Centerpoint Station
Centerpoint Station, or the World Puller, [source?] was an ancient space station that was capable of moving entire planets with its tractor beams.
Description
Centerpoint Station contained within its colossal bulk an extremely intricate collection of ultra-high energy systems. The best minds in the galaxy had been studying, mapping, and pondering the workings of this mechanical leviathan for ages, but there were still gaping holes in the understanding of its key processes.
What had actually been discovered was that the system was capable of generating huge amounts of nuclear, magnetic, electric, tractor beam, and hyperspace power for use in a type of "hyperspace tractor beam." Centerpoint Station was able to project this powerful tractor beam through a hyperspace path at any target. It was capable of 'gripping' an object as large as a star and then just as easily able to move the target object anywhere within its considerable operational range. The station could also harness this power for the actual destruction of stars and planets, collapsing their cores through massive gravitational fluxes.
The powerful hyperspace tractor beam arrays consisted of huge conelike structures within the station surrounded by six smaller cones. During the system's operation, this specifically designed geometric array acted as the source of the beam's power.
With a width of 100 kilometers and length of 350 kilometers, it was larger than the first Death Star. From a distance, it appeared as a huge partially translucent sphere with two small cylindrical poles facing Talus and Tralus. The interior consisted of a hollowed area known as Hollowtown that was, at one point, inhabited, as well as the station's immensely powerful tractor beam arrays. The station was built before the invention of artificial gravity, so it rotated to simulate gravity.
In actuality, Hollowtown and the Glowpoint, an artificial sun-like spot at its center, was the power source for the station and its mysterious one-time inhabitants and builders.
History
Origins and re-discovery
Eons before the establishment of the Republic, Centerpoint Station was used to move the planets of the Corellian system—Corellia, Selonia, Drall, Talus, and Tralus—to their current locations. After that job, the structure remained at a lagrangian point between the two worlds of Talus and Tralus, and it generated power from their gravity well projectors.
When Corellians explored space and their system, they also discovered the Centerpoint Station being there from the dawn of time. Although they studied and inhabited it, the Station remained a mystery to them with an unknown purpose. It was never determined that the Station was made to be inhabited, however the Glowpoint provided light and warm environment to the interior and made it as acceptable as any fertile planet. For generations, colonists inhabited the Station with homes, parks, lakes, orchards, and farmland, creating the Hollowtown.
Later history
During the Corellian Crisis in 18 ABY, it was discovered that the unique tractor beam system could be used as a weapon; a weapon capable of destroying entire stars, making it at least as powerful as the Sun Crusher. In this crisis, Thrackan Sal-Solo intended to use the station to force entire star systems into submission and restore the Imperial system. After a gripping battle that rocked the Corellian system and very nearly dragged the New Republic down, the "Starbuster Plot" was averted.
Hollowtown was incinerated by the Glowpoint when the Sacorrian Triad used the Station to supernova their first star. The few survivors returned to their planets.
Appearances
- Ambush at Corellia (First appearance)
- Assault at Selonia
- Showdown at Centerpoint
Sources
- Cracken's Threat Dossier
"The Unseen Planets of Star Wars" – Star Wars Insider 36- The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons
