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Nespis VIII

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a planet near the Cron Drift, where Luke Skywalker first met Kam Solusar. A sprawling space city orbits the planet, which is located in the Auril System, developed millennia ago by the Jedi Knights as a place where politics and bureaucracy had no place. Scientists and scholars could come to the station to debate and explore without concern for which side actually owned the discoveries. The station eventually became so big that it had its own interior weather patterns. It had been around since before the Great Sith War, although much of the spaceport was abandoned after the Clone Wars, and the city became a drifting derelict. Rumors abound about the existence of a vast, ancient, Jedi library somewhere on the station, and even the very existence of the station was considered a legend until shortly after the Battle of Yavin. The library supposedly contained volumes which contained all the knowledge of the galaxy. As rumors of the library spread, treasure hunters flew to the station to recover some of the ancient tomes. In this supposedly abandoned location, Borborygmus Gog developed his Nightmare Machine, in an effort to pry a person's deepest fears from their minds and turn them against them. He used the legends of the Jedi library to attract minds, hoping one day to capture a being who was strong with the Force. When the reborn Emperor Palpatine destroyed the New Republic's Pinnacle Base, the Republic's leaders fled to Nespis VIII to regroup. It was at this time that Anakin Solo was born on the space station city. The location of the base was betrayed by a spy, and the Emperor fired his Galaxy Gun at it. However, the projectile did not explode upon impact, and Nespis VIII was spared for some time. The Republic was able to evacuate the space city before a second projectile was launched. This one exploded as planned, completely destroying the Nespis VIII spaceport.