Jaguada's moon was the sole moon of Jaguada, which was the only inhabited planet in the Jaguada system. The moon possessed a Type I atmosphere, which was breathable by Humans.
Jaguada's moon was the sole moon of the planet Jaguada, the only inhabited world of the Jaguada system, located in the Sith Worlds region of the Esstran sector in the Trans-Hydian portion of the Outer Rim Territories. The moon was gloomy and was frequently ravaged by the restless winds, which made travel difficult due to the blowing sand and bits of other inorganic debris. The moon had a thin Type I atmosphere that was breathable to Humans. A part of the moon's surface had sheer cliffs made of striated rock.
Jaguada's moon was once a part of the Sith Empire, and the ancient Sith built large geometric structures that formed a complex on the moon's surface. In 25 BBY, Dooku turned the complex into the Separatist communications facility, using equipment for the hyperwave transceiver that had been hauled there by Jula Shryne. Shortly after the First Battle of Geonosis the Confederacy abandoned the facility. Near the end of the Clone Wars, the Galactic Empire apparently left the moon alone, although they occupied Jaguada itself.
A month after the war's end, Roan Shryne, Olee Starstone, and several other Jedi Purge survivors arrived aboard the the Corellian freighter Drunk Dancer into the stationary orbit on the moon's far side without being detected by the Imperial troops on Jaguada. Using a drop ship, they slipped into the moon's thin atmosphere to the landing platform of the Separatist communications facility.
Inside the facility, they used equipment to access the Jedi Temple databanks on the galactic capital world, Coruscant, which inadvertently woke the early-generation Trade Federation B1-Series battle droids and droidekas within the temple that had been shut down following the war's end.
Their activities were detected from the Temple beacon room by the Imperial Internal Security Bureau chief, Armand Isard, and his crew of ISB technicians, who traced the group to Jaguada's moon and relayed the information to Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader. As a large holomap displaying the Jaguada system, including the planet and its moon, emerged before Vader, he stepped into the hologram and indicated Jaguada's moon in it. Commander Appo relayed information on the location to Vader, including the fact that an Imperial garrison was present on Jaguada. Vader then had Appo order the garrison commander to pursue Shryne and his cohorts.
The assorted smugglers and Jedi reactivated the droids, reprogramming them to kill all of the stormtroopers that had arrived.
Located in a narrow valley between two sheer cliffs of striated rock, the Separatist communications facility was once a complex of ancient, geometric structures built by the ancient Sith. The cliffs were carved with thirty-meter-tall statues, similar to statuary on the worlds of Ziost and Korriban, that stood silent guard over the valley with their gaze directed towards the moon's eastern horizon. Scanners classified the metal used in the construction as "unidentifiable." The complex contained kilometers of parched corridors studded with gruesome statuary.
One of the corridors was lined on both walls in identical recessses with identical six-meter-high statues that depicted some mythical creature from antiquity, an equal parts humanoid and winged beast. The indistinct visage was partly concealed by a hooded robe that fell to taloned feet. They were made from locally quarried stone that matched the striated rock of the cliffs that walled the complex.
Jaguada's moon first appeared in the 2005 novel Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader, written by James Luceno. The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed Jaguada and its moon in grid square R-5.
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