Mid Rim

The Mid Rim was a region of the galaxy located between the Expansion Region and the Outer Rim Territories. The moons Antar 4 and Wasskah, the planets Aleen, Bothawui, Coyerti, Crul Gan Moradir, Haidoral Prime, Ithor, Kashyyyk, Malastare, Naator, Naboo, Nakadia, Phorsa Gedd, Shu-Torun, Takodana, and Trandosha were all located within the Mid Rim.

Early history
A thousand years before the First Order–Resistance conflict, a battle was fought on the Mid Rim world of Takodana between the ancient Jedi and Sith. Maz Kanata's castle was later built on the site of the former battlefield.

Naboo Crisis
In 32 BBY, the Trade Federation and the Galactic Republic were embroiled in a dispute over the taxation of trade routes to outlying systems including the Mid Rim world of Naboo. As a result, the Trade Federation invaded and occupied the planet. The Federation was eventually expelled from the planet by a coalition of the human Naboo, the indigenous Gungans, and the Jedi.

The Clone Wars
The Mid Rim saw extensive fighting between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars. After General Grievous ambushed Republic Navy forces above the planet Falleen, Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi advised Anakin Skywalker to take his fleet out of the Bothawui system to regroup. Skywalker's fleet clashed with Grievous' fleet above Bothawui in 22 BBY. During the battle, R2-D2 was lost but later rescued.

Later, Senator Padmé Amidala, Junior Representative Jar Jar Binks, the Jedi, and clone troopers discovered that the Separatist scientist Nuvo Vindi was operating a biological weapons laboratory on Naboo. Following a lengthy struggle, they managed to neutralize Dr Vindi's Blue Shadow Virus and prevent it from escaping into Naboo.

In 21 BBY, the Mid Rim planet of Malastare became the site of fighting between the Republic and the Separatists due to its fuel supplies. During the battle, the Jedi managed to sign a treaty with the Dug Council after agreeing to destroy an ancient monster called the Zillo Beast. The Jedi and clone troopers managed to stun the beast with cannons and smuggled it back to Coruscant for research. This led to the Zillo Beast incident.

In 20 BBY, the Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano was kidnapped by Trandoshan bounty hunters and transported to the Trandoshan moon of Wasskah. There, she teamed up with the former Jedi younglings Kalifa, O-Mer, and Jinx to survive. The Jedi then joined forces with the Wookiee Chewbacca to fight back against the Trandoshans. They were rescued by a Wookiee relief force led by General Tarfful. Later that year, the Gungan minister Rish Loo, a Separatist agent, attempted to manipulate Boss Lyonie into helping the Separatist attack the Naboo capital Theed. Loo's plot was foiled by Binks, Senator Amidala, and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker. The Gungans managed to capture General Grievous but were forced to release him after the Separatist leader Count Dooku took Skywalker hostage.

Later, the Mid Rim planet of Aleen experienced severe earthquakes, which killed many of the native Aleena. The droids C-3PO and R2-D2 took part in a Republic relief mission led by Clone Commander Wolffe. During the course of the mission, C-3PO and R2-D2 encountered the underground-dwelling Kintaro and the amphibian being Orphne, who revealed that the earthquakes had been caused by a breach on the surface. After returning to Aleen's surface, the two droids helped seal the breach, which ended the earthquake and restored peace to both the underworld and surface. C-3PO and R2-D2 then embarked on an unplanned adventure which took them to the planets Patitite Patuna and Balnab.

In 20 BBY, the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Mace Windu foiled a plot by Cad Bane and Count Dooku to kidnap Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. In 19 BBY, the planet Ord Mantell was the site of a battle between the former Sith apprentice Darth Maul and his Shadow Collective and the Separatist leader General Grievous; which ended in the latter's capture. In response, the Republic sent a team of Jedi led by Master Windu to Ord Mantell to investigate Maul's activities.

During the Outer Rim Sieges, the Jedi General Quinlan Vos moved his forces to the Mid Rim planet of Boz Pity. Master Yoda commanded Wookiee and Clone forces during the Battle of Kashyyyk. Yoda was forced to flee the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk when Palpatine issued Order 66. Shortly later, the Republic was transformed into the Galactic Empire and the Separatist leadership was destroyed; ending the Clone Wars.

Age of the Empire
During the Age of the Empire, the Mid Rim along with much of the galaxy came under the dominion of the Empire. In 14 BBY, the Imperial Vice Admiral Dodd Rancit identified the Mid Rim world of Lantillies as a potential target of Berch Teller's rebel cell.

On one occasion, HoloNet News reported that the 212th Attack Battalion led by General Kahdah had quelled a Wookiee revolt on the planet Kashyyyk. As a result, civilian travel to the planet was restricted. The xenophobic Empire also enslaved the Wookiees of Kashyyyk; viewing them as an expandable source of slave labor. Many Wookiees were fitted with inhibitor chips while Kashyyyk was renamed Imperial Territory G5-623. Nevertheless, some Wookiees like Chewbacca and Lohgarra managed to flee offworld and live free lives.

In 4 BBY, the Spectres rebel operative Hera Syndulla traveled to the Mid Rim world of Shantipole on behalf of the rebellion to obtain a prototype B-wing starfigher from the Mon Calamari builder Quarrie. As a result, the rebellion gained access to the B-wing starfighters.

By 0 BBY, Imperial forces had occupied the Mid Rim moon of Jedha, a sacred site which hosted the Temple of the Kyber. The Empire mined Jedha for kyber crystals, which were used as part of the Death Star's superlaser. Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin later destroyed Jedha City in order to test the Death Star's superlaser. The Rebel Alliance operatives Cassian Andor and Jyn Erso managed to smuggle the Imperial defector Bodhi Rook, who had knowledge on how to destroy the Death Star, offworld. To conceal the Death Star, the Empire told the Imperial Senate that Jedha City had been destroyed in a mining accident. In addition, the Empire ran a penal labor camp on the planet Wobani.

Following the destruction of Alderaan, Darth Vader visited the Mid Rim volcanic mining world of Shu-Torun to ensure that the King of Shu-Torun and his people remained loyal to the Empire. Vader defeated a plot by the King and his family to assassinate him with the help of the assassin droids 0-0-0 and BT-1. Vader then forced the King's youngest daughter Princess Trios to become the new Queen of Shu-Torun. Trios helped the Empire to subdue several rebellious ore-dukes during the War on Shu-Torun.

During the Galactic Civil War, several Mid Rim worlds and systems including Haidoral Prime, Coyerti, the Chonsetta system, the Redhurne system, and the Elochar sector became battle sites between the Rebel Alliance and the Empire during the Mid Rim Retreat. After months of fighting, the Alliance forces became overstretched and Alliance High Command was forced to order a retreat as Imperial forces counter-attacked.

Rise of the New Republic
After the Battle of Endor, crowds celebrated the death of Emperor Palpatine in the streets of Naboo's capital Theed. Later, the Naboo Queen Sosha Soruna accepted an offer from Princess Leia Organa to join the New Republic, the successor government to the Rebel Alliance. In the days after the events at Endor, Naboo was targeted by Operation: Cinder, a post-contingency plan to scour several worlds in the event of the Emperor's death. General Lando Calrissian saved the planet from being destroyed by several Imperial climate disruption arrays. The New Republic also repelled three attempts by Imperial forces to retake the planet.

In the months following Endor, Grand Moff Valco Pandion abandoned an Imperial communications station on Malastare. Despite this setback, Imperial remnant forces under Grand General Kenner Loring still controlled the planet. During the Galactic Civil War, Maz Kanata's castle on Takodana was regarded as a neutral sanctuary for smugglers, pirates, Imperials, and rebels.

The smuggler Han Solo and his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca later led a campaign to liberate Kashyyyk from Imperial rule. Despite several setbacks and the New Republic's hesitance, Han and Chewie managed to disable Grand Moff Lozen Tolruck's inhibitor chips and inspire a Wookiee revolt in 5 ABY with the help of Wookiee exiles, former slaves, the former Imperial loyalty officer Sinjir Rath Velus, the bounty hunter Jas Emari, and the New Republic Special Forces soldier Jom Barell. A New Republic fleet led by Admiral Ackbar then forced the surrender of the remaining Imperial ships above Kashyyyk; ending the Imperial subjugation of the Wookiees. In the months leading up to the Battle of Jakku, Wookiee and New Republic forces conducted mopping up operations against Imperial holdouts, liberating many Wookiee slaves including Waroo, Chewbacca's son.

The Mid Rim world of Naboo also became a refuge for many orphans and refugees. One of these, Mapo, befriended the former Junior Representative Jar Jar Binks, who had become a street performer. Another Mid Rim world, the agrarian planet Nakadia, became the new capital of the New Republic. A pivotal Galactic Senate re-vote on the motion to send military forces to Jakku took place at the Quarrow Senate house.

First Order-Resistance conflict
In 34 ABY, Maz Kanata's castle on Takodana was attacked by the First Order, a remnant of the Old Empire. The First Order in turn was attacked by members of the Resistance, a paramilitary organization within the New Republic. The Hosnian Cataclysm was also witnessed by many at Maz Kanata's castle.

Non-canon appearances

 * William Shakespeare's The Phantom of Menace: Star Wars Part the First
 * William Shakespeare's The Clone Army Attacketh: Star Wars Part the Second
 * William Shakespeare's Tragedy of the Sith's Revenge: Star Wars Part the Third
 * Disney Infinity 3.0
 * LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales Episodes I-III
 * LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales Episodes I-III
 * LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales Episodes I-III