Azna

Azna was an Outer Rim Territories planet located in the Demetras sector. During the Galactic Civil War, it served as a stopping point in the popular interstellar race known as the Dahvil-Fodro Hyperspace Promenade, and the event drew many spectators there despite the racing being illegal in the Azna system. As part of one such event, racer and undercover Rebel Alliance agent Siro Simito and his rival Seeg both visited Azna, where the former punched the latter in the face.
==Description==
Azna was a terrestrial planet located in the Azna system, a part of the Demetras sector in the Trans-Hydian portion of the Outer Rim Territories. It was situated on a hyperlane that connected it to the celestial body Tintel of the Expansion Region and lay at a distance of no more than one day's hyperspace travel with a Class 1 hyperdrive and at least two days' travel from the Mid Rim's astronomical object Fait d'Fait and the Outer Rim planet Fodro, respectively.
==History==
During the Galactic Civil War, Azna served as the last of three mid-race stopping points of the popular annual Star Rally interstellar racing route known as the Dahvil-Fodro Hyperspace Promenade—despite the fact that the races were illegal in the Azna system by that time. Due to those circumstances, the racers would only stop at Azna to power up and resupply their starships and then depart as expeditiously as possible.
At one point, the racer and undercover Rebel Alliance operative Siro Simito was tasked by the Alliance to deliver a data module from the Outer Rim Territories celestial body Dahvil to a contact on Fait d'Fait while participating in the Dahvil-Fodro Hyperspace Promenade. Simito intentionally decreased the hyperdrive efficiency of his starship on the first legs of the race's route so that he would not later make a suspicious delay on the segment of the route where the racer planned to make a detour to Fait d'Fait from the hyperlane connecting Azna and Tintel. During Simito's visit to Fait d'Fait, the other racers headed straight to Azna, with the warehouse owner Gevil Flan on the former celestial body also being aware of that being the route Simito was supposedly taking.
On Azna, despite the illegality of the Star Rally races, a huge crowd assembled at the finish line. Simito's rival, Seeg, beat him to the planet by two hours, although Seeg then became stuck on Azna while his ship's malfunctioning hyperdrive was being repaired. When Simito's ship was ready to the point of only needing to be refueled before departure, the racer decided to indulge his feud with his competitor. He went up to where Seeg was talking to a holovid reporter next to the Star Rally promoter Pann Tefilous and, after a short exchange of taunts, punched Seeg in the face. Afterward, Simito departed the scene, holding his signature vibro-axe overhead and cheered on by the crowd, and later Seeg and Simito both left Azna to travel to Fodro. At some point by the time that shortly followed the Battle of Yavin, Rebel Alliance General Airen Cracken included Simito's report, which mentioned the racer's visit to Azna during the Dahvil-Fodro Hyperspace Promenade, in a datafile detailing various Rebel operatives.
==Behind the scenes==
Azna was created by Chuck Truett 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 Azna system, and therefore the planet itself, in grid square P-6.
==Sources==
*Cracken's Rebel Operatives 
==Notes and references==
Category:Demetras sector planets
Category:Terrestrial planets