Desolation Station/Legends

"The Desolation Station facility is where components are assembled prior to being transported to the Death Star construction site itself."

- Rahm Kota

Desolation Station was an asteroid-based Imperial facility that was used to construct and transport materials to the under construction Death Star. It was destroyed during a Rebel Alliance mission led by the Force-sensitive clone X2 and the Jedi Knight Rahm Kota, with several Wookiee slaves also being freed. The Station had a factory that served as the main source for producing the Death Star weapon systems. It's construction was originally overseen by X2's brother, Commander X1, until someone else took his place. That commander later fled as Desolation Station was destroyed, and X1 punished him for his failure by execution.

Description
Desolation Station was a construction facility operated by the Galactic Empire during the early days of the Galactic Civil War. The facility was built on the surface of a large, misshapen asteroid within an asteroid belt in a star system located in the Atrivis sector in the Outer Rim Territories. Desolation Station's primary role was the construction of superlaser components for the Imperial Death Star project, which itself was being assembled in the nearby Horuz system. Once completed, the components were loaded onto transports that delivered them to the Death Star. The transports were protected by a defensive shield corridor that was projected and controlled from Desolation Station and connected the facility to the Death Star construction site. The shield controls were located in a special section inside the facility.

The facility also doubled as a penal colony, with a number of Wookiee slaves being held in holding cells and forced to work on the components. In addition to the shield controls section and the holding cells, the station had multiple hangar bays, containing a complement of TIE fighters.

History
Desolation Station had been in operation by the time of the latter stages of the construction of the Death Star. At some point between 2 BBY and 0 BBY, the final component of the Death Star's superlaser, the tributary beam, was assembled at the facility and prepared for transport to the Death Star's construction site in the Horuz system aboard a transport. In their effort to destroy the Death Star, the Alliance to Restore the Republic learned about the existence of the facility and the transportation of the tributary beam that was supposed to take place. A lone Rebel agent named X2, a Force-sensitive clone recently recruited into the Alliance by Jedi Master Rahm Kota, was dispatched to stop the Imperial operation. Following a plan developed by Kota, X2 infiltrated the facility itself, liberated a number of Wookiee slaves being held there, reached the shield control center and deactivated the defensive shield corridor protecting the transport. Assisted by a number of Rebel agents sent as his reinforcements, X2 stole one of the TIE fighters stationed aboard the facility and, assisted by Rebel X-wings, infiltrated the transport carrying the tributary beam. He then used the beam to destroy Desolation Station itself, although some personnel, including the station's commander, had been able to escape prior to it.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron