Yaga Minor

"Lord Vader, there's been an incident at the Yaga Minor shipyards."

―Luitt, to Darth Vader^[3]

Yaga Minor was an industrialized planet located in the Outer Rim Territories where shipyards were located. A base of the Ubiqtorate, the Galactic Empire's military intelligence branch, was also located at the planet.

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Yaga Minor was an industrialized planet^[5] located within an intersecting portion of the Outer Rim Territories^[1] and the New Territories.^[2] Situated at the coordinates K-5 on the Standard Galactic Grid, it was connected by hyperspace route to the astronomical objects Borosk and Entralla.^[1]

"These attacks on Yaga Minor are suicidal—"

―A senior member of the 204th^[6]

During the time of the Galactic Empire, Yaga Minor hosted some shipyards,^[3] as well as a base for the Imperial military intelligence branch known as the Ubiqtorate. The Yaga Minor Ubiqtorate base kept records on Star Destroyers produced by the Kuat Drive Yards manufacturing corporation that were based there.^[4]

In 14 BBY,^[7] members of the Free Ryloth Movement rebel cell, led by the Twi'lek Pok, hijacked an Imperial weapons shipment at the Yaga Minor shipyards and fled into hyperspace. The incident was reported to the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader by the Imperial Captain Luitt of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Perilous, and Vader pursued and slaughtered Pok and his crew.^[3]

By 5 ABY,^[8] during the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the New Republic, Yaga Minor was the site of conflict. Prior to the start of a meeting aboard the Quasar Fire-class cruiser-carrier Aerie, a senior member of the Empire's 204th Imperial Fighter Wing present called the attacks on Yaga Minor suicidal during some discussions in the room between the attendees.^[6]

In the time of the New Republic, Yaga Minor was eventually part of the First Order's official territory.^[5] In 35 ABY,^[9] the historian Beaumont Kin referenced several records obtained from Yaga Minor in^[4] his^[10] book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire.^[4]

Yaga Minor was first mentioned in the 2015 novel Lords of the Sith, written by Paul S. Kemp.^[3] In Star Wars Legends, Yaga Minor was first mentioned in the 1992 novel Dark Force Rising, written by Timothy Zahn,^[11] before later first appearing in Zhan's 1997 novel Specter of the Past, the first instalment of the Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn Duology trilogy.^[12] In the 1998 Coolhand Interactive video game Star Wars: Rebellion, a generic planet image was used to depict Yaga Minor and a number of other planets.^[13]

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