Fort Nowhere
- "What a dump."
- ―Sariss
Fort Nowhere was a Class Two military installation located on Ruusan.
Characteristics
It contained the Smuggler's Rest, and it was located near Katarn's Hill and a series of caverns.
Fort Nowhere was shaped like a six-pointed star, with a spherical blaster cannon at each point to ensure that anyone, pirates or natives, attempting to force entry would face covering fire. It was also equipped with subsurface missile batteries, and defenses included rammed-earth walls. However it would not withstand any full-scale Imperial assault.[3]
History
Fort Nowhere was inhabited mostly by smugglers affiliated with Captain Jerg. In the initial survey they discovered the existence of the sentient Bouncers but they didn't care to discover more about them or venture farther than was necessary and never cared to find where an old roadbed, remnants of an ancient highway, was leading. They thought that only a crazy person would go out to the badlands without any good reason.[3]
In 1 BBY Rebel Sulonese colonists brought to Ruusan by Morgan Katarn. Jerg, who based his smuggling operations out of the Fort, carried the Sulonese into his compound.[3]
Rebel leader Morgan Katarn arranged for the Sulonese colonists to stack their supplies and gear near the Fort, in order to begin their own independent life outside the influence of the Fort's squalid life. For three local days, nine waves of colonists came, who erected shelters, installed mirrors and fiber-optic cables into the caverns to illuminate them. They divided the surrounding land, which included a drilled well, and irrigated for crops.[3]
By 5 ABY Byron Devo III was its mayor. It was completely ravaged in the Battle of Fort Nowhere.[2]
