The celestial body Karavis was a major industrial site for the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War. Rebel Alliance General Crix Madine identified it as a possible target in the event that the Alliance campaign Operation Ringbreaker was successful.
Karavis was a celestial body in an intersecting portion of the Outer Rim Territories and the New Territories.
Crix Madine marked Karavis as a possible target for the Rebel Alliance.
During the Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, Karavis was a major industrial site for the Empire. In 3 ABY, the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry attacked a number of minor Imperial resource hubs to weaken the defenses of the major shipbuilding hub Kuat Drive Yards for a final attack, a campaign dubbed Operation Ringbreaker. While Alliance Intelligence vetted the campaign from afar, Alliance General Crix Madine observed Operation Ringbreaker's early success and drew up a galactic map of other major Imperial shipyards, drydocks, and mining centers that the Alliance could target if Operation Ringbreaker was successful.
Included on the map, Karavis was marked as a low-security, medium-priority option. The map was added to an official document on Madine's ideas that was sent to Mon Mothma, the Alliance's Commander-in-Chief. Soon afterward, the archivist Hendri Underholt included the map in a compilation of non-electronic documents called The Rebel Files. The 61st ultimately abandoned Operation Ringbreaker before they could attack Kuat Drive Yards.
Karavis was introduced in the current Star Wars canon via a mention in the 2017 reference book Star Wars: The Rebel Files, written by Daniel Wallace. In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the Karavis system was first mentioned in "The Galaxy Dragon and crew," an article written by Bill Slavicsek as a supplement for West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game and published in the 200th issue of the Dragon magazine in December 1993. Since the article was released outside of the Lucas Licensing process, its canonicity with respect to Star Wars Legends was never confirmed. The star system was ultimately canonized within Legends via the 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas, authored by Wallace and Jason Fry.
- Star Wars: The Rebel Files