Phase connector

A phase connector was a mining tool used for breaking open asteroids and small planetoids that was sought after by the Mining Guild and the First Order. The business partners Flix and Orka kept one phase connector in their store, the Office of Acquisitions in the supertanker fuel depot Colossus on the Mid Rim planet Castilon. At some point, they sold it to a mining colony on the terrestrial astronomical object Valashar and kept it stored in their backroom.

In 34 ABY, the First Order operative Teroj Kee planned to steal the device on a day that Flix and Orka left the shop to visit the former's mother. However, the mechanic Kazuda Xiono and his astromech droid BB-8 had been left to manage the shop by the pair and attempted to thwart the thief. When Kee brought the phase connector aboard his ship, Xiono followed him aboard and sabotaged the vessel with the gorg Bitey's help. Despite the operative's attempts to save the device with two stormtroopers, he was forced to abandon the endeavor, fleeing in an escape pod before the vessel crashed into Castilon's ocean. Kee reported his failure to Commander Pyre, while Xiono planned to inform the Resistance that the First Order was seeking one of the devices.

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