Junkfort system

The Junkfort system, known as the Kossimur system millennia before the Battle of Yavin, was a part of the Outer Rim Territories' Tharin sector. It contained the notable shadowport space station known as Junkfort Station. At one point a part of the empire of the Tionese conqueror Xim, the star system eventually became a part of Hutt Space as well as the territorial holdings of the Sith. By 17 BBY, it fell within the borders of the Galactic Empire.

Junkfort Station was visited by the smuggler Han Solo and his copilot, Chewbacca, in search of one of the rare artifacts known as power gems. An agent of the ex-pirate Raskar ultimately pointed the pair to the planet Antipose, where a power gem was indeed being kept, and Solo and Chewbacca subsequently departed the space station. Nearly thirty years later, forces of the extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong species captured Junkfort Station as part of their invasion of the galaxy.

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