The Sluis Van Shipyards were a series of orbital shipbuilding complexes stationed over the planet Sluis Van.
History[]
The facility was considered to be the best of its kind in the Outer Rim Territories. However, because the Sluissi found shipbuilding to be akin to a form of art (in addition to their rather ponderous system of bureaucracy), they were also considered to be one of the slowest shipyards in the galaxy.
The shipyards were at one point built up to encompass an entire world, similar to the Kuat Drive Yards Orbital Array and Mon Calamari Orbital Shipyards of later millennia.
During the early years of the New Republic, the Sluis Van Shipyards included Sluis Van Orbit Dock V-475, a Rendili StarDrive space dock.
During the opening campaigns of the Thrawn crisis, the shipyards were the site of a major Imperial ship-theft raid that involved fifty-one mole miners stolen from Lando Calrissian's mining facility Nomad City on the extremely hot but ore-rich planet of Nkllon. Through a series of coordinated attacks, Thrawn had engineered a large number of New Republic Defence Fleet's capital ships to be at the shipyards for repairs. Having concentrated them in one place, he used the miners as makeshift boarding craft to cut into the hulls of the ships and insert boarding parties of stormtroopers and spacetroopers. The plan was initially set to be a success due to the surprise from the unorthodox tactics.
The raid was thwarted through the timely actions of Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, who realized Thrawn's plan and used Lando's override codes to simultaneously activate the drills of the mole miners. This depressurized the ship's bridges and killed most of the standard stormtroopers while Wedge Antilles and the pilots of Rogue Squadron killed the spacetroopers. Though forced into retreat, Thrawn was satisfied that the New Republic's victory had been a costly one.[6]
In the years after the Thrawn crisis, the yards would continue to prosper.
Appearances[]
- "Darth Maul: Saboteur" (Indirect mention only)
- Sluis Sector Secedes; Seswenna Restates Loyalty — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #49 (content now obsolete; backup link) (Indirect mention only)
- Sluis Van Offer Met with Doubt — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #56 (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Jedi Trial (Mentioned only)
- "CIS Shadowfeed Dispatch 14:7:01 Edition" — Star Wars Insider 68 (Mentioned only)
- "The Great Herdship Heist" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 15 (Mentioned only)
- Operation: Elrood (Mentioned only)
- Heir to the Empire (and unabridged audiobook) (First appearance, in book)
- Dark Force Rising 1 (Mentioned only) (in opening crawl)
- The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial (Mentioned only)
- Legacy of the Force: Exile (Indirect mention only)
Sources[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Heir to the Empire Sourcebook
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Timeline 6: Onslaught of the Sith Empire on The Old Republic's official website (article) (backup link)
- ↑ "CIS Shadowfeed Dispatch 14:7:01 Edition" — Star Wars Insider 68
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Recon & Report: The Journey to Coruscant" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 2
- ↑ Heir to the Empire