Santhe Shipyards

After the founding of the Galactic Empire, in 19 BBY the shipyards were converted from civilian shipyards to the manufacture of Imperial-class Star Destroyers. Rebel agents there reported to General Airen Cracken about the status of the shipyard. During a mission to board a civilian freighter undertaken by the Partisans and members of the Spectres, upon analyzing the cargo of the freighter Saw Gerrera stated that the materials were used for construction by the Imperial Navy, with Sabine Wren stating that the materials could have come from Corellia, or any other planet with shipyards.

Following the end of the Galactic Civil War and the formation of the New Republic, the shipyard, along with all Imperial military assets was dissolved and redistributed to the new government for re-assignment. Regional Supervisor Myn Weaver, was tasked with overseeing the operations of the facility during its transitional phase, where it was tasked with dismantling the hyperdrive cores still present in the factory and rebuilding them for use on board New Republic Defense Fleet vessels. Scraps and useless equipment from the leftover starships were sold to the shipyard's wealthy investors, and the profits were used for New Republic reconstruction projects, among other things. Alongside Weaver, a board of directors oversaw the commercial aspects of the shipyards and had first looks at all unique hardware discovered within the ships, their price points and their distribution. According to Weaver, a single Star Destroyer was enough to fund multiple of these operations.

Despite the New Republic's efforts to best control leftover Imperial military assets, the lack of experienced personnel meant that, at least initially, Elsbeth's Imperial workers were allowed to continue working in the shipyard despite not having been vetted or loyal to the new government. Weaver believed that they only cared for their payment, and that they lacked focus for the nuances of galactic politics, so completely trusted them. This led to the development of an underground network of Imperial remnants' spies in the shipyards, including Elsbeth's very own. In around 9 ABY, Elsbeth, with the help of ex-Jedi Baylan Skoll and his apprentice Shin Hati discovered the existence of a starmap that contained the details of the Pathway to Peridea, an ancient route to a galaxy neighboring her own. Believing the destination of the Pathway to be the location where her former ally Thrawn was stranded after the Battle of Lothal, Elsbeth tasked Skoll and Hati with acquiring the map, and secretly began constructing an extragalactic transportation vessel named the Eye of Sion above the planet Seatos, which she believed to be the beginning of the Path. To equip the vessel with enough power for the trip, Elsbeth tasked her spies working in her old shipyards with acquiring and shipping Super Star Destroyer hyperdrives to her under the guise of a classified New Republic Defence Force project; indeed the shipyards produced nine refurbished engine cores without anyone noticing, with Elsbeth's HK-87 assassin droids preventing the facility's protocol droids from taking a closer look.

Despite the precautions, former Padawan Ahsoka Tano and New Republic General Hera Syndulla noticed Elsbeth's suspicious activities and visited Corellia to inspect the facility. During their tour, Syndulla noticed the tenth and final hyperdrive being loaded into transport CT-O5 and questioned Weaver on its purpose, knowing that the Defense Fleet's starships didn't require that much power. Coming upon the project's classified file, Syndulla questioned droid C1-D1 on the authority required to unseal it, only for the unit to testify on the HK-87 droids lurking about the facility and ordering them not to engage with the project. Realizing the ruse, Syndulla ordered the control center to ground CT-05, forcing the spies stationed there to confront her. Syndulla and Tano engaged the Imperials, killing and injuring many of them as well as several protocol droids.

Syndulla then took off in her personal modified Sheathipede-class transport shuttle Phantom II, managing to reach CT-05 just in time for her astromech droid "Chopper" to plant a homing beacon on it, while Tano engaged Elsbeth's forces, including Marrok and several HK-87s on the ground. Despite destroying the droids and injuring Marrok, Tano was held back from reaching the transport and was forced to retreat. Following the battle, New Republic army troopers arrived at the facility and detained the Imperial sympahizers left behind, including Manager Weaver.

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