Cortilium Major

Cortilium Major was an astronomical object located in the Cortilium Major system, a part of the Eucer sector of the Mid Rim. During the Tionese War, waged between the Galactic Republic and the Honorable Union of Desevro & Tion, Cortilium Major was situated in the region known as the Divide and was settled by Republic colonists.

Shortly before the war's end around 23,900 BBY, a Tionese military force destroyed Republic settlements on the celestial body Okator VIII. One witness of the attack, a local farm boy–turned–Republic soldier, later narrated an account of the attack in a Baragwin sense lattice, noting that the Tionese could have just as well chosen as their target any of the other settled astronomical objects of the Divide, including Cortilium Major.

Cortilium Major was originally meant to be mentioned in the 2012 reference book The Essential Guide to Warfare by Jason Fry and Paul R. Urquhart; however, the section that would have mentioned the astronomical object was cut before the book's release.

The information regarding Cortilium Major was later released in 2014 as part of Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare Author's Cut, a series of articles published on the StarWars.com Blog by Fry and Erich Schoeneweiss containing various cut content from The Essential Guide to Warfare. The StarWars.com Online Companion to the 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the Cortilium Major system, and therefore the celestial body itself, in grid square Q-7.