Bralsin was a small settlement on the Outer Rim world of Mandalore. Located near the Mandalorian capital city of Keldabe, Bralsin sat atop a hill at the edge of a broad and shallow valley, filled with farmland, woods, and a number of homesteads. It was the location of the memorial for the one-time Mand'alor Fenn Shysa, and had been one of many battlefields where the Mandalorians clashed with the Yuuzhan Vong during their attack on Mandalore in the Yuuzhan Vong War.

Contents 1 History 2 Characteristics 3 Behind the scenes 4 Appearances 5 Sources 6 Notes and references 6.1 In other languages

HistoryEdit

The small settlement of Bralsin was chosen by Boba Fett to be the location of a memorial to the dead former Mand'alor, Fenn Shysa. There, on the top of a hill and in a clearing surrounded by a small number of trees, Fett laid Shysa's green and red-colored helmet atop an unmarked column of granite. Close to twenty years would pass before Fett again visited the site.^[1]

Bralsin was a battlefield during the Yuuzhan Vong War, and it was on Bralsin's soft hills that the Mandalorians battled at least a thousand Yuuzhan Vong warriors during their attack on Mandalore. The bloodshed was so great that even decades later, skulls of dead Yuuzhan Vong would turn up littered across the landscape.^[1]

In 41 ABY, Jedi Knight Jaina Solo journeyed to Mandalore to seek Boba Fett's training and aid in stopping her brother, Jacen Solo—by then a Sith Lord calling himself Darth Caedus. Fett would agree to help train Solo, but Fett's friend Goran Beviin would oftentimes take over training duties. In doing so, he brought Solo to Bralsin, near the memorial to Fenn Shysa. There, the two paid their respects, and Beviin instructed Solo in the use of a Mandalorian beskad saber. Over the time of Solo's Mandalore training, Bralsin became a meeting place between her and Fett and her and Beviin. When Solo arranged a meeting between herself and the former Jedi-turned-Mandalorian, Gotab, it was at Bralsin that they met and after a philosophical discussion between the two, Bralsin became the backdrop for a lightsaber duel between Solo and Gotab's Force-sensitive nephew, Venku Skirata.^[1]

CharacteristicsEdit

Bralsin was a small settlement located so near to Mandalore's capital city, Keldabe, that the tower of the MandalMotors starship company could be seen from Bralsin's higher reaches. Situated atop a sloping hill at the edge of a broad and shallow valley, Bralsin overlooked a mass of cultivated farmland, woods, and a number of fortified homesteads. The land around it was speckled with trees and bushes,^[1] and it's most notable feature was perhaps the memorial for Fenn Shysa,^[2] a dead Mand'alor beloved by his people. Skulls and bones of Yuuzhan Vong were often found around Bralsin, left over from the Yuuzhan Vong War.^[1]

Behind the scenesEdit

Bralsin first appeared in the 2008 novel, Revelation, by author Karen Traviss. Though it has yet to make any further appearances in Star Wars canon, The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia gave Bralsin a brief entry within its pages.

Bralsin's name is drawn from the Mando'a word "bral", meaning "hill fort, high ground, high defended position".^[3]

AppearancesEdit

• Revelation

SourcesEdit

• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

Notes and referencesEdit