Black Rock Passage

Black Rock Passage was an area of space located in the Akkadese Maelstrom, a region of the Outer Rim Territories and the Slice consisting of ionized gas, dust clouds, water vapor, ammonia, and planet-sized carbonbergs as well as gravity wells. Starship pilots leaving the planet Kessel, which was situated inside the Akkadese Maelstrom, sometimes attempted to find shortcuts to decrease the travel time needed to exit the Maelstrom that would otherwise be spent on the meandering official hyperspace route known as the Channel. Black Rock Passage was among several such potential alternate routes, with New Republic Police Commissioner Exantor Divo characterizing the pilots risking travel through there as either "foolhardy" or "insane" in his 34 ABY book Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious.

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