New Bakstre was a planet that could be found in the Tendrannan subsector of the Outer Rim's New Territories. As a component of the loosely organized Cassandran Worlds domain, New Bakstre was primarily an industrial planet situated along the crucial Braxant Run hyperlane, which served a significant portion of the galaxy's northern area. Havridam City, one of the major settlements on New Bakstre, suffered partial destruction in 22 BBY when activists belonging to the Mechanical Liberation Front inadvertently set off a shipment of Vindicator XM-15 "brilliant" missiles. During the later stages of the Clone Wars, the planet became a battleground when Galactic Republic forces under Jedi leadership engaged the military of the Confederacy of Independent Systems on its surface. Approximately twenty years later, the Galactic Empire annexed New Bakstre, along with all of the Cassandran Worlds. Throughout the Galactic Civil War and the Second Galactic Civil War, New Bakstre remained under Imperial control, with a brief period of allegiance to the New Republic in between. New Bakstre was characterized by its seven moons, a fast rotational speed, and a purple sky.
New Bakstre was a planet that resided in the system bearing the same name. Situated in the New Territories region of the Outer Rim, New Bakstre was located on the Braxant Run between Cassander and Isiring, which served as the most vital trade route in the galaxy's northern sector, stretching from Bandomeer through various sectors and beyond Xerton Nine. New Bakstre was originally a member of the Cassandran Worlds, a loosely knit group comprising over a hundred star systems. Not long before the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY, the Galactic Empire seized the Cassandran Worlds and divided the area into three distinct sectors referred to as the Cassandran sectors: Cassander, Tadrin, and Tendrannan. New Bakstre was integrated into the newly established Tendrannan subsector.
Orbiting a single star, New Bakstre was orbited by seven moons. The planet exhibited a rapid rotation, and its sky appeared purple when viewed from the surface. The atmosphere was breathable for Humans, and the native plant life included forests and twisted vegetation. Havridam City was one of its major population centers. By 25 ABY, the population of New Bakstre ranged from 100 to 500 million.
Approximately a century before the fall of the Galactic Republic, an Esselian conglomerate led by businessman Cassander Tadrin invested heavily in an extensive exploration endeavor, dispatching survey droids into uncharted regions of the galaxy. This venture proved successful, leading to the discovery of several planets located in an unmapped region of the New Territories within the galaxy's northern quadrant. Dissatisfied with the complacency of the Core Worlds, Tadrin divested his company holdings and relocated tens of thousands of his loyal employees and their families to colonize his newly discovered worlds. These worlds coalesced into a loosely unified region comprising over a hundred star systems, known as the Cassandran Worlds, with its governance centered on the planet Cassander, originally named "Cassander's Star." New Bakstre, along with Minashee, emerged as one of the region's primary industrial hubs.
In 22 BBY, the Mechanical Liberation Front, a group of droid rights advocates, attempted to liberate a shipment of Vindicator XM-15 "brilliant" missiles near Havridam City on New Bakstre. Their rationale was that the Arakyd Industries-manufactured missiles' central processor was advanced enough to consider the weapon a sentient entity condemned to a destructive existence. The activists' actions triggered the detonation of the missiles' explosive warheads, resulting in the destruction of a twenty-five-kilometer area of Havridam City and the deaths of all fourteen activists involved in the raid.
During the Clone Wars, which pitted the Republic against the secessionist Confederacy of Independent Systems, New Bakstre was situated within Separatist-controlled space. Towards the war's conclusion, during the Outer Rim Sieges, Republic forces, including clone troopers, commandos, and warships, under the command of Jedi General Traavis, fought Separatist forces on New Bakstre and throughout the Cassandran Worlds, including Monhudle and Biitu. The Republic claimed victory in the Clone Wars, and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine subsequently reorganized it into the Galactic Empire, proclaiming himself Emperor.
Shortly before the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY, an Imperial task force arrived at Cassander and annexed the Cassandran Worlds, dividing the region into three distinct subsectors: the Cassander subsector, administered from Cassander itself; the Tadrin subsector, ruled from Minashee; and the Tendrannan subsector, governed from Isiring. New Bakstre was located within the bounds of the Tendrannan subsector. Along with a swath of the Outer Rim Territories, New Bakstre came under the authority of the Empire's Oversector Outer, ruled over by Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin and administered from the planet Eriadu in the Seswenna sector. Following Tarkin's death at the Battle of Yavin, command of Oversector Outer was passed to Grand Moff Ardus Kaine, who moved the administration center for the region to the planet Entralla in the Velcar sector.
During the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic, Imperial Customs cruisers patrolled New Bakstre. On one occasion, they forced down a freighter, the Dorion Discus, piloted by smugglers Roark Garnet and Hawk Carrow, who were attempting an unauthorized delivery to the planet. The starship crashed in a forest, and Imperial troops wounded and captured Carrow, taking him to the infirmary on the M-Class Imperial Attack Transport Regina Cayli. Garnet subsequently infiltrated the ship and rescued his friend.
The Emperor's death during the Alliance victory at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY initiated a widespread collapse of Imperial authority as ambitious moffs and military commanders seized the opportunity to establish their own domains. Grand Moff Kaine reduced the size of Oversector Outer to encompass only the northern quadrant centered on the New Territories, effectively protecting his homeworld of Sartinaynian. New Bakstre and the Cassandran Worlds remained within Kaine's control from 4 ABY to 12 ABY. During that time, Oversector Outer was renamed and reorganized into the Pentastar Alignment, a warlord dominion. Kaine was killed during Operation Shadow Hand, the campaign launched by the resurrected Emperor Palpatine in 10 ABY to overthrow the New Republic, the Alliance's successor state. The Alignment faltered after Kaine's death, until Admiral Gilad Pellaeon assumed control of the region in 12 ABY and integrated it into the core of his restructured Empire. The Empire only lightly defended the Cassandran Worlds, deploying only a pair of Victory-class Star Destroyers and a few flights of TIE Series starfighters in the region. New Bakstre remained under Imperial control until 17 ABY, when the Empire was forced to retreat into eight sectors due to the pressure of a concentrated New Republic campaign.
Following the Empire's withdrawal from the Cassandran Worlds, the region joined the New Republic. This alliance was short-lived, however, as the domain was fragmented by the advance of the extra-galactic invaders known as the Yuuzhan Vong, who waged war on the galaxy from 25 ABY to 29 ABY. By the time of the Second Galactic Civil War, fought between the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, the New Republic's successor, and the secessionist Corellian-led Confederation, New Bakstre was once again located in Imperial-held territory. By 137 ABY, New Bakstre was situated within the borders of Emperor Roan Fel's Empire-in-exile.
New Bakstre was the primary setting of Regina Cayli, an adventure featured in West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, published in 1987. This adventure was later reprinted in 1994's Star Wars Adventure Journal 1. New Bakstre was included as an entry in the 1998 Star Wars Encyclopedia. In 2002, the planet was mentioned in HoloNet News Vol. 531 51, an online series of in-universe news reports leading up to the start of the Clone Wars.
Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds, published by Wizards of the Coast in 2002, included a mention of New Bakstre and its connections to the Cassandran Worlds in the sourcebook's entry for the planet Garqi. The eighty-seventh issue of Star Wars Insider, published in 2006, referenced New Bakstre in Jedi General Traavis' entry in the article Order 66: Destroy All Jedi. 2008's The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia contained an entry for New Bakstre and also mentioned it in the entries for the Cassandran Worlds and Havridam City. 2009's The Essential Atlas and its online companion referenced New Bakstre and provided details regarding its location in the galaxy.
Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds indicates that the Yuuzhan Vong "ravaged" the Cassandran Worlds during their galactic war, a claim supported by maps in The Essential Atlas depicting numerous known Cassandran Worlds under Yuuzhan Vong control. However, there is no specific mention of New Bakstre being attacked or captured by the invaders.