The junker systems was a group of star systems that included the Expansion Region planet Jarbanov. The systems were home to a scrapping guild and the Jarbanov Orbital Sorting Association. In 4 ABY, the scrapping guild acquired two Star Destroyers of the Galactic Empire and began bulk hiring mechanics to help salvage them; a mechanic named Soran Keize mentioned the opportunity to his colleague Agias Rikton on the space station Whitedrift Exchange.

Keize eventually became commander of the Empire's 204th Imperial Fighter Wing, a unit he had deserted prior to his time as a mechanic. In 5 ABY, he launched an operation at Jarbanov, wherein one of the 204th's squadrons attacked the Jarbanov colony while the Quasar Fire-class cruiser-carrier Aerie acquired TIE/ln space superiority starfighter wreckage. All of the fighter wing's forces fled Jarbanov afterward.

Description[]

The junker systems was a group of star systems. The barren^[1] Expansion Region^[3] planet Jarbanov and its moon were located on the outskirts of the junker systems in the inner section of one of the systems.^[1]

History[]

During the Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Empire and the New Republic, a scrapping guild operated in many of the junker systems.^[2] Jarbanov was unaffiliated with the guild, instead being home to the Jarbanov Orbital Sorting Association^[1] and a supply colony for the New Republic.^[4] In 4 ABY,^[5] the scrapping guild acquired two Imperial Star Destroyers, hiring many mechanics to help salvage the vessels and paying them well.^[2]

Soran Keize, an Imperial deserter working as a mechanic aboard the Lormar-class space station Whitedrift Exchange under the name "Devon Lhent," heard about the job opportunity in the junker systems. Keize mentioned it to his colleague^[2] Agias Rikton,^[6] an ex-Imperial engineer who had been building a bomb to attack the New Republic's shantytown Traitor's Remorse. Keize convinced his friend to not make the attack, and Rikton left the Whitedrift Exchange and^[2] started a new job,^[6] leaving a note claiming that he was going to his homeworld Corulag.^[2]

Keize eventually returned to his old unit in the Empire, the 204th Imperial Fighter Wing, and became its commanding officer.^[1] In 5 ABY,^[7] he made contact with an ally in the Jarbanov Orbital Sorting Association and acquired information about Jarbanov's orbital junk rings. The 204th then traveled to Jarbanov, where the fighter wing's Squadron Four attacked Jarbanov's supply colony while the Imperial Quasar Fire-class cruiser carrier Aerie collected the wreckage of nine TIE/ln space superiority starfighters from the junk rings. The mission concluded with Squadron Four rendezvousing aboard the cruiser-carrier Allegiance behind Jarbanov's moon. The Allegiance jumped into hyperspace, and the Aerie also escaped the system thereafter.^[1]

Behind the scenes[]

The junker systems were first mentioned in the 2019 novel Alphabet Squadron, the first installment of Alexander Freed's Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron trilogy.^[2] Jarbanov, a part of the junker systems, then appeared in the trilogy's second volume, the 2020 novel Shadow Fall.^[1]

Appearances[]

• Alphabet Squadron (First mentioned, simultaneous with audiobook)
• Alphabet Squadron audiobook (Mentioned only)
• Shadow Fall (First appearance, simultaneous with audiobook)
• Shadow Fall audiobook

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