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Navigation buoy

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Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.

Navigation buoys, also known as marker buoys or beacon-buoys were navigational aids deployed in star systems to mark hyperlanes into and out of a system and to denote jumpzones. Starships reverting to realspace calculated their jump to arrive near a navigation buoy to ensure their passage was free of danger.

Buoys were typically assigned an alphanumeric callsign, such as "B-145." They could also be employed by scouts to mark a newly discovered territory as "claimed" while they headed back to civilized space to register their find.

Text and facts from the “Navigation buoy/Legends” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.

Appearances

4 works, in story order
  1. Star Wars: X-Wing (first appearance)
  2. Star Wars: TIE Fighter
  3. Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
  4. Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter

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