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- "Observation holocam footage depicts a squad of Cloud-Rider marauders speeding from a target site. The object of their raid was an Imperial medical spice cache on Gargon."
- ―Exantor Divo, Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious
Gargon was a mountainous[1] planet. It was settled by the Old Mandalorians, who were exiled from their homeworld of Mandalore by the pacifistic New Mandalorians after a civil war[2] between around 41 BBY and around 39 BBY.[3] On Gargon, they lived as mercenaries working for the highest bidder, as Mandalorians had done for millennia.[2]
In 7966 C.R.C., the marauder Enfys Nest and her Cloud-Riders raided an Imperial medical spice cache on Gargon, stealing the medicinally processed spice but leaving behind the potentially more valuable raw spice.[1] After the raid, the Galactic Empire began to piece together information that Enfys Nest was amassing resources to fund a rebel uprising.[4] In 34 ABY,[5] a file on the Gargon raid was included in Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious, a collection of case files compiled by Commissioner Exantor Divo, head of law enforcement on the planet Hosnian Prime.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
Gargon was first mentioned in the new Star Wars canon in Friends Like These, a 2016 adventure supplement for the Star Wars: Age of Rebellion roleplaying game published by Fantasy Flight Games.[2] It was first visually depicted in an illustration by Lucas Parolin from the 2018 Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious, written by Pablo Hidalgo.[1] Gargon was originally created by James Kahn for the 1983 Star Wars Legends novelization of the 1983 film Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.[6]
Appearances[]
- Friends Like These (First mentioned)
Sources[]
- Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious (First pictured)
- Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
"Tobias Beckett and Other Characters of the Underworld" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Friends Like These
- ↑ According to The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 98 (MAN 1-4, Mandalore), the Great Clan Wars took place around 20 years before the Clone Wars. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas establishes that the Clone Wars took place starting in 22 BBY through 19 BBY. Therefore, the Mandalorian Civil War can be dated to around 42 BBY to 39 BBY. By the time of Padawan, which Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of to 41 BBY, author Kiersten White establishes that the novel's plot was explicitly written to convey that Obi-Wan Kenobi had not met Satine Kryze. As Kenobi is established to have met Kryze during the Great Clan Wars in
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Voyage of Temptation", the war must have taken place between around 41 BBY and 39 BBY.
- ↑ Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
- ↑ The latest entries chronologically in Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious are dated to 8011 (C.R.C. date) and gives 7977 (C.R.C. date) as the year that the secret mission to Tatooine took place. As Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the mission to Tatooine to 0 BBY, 8011 C.R.C. must therefore correspond to around 34 ABY. Scum and Villainy also mentions Hosnian Prime as still being capital of the New Republic, meaning the in-universe Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious must have been published prior to the destruction of the planet, which Galactic Atlas dates to 34 ABY. As the publishing must have occurred between the time of the latest entries and the destruction of Hosnian Prime, it therefore also took place around 34 ABY.
- ↑ Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novelization