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"Hammer Station was an armored fortress built by the Republic during the war. Its primary weapon was a gravity cannon designed to propel asteroids into planets. The Republic Senate decommissioned it before it saw battle, fearing it would cause indiscriminate damage - but now the battle station has reappeared."

―Darth Malgus briefs an Imperial strike force attacking Hammer Station^[src]

The Hammer was a powerful prototype battle station built by the Galactic Republic during the Great Galactic War.

1 History
2 Behind the scenes
3 Appearances
4 References
5 External links
- 5.1 In other languages

HistoryEdit

"The Advozse Hegemony believes that because we are at peace with the Republic, we will ignore the aggression of other nations. Their conquests are rightfully ours. You will show them their error by boarding and destroying Hammer Station."

―Darth Malgus^[src]

Pressed by the Sith Empire during the war, the Republic Senate sank its meager resources into ever-more desperate measures to end the conflict. One of the resulting projects was Hammer Station, a prototype mobile facility built around a combined tractor beam and massive gravity cannon. The tractor beam captured nearby asteroids, and the cannon launched the asteroids at near-relativistic speeds at a chosen target. No shield could handle that magnitude of kinetic energy. When positioned over a planet, Hammer Station was capable of devastating entire cities in a single shot.

However, Hammer Station's attacks could not be tempered. The asteroids caused planet-wide dust clouds and groundquakes, rendering entire worlds nearly uninhabitable. After seeing the destruction, the Republic Senate could not authorize its use, even against the Empire, and ordered the project scrapped. The Hammer Station project files were classified and later destroyed in a Senate tower bombing after the Treaty of Coruscant was signed.^[1]

Ten years after the Sacking of Coruscant, the station had been claimed by the Advozse Hegemony and was being used to conquer worlds in the Outer Rim. Darth Malgus, the conqueror of Coruscant, called together an Imperial strike team to board Hammer Station and destroy it, and also uncover exactly how the Advozsec managed to acquire it. Similarly, Satele Shan, the Grand Master of the Jedi Order, called together Republic forces to investigate.