Imperial Station 003

Imperial Station 003, also known as the Orbital Space, was a space station orbiting the Galactic Empire’s capital planet Coruscant. Similar in appearance to an enlarged ICM-092792 construction module, it hosted multiple hangar bays and could dock up to eight Venator-class Star Destroyers in external docking arms.

During or after 18 BBY, the station was guarded by several clone commandos and TK stormtroopers and used to collect Force-sensitive children captured from around the galaxy by certain class one bounty hunters. The children were exchanged with a case of credits in the station's hangars and were then transported to the Advanced Science Division's Tantiss Base for experimentation. The station was also the penultimate destination for any ship going to Tantiss Base, as they had their crew and cargo inspected before being given clearance to depart where the coordinates were transmitted directly to the starships' navigation computer via a secure link to allow them to perform a hyperspace jump to Wayland without the crew learning of its location as one of the safeguards Chief Scientist Doctor Royce Hemlock put in place to keep it secret.

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