Lightstation

Lightstations were a series of nav beacons in the Roon system. Prior to the establishment of the Manda-Roon Merchant Route by Mungo Baobab, these orbital platforms were few in number yet large enough to be used as a space station. Koong, governor of Roon's Tawntoom province shortly before the Battle of Yavin, utilized a lightstation in this manner.

Baobab apparently felt that the existing lightstations were an appropriate method to mark the rediscovered trade lane, and merely multiplied them in number to provide a more easily navigable path. Before the advent of the Baobab Merchant Fleet lightstation system, travelers had to follow close behind the rainbow comet, a body that only traveled through the Cloak of the Sith and into the Roon system once a year.

Although most lightstations have been rendered autonomous, one, the Umboo Lightstation (named after Roon's Umboo province), is manned by an old Human male named Noop. It is Noop's duty, along with the Roon Trade Guild, to ensure that the lightstations are not diverted for nefarious purposes - early in its establisment, the system was plagued by pirates who would alter the lightstations' positions, forcing prey into an easy ambush.