BesGas Three

BesGas Three was a tibanna gas refinery on Bespin, built shortly before the Clone Wars.

While thought to have been destroyed in the Confederate attack on Bespin, it had actually been hijacked by a group of labor and support droids. Fearing an anti-droid backlash from the Clone Wars, they hid the station in the dense lower part of Bespin's Life zone and used it as a refuge.

They lived there peacefully until shortly before the Battle of Hoth. An LE repair droid named Spanner, fleeing the depredations of EV-9D9, found BesGas Three by chance. The automated inhabitants realized that droids were still tolerated, and decided to risk re-contacting Cloud City. Having only limited range communications equipment, they needed to move the refinery near to the city. Shortly thereafter, the Empire took control of Cloud City and BesGas Three. The droid community was subsumed into the Imperial labor pool, and their refinery operated under the Imperial banner.

In 36 ABY, Jaina Solo and Zekk visited BesGas Three in order to investigate the large amounts of gas siphoned from many of the refineries in the area.

Behind the scenes

 * The story of BesGas Three was developed through the What's The Story? Hyperspace feature on StarWars.com. It was written by Hyperspace member Fisty Fiham (A.K.A. Tyler Fisher).

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * The Unseen Queen