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Zhanox was an Outer Rim Territories mining world located in the Anoat sector. Its surface was covered by stony spires, between which were rubble-strewn valleys. The mines of Zhanox were overseen by Ugnaughts, while Human colonists inhabited the world's valleys. The Bespin Wing Guard member Alec Mard hailed from Zhanox.
Description[]
Zhanox was a terrestrial world located in the Zhanox system, a part of the Anoat sector. It was situated in the Greater Javin region within the Western Reaches portion of the Outer Rim Territories. The world lay on the super-hyperroute known as the Corellian Trade Spine, which connected it to the Bendeluum and Ione systems. Zhanox was located inside the Ivax Nebula.[1]
Stony spires covered every square kilometer of[2] the Zhanoxi[1] surface, giving the world the appearance of a pincushion. The floors of the valleys between the formations were strewn with rubble from toppled spires.[2]
History[]
After the Galactic Republic's victory in a war against the nearby civilization of the Mugaari species[2] at some point between approximately 1000 BBY and 600 BBY,[4] the former established the Javin sector in the former Mugaari Space.[2] Around 400 BBY,[3] the portion of the sector containing Zhanox was re-designated as the Anoat sector.[2]
Inhabitants[]
Zhanox was a mining world, with members of the Ugnaught species overseeing the mines. The world's valleys were settled by Humans.[2] Zhanox was the homeworld of the Human Alec Mard, who became a member of the Bespin Wing Guard security force at[5] the Anoat sector planet Bespin[1] at some point by 3 ABY.[6] Mard's homeworld was rarely visited by starships from outside the Twin Nebulae dominating the Greater Javin.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
Zhanox was introduced in Wizards of the Coast's Star Wars Roleplaying Game supplement "Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin," which was published on Wizards.com on March 25, 2004.[2] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the world in grid square K-18.[1]
Sources[]
"Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin" (original article link) on Wizards.com (content now obsolete; backup link) (First mentioned)- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- The Essential Atlas
"Rogues Gallery: The Cloud City Wing Guards" — Star Wars Insider 148
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 The Essential Atlas
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 "Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin" (original article link) on Wizards.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin," which is set during the Rebellion and New Republic eras (0 BBY–25 ABY; see
"Star Wars Eras" — Keeper of the Holocron's Blog — Leland Chee's StarWars.com Blog (backup link)), dates the splitting-off of the Anoat sector—which included Zhanox—from the Javin sector to the last year of Ecclessis Figg's life. Since the supplement dates Figg's death to "nearly four centuries" prior to its setting, the establishment of the Anoat sector can be placed in approximately 400 BBY.
- ↑ "Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin," which is set during the Rebellion and New Republic eras (0 BBY–25 ABY; see "Star Wars Eras" — Keeper of the Holocron's Blog — Leland Chee's StarWars.com Blog (backup link)), places the Galactic Republic–Mugaari war within the millennium before its events but "centuries" before the death of Ecclessis Figg, which the text dates to "nearly four centuries" prior to its setting. This establishes an approximate time frame of 1000 BBY–600 BBY for the war.
- ↑ "Rogues Gallery: The Cloud City Wing Guards" — Star Wars Insider 148
- ↑ "Rogues Gallery: The Cloud City Wing Guards" — Star Wars Insider 148 establishes that Alec Mard had become a member of the Bespin Wing Guard by the time of the events of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, which The New Essential Chronology dates to 3 ABY.
