PM-1203

"Ezra, when we were on that asteroid, you made a dangerous connection through the Force."

- Kanan Jarrus, to Ezra Bridger

PM-1203 was a planetoid created from the remains of the planet Anaxes after it was obliterated in a cataclysmic event after the Clone Wars. Fort Anaxes, a Clone Wars-era Galactic Republic military base, miraculously survived the world's destruction on the planetoid's surface. The facility became a fuel depot and meeting place for those who required privacy in their dealings, though, unbeknownst to visitors to Fort Anaxes, it had also become home to a colony of vicious fyrnocks nested on PM-1203.

Description
A temperate planetoid, PM-1203 was located within an asteroid belt created from the remnants of the planet Anaxes. It had a thin atmosphere, though it was enough to support a colony of fyrnocks, silicon-based life-forms who evolved to survive on asteroids with similar harsh conditions, that inhabited the caverns of the abandoned planetoid's pockmarked surface. Other asteroids in the belt sporadically eclipsed its sun, shrouding PM-1203 in darkness.

History
Following the end of the Clone Wars, a cataclysmic event obliterated the planet Anaxes, creating an asteroid belt and PM-1203. Fort Anaxes, a Clone Wars-era Galactic Republic military base, miraculously survived Anaxes' destruction on PM-1203's surface, becoming a fuel depot and meeting place for those who required privacy in their dealings.

During the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire, Hera Syndulla and Sabine Wren of the Lothal rebels went on a supply run to PM-1203 to rendezvous with an enigmatic ally known as "Fulcrum" at Fort Anaxes. Though the supplies were retrieved by the rebels, Fulcrum was already gone by the time they arrived. However, their shuttle, the Phantom, was leaking fuel, forcing the pair to hold of a nest of fyrnocks until they were rescued by their crew mates aboard their light freighter, the Ghost. Later, two of the rebels, Jedi Kanan Jarrus and his Padawan Ezra Bridger, returned to PM-1203 to draw the Grand Inquisitor away from the Ghost, which had rescued Tseebo, a defecting Imperial Information Office worker carrying top-secret information, from the Empire. After arriving at Fort Anaxes with a squad of stormtroopers, the Inquisitor and his soldiers were attacked by fyrnocks under Jarrus and Bridger's control. However, the Inquisitor was able to defeat Jarrus in a lightsaber duel, though, as he was about to strike the Jedi down, Bridger drew upon the dark side of the Force to summon a massive fyrnock to attack the Jedi hunter, allowing him and his master to escape aboard the Phantom.

Behind the scenes
PM-1203 first appeared, albeit unidentified, in "Out of Darkness," the fifth episode of the canon animated series Star Wars Rebels' first season, which was first released on demand on November 3, 2014 and made its broadcast debut the following week on Disney XD on November 10, 2014. It was first identified in Ezra's Duel with Danger, a junior novel adaptation of the Star Wars Rebels episodes "Empire Day," "Gathering Forces," and "Path of the Jedi" written by Michael Kogge and released as part of the Star Wars Rebels chapter books series on March 17, 2015.

While early sources claimed that Fort Anaxes was built upon an asteroid, it was later established that the military base was already on PM-1203's when the planetoid was formed from Anaxes' shattered remains.

Appearances

 * Ezra's Duel with Danger
 * Ezra's Duel with Danger
 * Ezra's Duel with Danger
 * Ezra's Duel with Danger