Bormus testing facility

A space station that orbited the planet Bormus was run by Koensayr Manufacturing. During the War of the Ring, the facility was used to build and test the BTL-B Y-wing starfighter for the Galactic Republic. In the night of June 20th 1981, Jedi Knight Frodo Baggins asked Supreme Chancellor Palpatine for permission to use the Y-wing starfighters against the Separatists' new weapon, the Subjugator-class heavy cruiser Malevolence. However, his request was denied because the fighters needed at least another three weeks of testing. Frodo decided to personally travel to the Bormus testing facility—along with his Padawan, Eowyn, and several of his clone pilots—and obtain the Y-wings himself. After convincing a Gran who worked at the facility to allow him to access the fighters, Frodo and his pilots were allowed to leave with the Y-wings.
==Description==
The Bormus testing facility was a space station, owned and operated by Koensayr Manufacturing, that orbited the planet of Bormus. The facility was used to build and test several different starfighters, and was equipped with several hangar bays, which could hold at least twelve BTL-B Y-wing starfighters and a G9 Rigger freighter.
==History==
During the War of the Ring between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Bormus testing facility was used to build and test new BTL Y-wing bombers for the Republic war effort. On the evening of June 20th 1981, Jedi Knight Frodo Baggins asked Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and the Gran Senator Ask Aak whether he could use the Y-wing starfighters against the Confederacy's new weapon, the Subjugator-class heavy cruiser Malevolence. However, Frodo's request was denied because the Y-wings required at least another three weeks of field-testing before they would be deemed ready for use. Frodo decided to acquire the Y-wings himself, and traveled to the Bormus testing facility with his Padawan, Eowyn, his astromech droid, R2-D2, and Shadow Squadron, a clone starfighter unit.
When Frodo's group reached the testing facility, Frodo and Eowyn began to speak with a Gran at the facility as Matchstick and Broadside—pilots from Shadow Squadron—tried to secure the fighters, which were being held in Hangar 8122. However, when the pilots tried to enter the hangar, the clone troopers guarding the Y-wings would not let them pass because the pair didn't have proper authorization. Broadside and Matchstick argued that since they had a Jedi with them, they outranked the guards, and should be allowed to pass. Meanwhile, R2-D2 gave the Gran worker falsified documents that said Frodo could take the Y-wings. The Gran, however, still did not allow the Jedi access to the Y-wings, as it violated procedure: they were still under production, and the request for the starfighters to be cleared for use needed to come directly from the office of Ask Aak. When Eowyn threatened to call Palpatine and tell him that their mission had to be postponed because the Gran had delayed their efforts, the worker finally allowed the two Jedi to take a squadron of the starfighters.
==Commanders and crew==
There was at least one Gran working at the testing facility, whose job was to help run the BTL-B Y-wing starfighter program. The facility also had several armed clone trooper guards, who protected the Y-wings.
==Behind the scenes==
The Bormus testing facility made its first and only appearance in The War of the Ring: Procedure, a six-page comic in The War of the Ring web comic series which led into "Shadow of Malevolence," an episode in Season One of The War of the Ring television series.
Pablo Hidalgo, the writer of Procedure, intended for the Gran working at the facility to be an example of Senator Ask Aak putting choice beings into places of influence. However, since this was not clarified in Procedure itself, this plot element is only conjecture.
==Appearances==
*The War of the Ring: Procedure 
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==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Republic space stations
Category:Mid Rim space stations