Garrison Moon
Astrographical
Region	Outer Rim Territories
Sector	Kessel Sector
System	Kessel system
Planet	Kessel
Grid coordinates	T-10[1]
Rotation period	13 standard hours
Orbital period	644 local days
Physical
Atmosphere	None
Gravity	Variable
Primary terrain	Barren rock
Points of interest	Kessel Correctional Facility
Societal
Native species	None
Immigrated species	Many species
Primary language(s)	Galactic Basic Standard
Population	9,000
Affiliation	Galactic Empire New Republic

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The Garrison Moon was the moon of Kessel, and was commonly referred to by the miners of Kessel as the Sky Bogey. It was shattered by the prototype Death Star in 11 ABY, but a large fragment of it was still orbiting Kessel as of 43 ABY.

HistoryEdit

During the reign of the Galactic Empire, the Garrison Moon was chosen to host an Imperial garrison station. The moon appeared to have been hollowed out, and the garrison was built within the moon. Only a large docking bay and a communications tower were visible on the surface. This garrison base also contained the Kessel Correctional Facility later taken over by the Rybet Moruth Doole.

Prisoners destined for the Spice Mines of Kessel were commonly transported first to the Garrison Moon, where they were sent through a decontamination process before being loaded on a cargo shuttle for the trip to Kessel itself. Some prisoners were sent back to the moon to carry out menial services for the administration staff. Slave pens and processing centers took up the first four levels of the facility, while the command center was on the lower, fifth level.

Seven years after the Battle of Endor, the Garrison Moon was accidentally destroyed by the superlaser of the prototype Death Star in a test of that weapon's destructive power ordered by Tol Sivron and his scientists. Kessel itself was the actual target, but the superlaser's targeting mechanism was so badly out of alignment that the Death Star missed Kessel totally and hit the moon instead.

RemnantEdit

After its destruction, at least one piece of the moon was large enough to be visible^[2] from Kessel's surface, and possibly served the same purpose it had before the moons overall destruction. In 43 ABY, it was used as the evacuation point for Kessel's workers and inhabitants while Lando Calrissian and his friends try to save Kessel from destruction.^[3]

AppearancesEdit

• Star Wars: Empire at War
•  Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed (Possible appearance)
• Jedi Search (First appearance)
• Champions of the Force
• Outcast (remains)

SourcesEdit

• The Jedi Academy Sourcebook
• Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds
•  Kessel: Hell in Space on Wizards.com (original article link, backup links on Archive.org)
• The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
• The Essential Atlas

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