Centerpoint Station

Centerpoint Station was an ancient space station that was capable of moving entire planets with its tractor beams. It was created by the Celestials c. 1,000,000 BBY.

Characteristics


Centerpoint Station had within its mass an extremely intricate collection of systems. The best minds in the galaxy had been studying, mapping, and pondering its workings for ages, but there were still gaping holes in the understanding of its key processes.

What had been discovered was that the system was capable of generating huge amounts of nuclear, magnetic, electric, tractor beam, and hyperspace generation power for use in a type of "hyperspace tractor beam." The station could project a huge tractor beam through a hyperspace path, grabbing an object as large as a superstar for moving anywhere within its operational range. The station could also harness this power for the destruction of stars and planets, collapsing their cores through massive gravitational fluxes.

The powerful hyperspace tractor beam arrays consisted of huge conelike structures within the station surrounded by six smaller cones. During the system's operation, this specifically designed geometric array acted as the source of the beam's power.

History
The Killiks claimed they had built Centerpoint, which they called "Qolaraloq", but this was only speculation. However, the collective memory of the Killik species was gathered from Joiners, and it is possible that one of Centerpoint's designers joined the collective mind, therefore bringing the memory of the creation of Centerpoint.

Early history
Eons before the establishment of the Republic, it was used to move the planets of the Corellian system&mdash;Corellia, Selonia, Drall, Talus, and Tralus&mdash;to their current locations. The station sat at a lagrangian point between the two worlds of Talus and Tralus, and it generated power from their gravity wells.

With a width of 100 kilometers and length of 350 kilometers, it was larger than the first Death Star. From a distance, it appeared as a huge partially translucent sphere with two small cylindrical poles facing Talus and Tralus. The interior consisted of a hollowed area known as Hollowtown that was, at one point, inhabited, as well as the station's immensely powerful tractor beam arrays. The station was built before the invention of artificial gravity, so it rotated to simulate gravity. In actuality, Hollowtown and the Glowpoint, an artificial sun-like spot at its center, was the power source for the station.

Later history


It was discovered, during the Corellian Crisis in 18 ABY, that the unique tractor beam system could be used as a weapon; a weapon capable of destroying entire stars, making it at least as powerful as a Sun Crusher. In this crisis, Thrackan Sal-Solo intended to use the station to force entire star systems into submission and restore the Imperial system. After a gripping battle, the "Starbuster Plot" was averted.

Hollowtown was incinerated by the Glowpoint when the Sacorrian Triad used the Station to supernova their first star. The few survivors returned to their planets.

A few years later during the Yuuzhan Vong War, Anakin Solo refused to use Centerpoint Station to destroy an entire Yuuzhan Vong fleet in the Battle of Fondor, so Thrackan Sal-Solo did instead; however, his aim was off, resulting in the destruction of not only half of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet but nearly three quarters of the allied Hapan fleet as well.

In 40 ABY, Centerpoint Station was once again used as a weapon for the Corellians to rebel; however, the station was controlled by a droid that Thrackan Sal-Solo programmed to make itself believe it was Anakin Solo. Ben Skywalker was able to disable the station by making the droid, who then referred to itself as "Anakin Sal-Solo," realize the truth of its existence. It was damaged by Galactic Alliance forces at the end of the Blockade of Corellia.

Images of Centerpoint Station would be displayed on clothing items worn by Corellians to show their dedication to their homeworld's cause.

Confederation-Galactic Alliance War
It took little time for Centerpoint to be again operational after being damaged by the Galactic Alliance, though the weapon was fired under Five Worlds Prime Minister Sadras Koyan's initiative in order to wipe out Jacen Solo and the Galactic Alliance Second Fleet. However, Solo survived, although the Second Fleet did not, and returned to Centerpoint at the head of a task force to capture the station for use against the Confederation. Seeing that it would tip the balance of power greatly in favor of anyone who possessed its enormous destructive force, Grand Master Luke Skywalker and the New Jedi Order carried out a raid upon the station in order to finally destroy it. Jedi Master Kyp Durron led the raid, with Toval Seyah, a Galactic Alliance scientist and former spy who had worked on the station. Seyah was able to modify Centerpoint's galactic data reserves in such a way that all coordinates in the galaxy were altered to become those of the station.

During the pitched battle between Confederation and Galactic Alliance forces, a technician named Rikel who had lost his wife on the galactic capital of Coruscant to the Galactic Alliance Guard was left in charge of the station's firing station. He set the coordinates to target Coruscant, and when he fired Centerpoint, the massive construction targeted itself. The resulting gravitic pulse detonated the station, wiping all traces of the enigmatic structure from the system, killing all on board, and destroying countless vessels in its blast radius.

Appearances



 * Ambush at Corellia
 * Assault at Selonia
 * Showdown at Centerpoint
 * Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse
 * Balance Point
 * Edge of Victory I: Conquest
 * Recovery
 * Star by Star
 * Dark Journey
 * Ylesia
 * Destiny's Way
 * Force Heretic II: Refugee
 * The Unifying Force
 * Dark Nest I: The Joiner King
 * Dark Nest III: The Swarm War
 * Betrayal
 * Bloodlines
 * Tempest
 * Exile
 * Sacrifice
 * Fury
 * Revelation