Yirt-4138-Grek-12 was a Colonies asteroid located in the Fakir sector. It was the site of a pressurized compound where slicers were outfitted with cybernetic implants and trained in industrial espionage targeting the Corporate Alliance. After Alliance expeditors traced one such data thief's surgery and training back to the compound, the organization dispatched NR-N99 Persuader-class droid enforcers to the asteroid. The droid tanks ultimately destroyed the facility, killing twenty-five slicers present at the time.

Description[]

Yirt-4138-Grek-12 was a remote asteroid^[3] located in the Yirt-4138-Grek-12 system of the Colonies' Fakir sector.^[1] It was an airless rock sixty-five kilometers in diameter, and its designation included^[3] the Aurebesh letters yirt and grek.^[4]

History[]

Yirt-4138-Grek-12, which was situated in Corporate Alliance space, was the site of a compound,^[3] believed to have been funded by pirates,^[5] where data thieves were outfitted with cybernetic implants and trained as industrial spies targeting the Corporate Alliance. After the Alliance clerk Denlace Sachoore was arrested for embezzling data from the organization, Alliance expeditors traced her surgery and training back to the slicer compound.^[3]

Corporate Alliance transports subsequently delivered NR-N99 Persuader-class droid enforcers to a point ten kilometers from the compound. The tank droids then approached the facility overland and,^[3] making no warning or effort to take prisoners,^[6] opened fire. Using volleys of missiles and laser shots, they breached the compound's pressurization and ultimately leveled the structure, killing twenty-five slicers present at the time.^[3]

On the date 13:3:21, the raid on the Yirt-4138-Grek-12 compound was reported on from the Fakir Sector Node of the HoloNet for an issue of the CoCo District Edition of the HoloNet News. The report included a comment by the Galactic Republic's Senator Gopple, who, although condemning the Corporate Alliance's raid as excessive, nevertheless admitted that, due to the asteroid's location in the Alliance's space and jurisdiction, the organization's actions complied with existing legislation.^[3]

Inhabitants[]

At the time of the destruction of the Yirt-4138-Grek-12 slicer compound, twenty-five cyborg data thieves were present there.^[3]

Locations[]

A pressurized slicer compound was located on Yirt-4138-Grek-12. It featured unauthorized cybernetic surgery suites and served as an industrial espionage training center.^[3]

Behind the scenes[]

Yirt-4138-Grek-12 was introduced in HoloNet News Vol. 531 #48, a representation of an in-universe issue of the HoloNet News^[3] written by Pablo Hidalgo and Paul Ens^[7] and published on the HoloNet News website on March 21, 2002.^[8] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the Yirt-4138-Grek-12 system, and therefore the asteroid itself, in grid square K-9.^[2] The 118th issue of De Agostini's The Official Star Wars Fact File magazine,^[9] which was published around March 31, 2004,^[10] erroneously claimed that the Corporate Alliance raid on Yirt-4138-Grek-12 instead took place at the Fakir Sector Node.^[9] The error was later repeated in the twenty-sixth issue of the magazine's 2014 re-make edition,^[11] with that issue being released July 2, 2014.^[12]

Appearances[]

• Corporate Alliance Attacks Slicer Compound — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #48 (content now obsolete; backup link) (First mentioned)

Sources[]

• The Official Star Wars Fact File 91 (COR2, Corporate Alliance)
• The Official Star Wars Fact File 118 (COR2, Corporate Alliance Tank Droid) (Misidentified as Fakir Sector Node)
• Ultimate Adversaries
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I ("Fakir sector")
• The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 26 (COR2, Corporate Alliance Tank Droid) (Misidentified as Fakir Sector Node)

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