Maw Imperial Prison

The Maw Imperial Prison was a detention center located within the Maw. Located on a large asteroid within the area, it was placed under complete secrecy, although rumors relating to its existence persisted.

Description
The Maw Imperial Prison contained various facilities within the compound, including the main prison buildings, a weapons storage building, communication relays to nearby Star Destroyers, and at least two landing platforms, including one for tankers. These facilities and more were also connected via a repulsorlift railway system that also held the facility together. Magma spots can also be detected on the surface.

It was heavily armed with various turbolaser turrets that acted as guard towers ready to either put down any resistance or to eliminate any enemy raids, as well as various AT-PT walkers.

Other than the turbolaser turrets, the facility also was constantly guarded by TIE Fighters and TIE Interceptors both inside and in the outside perimeter. In addition, a forcefield also was placed in the outer perimeter of the facility, although it needs the generators to be fully functional, as otherwise, if three generators were disabled, the hole will be large enough for a small fighter squadron to penetrate the field.

First Battle of the Maw
In 3 ABY, with the Rebel Alliance loss at the Battle of Hoth, several Rebel personnel on Hoth, including Karie Neth, had been found on the ice-covered planet and arrested for their loyalty to the Rebellion by the Empire and sent there.

Some time after the event, rebel general Carlist Rieekan, suspecting its presence in the Maw, sent Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron to investigate, and disable the force field generators. Upon arrival, they ended up discovered by a fleet of Imperial tankers, so they were forced to hold them off while also disabling the force field generators enough to grant them entry. Upon arrival, they were contacted by Karie Neth requesting their assistance in helping her and several of the prisoners escape from the facility, also transferring the target data to them. First, they needed to eliminate the guard towers guarding the prison building so she and a few of the other escaped prisoners can release all of the prisoners inside the building. After that was accomplished, they then requested for Rogue Squadron to destroy the guard towers for the weapons storage building so they can raid its weapons stock. Upon accomplishing it, they were then tasked with destroying the communications relays to prevent the SOS signal from being transferred to the Star Destroyers in the area. Afterwards, they destroyed the guard towers around the rail system to ensure that the repulsorlift train that the prisoners hijacked can make it to the platform. Afterwards, the prisoners hijacked a Sentinel-class shuttle and then entered Hyperspace, also detonating explosives that they planted around the rail system, destroying the facility.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike