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Maldra IV

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this planet, the primary world in the Maldra System of Shandola Sector, was believed by the Empire to be the site of a pirate base, shortly after the Battle of Yavin. According to Imperial sources, when the Motivator was dispatched to investigate the pirates, the crew discovered that the Alliance had established a training outpost and munitions base on the planet. The Alliance forces fought back, but were eventually wiped out by the Imperials. The Empire believed that the Maldra IV munitions base was supplying all of Shandola Sector with weapons, which were being used to hijack convoys of supplies. The Alliance countered this pro-Imperial propaganda by revealing that Maldra IV was a refugee base, and that the Empire had wantonly murdered several thousand innocent people in an effort to secure the planet.