Maerdocian sector

The Maerdocian sector was a sector located in the Mid Rim, within regiond known as the Slice. Its Rimward side was traversed by the Gamor Run hyperlane, while the sector's coreward boundary marked the end of the Expansion Region.

The proximity of Hutt Space made the area a contested territory between the Galactic Republic, which had swollen to include the sector by c. 5000 BBY, and the Hutts, who eventually annexed parts of it by the years preceding the Invasion of Naboo, only to lose it during the Imperial Period.

Following the rise of the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY, the Chroma Zed system became a source of slave labor. In 4 ABY, Nagai and Tof forces moved across the sector towards Zeltros in the Inner Rim. The same year, the New Republic advanced in a similar manner towards Kashyyyk from Bothawui. The Maerdocian then experienced a period of peace until the Yuuzhan Vong War, which saw the Deneba system fall to the extra-galactic invaders in the first year of the conflict. Eventually, the sector fell under the sway of Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire by 137 ABY.

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