Azure system

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The Azure system was located in the Azure sector of the regions known as the Outer Rim
Territories and the Slice. It contained the planet Anaxes, as well as its remains, the Anaxes
asteroid belt, which was home to two planetoids—PM-1203 and PM-6986—formed from a
cataclysm that destroyed the world towards the end of the Clone Wars. In 19 BBY, during the
war, Anaxes served as the site of a major engagement between forces of the Galactic Republic
and Separatist Alliance, each of whom desired to claim the planet and its cruciality as a
shipyard for the Republic.

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Description
The Azure system was located within the Azure sector[3] in the Coreward edge of the Outer
Rim Territories,[1] as well as the Slice,[2] where it lay at grid square R-7 on the Standard
Galactic Grid.[4] It contained the planet Anaxes,[3] which served as a crucial Galactic Republic
shipyard for starships,[7] as well as the world's remains, which were formed into an asteroid
belt following a cataclysm that took the planet, while also creating at least two planetoids—
PM-1203 and PM-6986.[6]

Situated along the Perlemian Trade Route super-hyperroute,[1] the Azure system also
contained a single star, whose rotational period of the system's astronomical objects was
altered following Anaxes's destruction.[5] In addition to the planet's cataclysm, PM-1203 and
PM-6986 served as the locations of both Fort Anaxes, a former Galactic Republic military
base, and a stronghold previously used by the Separatist Alliance.[6]

History
In 19 BBY,[8] in the final weeks of the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and
Separatist Alliance, the Harch Separatist Admiral Trench had disrupted the Republic's Outer
Rim Sieges campaign[1] by launching an offensive in an attempt to gain control of the planet
Anaxes,[7] a Republic stronghold[1] and crucial shipyard to their naval forces.[7] As a result,
Trench managed to claim victory in a series of vital early engagements, which forced the
Republic to dispatch Jedi Generals Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Anakin Skywalker to

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intervene in the battle,[1] but were unable to repel the Confederacy as Trench gained the
upper hand through various tactics.[7] However, despite both Trench's and the Confederacy's
efforts to claim Anaxes, the Republic was able to defeat and kill the Separatist admiral and
his entire droid army, as well as prevent Anaxes's destruction at the Harch's hands.[9]

Sometime after Trench's defeat, following the end of the war, Anaxes was destroyed in a
cataclysmic event, which led to the formation of a field of asteroids and planetoids in the
aftermath. Following the planet's destruction, the cataclysm was theorized to have been
caused by the malfunction of the Anaxes shipyard's main reactor, while other, more wild
explanations, ranged from the utilization of Separatist superweapons to Jedi-engineered
planetary collisions. Despite Anaxes's destruction, however, the former Republic military
base, Fort Anaxes, alongside a former Separatist stronghold with a vestigial force of
Separatist droids, either of which were located on the planetoids PM-1203 and PM-6986.[6]

Behind the scenes

The Azure system first appeared in the new Star Wars canon in "Out of Darkness,"[5] the
seventh episode of the first season of the Star Wars Rebels television series,[10] which first
aired on November 10, 2014.[11] It later received its name in the 2019 reference book,
Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition.[3]

In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the Axum system was introduced in the 2006 video
game, Star Wars: Empire at War, developed and released by LucasArts.[12] In the Legends
continuity, the system was first identified in Coruscant and the Core Worlds, a 2003
sourcebook published by Wizards of the Coast for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game.[13]

Appearances

Sources
Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition (First identified as Azure system)
Marauder in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)

Notes and references

1. ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy—Based on
information given for Anaxes
2. ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy places the Azure system
in the area of space Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the Slice.
3. ↑ Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy places the Azure system
in what Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game identifies as grid square R-7 of
the Standard Galactic Grid.
4. ↑ Jump up to: 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Star Wars Rebels – "Out of Darkness"

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5. ↑ Jump up to: 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "The Bad Batch"
6. ↑ The Star Wars Book places the Battle of Anaxes to nineteen years before the events of
Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. As Star Wars: Galactic Atlas states that A New
Hope begins in 0 BBY, the Battle of Anaxes must have occurred in 19 BBY.
7. ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Unfinished Business"
8. ↑ "Out of Darkness" Episode Guide - Star Wars Rebels on StarWars.com (backup
link)
9. ↑ "Star Wars Rebels Recounted" – Star Wars Insider 156

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