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Tusken's Eye

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this tube-like pillar of silvery gas and dust was one of the small openings in the gaseous wall of the Utegetu Nebula. Located just inside the Tusken's Eye was a G-class star that provided the light that gave the Tusken's Eye its color. The star was orbited by a white-clouded gas giant, which was in turn orbited by more than a dozen small moons. During the year following the Qoribu Crisis, pirates hired by the Gorog hive used the Tusken's Eye to secretly enter the nebula and deliver their goods to the Dark Nest. Unknown to the rest of the galaxy, sixteen of the "moons" that were orbiting the cloud-covered planet were nest ships, specially constructed by the Gorog hive to transport Killik agents into the galaxy. There was one nest ship for each of the fifteen planets inhabited by the Colony within the Utegetu Nebula, plus a separate nest ship for the Gorog itself. The placement of the nest ships near the Tusken's Eye gave the Gorog a brief advantage over the Fifth Fleet of the Galactic Alliance, since the warships of the Fifth Fleet were blockading the mouth of the Utegetu Nebula and the Murgo Choke. The Gorog believed that they could escape through the Murgo Choke, but their plans were discovered by Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Jae Juun. There efforts at disabling the Gorog nest ship proved successful, and only four other nest ships managed to break through the blockade. The Gorog ship and ten others were trapped inside the Utegetu Nebula.