- "Keize in position. Minimal life support. Atmosphere twelve percent expected density. No alarms. Status outside?"
"Squadron Five is chasing the last of the rebel escorts. They're no threat but escape is a possibility." - ―Soran Keize and Major Rassus assess the situation in the Pormthulis system
The Pormthulis system was an Expansion Region star system where the disabled Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Edict was under guard by New Republic forces. In 5 ABY, the Galactic Empire's 204th Imperial Fighter Wing captured the Star Destroyer and defeated the New Republic escorts. The fighter wing then took apart its Quasar Fire-class cruiser carrier Allegiance for parts to make the Edict hyperspace-capable again.
Decription[]
The Pormthulis system was located in the Expansion Region, situated at the coordinates N-16 on the Standard Galactic Grid. The star system was connected by hyperspace route to the astronomical objects Kira and Pax, the latter being situated along the Hydian Way[1] super-hyperroute.[3]
History[]
- "I want to be done as swiftly as possible. Gone by the time rebel reinforcements arrive."
- ―Soran Keize, to Rassus
During the late Galactic Civil War, the disabled[2] Imperial II-class Star Destroyer[4] Edict drifted through the Pormthulis system, under guard by New Republic forces.[2] In 5 ABY,[5] the Galactic Empire's 204th Imperial Fighter Wing located the Edict and arrived to capture the Star Destroyer. Some of the fighter wing's TIE fighters, including the 204th's Squadron Five, intercepted the New Republic escorts while squadrons Two and Four made surveillance flybys of the Edict.[2]
Major Soran Keize, the 204th's special advisor, landed his TIE aboard the Star Destroyer and investigated some possible activity at section fourteen, where he found Captain Oratio Nenvez and almost twenty other personnel that had hidden from the New Republic. The major invited the Edict's remaining crew to his unit. With the Edict recovered from the New Republic, Keize has the 204th's Quasar Fire-class cruiser carrier Allegiance taken apart so that the Star Destroyer could escape with the 204th. The Edict's remaining crew were able to refit their vessel and make it hyperspace capable within six hours and the fighter wing left with the Edict.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
The Pormthulis system first appeared in the 2020 novel Shadow Fall, written by Alexander Freed.[2]
Appearances[]
- Shadow Fall (First appearance, simultaneous with audiobook)
- Shadow Fall audiobook
Sources[]
- Star Wars Galaxy Map
SWCA 2022: 7 Things We Learned from the Lucasfilm Publishing Behind the Page Panel on StarWars.com (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Star Wars Galaxy Map
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Shadow Fall
- ↑
Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 48 (Guide to the Galaxy: Visiting Ord Mantell)
- ↑ Shadow Fall Novel: First Look at New Villain and More on StarWars.com (backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Shadow Fall to 5 ABY.