New Bakstre

New Bakstre was a planet in the Cassandran Worlds region.

Description
New Bakstre was a planet located in the system of the same name. Situated in the New Territories region of the Outer Rim Territories, New Bakstre sat between the planets Cassander and Isiring on the Braxant Run, the most important trade route in the galaxy's northern quadrant that ran from the planet Bandomeer through several sectors to out past Xerton 9. The planet was originally part of the domain known as the Cassandran Worlds, a loose alliance of more than a hundred star systems. Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, the Galactic Empire took control of the Cassandran Worlds, splitting the region into three separate subsectors&mdash;Cassander, Tadrin, and Tendrannan. New Bakstre fell into the newly created Tendrannan sector. The planet orbited a single star, and was in turn circled by seven moons. New Bakstre had a rapid rate of rotation, and its sky was purple-tinted when viewed from the surface. One of its major population centers was Havridam City, and by 25 ABY, New Bakstre was home to between 100 and 500 million inhabitants.

History
Around a century prior to the fall of the Galactic Republic, an Esselian conglomerate headed by Cassander Tadrin invested in a large exploration project, sending survey droids into unexplored areas of the galaxy. The undertaking was a success, discovering several planets in an unexplored section of the New Territories. Bored and dissatisfied with the Core Worlds' culture of self-satisfaction, Tadrin sold his company holdings and took tens of thousands of his loyal employees and their families to settle his new discoveries. The worlds became a loosely united region of more than a hundred star systems called the Cassandran Worlds, governed from the planet Cassander, then known formally as "Cassander's Star." New Bakstre was one of the region's industrial powerhouses alongside Minashee.

In 22 BBY, the Mechanical Liberation Front, a group of droid rights activists, attempted to free a shipment of Vindicator XM-15 "brilliant" missiles near Havridam City on New Bakstre. They believed that the Arakyd Industries-manufactured missiles' central processor was so advanced that the resulting missile should be considered to be a sentient being doomed to live an explosive existence. The Mechanical Liberation Front's actions caused the destruction of a twenty-five kilometer area of Havridam City, and killed all fourteen activists conducting the raid.

During the Clone Wars, fought between the Republic and the breakaway Confederacy of Independent Systems, New Bakstre was located within Separatist-controlled space. Towards the end of the war, during the Outer Rim Sieges, Republic forces led by the Jedi General Traavis fought Separatist forces on New Bakstre, and throughout the Cassandran Worlds, including on Monhudle and Biitu. The Republic claimed victory in the Clone Wars, and was reorganized into the Galactic Empire shortly after.

Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, an Imperial task force arrived at Cassander and annexed the Cassandran Worlds, dividing the region into three distinct subsectors; the Cassander subsector administered from Cassander itself, the Tadrin subsector ruled from Minashee, and the Tendannan subsector governed by Isiring. New Bakstre was located within the bounds of the Tendannan subsector. New Bakstre, along with a swathe of the Outer Rim Territories, was part of the Empire's Oversector Outer, ruled over by Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin and administered from Eriadu in the Seswenna sector. Following Tarkin's death at the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY, command of Oversector Outer was passed to Grand Moff Ardus Kaine, who moved the administration center for the region to Entralla in the Velcar sector.

During the Galactic Civil War, Imperial Customs cruisers patrolled New Bakstre. At some point, they forced down a freighter, the Dorion Discus, piloted by the smugglers Roark Garnet and Hawk Carrow. The starship crashed into a forest, and Imperial troops wounded and captured Carrow, taking him to the infirmary aboard the M-class Imperial Attack Transport Regina Cayli. Garnet subsequently infiltrated the ship and rescued his friend.

Following the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, Grand Moff Kaine reduced the size of Oversector Outer so that it only encompassed the northern quadrant centered around the New Territories. New Bakstre and the Cassandran Worlds remained within Oversector Outer controlled space from 4 ABY to 6 ABY, and were later part of Kaine's warlord empire, known as the Pentastar Alignment, from 7 ABY until 12 ABY. The planet remained under Imperial control until 17 ABY, when the Empire was forced to retreat into eight sectors that formed the Imperial Remnant.

The Cassandran Worlds joined the New Republic. The region was later ravaged by the Yuuzhan Vong.

By the time of the Second Galactic Civil War, New Bakstre was once again Imperial-held territory. By 137 ABY, New Bakstre was located within the borders of Emperor Roan Fel's Empire-in-Exile.