S-thread booster

S-thread booster
Usage and history
Purpose	Creating and maintaining hyperlanes

The S-thread booster was technology that could be used to create new hyperspace routes and also keep such routes open. It was extremely expensive to use and could be deployed either in realspace or in hyperspace, with the latter type of the device being known as the non-mass S-thread booster. S-thread boosters were utilized to maintain the Koros Trunk Line route linking the Empress Teta system and the planet Coruscant as well as the Gandeal-Fondor Hyperlane between the worlds Gandeal and Fondor. The Galactic Empire also used non-mass S-thread boosters in the creation and maintenance of the Sanctuary Pipeline and Byss Run hyperlanes.

Description

The S-thread booster was a piece of technology that could be deployed in realspace—or, in the case of non-mass S-thread boosters, in hyperspace—in order to brute-force open a new hyperspace tunnel and then keep the newly created hyperlane open. S-thread boosters were extremely expensive to use; nevertheless, they were sometimes utilized to complement more conventional hyperspace charting methods and were frequently used when creating secret military routes.

History

S-thread boosters were used to keep the Koros Trunk Line hyperlane open.

Over the millennia following the settlement of the Deep Core's Koros system around 27,500 BBY and culminating shortly before the founding of the Galactic Republic in 25,053 BBY, hyperspace scouts charted the route known as the Koros Trunk Line, which was facilitated through the use of S-thread boosters and connected the Koros system to Coruscant, the Republic's capital world in the Galactic Core. During the construction of the Galactic Empire's Executor-class Star Dreadnought Executor at the Colonies shipyard planet Fondor, the Empire also used S-thread boosters to blaze a secret military hyperlane linking Fondor and the Core Worlds fortress world Gandeal.

In addition, the Empire utilized non-mass S-thread boosters to maintain the Byss Run hyperlane in the Deep Core, which connected the Koros system—by then known as the Empress Teta system—and Galactic Emperor Palpatine's personal retreat planet Byss. Imperial non-mass S-thread boosters were also used to extend the Silvestri Trace hyperlane from the planet Sullust of the Outer Rim's Brema sector to the Endor system of the Outer Rim Territories' Moddell sector, with that sector's Murk system becoming a penultimate stop on the new hyperspace route, known as the Sanctuary Pipeline.

Behind the scenes

The S-thread booster was first introduced via mentions of the non-mass S-thread booster 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. The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas by Wallace and Fry subsequently identified the general technology as the S-thread booster.

Sources

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