In the current Star Wars canon, the Lusankya was introduced in the twenty-seventh issue of the Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine series, published by De Agostini around July 8, 2015. In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the Lusankya was first mentioned in the novel X-Wing: Rogue Squadron, the first installment in the Star Wars: X-Wing series, which was written by Michael A. Stackpole and published on January 1, 1996. The Lusankya then made its first appearance in the third novel of that series, X-Wing: The Krytos Trap, also written by Stackpole and published on September 1, 1996.
The author named it after the Lubyanka, a Russian government building used by various secret police agencies, stating: "I wanted it to sound much like the inescapable prison in Moscow because I wanted the Lusankya to be inescapable." It was first pictured in the 1998 comic book Crimson Empire 5, an issue of the Dark Horse comic-book series Star Wars: Crimson Empire, written by Mike Richardson and Randy Stradley and illustrated by Paul Gulacy and P. Craig Russell.
In the current Star Wars canon, the Lusankya was introduced in the twenty-seventh issue of the Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine series, published by De Agostini around July 8, 2015. In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the Lusankya was first mentioned in the novel X-Wing: Rogue Squadron, the first installment in the Star Wars: X-Wing series, which was written by Michael A. Stackpole and published on January 1, 1996. The Lusankya then made its first appearance in the third novel of that series, X-Wing: The Krytos Trap, also written by Stackpole and published on September 1, 1996.
The author named it after the Lubyanka, a Russian government building used by various secret police agencies, stating: "I wanted it to sound much like the inescapable prison in Moscow because I wanted the Lusankya to be inescapable." It was first pictured in the 1998 comic book Crimson Empire 5, an issue of the Dark Horse comic-book series Star Wars: Crimson Empire, written by Mike Richardson and Randy Stradley and illustrated by Paul Gulacy and P. Craig Russell.