Crispus Commons

"Let's stick them where the sun don't shine."

- Skelly's thoughts on the opinion of how people felt about the treatment of Clone Wars veterans.

Crispus Commons was a commons residence area on the planet Gorse. It was the residence of Skelly, a demolitions expert who served during the Clone Wars. It was conceived as a housing project for veterans of those wars, constructed at the very end of the Clone Wars, but was poorly maintained.

Description
Crispus Commons, found on the planet Gorse, was a project for veterans of the Clone Wars, a retirement colony of sorts, where many veterans of this approximately three year conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems were sent to live out their days if they had nowhere else to go. It was sandwiched between two of the planet's industrial districts, placing it within easy commuting distance of most of the planet's major work-sites. The facility featured an exercise yard for residents and its trash bin was housed at a far edge of this. Underneath this was a rusted-out grate which led to a bomb shelter. This had been intended for use in the event that General Grevious or Count Dooku launched an attack on the colony, but was later appropriated by one of the commons' residents, Skelly, for his personal use.

History
Crispus Commons was conceived during the final days of the Galactic Republic and continued during the reign of the Galactic Empire. Though many of the veterans of the Clone Wars were shipped to this complex, the Galactic Empire did not provide any finance for adding to or improving the facilities once they were created. Skelly, a demolitions expert hired to assist clone troopers during the war, was a resident of Crispus Commons during the time of the Empire. He also cleaned out the moldy mess that had grown in the facility's bomb shelter and began using the space as his own area to work on and display his manifesto on the negative effects that mining was having on the planet. Skelly considered the room "his world" and used one wall for hand-scrawled notes about the planet's military industrial complex, another for his study into wars throughout galactic history and a third for notes about Gorse's moon Cynda and its geological structure. The room was also filled with computers personally built by Skelly. When Skelly attacked Count Vidian, an "efficiency expert" in service of the Empire, trying to draw attention to mining activity he felt could lead to Gorse's destruction, stormtroopers sacked his apartment in Crispus Commons looking for him and any information they could find about him.

Behind the scenes
"The Empire had kept it going, shipping in new residents from time to time without ever adding to or improving on the complex. Skelly thought it spoke volumes about what the Republic and Empire really thought about those who'd fought against the Separatists."

- Description of the poor maintenance of Crispus Commons Crispus Commons appeared in A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller, first published in hardcover on September 2, 2014, the first Star Wars novel released within the new canon continuity announced on April 25, 2014, a prequel to the television series Star Wars Rebels. Skelly, as a combat engineer during these wars, was sent to live in this housing project.

Appearances

 * A New Dawn