The Prism

**The Prism**, also called the **Ghost Prison** in Imperial reports, was a secret Jedi-run prison facility whose existence was only known to the Jedi Council and had been constructed during the Second Great Schism. The prison was used to house incredibly dangerous criminals during the Clone Wars and was located in the mass shadow of the sixth moon of Diab in the Diab system on the fringe of the galaxy, a three day trip from Coruscant, even with a presumably fast hyperdrive.

Diab's electrical storms wreaked havoc with sensors and no transmissions were allowed in or out of the prison. The prison was built to be inescapable and self-sustaining, and had a skeleton crew of 100 security droids and one Jedi Master, Master Skein. The prison also boasted a top medical facility.

## History

The prison was visited by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi during the war, and then after the war by Darth Vader, Laurita Tohm, and Trachta while finding a place to regroup and treat the grievously-injured Emperor Palpatine. The prison housed 208 prisoners by then, half of whom had been apprehended by Anakin Skywalker and one who had disfigured Trachta. Darth Vader, alongside Trachta and valedictorian Laurita Tohm, were forced to locate the facility after a military coup severely injured Emperor Palpatine. Tohm approached Vader with the idea that releasing the prisoners would provide them with an army, but Vader amended the idea, believing that the prisoners should battle one another for the right to join the Empire. Of the 207 prisoners released, only thirty-three of them survived in fighting condition. During the Imperial Era, the Empire continued to maintain The Prism's secrecy to the public, using it to detain the most dangerous of fugitives. At some point, the medical droid EV-A4-D was captured and imprisoned there. The droid served the other prisoners as a medical droid other than just being an ordinary inmate there. The Prism was later abandoned at some point following the deaths of Vader and Palpatine at the Battle of Endor, and the remaining prisoners, including A4-D, were left behind to fend for themselves. The number of incarcerated there at the time was at least 24.

In 7 ABY, two years after the end of the Galactic Civil War, Boba Fett traveled to the seemingly deserted Prism to spring A4-D, needing help from the droid on his current mission. TA-175, Fett's client, somehow knew of the prison's existence and that EV-A4-D was being detained there. When Fett arrived, he came across hordes of prisoner corpses which were left over from the mission undertaken by Darth Vader, Moff Trachta, and Lieutenant Laurita Tohm to the prison many years earlier. He then hacked into and overrided the prison's systems via a main control panel linked to the security controls, releasing all of the remaining prisoners in order to find A4-D easier. The released prisoners, save for A4-D, attacked and fought Fett in a fierce battle. After the bounty hunter killed most of the inmates and forced the rest to retreat, he found A4-D, taking the droid onto his *Slave I*. Fett later departed The Prism to continue on his mission to the Dead Moon of Antar.

## Appearances

* Orders (First appearance)