Ornfra system

The Ornfra system was a star system situated in the Chiss Ascendancy's northeast-zenith sector of the Unknown Regions. It contained the planet Ornfra. Around 18 BBY, as part of the Chiss Ascendancy crisis, two skirmishes took place in the system. The first was a brief confrontation between the Grayshrike and the Orisson. The second was a sneak attack on the Orisson as it entered the system to prove that the Dasklo families were manufacturing fake warships.

Description

The system lay in the northeast-zenith sector of the Chiss Ascendancywithin grid square F-8.The planet Ornfra, located in the system, served as an important economic and political hub of the Chiss Ascendancy's northeast sector; consequently, all the Nine Ruling Families, the current ruling Chiss families, and 17 of the Forty Great Families, other powerful families aspiring to join the Nine, maintained strongholds on the planet.

History

Skirmish between the Grayshrike and the Orrisson

Around 18 BBY,as part of the Chiss Ascendancy crisis, the system saw a skirmish. It involved the Dasklo family, who were attempting to protect the planet Ornfra; the Grysk Hegemony, who sought to incite a civil war in the Chiss Ascendancy; the Clarr family warship Orisson, which was seeking to destroy a Asteroid missile platform disguised as a Mitth family spy platform; and the Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet warship Grayshrike, assigned to Ornfra to prevent violence between the Clarr and the Dasklo. The skirmish ended when the Defense Fleet convinced the Clarr that the asteroid missile platform was in fact a missile platform being used by the Grysk Hegemony to incite a civil war. They destroyed the Grysk freighter that set off the missile, but fortunately for the Chiss, none of their ships were within range.

Sneak attack by a Grysk ship

Soon afterward, Patriarch Clarr'ivl'exow dispatched Captain Clarr'os'culry and the Orrisson back to the Ornfra system to prove that the Dasklo were manufacturing counterfeit Starships. Upon arriving in the system, they were ambushed by a Grysk warship, which had been informed of their expected arrival by "Jixtus." After a brief battle, the Orrisson escaped into Hyperspace.

Behind the scenes

The Ornfra made its first appearance in the 2021 novel Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil, the concluding volume of the Ascendancy Trilogy by Timothy Zahn.

Appearances

Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil(Unknown)

Unknown

(and audiobook) (First appearance)