Great Hyperspace Rush

"*Either way, when the Republic was expanding, there was a sort of rush to map and claim the existing, yet unknown, routes. It was a little bit of math, navigation, and a whole lot of good luck."*

## Great Hyperspace Rush

### Location

Outer Rim Territories

The **Great Hyperspace Rush** was a period of time in which there was a rush to map and claim the existing yet unknown hyperspace routes as the Galactic Republic expanded into the outer regions of the galaxy, which had yet to be well mapped.

## Prelude

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For centuries, the Galactic Republic had only ever expanded as far portions of the Mid Rim Territories and Expansion Region. Very little of the Outer Rim had ever been touched by the light of the Republic. Wanting to expand the reach of the Republic, Supreme Chancellors Orlen Mollo and Kyong Greylark, dozens of Galactic Republic Pathfinder teams were sent deep into the Outer Rim Territories as part of an effort to bring the galaxy together. In particular, these Republic Pathfinders hunted for new hyperspace routes and worked on establishing a reliable communications network for the Rim. The Jedi Order helped Republic Pathfinders in their efforts.

## Recount

##### Pathfinder Teams

After nearly 10 years of slow expansion into the Outer Rim, lead by Republic Pathfinder teams, other private parties began a growing interest in uncovering new hyperlanes due to the large amounts of money to be made. As more and more of these groups began attempting to start a race against the Republic to claim hyperspace lanes, the Great Hyperspace Rush began. One of the Republic's Pathfinder teams charted lanes nearby the Outer Rim planet Sullust, leading to the discovery of the planet Tunguray. As the last of the Tungurary people were threatened by great deals of volcanic activity, the Pathfinders helped them evacuate to the Republic capital of Coruscant.

##### Graf Family and San Tekka clan

The Graf family become a group of successful of hyperspace prospectors who had mapped out several routes and played a role in the rush that was still whispered about by the people of the Outer Rim and frontier many years later. The San Tekka clan became one of many rivals of the Grafs, also spent lives while prospecting during the rush. The San Tekkas were the galaxy's most successful hyperspace prospectors at that time with the help of six year old Mari San Tekka, who was able to use her connection to the Force to naturally detect hyperspace paths, unconventional routes through hyperspace. She was able to use this ability to grant the San Tekka clan the strongest of the hyperspace prospector families.

## Aftermath

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The Grafs eventually hired a information broker to find out the clan's secret and so learned about San Tekka, who then went missing upon being captured by the Ro family. Mari San Tekka was kept in a vat that kept her in a dreamlike stasis and also prolonged her life dramatically.

The Grafs kept some of the routes mapped during the rush private until the scientist Chancey Yarrow and others like her campaigned to have all routes made accessible by the Republic. However, over one hundred years later, the Graf family still kept some private routes using a number of their beacons that were still left over from the Great Hyperspace Rush.

## Timeline of Event

* Independent parties begin racing the Republic to discover new hyperspace lanes.
* The San Tekka Clan and Graf Family become successful hyperspace prospectors.
* Mari San Tekka uses her Force sensitivity to sense Hyperspace Paths, allowing the San Tekka clan to become the most successful of the hyperspace prospectors.