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Belt-Runner I

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this was one of the floating stations Lando Calrissian used to monitor and maintain the ships running through Lando's Folly, near Destrillion and Dubrillion. The station itself measured some 284 meters in length, and required a crew of 86 to keep it maintained and running. For insurance, Lando kept the station's twenty turbolasers primed an active. The specially-adapted TIE starfighters used to run the asteroid belt were protected by Belt-Runner I with a system known as collision shields, a combination of repulsor fields, shields, and defensive arrays to protect the small ships, all of which were operated from the remote station. When the Yuuzhan Vong moved to wipe out Dubrillion, Lando was forced to use his forces in a defensive capacity. His ships were not designed for this, however, and when Belt-Runner I took heavy fire, it was forced to withdraw the shielding energy it provided to the starfighters in order to protect itself. This was not enough to save Belt-Runner I, though, as the station continued to take heavy fire from the Yuuzhan Vong and was eventually reduced to cinders.