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Metalorn

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"We're launching probe droids as swiftly as Troithe and Metalorn can manufacture them."
―Admiral Gial Ackbar, in a meeting with the New Republic's military leadership[9]

Metalorn was a Mid Rim Territories planet that became a famed industrial world by the time of the High Republic Era. It was inhabited by immigrated Skakoans, such as Wat Tambor, the future foreman of the Techno Union merchant guild. A vital Techno Union world by the Clone Wars of 22 BBY to 19 BBY, Metalorn was under the control of the Separatist Alliance, which was supported by the resident Skakoans. The Galactic Republic eventually attacked Metalorn in the final year of the war.

Following the Clone Wars, the Republic became the Galactic Empire, which enslaved Metalorn's Skakoan population as punishment for their prior Separatist sympathies, in return causing some of them to join the Rebel Alliance. Metalorn also went on to be a key industrial location for the Empire, and the Alliance considered it a potential target during the Galactic Civil War. By 5 ABY, the world was under New Republic control and produced probe droids for that government.

Description

"Raised my kids on Tsaokallus, down the Perlemian hyperroute a few parsecs off Metalorn."
―Haki Zeophrine, to Bail Organa[10]

Metalorn was a harsh terrestrial planet[4] located in an intersecting portion of the Mid Rim Territories[1] and the Slice.[2] The world was a few parsecs away from the Mid Rim world Tsaokallus[10] and situated in grid square R-8 of the Standard Galactic Grid.[1]

History

Republic Era

"Additionally, the production capacity of the Aakaash system exceeded even that of the famous industrial world of Metalorn; it's relatively prosperous and wealthy as a remote star system."
―Jedi Master Mostima briefs Sean[11]

By the time of the High Republic Era, Metalorn was famed as an industrial world.[11] In 200 BBY,[12] Jedi Master Mostima briefed her apprentice, Sean, on the Oplovis sector's Aakaash system, informing him that in the preceding year, the remote system had surpassed Metalorn in terms of its industrial production capacity—for which Metalorn was well known.[11] Metalorn was a vital world of the Techno Union[7] technology merchant guild[13] by the time of the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Separatist Alliance,[7] which began in 22 BBY.[14] At that time, the Techno Union was tied to the Separatist Council, and Metalorn was subsequently a Separatist world.[7]

FoundryoftheConfederacy

During the Clone Wars, the Separatists incarcerated many of their prisoners at Unreal City, a private prison on Metalorn.[5] The planet was also part of the Foundry of the Confederacy, a region containing a number of Separatist-aligned factory worlds[3] that fell within the Slice[2] and spanned parts of the Mid Rim and Outer Rim Territories.[3] The Techno Union defended the world with a mixed fleet of overstock and prototype starships, including starfighters, from its member corporations and design firms, such as SoroSuub Corporation. Swarms of Hardcell-class interstellar transports were also deployed to defend Metalorn.[7] In 19 BBY, the final year of the Clone Wars, the Republic led its Outer Rim Sieges campaign, and its 12th Sector Army set its sights on the Foundry of the Confederacy, including Metalorn. The super tactical droid General Linwodo led the Separatists' defense when the Republic attacked the planet.[3]

Imperial Era

"With Operation Ringbreaker meeting with early success, I feel our current angle of attack could provide a broader path to victory. This map notes the locations of other major Imperial shipyards and drydocks, as well as key mining centers for metals and ores. Once we take out Kuat, these should be our next targets."
―Crix Madine, in an official document to Mon Mothma[8]
Metalorn-TRF

After the Clone Wars ended and the Republic transitioned into the Galactic Empire that year,[14] the Empire dissolved the Techno Union[13] and absorbed its assets,[15] including Metalorn.[8] While in the planet Coruscant's lower levels[10] around 19 BBY,[16] the Imperial Intelligence spy Haki Zeophrine saved Senator Bail Organa from a shootout in a Hivetown club. Afterward, while conversing with the senator, Zeophrine revealed that she had raised her children on Tsaokallus, noting that it was on the Perlemian Trade Route and a few parsecs away from Metalorn. Not long after, after a clandestine meeting with Senator Tychon Nulvolio and other former Separatist senators, Senator Mon Mothma was given false travel identification documents for her return to Coruscant, which claimed she was an individual named Gon Raithra from Metalorn.[10]

During the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance, the manufacturing world was a key Imperial industrial location.[8] In 3 ABY,[14] the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry attacked a number of lightly defended Imperial logistical hubs in order to weaken the defenses of the Kuat Drive Yards, the primary manufacturing and repair hub of the Imperial Military, for a final attack—a campaign dubbed Operation Ringbreaker.[17] While Alliance Intelligence distantly vetted the campaign, Alliance General Crix Madine saw Operation Ringbreaker's early success and produced a galactic map of other major Imperial shipyards, drydocks, and mining centers that the Alliance could target if Operation Ringbreaker was successful, a proposal that was addressed to the Alliance's Commander-in-Chief Mon Mothma. Metalorn was listed on the map as a medium-production and medium-security target. The 61st ultimately abandoned Operation Ringbreaker before reaching the Kuat Drive Yards.[8]

The Alliance transitioned into the New Republic in 4 ABY following a decisive victory against the Empire at the Battle of Endor.[14] Metalorn soon fell under the control of the nascent Republic, which forced the Empire to become splintered into remnants and holdouts throughout the galaxy[9] by 5 ABY.[18] In order to search for the hiding place of much of the Empire's remaining forces, the New Republic used probe droids manufactured on Metalorn and the planet Troithe.[9]

Inhabitants

Tambor Covetous

Metalorn was inhabited by members of the sentient Skakoan species,[6] humanoids that were native to the Core Worlds city-planet Skako.[13] Of the few Skakoans that left that world,[4] most tended to be technological industrialists.[13] At an early age, the Skakoan Wat Tambor left Skako to begin a career in technology on Metalorn,[4] going on to become foreman of the Techno Union who represented the organization in the Republic's Galactic Senate.[13] The Skakoan population of Metalorn supported the Separatists,[6] although the resident Techno Union officially declared neutrality during the Clone Wars. Tambor and other Skakoan business interests also sided with the faction out of fear of Republic overreach, providing the Separatists with indirect support.[13]

Tambor's expansionist leanings turned the Republic against Skako, and following the foreman's assassination and the dissolution of the Separatists, the Empire inherited the Republic's prejudice, with the Skakoans finding themselves shunned as enemies of Emperor Palpatine.[13] The Empire enslaved Metalorn's Skakoan population for having supported the Separatists. As a result, some Skakoans joined the Rebel Alliance in order to avenge their fallen comrades;[6] others joined as they knew that hiding from the galaxy would neither save them nor their homeworld.[13]

Locations

Metalorn was the site of Unreal City, one of the many private prisons in which the majority of prisoners taken by the Separatists were incarcerated.[5]

Behind the scenes

Metalorn was first mentioned in the current Star Wars canon in the 2016 reference book Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded, written by Pablo Hidalgo.[19] The planet Metalorn originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it first appeared in the thirtieth issue of Marvel Comics' 1977 Star Wars comic run, written by Archie Goodwin, illustrated by Carmine Infantino,[20] and released on September 25, 1979.[21]

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Notes and references

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Star Wars Galaxy Map
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Star Wars Galaxy Map places Metalorn and the Foundry of the Confederacy in the area of space Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the Slice.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Star Wars: Character Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Edition
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Collapse of the Republic
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Forged in Battle
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Rise of the Separatists
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Star Wars: The Rebel Files
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Victory's Price: An Alphabet Squadron Novel
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 The Vow of Silver Dawn (Original text in simplified Chinese: "此外，乾星系去年的工业产能甚至超越了著名的工业世界梅塔洛恩，作为偏僻星系，算是相当繁华富庶了。")
  12. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates The Vow of Silver Dawn to 200 BBY.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 Fully Operational
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Star Wars: Timelines
  15. ↑ Star Wars: Uprising—Crew member: "Techno Union-Sub Apprentice"
  16. ↑ The events of Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear begin weeks after the events of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and span no more than a few months. As the events of Revenge of the Sith are dated to 19 BBY by Star Wars: Timelines, The Mask of Fear must be set around that year.
  17. ↑ Battlefront: Twilight Company
  18. ↑ The events of Victory's Price: An Alphabet Squadron Novel begin after the Cerberon system campaign, and the novel also features the Battle of Jakku at the end of its three main sections. Since Star Wars: Timelines dates both of those conflicts to 5 ABY, the main events of Victory's Price must therefore be set in that year.
  19. ↑ Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded
  20. ↑ Star Wars (1977) 30
  21. ↑ Star Wars (1977) #30 on Marvel Comics' official website (content not present on current version)