Melinz

Melinz was a terrestrial astronomical object located in the Melinz system of the Core Worlds. It featured foothills situated within the limits of the city Shad.

At some point during the reign of the Galactic Empire, Ger Plortor, a scout for the prominent shockball team Shad Furies, visited the Outer Rim Territories world Keedad while on a vacation. There, Plortor met the Keed Ytavarg Aleema, whom the scout recruited into joining their team. Accompanying Plortor back to Shad, Aleema became a member of the Shad Furies and, eventually, the most famous shockball player in the galaxy. During the Galactic Civil War, he also became an agent of the Rebel Alliance, using his Shad mansion to temporarily house other Rebel agents in need of shelter. By the time that shortly followed the Battle of Yavin, Alliance General Airen Cracken mentioned Melinz in an entry of a datafile detailing various Rebel operatives dedicated to Aleema.

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