Krownest

Krownest was an icy world in the Outer Rim Territories' Mandalore sector, cold and covered in snow. Mountainous terrain and evergreen forests comprised much of Krownest's frigid landscape, and its atmosphere proved breathable to humans. A planet under Mandalorian governance, Krownest was the ancestral home of Clan Wren, a legendary Mandalorian family whose warriors possessed a stronghold on the snowy world, built along the edge of a frozen lake.

Two years before the Battle of Yavin, the Mandalorian rebel Sabine Wren traveled to Krownest with the intent to enlist the aid of Clan Wren against the reigning Galactic Empire. Despite initial hostilities between Sabine and her estranged family, and an attack on the Wrens' stronghold by a group of Mandalorian super commandos in the employ of the Empire, Sabine and her mother Ursa Wren were able to reconcile after years spent apart. However, during the super commandos' attack, Ursa had been forced to kill the Imperial governor Gar Saxon in order to save her daughter's life, and the resulting civil war that ensued between the Wren and Saxon clans kept the Mandalorians from fully supporting the larger rebellion against the Empire. Even still, Clan Wren sent several warriors and a squadron of Fang starfighters from Krownest to aid the besieged rebels on Atollon during the Empire's attack on their hidden base, allowing the insurgents and what remained of their fleet to escape with their lives.

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