Czerka asteroid mining facility

An asteroid mining facility in the Unknown Regions once conducted a thriving ore-processing industry, but Czerka Corporation withdrew funding and support of the facility sometime before the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the reconstituted Sith Empire. The facility, which was built into an asteroid, was abandoned until the year 3643 BBY, when the Sith Valis attempted to capture the Jedi Padawan Kira Carsen at the facility and was defeated by Carsen and her Master.
==Description==
Located in the Unknown Regions on the far northern edge of the galactic disk, the mining facility was located in an asteroid field well off standard hyperspace routes and was itself built into an asteroid. The black spherical main section of the space station hung from the "bottom" of the asteroid, with pipes extending into the asteroid and securing the station to its surface, and a tower extended from the bottom of the main section down away from the asteroid. The facility also continued through the interior of the asteroid all the way to its other side, where several communications antennas and towers were built. The facility had at least one hangar bay, and during its era of productivity, it processed ore from the surrounding asteroids.
==History==
Czerka Corporation established the mining facility sometime before the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire in order to harvest ore from the asteroid field. The facility hosted a thriving ore-processing industry, but as the station's profits began to decline, Czerka ultimately withdrew its funding, and the facility was abandoned by the year 3643 BBY. is part of Act I of Star Wars: The Old Republic, which takes place in 3643 BBY, per the reasoning here. That year, the Sith Emperor sought to retrieve Kira Carsen, a former Child of the Emperor—individuals who were unknowingly agents of the Emperor—so he sent the Child Valis to capture her. As Carsen and her current Jedi mentor were working to stop the Sith Lord Darth Angral's efforts to destroy the Republic, Valis posed as Angral's loyal subordinate Admiral Hacklin of the Imperial Navy and contacted the Republic's General Var Suthra with an offer to defect.
Having spread rumors that the admiral had earned a death mark, "Hacklin" refused to surrender to anyone other than Carsen, whom the real Hacklin had met earlier at the planet Ord Mantell, so Suthra arranged a meeting at the abandoned mining facility. Carsen and the Jedi Knight to whom she was apprenticed arrived after Valis to find the station's hangar empty except for one ship with a single light above the boarding ramp, and as the two Jedi approached the ship, Valis emerged from behind some of the cargo crates scattered around the hangar. The Sith introduced himself and explained the Emperor's intentions, but when the Knight refused to comply, the meeting turned hostile. In the duel that followed, the two Jedi overcame Valis and killed him, leaving the Sith's body and ship in the facility as they returned to the Republic and notified both General Suthra and the Jedi High Council of what had happened.
==Behind the scenes==
The mining facility appeared in the 2011 video game Star Wars: The Old Republic.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: The Old Republic 
==Notes and references==
Category:Czerka facilities
Category:Mining stations
Category:Unknown Regions space stations