Star of Iskin

The Star of Iskin was a Botajef Shipyards AA-9 freighter operational during the Clone Wars. In 21 BBY, sixteen months after the beginning of the war, it was scheduled to depart the galactic capital of Coruscant with passengers and cargo bound for the Outer Rim. Political exile and former Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum planned to use the tramp freighter as transportation to distance himself from the political intrigue of the Core.

However, upon its departure from Coruscant on 14:9:19, the Star of Iskin exploded, destroyed as part of a successful plot carried out by Anzat assassin Sajé Tasha to murder Valorum. All aboard the freighter were killed in what the general public viewed as an act of terrorism engineered by the Separatists; thousands more lives were claimed when the wreckage crashed down upon the Coruscanti cityscape. The Star of Iskin destruction was used to great effect by certain members of the Galactic Senate to pass the controversial Enhanced Security and Enforcement Act, a piece of legislation that delegated additional wartime powers to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, Valorum's political opponent.

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