The Oktos Route began at Nal Hutta in Hutt Space, where it intersected the Ootmian Pabol, Pabol Hutta and Shag Pabol hyperspace routes.
The trade route passed through Kleeva, Toydaria and Tol Amn, and continued through the Esaga and Kurost sectors of the Mid Rim. It also passed through the Cygnus Star Empire, a small collection of worlds that were situated only a few parsecs apart in the Mid Rim, just coreward of Hutt Space.
The Oktos Route ended in the Kurost sector, where it intersected the Trax Tube.
The trade route skirted the largely uncharted Oktos Nebula, a radioactive gas cloud located in Hutt Space. It also skirted the Oktos and Hune sectors of the Mid Rim.
During the Galactic Civil War, the planet Toydaria was home to the Oktos Zone Imperial Outpost, a listening post used by the Galactic Empire, whose hyperwave signal interceptors could monitor lightspeed activity on the Otkos Route as far as Nal Hutta and Tol Amn.
During the Yuuzhan Vong War, in the aftermath of their conquest of the Y'Toub system in 26 ABY, the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong advanced along the Oktos Route in order to attack the Toydaria system.
The Oktos Route was first mentioned in The Essential Atlas, a 2009 reference book co-authored by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry.
It was mentioned again in "The Written Word," a 2010 Hyperspace article written by John Hazlett.
Lords of Nal Hutta, a 2015 supplement for Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars: Edge of the Empire roleplaying game series, mistakenly refers to the Oktos Route, the trade route passing through Toydaria, as the Shag Pabol.
- The Essential Atlas
- The Written Word on Hyperspace
- Lords of Nal Hutta