Stenness Hyperspace Terminal
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The Stenness Hyperspace Terminal, also known as the Stenness Spaceport, was a popular space station that was located within the Stenness Node. The Terminal was the dive of many unsavory individuals, including pirates, gangsters, and other criminally-minded beings. Members of crimelord Great Bogga the Hutt's enforcer gang regularly frequented the station, monitored its starship traffic, and preyed upon its unsuspecting patrons.
In 4,000 BBY, the Stenness Hyperspace Terminal was the scene of a botched robbery attempt and the murder of Jedi Knight Andur Sunrider, who, along with his family, was passing through the Terminal on his way to the planet Ambria. He was only in the station for a short time before being approached by Bogga's henchman Gudb, who demanded that the Jedi relinquish the valuable Adegan in his possession. The following altercation resulted in Sunrider being attacked by Gudb's pet gorm worm, whose poisonous bite resulted in Sunrider's death.
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[edit] Characteristics
The hyperspace terminal owed its popularity to its location, near the hyperspace jump gate in the Stenness system and the nearby hyperlane called the Whitebeam Run. Spacers of all types and species frequented the station. In a time where navigational computers on board starships were unable to calculate their own coordinates through hyperspace, the Stenness Spaceport served as junction for travelers in the midst of jumps from one spacial location to the next.
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The Stenness Hyperspace Terminal was a massive space platform, having no less than one thousand levels, each designated for various activities necessary for the successful facilitation of interstellar travel. At least three of its levels, twenty-three to twenty-five, contained were docking bays for incoming and outgoing spacecraft. These levels were frequently prowled by local pirates, who preyed upon unsuspecting travelers and looted their cargo if it was deemed of any value. Levels fifty to fifty-three were reserved for patrons wishing satisfy their appetites, where local delicacies such as Stenness lizard pie were available for purchase. Prostitution was not an uncommon pastime of the Stenness Spaceport's benefactors as well; brothels could be found on nearly every level of the facility, from level fifty-four up to one thousand.
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It was on the Stenness Hyperspace Terminal that the Jedi Knight Andur Sunrider was killed by men sent by Bogga the Hutt. The fatal situation erupted over a deal regarding a box of Adegan crystals that had gone sour.
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- Tales of the Jedi: The Saga of Nomi Sunrider (First appearance)
- Tales of the Jedi (audio) (Identified as Stenness Spaceport)
