Maw Cluster

The Maw Cluster, also known simply as the Maw, was a cluster of churning black holes that could confound navigation computers located in the Akkadese Maelstrom. The largest and the worst of these, was The Maw, and it was given wide berth by sensible travelers.

Theories suggested that the source of spice within Kessel was the turbulent area of space that surrounds the planet. Over eons, debris from churning singularities of the Maw Cluster and surrounding Akkadese Maelstrom accumulated into the planetary mass.

After Han Solo and his colleagues made the Kessel Run in a record twelve parsecs on the YT-1300 light freighter known as the Millennium Falcon, Astrid Fenris' speculated that Solo had flown the freighter between two black holes in the Maw Cluster, and therefore the credit for the run should go to the gambler Lando Calrissian, who owned the ship at the time and so had been responsible for any modifications that allowed it to survive the pull of the black holes. After she declared her intent to find Solo's route and claim it for her own, patrons began asking her if she had tested her theory yet each time she visited the Lodge. As Fenris was unable to determine which of the many black holes in the Maw Solo had supposedly used, she began avoiding the topic and would quickly become interested in any other subject when asked about it.

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