Mining Guild

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The Mining Guild was a network of miners operating in concert with the Galactic Empire, that harvested natural resources throughout the galaxy.

HistoryEdit

At the start of the Clone Wars, the Mining Guild dominated billions of young, nameless, metal-rich planets in the spiral arms of the galaxy.^[9]

In 3 BBY,^[10] the Guild ran an Asteroid Belt Gas Refinery located on a small planetoid, where they extracted Clouzon-36 gas. However, that facility was discovered by the Spectres, a crew of anti-Empire freedom fighters, who stole its fuel for the rebellion and destroyed the complex.^[11] Despite the loss of that Clouzon-36 refinery, the Mining Guild remained powerful.^[8]

The Mining Guild regularly patrolled the Sereeda Waypoint, a hyperspace waypoint located in their claims territory.^[6] In 2 BBY,^[12] the Spectres once again clashed with the Guild, this time in the Sereeda, as they had to momentarily come out of hyperspace there and recalculate their jump. The Guild deployed two TIEs and demanded the rebels pay the hyperspace toll, however the Spectres destroyed the fighters and jumped back into hyperspace.^[6]

After being rejected by the Bounty Hunters' Guild and the Grand Hutt Council, General Davits Draven of the Alliance wrote to Senator Mon Mothma about being potential allies with the Mining Guild, claiming, that while the Mining Guild operated under the Empire, it was more of a convenient relationship, not an ideological one. At the time of the later, the Alliance was investigating Mining Guild operations on Ord Mantell, Raxus Prime, The Wheel, Vergesso, the Ring of Kafrene, Smuggler's Run, Takodana and Nar Shaddaa.^[4]

Cloud City, a tibanna gas mining operation in the atmosphere of the planet Bespin, was able to keep its activities small enough to avoid the notice of the Mining Guild.^[13]

By the rise of the First Order and the creation of the Resistance, the Mining Guild was still active, and, according to the Resistance, was not what it once was. Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo believed that this allowed the stronger possibility that the Mining Guild would accept a partnership with the Resistance.^[4]

EquipmentEdit

Thanks to its association with the Empire, the Guild was allowed to use a special variant of the Imperial TIE fighter modified with a yellow color scheme and 2 notches out of the wings.^[14] For more security purposes, the Mining Guild also used yellow Aurore-class freighters^[6] and X4 Gunships.^[4] On Lothal^[5] in 1 BBY,^[source?] the Mining Guild utilized ore crawlers for the scouring of the terrain for raw materials,^[5] as well as Mining Guild excavation drillers for large scale operations.^[15] For security on the crawlers, yellow IG-RM droids with weak audio receptors were used.^[16]

AppearancesEdit

• Dooku: Jedi Lost (Mentioned only)
• Thrawn
• Thrawn audiobook
• Thrawn, Part VI (Emblem only) (Appears in hologram)
• A New Dawn (First appearance)
• A New Dawn audiobook
• Star Wars Rebels – "The Call" (First pictured)
• Star Wars Rebels: Strike Missions
• Star Wars Rebels: Steps Into Shadow
• Star Wars Rebels – "The Occupation" (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars Rebels – "Crawler Commandeers"
• Star Wars Rebels – "Wolves and a Door"
• Star Wars Rebels – "A World Between Worlds"
• Princess Leia, Part III (Mentioned only)
• Age of Rebellion - Lando Calrissian 1 (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (First mentioned)
• Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars: Uprising (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars Resistance – "Dangerous Business" (Mentioned only)

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