Zorbia existed as a celestial body within the Moddell sector of the Outer Rim Territories, specifically at coordinates H-16 on the Standard Galactic Grid. It was located along the Ovise Reach hyperspace route, serving as a connection between the Endor and Trindello systems. Due to hyperspace anomalies in the Moddell sector, starships sometimes found themselves transported from locations as distant as Zorbia to the Endor system. A map of the Moddell sector, which included Zorbia, was eventually featured in The Rebel Files, a collection of non-electronic documents belonging to the Rebel Alliance.
The initial mention of Zorbia in the current Star Wars canon occurred in the eighteenth issue of De Agostini's Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine, released around May 6, 2015. Within the Star Wars Legends continuity, the planet Zorbia II was first presented in the article "Endor and the Moddell Sector," featured in the ninth issue of the Star Wars Gamer magazine, published on February 22, 2002.