Oort cloud

Oort clouds were a type of occurrence in realspace. When worrying about the consequences of her Imperial-class Star Destroyer Vigilance destroying two New Republic RZ-1 A-wing interceptors in the star system of the planet Akiva, Imperial Admiral Rae Sloane realized that the New Republic might not immediately assume that it had been that Empire that had destroyed the starfighters, as a volatile oort cloud or unexpected debris field could just have easily led to the vessels' demise.

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