Brass Soldiers of Axum

The Brass Soldiers of Axum were a mysterious collection of thirty-five thousand statues of soldiers. They were cast in solid brass and depicted the soldiers with expressions of pain and terror. The Brass Soldiers of Axum shared their name with Axum, a Core Worlds planet and once-capital of the Azure Imperium state that predated the formation of the Galactic Republic.

According to legend, the statues originated as an actual pre-Republic army that was transmuted into brass via magic. Eventually, the Brass Soldiers of Axum were included in the Twenty Wonders of the Galaxy—a list of spectactular, antique artificial objects that the historian Vicendi compiled in 10,000 BBY for the publication Arturum Galactinum. At some point between 1 ABY and 3 ABY, a pair of life-size replicas of the brass statues flanked the entrance of "Wonders of the Galaxy," an exhibit of the Figg & Associates Art Museum in the Cloud City settlement of the Outer Rim Territories planet Bespin.

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