Milvayne

Milvayne was a terrestrial planet located in an intersecting portion of the Inner Rim Territories and the Interior regions at the coordinates L-8 on the Standard Galactic Grid. Appearing green from above, much of Milvayne was covered in the expansive and crowded Milvayne City.

The upper levels of the city were riddled with towers and passages, and holographic viewscreens showing propaganda were displayed in midair. Residents there visited cantinas, more wealthy individuals going to high-up cuisine places. Below was the Milvayne's undercity, or underworld, which comprised of junk piles, slums, and shantytowns. Imperial bloatbarges pumped foul out of the upper levels and into the underworld, causing the area to become very polluted and foggy such that heatspex and breath masks were used by some.

Order on Milvayne was enforced by the Milvayne Authority, a law enforcement agency backed by the Galactic Empire. The planet's culture was highly justice-oriented, and the frequent propaganda encouraged the resident Milvaynians to report individuals with infractions with Milvayne's image of perfection, including those who had or were violating the law, to the Informahub to earn credits. Aside from those who had broken the laws enforced on Milvayne, undesirable individuals included bankrupt debtors, people with wrongly stamped records or history with crashes, defective droids down to even just a speck of rust.

Any individuals who had been reported were apprehended by the Milvayne Authority and tried at a ledge, where they were thrown over into the undercity, droids being dropped in by Milvayne Authority drones. As a result the underworld was a lawless place filled with homeless had fallen into disarray and turned into a slum for the homeless which either ate food like scavstew or resorted to canniblism.

During the time of the Galactic Empire, Milvayne accepted the rule and protection of the Empire on the terms that the larger kept an invisible presence. The agreement left it up to the Milvayne Authority to keep order on the planet and enforce the reputation of the Empire in order to keep it from intervening. It became eventually a model planet under the larger government, and inspired sixty-three other star systems to capitulate to the Empire as a direct result. On seven hundred Imperial occupied worlds, the Coalition for Progress, the propaganda division of the Empire led by Minister Pitina Mar-Mas Voor, praised Milvayne as "a model imperial planet."

At some point, the Milvayne Authority officer Tam Posla investigated a pair of visiting spacers using the suspected aliases of "Roofoo" and "Sawkee," who were attributed with a rash of crimes on Milvayne. Doctor Cornelius Evazan, who used the alias "Roofoo," later became known as the "Mutilator of Milvayne." Posla, however, was taken off the case by his superior officer, and after he tracked the pair to Jedha, they took his badge.

Sometime later, a frozen Evazan was handed over to Posla by Chelli Aphra. He intended to bring the doctor to Milvayne for a trial. When Evazan was unfrozen, however, he used a pluripleq to pretend he was a shapeshifter. Posla attempted to arrest Aphra under the jurisdiction of the Milvayne Authority, but was murdered by the assassin droid 0-0-0. Evazan later captured Aphra and Triple-Zero, taking them onto Posla's ship. He implanted proximity bombs inside them, forcing them to work together to survive.

Aphra and Triple-Zero discovered Rajam Nuss, Posla's personal cyberneticist, and traveled to Milvayne to find him. Upon arriving, Triple-Zero murdered the border officer in order to leave the spaceport. The Milvayne Authority caught wind of this and intercepted them, eventually pinning them behind a vehicle. Triple-Zero caused Posla's ship to self-destruct as a distraction, and they were able to escape.

An hour later, Aphra searched through the HoloNet to find Nuss, and the pair visited him in his lab. He attempted to remove the bombs, but set off their fail-safes, setting them to explode in ten hours. Nuss tried to hide this, but Aphra discovered the truth, returning to find that Triple-Zero had killed Nuss. With Nuss' death meaning they were unable to remove the bombs, Aphra set out to find the cyberneticist's mentor, Prexo, who lived on the other side of the city in South District Seven. When Aphra attempted to take a train there, Triple-Zero threatened the driver and was reported to Informahub, whose drones threw him into the undercity.

Needing to stay near the droid, Aphra followed him, encountering a scavenger named Vulaada Klam and her qaberworm Gurtyl. Klam agreed to take them across the city on Gurtyl, but they were located by Tam Posla, whose corpse had been revived by Force energy from mutated gundravian hookspores. Posla shot at Gurtyl, throwing Aphra and Triple-Zero off the creature. He then ordered a rebuilt BT-1 to destroy them. As BT-1 and Posla attacked the pair, the hunters Winloss and Nokk, who had been hired to capture Triple-Zero and kill Aphra. Nokk impaled Posla with his Vr'gedian tranquilizer harpoon and Winloss shot an ion-net at BT-1. Aphra and 0-0-0 escaped during the chaos.

Fearing Triple-Zero may survive to hunt him down, Evazan widened the broadcast signal transmitting from the droid's eyes and used it to address the citizens of Milvayne about the two fugitives running around on the planet. After the reward for their capture was announced, many of the citizens reported false and desperate claims to the Milvayne Authority. Posla was among them, and led members of his in former occupation to Aphra's location, aboard a bloatbarge. Klam incapacitated Aphra and Triple-Zero to collect the reward for them.

By this time, the viewing figures of the live feed from Triple-Zero's eyes had reached the billions. Four-hundred kilometers above Milvayne, Captain Okma aboard the Enduring Pride, the propaganda flagship of the Empire's Coalition for Progress (CFP), discussed the matter with Minister Pitina Voor who wished for a swift solution to this to prevent the residents of Milvayne getting mischievous ideas. Her intentions were stalled when news of Aphra and Triple-Zero's capture came to light.

Aphra and Triple-Zero were put on trial under Posla and the Milvayne Authority, but escaped after turning the officers against Posla. They stopped at a fuelstop to repair Triple-Zero's legs, where Winloss and Nokk caught up with them. Nokk chased them on a jetpack while Winloss lured Triple-Zero onto his speeder using a disabled BT-1, with Aphra being forced to follow him into the trap. As they caged the pair on their ship, the viewers of the live feed were angered, and incidents of civilian disrespect began increasing. On the Enduring Pride, Okma was ordered to deal with the aggression, and fired the ships railgun at the city, targeting Aphra and Triple-Zero specifically. Winloss and Nokk's ship was damaged by the explosion and the pair ejected, leaving their captives trapped in the falling vehicle.

Aphra and Triple-Zero crashed into the underworld where Captain Okma met them, blocking the live feed and offering Aphra a compromise to convince the civilians she was on the Empire's side. However, Aphra activated a seismic pulse which knocked her and Okma away. Triple-Zero then tortured and killed him and his stormtroopers. With the live feed unblocked, Aphra and Triple-Zero conversed before being confronted by Winloss and Nokk, who revealed they were giving up their hunt for them.

After reuniting with Vulaada Klam, whom felt bad for betraying the pair, Aphra and Triple-Zero traveled to Professor Prexo's residence, where they found that he was absent. They were then confronted by stormtroopers and the Milvayne Authority, and a firefight broke out. Posla assisted the Imperial side, but was set on fire by Triple-Zero and shot at Klam. At that moment, Aphra threw herself in front of the shot, leaving her wounded. This inspired the many viewers of Triple-Zero's live feed to riot and fight the Milvayne Authority. The live feed itself was stopped by Prexo, who had liased with Winloss and Nokk in boarding Evazan's starship and deactivating Aphra and Triple-Zero's proximity bombs.

Following the riots, Minister Voor concluded that several years of martial law and orbital bombardment would solve the public relations disaster on Milvayne.

Milvayne was home to an array of humans and aliens— including Abednedos, Ishi Tib, and Rodians—that numbered at at least in the billions. The undercity had millions of residents, many forced to live life as scavengers.

Milvayne City was made up of a number of districts. One such was the Wealthy District, where the Convors Perch Restaurant was based. South District Seven was home to a cybersurgery where Prexo lived. Other locations in the upper city included at least one spaceport, a fuelstop, and a processing center. In the undercity, the Mourner's Wail Syndicate had a safe house.

Milvayne was first mentioned in the canon reference book Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide, written by Pablo Hidalgo and released in 2016. It first appeared in the comic Doctor Aphra (2016) 26, written by Simon Spurrier, illustrated by Emilio Laiso and published by Marvel Comics on November 14, 2018. In Star Wars Legends, Milvayne was first mentioned in the short story "Differences of Opinion," which was included in The Last Command Sourcebook, released in March 1994.

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