Non-mass S-thread booster

Non-mass S-thread booster
Production information
Type	S-thread booster
Usage and history
Purpose	Creating and maintaining hyperlanes
Affiliation	Galactic Empire

The non-mass S-thread booster was a type of S-thread booster that could be planted in hyperspace. The Galactic Empire used hundreds of non-mass S-thread boosters to keep open the unstable Deep Core hyperlane known as the Byss Run, and during the Galactic Civil War, it also utilized non-mass S-thread boosters to create the secret Sanctuary Pipeline route leading to the Endor system.

Description

The non-mass S-thread booster was a type of S-thread booster, a device that could be used to brute-force open a new hyperspace tunnel and then keep the newly created hyperlane open. Non-mass S-thread boosters could be planted in hyperspace.

History

The Galactic Empire used non-mass S-thread boosters to keep open the unstable Byss Run hyperlane.

At one point, the Galactic Empire began using, at staggering expense, hundreds of advanced non-mass S-thread boosters to maintain a winding, perilous, and fragile secret Galactic Republic Deep Core military hyperspace route—eventually known as the Byss Run—that had been mapped during the tenure of Republic Supreme Chancellor Palpatine between 32 BBY and 22 BBY and that connected the Empress Teta system to Galactic Emperor Palpatine's personal retreat planet Byss in the Beshqek system.

During the Galactic Civil War, the Empire also began the construction of the Death Star II battle station over the Forest Moon of Endor, in the Endor system of the Outer Rim Territories' Moddell sector. To allow for expeditious—and secret—transportation of the necessary materials and components to Endor, the Empire used non-mass S-thread boosters to extend the Silvestri Trace hyperlane from the planet Sullust of the Outer Rim's Brema sector directly to Endor, with the Moddell sector's Murk system becoming a penultimate stop on the new hyperspace route, known as the Sanctuary Pipeline. Following the Imperial defeat by the Rebel Alliance at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, smugglers and criminal allies of the Alliance stole any S-thread boosters of the Sanctuary Pipeline that they could find, and the route eventually became largely unnavigable.

Behind the scenes

The non-mass S-thread booster was first mentioned in the article "Endor and the Moddell Sector," which was authored by Craig Robert Carey, Daniel Wallace, and Jason Fry and was published in the ninth issue of the Star Wars Gamer magazine on February 22, 2002.

Sources

• "Endor and the Moddell Sector" — Star Wars Gamer 9 (First mentioned)
• The Essential Atlas
• Star Wars: Force and Destiny Core Rulebook