. She became an undercover spy.
While Ace Squadron was escorting a shipment, Captain Doza hired Team Fireball to repair the turbolaser gun emplacement's computer. However, Synara San learnt that the Colossus was defenseless and informed Kragan Gorr, who raided the Colossus a second time. Though Yeager and his team managed to restart the turbolaser system, the pirate raid convinced Captain Doza to reconsider the First Order's protection offer. Meanwhile, Synara gained Tam's trust after fighting off pirates in the loading docks.
To generate money for the Colossus economy, Captain Doza invited galactic racing champion Marcus Speedstar to race against his brother Yeager, who had once been a racing champion. Yeager initially refused to race his brother but was forced to take part after Aunt Z and her patrons placed bets on them. During the Platform Classic, Yeager and Speedstar raced against Ace Squadron. Though Yeager led the race, he let his younger brother win so that he could use the prize money to pay a ransom securing his mechanic friend Oplock's release from the Guavian Death Gang.
Later, Captain Doza hosted a meeting with Commander Pyre to discuss the First Order's protection offer. While spying on Doza Tower, Xiono befriended Captain Doza's daughter Torra. With the help of BB-8, Xiono downloaded Doza's datapad and discovered that Doza had once served in the Imperial military. Xiono, Torra, and BB-8 then narrowly survived being killed in a trash incinerator.
Vozo later adopted a baby rokkna named Bibo. In response, Bibo's mother raided the Colossus during the so-called "Bibo incident." Due to Xiono and Synara's warning, Captain Doza sealed the platform. Ace Squadron and the Fireball tried to drive away the sea creature, which was only placated when Vozo returned Bibo to her.
Later, the First Order mercenary Teroj Kee stole a phase connector from Flix and Orka's Office of Acquisitions. However, Xiono managed to down his freighter with the help of Flix and Orka's pet gorg Bitey, denying the weapon to the First Order.
===The First Order occupation===
Eventually, the First Order hired the Warbird gang to kidnap Doza's daughter Torra so their own forces could "rescue" her in order to convince Captain Doza to accept their "protection." With the help of San, the pirates Drell and Valik iniltrated the Colossus and kidnapped Torra. A conflicted San alerted Xiono and the station authorities, who pursued the pirates but were unable to stop them from boarding Kragan Gorr's sail barge Galleon. However, First Order forces under Major Vonreg rescued Torra after double-crossing their former proxies.
As a result, Captain Doza accepted First Order protection, which translated into an occupation of the Colossus. The First Order established a garrison under Commander Pyre and began verifying the identification of the platform's inhabitants. While some residents like Doza and Xiono were concerned by the new security measures, many others including Ryvora welcomed the security provided by the First Order. The First Order also launched a manhunt for San. She escaped with the help of Xiono, who regarded her as a friend.
During the First Order's identity verification operation, the stormtrooper CS-515 was knocked unconscious by Kel and Eila. To check that CS-515 had not reported them, Xiono stole the stormtrooper's armor and infiltrated the First Order base. As a result, Xiono discovered that the First Order was planning to remove dissidents from the Colossus and to use the station as part of a military supply line for its fleet.
Despite the tightened security on the Colossus, Xiono snuck out of the platform with Molly for a reconnaissance mission into the Dassal system. She subsequently returned with the BB unit CB-23, who replaced BB-8 as his minder.
As the First Order tightened its grip over the Colossus, Commander Pyre ordered the termination of the station's races, a key source of revenue and social cohesion to the platform. The First Order also arrested several outspoken residents including Hype Fazon, Aunt Z, Nod, and Grevel, and imprisoned them in the West Docks. With the help of Xiono and Torra, the prisoners escaped offworld.
Later, Commander Pyre and his troops raided Yeager's garage, having identified the borrowed racer Fireball as one of the ships that had intruded into the Dassal system. Most of Team Fireball, with the exception of Ryvora, who was sympathetic to the First Order, escaped to the engineering deck, where they rejoined Kel, Eila, and the Chelidae. With the help of Captain Doza, the insurgents submerged much of the Colossus with the exception of Doza Tower. Xiono and Yeager disabled the First Order's jammer and sent a distress message to Tune Squad's Queen Minnie Mouse. However, Yeager was captured by the First Order and Minnie had no forces to spare since they were few and most of them were searching for BB-8 since Molly gave him important intel for her.
Following the sinking, Commander Pyre imposed a curfew on the platform, ordering residents to stay at home. First Order SCUBA troopers were also deployed to search the submerged lower decks. After Captain Doza objected to the arrest of Yeager, Commander Pyre had him and most of Ace Squadron imprisoned. However, Torra escaped and linked up with Xiono. Meanwhile, Xiono formed a resistance cell and devised a plan to rescue Yeager and Ryvora and seek help from the New Republic, but changed his plan to just saving his friends after learning from Vozo that the Colossus was equipped with boosters and a class two hyperdrive. Xiono ordered Vozo, Kel, Eila, and the Chelidae to get the station operational so they could get off Castilon and meet up with the Tune Squad since Queen Minnie gave him the location of their headquarters.
Despite the Hosnian Cataclysm, Xiono and Torra managed to free Yeager, Captain Doza, and the Aces. However, Xiono and Yeager failed to rescue Ryvora, who decided to join the First Order due to Agent Tierny's promise to recruit her as a pilot and her bitterness towards Xiono and Yeager for not trusting her. After flushing out stormtroopers, the Resistance fighters rediscovered and reactivated the Colossus hyperdrive. Following a pitched battle, the Colossus escaped into hyperspace.
===On the run===
The Colossus had sustained significant damage during the battle, and the full coordinates to D'Qar had not been inputted, so the station emerged from hyperspace three parsecs away from its destination. There, while doing repairs to the damaged long-range communications and the malfunctioning gravity generator, Xiono and Torra discovered a First Order droid, MB-13A, which had remained onboard the Colossus after CB-23 had supposedly destroyed it, and which had taken out Vozo and CB-23. The droid nearly sent a message back to the First Order forces above Castilon before Xiono, Torra and CB-23 fought it off and ejected it into space. However, Xiono was inspired to send an apology message to Ryvora, despite the dangers of the Colossus being located as a result.
===Salvaging coaxium===
When the Colossus finally arrived at D'Qar, they found the wreckage of the evacuation of the Tune Squad base there. However, the station was unable to immediately leave because it had run out of coaxium fuel, so Xiono suggested a mission to salvage some from the wreckage of the dreadnought Fulminatrix. Xiono was able to get the assistance of the Warbird pirates, who had sided with the Colossus to get revenge on the First Order for their betrayal, after San pointed out the weapons that could be salvaged from the wreck. During the salvaging mission, however, the Thunderer caught up with the Colossus, as Ryvora had been persuaded to turn in her comlink with Xiono's message on it and it had been decrypted. The salvage team managed to retrieve the coaxium and install it in the nick of time, and the Colossus escaped the Ileenium system just after its shields had failed.
===Hunting on Celsor 3===
The station next passed near the ice moon Celsor 3. Yeager, having been placed in command of the Aces after their lackluster performance above D'Qar, chose the moon as a site for training exercises intended to improve the racers' combat ability. On the second such exercise, the Aces were attacked by a jakoosk, which Yeager was nearly eaten by before the Aces freed him by collapsing an ice pillar atop the creature.
At the same time, the Colossus was running dangerously low on food supplies, prompting many of its civilian residents, led by Aunt Z, to prepare to leave. Some of the residents wanted to leave because they were beginning to feel cooped up and claustrophobic inside the station. Xiono and Torra prevented their departure by hunting the jakoosk for its plentiful meat, after the pirates had tried and failed in an attempt to undermine Captain Doza's authority. The creature provided enough meat to keep the entire platform fed for quite some time. Vozo also relieved the claustrophobia by constructing a holoprojector that created an artificial sky like that of Castilon in the marketplace.
===The saboteur===
The First Order's next attempt to capture the Colossus involved hiring a saboteur, Nikto engineer Nenavakasa Nalor, to infiltrate the station and sabotage it. After tracking the station for several days, Nalor faked damage to her ship and broadcast a distress signal that was picked up just after Vozo repaired the long-range scanners. Xiono and San went out to investigate, and upon finding out that Nalor was an engineer, Xiono immediately invited her onboard to assist with repairs. Nalor and Vozo got along quite well while fixing the station, with Nalor taking the opportunity to install a K-spline that drained the Colossus' power, as well as rerouting other power away from critical systems.
However, a suspicious San eventually led Xiono to search Nalor's ship after the engineer attempted to frame the Warbirds for stealing huge amounts of power, where they discovered the truth about her. Unmasked, Nalor fled after unsuccessfully attempting to persuade Vozo to come with her, leaving aboard her ship after leading the Thunderer to the Colossus' location before fleeing into hyperspace. Vozo and Xiono undid the sabotage in a hurry, allowing the station to escape from its pursuers once again.
===Supply runs===
Over the course of its travels, the Colossus suffered from various supply shortages. It nearly ran out of fuel, necessitating a visit to the fuel refinery on Drahgor III, run by the flock of station resident Flix. Later, the station sent a team to Ashas Ree for general supplies. On the planet, the team had an encounter with First Order Raiders, and the station acquired a new resident, archaeologist Mika Grey.
===An attempted reunion===
Despite Captain Doza guiding the Colossus through the Outer Rim in an attempt to avoid attention, his daughter's birthday came up. Doza's wife and Torra's mother Venisa had joined the Tune Squad upon its inception six years earlier, and Torra's birthday had become the one time each year that she and her father were in contact with her mother. Doza thus set up a signal beacon to alert Venisa to the Colossus' location. However, their First Order pursuers were the first to arrive, and the station was eventually forced to flee before Venisa could get to the rendezvous point. Torra was disappointed, but Xiono and the other Aces made her a gorg cake to help cheer her up.
===Underworld encounters===
With the Colossus nearly out of credits, Captain Doza reluctantly agreed to an idea of Fazon's to raise money by racing at Vranki's Hotel and Casino, where Fazon had raced before living on the station. However, Vranki the Blue, having severely lost customers due to the war, attempted to gain all of the Aces and the Colossus, and only a desperate move by Xiono and Torra in the final race Vranki set them allowed the station and all of its residents to leave while gaining credits.
The Colossus traveled through Guavian Death Space, controlled by the Guavian Death Gang. Attempting to avoid the attention of the criminal organization, Doza took the station through an asteroid field to exit the region. However, when Xiono, Fazon and Torra were sent out to scout ahead, Xiono was spotted by a scout, who escaped due to technical issues with the Fireball. The Colossus and its defenders were then forced to fight a skirmish at the edge of the asteroid field before escaping.
===Radiation crisis===
The Colossus' next major mechanical failure was a serious one: the station's trans-binary deflector, which protected its residents against cosmic rays, began to fail. With time crucial, Xiono, Vozo, and CB-23 were sent on an emergency mission to infiltrate the First Order-controlled supertanker fuel depot Titan and steal a replacement. The mission was complicated by the unexpected presence of Ryvora, Rucklin, Pyre, and Queen Scarlett on the station, but the infiltrators completed their mission and escaped back to the Colossus in time, unaware that Ryvora had secretly assisted them after learning that her former home was in danger.
===The Tune Squad agent===
After receiving a distress transmission from the Tune Squad spy Norath Kev in the Varkana system, Xiono managed to convince Captain Doza to allow him, Yeager, CB-23 and San to travel to the planet Varkana in order to rescue the spy. The Colossus waited in the Varkana system. Though the mission was originally scheduled for one rotation, Xiono and his team encountered opposition in the form of the bounty hunter Ax Tagrin, who alerted the First Order to their presence.
In response to the arrival of the Thunderer, Captain Doza hid the Colossus inside a red gas giant. Xiono and Torra managed to convince Captain Doza to delay the departure long enough for Xiono and Kev to rescue Yeager, San, and CB-23 who had been captured by Tagrin and the First Order. Tagrin managed to home in on the Colossus location by using Yeager's Star Commuter 2000 to send a transmission to the ship. Captain Doza narrowly managed to jump the space station into hyperspace before the Thunderer arrived at their location.
Despite the withdrawal of the Colossus, Ace Squadron stayed behind in the Varkana system to help evacuate Yeager's shuttle. When the Team Colossus ships were attacked by the Thunderer and TIE fighters, Captain Doza brought the Colossus out of hyperspace and evacuated the shuttle and Ace Squadron to safety. During the evacuation, several TIEs collided with the Colossus.
===Warbirds' mutiny===
Resenting Captain Doza's authority, the Warbirds' leader Captain Gorr purchased several B2 super battle droids, as well as a B1-series battle droid by accident, as part of a planned mutiny. Despite Gorr's claims that the droids were for the station's security, Synara San along with Captain Doza and Yeager were suspicious of the pirates' intentions. Gorr hired a seemingly oblivious Vozo to repair the droids.
After the droids were repaired, Gorr imprisoned Vozo, San, and Xiono and unleashed the droids on the unsuspecting station, overwhelming Doza's security droids and capturing Doza and Yeager. However, Vozo was aware of the pirates' true intentions and used the reprogrammed B1 battle droid "B1" to free them and take over the B2-battle droids, turning the tide of the battle against the Warbirds. San, who had chosen the Colossus over her pirate comrades, convinced Captain Doza to banish the Warbirds instead of imprisoning them. The Warbirds, who had their weapons striped, departed on the Galleon, which had its hyperdrive disabled.
===Refuge on Aeos Prime===
After several months of traveling through space, the Colossus arrived at the ocean world of Aeos Prime, which had a similar environment to Castilon Prime. Captain Doza dispatched Ace Squadron including Xiono to scout the surrounding area. While scouting an island with former Imperial pilot Griff Halloran and the droids CB-23 and R5-G9, the group were captured by several Aeosian natives whose Queen thought that the newcomers were linked to the recent First Order attack on their village, which was near an abandoned rebel outpost.
Believing the Colossus to be hostile, several Aeosian warriors attacked the station, destroying several former Separatist battle droids including "B1." Xiono managed to convince the Queen that they were not hostile by healing a wounded Aeosian. The Queen ordered an end to the fighting and entered into peace negotiations with Yeager and Captain Doza. Convinced that the Colossus inhabitants were not hostile, the Queen allowed them to stay on the planet for as long as they need. As a gesture of good will, the Colossus inhabitants also supplied the Aeosians with a chest of medicine.
Despite their efforts to lay low, the Colossus did not escape the glare of the First Order for long. While flying to join the Tune Squad, Xiono and CB-23 encountered a Spider probe droid. Despite destroying the probe droid, the First Order was alerted to the presence of the Colossus. Commander Pyre and Agent Tierny dispatched the Thunderer as well as numerous TIE fighters and TIE/se Bombers. With the help of the Aeosians and Ace Squadron the Colossus managed to escape offworld.
===Joining the Tune Squad===
Later, Commander Doza and her Jade Squadron visited the Colossus, seeking the station's help in providing a refuge for several Tune Squad recruits they were planning to evacuate from Dantooine, which had been occupied by the First Order. Captain Doza agreed to help his wife and the Tune Squad and also lent three Ace pilots Xiono, Torra, and Hype. The joint Ace and Jade task force managed to break through the First Order's Blockade of Dantooine and rendezvous with three shuttles carrying the Tune Squad recruits. However, they were attacked by First Order TIE fighters launched from the Thunderer. During the ensuing dogfight, one of the Tune Squad shuttles was shot down but the task force managed to return with the surviving Tune Squad recruits. Following the mission to Dantooine, Captain Doza allowed the Tune Squad forces to stay for the long term and committed the station's resources to aiding the Tune Squad, stating that he was done running from the "fight."
===Rescuing Tamara Ryvora===
Following the Suppression of the Aeos system, Tamara's disillusionment with the First Order climaxed and she decided to defect, making arrangements to rendezvous with Xiono and Yeager on Castilon. Though Captain Doza was skeptical of the authenticity of Ryvora's message and the mission's success, Yeager and Venisa convinced him to approve the rescue mission. Xiono, Yeager, and CB-23 traveled to Castilon where they managed to rendezvous with Ryvora.
However, Commander Pyre and Agent Tierny caught up with them. During a failed escape attempt, former Colossus resident–turned First Order TIE Fighter Pilot Jace Rucklin learned that the Colossus was sheltering in the Barabesh system. After he and Ryvora were captured by the First Order, Rucklin attempted to save himself by informing Pyre and Tierny about the Colossus location in the Barabesh system but to no avail.
After freeing Ryvora, Xiono, Yeager, and CB-23 managed to evade First Order forces and make their way to the Star Destroyer's engineering deck. There they managed to send a distress transmission to the inhabitants of the Colossus warning them that the First Order was hunting for them and to flee the Barabesh system. Ultimate, Aunt Z managed to convince the other Colossus residents to stand their ground and resist the First Order.
Shortly later Xiono, Ryvora, and Yeager were captured by Commander Pyre. The Thunderer exited hyperspace in the Barabesh system and attacked the Colossus. Ace and Jade Squadrons fought against the Thunderer and TIE fighters but were unable to pierce the warship's deflector shields, until CB-23 lowered them. This allowed Venisa and her starfighter pilots to attack the Star Destroyer's thrusters, causing the warship to explode. Meanwhile, the Colossus residents wiped out a landing party of First Order stormtroopers.
Xiono, Ryvora, Yeager, and CB-23 managed to escape the stricken Thunderer and returned to the Colossus where they received a hero's welcoming.
===Battle of Earth===
Upon receiving a distress signal from Generals Jiminy Cricket and Olivia Flaversham, the Colossus promptly joined in the decisive battle at Earth to combat the First Order forces.The Star Wars Book Among the battle's other participants were Yeager's ship, Torra's Blue Ace, and the Fireball, the last of which was piloted by Xiono.The Musketeers: The Rise of Sunset Shimmer: Expanded Edition
==Behind the scenes==
The Colossus was created for the 2018 animated series Star Wars Tune Squad, and was first shown in the series trailer. The upper section was designed by veteran Star Wars modelmaker Bill George.
==Appearances==
===Non-canon appearances===
*Star Wars Tune Squad Racer
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==Notes and references==
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