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Yinchorr was an Expansion Region astronomical object that housed one of the Galactic Empire's training hubs for the Emperor's Royal Guard. Between 3 ABY and 4 ABY, it received an urgent transfer request for the capital, Coruscant, following a mass assassination of Royal Guards stationed there. Yinchorr's control was contested by the New Republic in 4 ABY, leading to a siege situation.
Description[]
Yinchorr was an astronomical object located in an intersecting portion of the Expansion Region[1] and the Interior,[2] situated at the coordinates L-8 on the Standard Galactic Grid.[1] It shared its name with the sentient reptilian species known as the Yinchorri.[4]
History[]
- "The Archivist suggests that one aspect of this was a mass assassination by poison of the Imperial Royal Guard serving at the Imperial Palace on Coruscant. How this would have been possible is hard to imagine, as these individuals must have been some of the most carefully isolated and vetted people in the galaxy. However, there is also a record in Imperial databases requesting additional personnel be transferred to Coruscant from Yinchorr—one of the training hubs for the Royal Guard—so while implausible it is possible there is some underlying truth to the claim."
- ―Beaumont Kin, The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
Yinchorr received an urgent transfer order following a mass assassination of Royal Guards on Coruscant (pictured).
During the time of the Galactic Empire, it housed the Yinchorr Training Facility, which served as one of the training hubs for the Emperor Palpatine's Royal Guard.[3] Between 3 ABY and 4 ABY,[5] following the Crimson Dawn syndicate's mass assassination of the Royal Guard[6] stationed at the Imperial Palace on the galactic capital of Coruscant, an urgent order was made for additional personnel to be transferred form the Yinchorr Training Facility to Coruscant. It was noted in the file "Urgent transfer order #XJ8177", which was kept in the "Yinchorr Training Facility" section of the Imperial Archives.[3]
In 4 ABY,[7] during the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the recently reorganised New Republic, the latter faction fought to take Yinchorr from the Empire, the conflict devolving in to a siege situation. The matters at Yinchorr were noted in a briefing on the progress of the war that was read by New Republic General Hera Syndulla.[8] The file on Urgent transfer order #XJ8177 was eventually uncovered by the historian Beaumont Kin, who wrote about the Crimson Dawn's efforts against the Empire in[3] his[9] 35 ABY[10] book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire. While he was doubtful of claims about the assassination of the Royal Guard, Kin noted that the transfer order gave some support to it.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
Yinchorr was introduced into the new Star Wars canon when it was included in the fifty-second issue of De Agostini's magazine series Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon,[11] published around December 30, 2015.[12] The planet Yinchorr originated in Star Wars Legends continuity, where it first appeared in the eighty-sixth issue of Marvel Comics 1977 Star Wars comic run, written by Randy Stradley and penciled by Bob McLeod.[13]
Appearances[]
- The High Republic Adventures (2021) 1 (Picture only) (Based on correspondence between the galactic map and maps in other sources)
- Alphabet Squadron (Mentioned only)
- Alphabet Squadron audiobook (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 52 (Guide to the Galaxy: The History of Neimoidia) (First mentioned)- Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game (First mentioned)
- The High Republic Free Digital Sampler (Picture only) (Based on correspondence between the galactic map and maps in other sources)
- "The First Order" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- "The Battle of Endor and the Fall of the Empire" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- "Scarif and Other Planets in the Outer Rim" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- "Exegol, the Unknown Regions and Wild Space" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game places Yinchorr in the area of space Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the Interior.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
- ↑ The Living Force
- ↑ The events of Crimson Reign 2, including the assassination of the Emperor's Royal Guard, took place between the Escape from Cloud City and the Rescue of Han Solo, which are dated to 3 ABY and 4 ABY, respectively, by Star Wars: Timelines.
- ↑ Crimson Reign 2
- ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Alphabet Squadron to 4 ABY.
- ↑ Alphabet Squadron
- ↑ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
- ↑ Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire states that thirty years have passed since the end of the Galactic Civil War and months have passed since the Battle of Exegol. As Star Wars: Timelines dates the end of the war to 5 ABY and the Battle of Exegol to 35 ABY, the in-universe The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire must have been published in 35 ABY.
- ↑
Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 52 (Guide to the Galaxy: The History of Neimoidia)
- ↑ The second issue of the De Agostini weekly magazine Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon was set to be published on January 14, 2015, according to De Agostini Publishing: Build the Millennium Falcon Magazine & Model by Chris Wyman on TheForce.net (January 8, 2015) (archived from the original on November 6, 2016). Therefore, Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 52 was published around December 30, 2015.
- ↑ Star Wars (1977) 86