Fondor/Legends

Fondor is a world famous for its extensive orbital shipyards, exceeded only by those at Corellia and Kuat. Darth Vader's Executor-class Star Dreadnought was constructed in these yards.

Fondor was located in the Tapani Sector, a sector technically part of the Colonies but so old and well-regarded that many considered it a part of the Core Worlds. Fondor itself was completely industrialized eons ago, and its surface is now scabbed with excavations, factories, cooling towers, steam tunnels, and offices, all related to the planet's central role in starship construction. The planet also houses hectares of laborers' barracks for the dockworkers whose jobs are overhead.

The contract to build the Executor came somewhat unexpectedly, as Kuat Drive Yards was the manufacturer of the Imperial Star Destroyer and later instances of the Executor-class. The Empire required complete secrecy in the project, closing off all nonmilitary traffic in the system. Though the dockyard bosses were angered by the fact that they could no longer serve their commercial clients, the fact the project took up the majority of the yard's resources and the legendary wrath of Vader kept them in check.

In order to efficiently provide resources to the Executor project, the Empire created a classified route to the planet Gandeal. The Gandeal-Fondor Hyperlane remained a well kept secret decades after the Executor was completed.

The planet became a target during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, though a blast from Centerpoint Station destroyed a portion of the enemy fleet, saving Fondor at the cost of the Hapan war fleet, which was also caught in the blast. Fondor continued to supply the Galactic Alliance with starships in the war.