The ancient space station known as the Amaxine Space Station, or simply the Amaxine Station, once circled a dying star within a star system located in the galaxy. Constructed by the Amaxine warriors to aid their military efforts, it was ultimately deserted after a hazardous sentient plant species, the Drengir, took over. These plants possessed a strong connection to the dark side of the Force. Later, the Sith performed a sealing ritual, trapping the Drengir there.
This ancient space station, situated in the galaxy, was composed of a central spherical structure surrounded by several rings. Its location was within a star system where it revolved around a dying star. The station incorporated multiple hyperspace relays designed to traverse hyperspace to specific, pre-determined destinations.
The Amaxine warriors were responsible for the station's construction, intending it to support their military operations.
During the High Republic Era, several starships became marooned at the station in the wake of the Great Hyperspace Disaster, including one carrying Jedi Masters Cohmac Vitus and Orla Jareni, Jedi Knight Dez Rydan, and Padawan Reath Silas. Rydan was injured during their mission and inadvertently traveled through one of the hyperspace relays, leading his comrades to presume him dead. Upon discovering the Sith statues, the Jedi removed them to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, unknowingly triggering the awakening of the Drengir.
After returning to the station and re-entombing the plants, the Jedi were compelled to reawaken the Drengir when Nihil marauders arrived, intending to utilize the station for their violent raids. Ultimately, after rescuing Rydan, Silas destroyed the station's hyperspace pods, pulling the Drengir and a large portion of the Nihil into the vacuum of space. However, the Great Progenitor survived. Furthermore, disturbing her slumber caused Drengir across the Outer Rim to awaken, initiating a crisis that persisted until the assault on Mulita.
Sometime between 3 ABY and 4 ABY, during Lady Qi'ra's attempt to annihilate the Sith while serving as the leader of the criminal organization Crimson Dawn, her associate "The Archivist" relocated the Fermata Cage to the station to allow it to feed on the dark side energy present. The Archivist's suspicions were confirmed as the Cage began consuming the Drengir plants, accumulating the energy required to open. This surge of power alerted Galactic Emperor Darth Sidious and his Sith apprentice Darth Vader, who, guided by the disturbance in the Force, arrived at the station aboard the Executor with a supporting fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers.
The Sith duo had been led to believe that an ancient Sith Lord was imprisoned within the Cage, but Qi'ra intended to lure them in to trap them. Qi'ra's Dawn Fleet entered the system and engaged the Star Dreadnought to provide the Archivist with the necessary time, while the Dawn's starfighters defended against the Imperial TIEs. Nevertheless, the Emperor and Darth Vader landed on the station aboard the Emperor's Lambda-class T-4a shuttle, accompanied by royal guards and death troopers, and engaged the Dawn's forces.
The Spark Eternal, which had taken possession of the body of the archaeologist Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra, arrived at the station and was greeted by Qi'ra. Vader and Sidious progressed further into the station and were met by the Spark, which Vader swiftly dealt with, using the Force push to eject it from Aphra. Having navigated through the battle, Sana Starros' crew then rescued Aphra from the Spark when it attempted to repossess her. Upon encountering the open Fermata Cage, Qi'ra and the Archivist, observing from their respective ships, initiated the final phase of their plan to imprison the two Sith inside. However, the Knights of Ren arrived in the system and attacked the station, collapsing the Cage in an attempt to prove their worth to the Sith.
The resulting shockwave devastated the Dawn fleet, which the Empire subsequently targeted, while Qi'ra issued a retreat order. The Knights then boarded the station to meet the Sith, with Sidious subjecting them to Force lightning but promising that they would serve him. Meanwhile, the Spark sought refuge in a disc left behind by the Fermata Cage, where it would stowaway in a KX-series security droid assisting Imperial personnel in cleaning up the station at Palpatine's request.
After Sidious became aware of the station's existence, it eventually served as the base of operations for Snoke, the Supreme Leader of the First Order and a puppet of Sidious, during the time of the New Republic. While Snoke was stationed there, Ben Solo, who had destroyed the Jedi Temple of Luke Skywalker after presuming he had killed Luke Skywalker, visited the station to meet with Snoke.
The initial appearance of the Amaxine Space Station was in the 2019 comic book issue The Rise of Kylo Ren 1, which is part of the comic book miniseries Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren, authored by Charles Soule and illustrated by Will Sliney. According to Soule, the space station was conceived specifically for that comic, rather than being developed during the planning stages of the multimedia project Star Wars: The High Republic. Soule credited Claudia Gray with the idea of incorporating it into her 2021 novel, The High Republic: Into the Dark, which was the first work to identify it as the Amaxine station.