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| |routes=*[[Nanth'ri Route]]<ref name="TEA">''[[The Essential Atlas]]''</ref><ref name="FaDCR">[[Star Wars: Force and Destiny Core Rulebook|''Star Wars: Force and Destiny'' Core Rulebook]], p. 357</ref> | | |routes=*[[Nanth'ri Route]]<ref name="TEA">''[[The Essential Atlas]]''</ref><ref name="FaDCR">[[Star Wars: Force and Destiny Core Rulebook|''Star Wars: Force and Destiny'' Core Rulebook]], p. 357</ref> |
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| |cities=[[Yractos]] {{C|[[Capital/Legends|capital]]}}<ref name="HNN50">{{Hnn|50|news/1344_5.html|Senators Implicated in Slave Ring|https://web.archive.org/web/20050221082919/http://www.holonetnews.com:80/50/news/1344_5.html}}</ref><ref name="Insider70">{{InsiderCite|70|CIS Shadowfeed Dispatch 14:9:15 Edition}}</ref> | | |cities= |
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| |affiliation=*[[Galactic Republic/Legends|Galactic Republic]]<ref name="HNN50" /><ref name="TEA" /><ref name="TEGtW">''[[The Essential Guide to Warfare]]'', p. 22</ref> | | |affiliation=*[[Galactic Republic/Legends|Galactic Republic]]{{Fact}} |
| *[[Hutt Cartel]]<ref name="TEA" />
| | *[[Galactic Empire/Legends|Galactic Empire]]<ref name="SotME">''[[Splinter of the Mind's Eye]]''</ref> |
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| *[[Yuuzhan Vong empire]]<ref name="TUF">''[[The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force]]''</ref><ref name="TEA" />
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| {{Quote|I have a deep-space communication of first priority for Governor Bin Essada on territorial administrative world Gyndine.|[[Grammel]]|<ref name="Splinter of the Mind's Eye 2">[[Splinter of the Mind's Eye 2|''Splinter of the Mind's Eye'' 2]]</ref>}} | | {{Quote|I have a deep-space communication of first priority for Governor Bin Essada on territorial administrative world Gyndine.|[[Grammel]]|<ref name="Splinter of the Mind's Eye 2">[[Splinter of the Mind's Eye 2|''Splinter of the Mind's Eye'' 2]]</ref>}} |
| '''Gyndine''' was a [[Planet/Legends|planet]] in the [[Expansion Region/Legends|Expansion Region]]. It was a local administrative center, and had mid-sized, advanced [[Shipyard/Legends|shipyards]]. | | '''Gyndine''' was a [[Planet/Legends|planet]] in the [[Expansion Region/Legends|Expansion Region]]. It was a local administrative center. |
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| Gyndine was located in the [[Circarpous sector/Legends|Circarpous sector]] of the [[Expansion Region/Legends|Expansion Region]], at the intersection of [[Nanth'ri Route]] and the [[Ootmian Pabol/Legends|''Ootmian Pabol'']].<ref name="TEA" /> At galactic scale, it was considered as a world of secondary importance.<ref name="AoC:JE" /> Gyndine was an administrative world<ref name="SotME" /> and the capital of the sector.<ref name="FF21">{{FFCite|21|CIR2, ''Circarpous Joins The Rebellion''}}</ref><ref name="FaDCR" /> The planet was known for its prosperous grain markets and for the native [[ethersquid]] creatures.<ref name="TNJOS" /> The planet possessed its own but modest [[Gyndine Shipyards|shipyards]],<ref name="AoC:JE" /><ref name="TNJOS" /> where [[Kuat Drive Yards/Legends|Kuat Drive Yards]] conducted research and development.<ref name="FaDCR" /> | | Gyndine was located in the [[Circarpous sector/Legends|Circarpous sector]] of the [[Expansion Region/Legends|Expansion Region]], at the intersection of [[Nanth'ri Route]] and the [[Ootmian Pabol/Legends|''Ootmian Pabol'']].<ref name="TEA" /> Gyndine was an administrative world.<ref name="SotME" /> |
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| Gyndine was discovered during the [[Great Manifest Period/Legends|Great Manifest Period]], that lasted from [[20,000 BBY]] to [[17,000 BBY]].<ref name="TEA" /> It later joined the [[Galactic Republic/Legends|Galactic Republic]] and by 17,000 BBY it was part of the [[Exploitation Region]]. During the [[Alsakan Conflicts/Legends|Alsakan Conflicts]], it supported [[Coruscant/Legends|Coruscant]].<ref name="TEGtW" />
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| During the [[3996 BBY|last year]] of the [[Great Sith War/Legends|Great Sith War]], Gyndine was the site of a [[Battle of Gyndine (Great Sith War)|battle]] in which the [[Galactic Republic/Legends|Galactic Republic]] was victorious. Millennia later, [[Jedi/Legends|Jedi]] were victorious at Gyndine during a [[Battle of Gyndine (New Sith Wars)|battle]] of the [[New Sith Wars]].<ref name="TEA" />
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| {{Quote|Recently disclosed documents and testimony from a captured Thalassian slaver on Gyndine have implicated four Outer Rim Senators as profiting from slaving ventures in their sectors.|[[HoloNet News/Legends|HoloNet News]]|HoloNet News Vol. 531 #50}}
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| During the last decades of the Old Republic, the planet was ''de jure'' a Republic world but ''de facto'' controlled by the [[Hutt/Legends|Hutts]] who maintained an economic domination on the planet.<ref name="TEA" /><ref name="TEA-blog">{{Blog|danwallace|144|Endnotes for Star Wars: The Essential Atlas (part 2 of 5)|Continuity, Criticisms, and Captain Panaka|Daniel Wallace|archivedate=20110730225850}}</ref>
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| Prior to the [[Clone Wars/Legends|Clone Wars]], in [[22 BBY/Legends|22 BBY]], a slaving operation was uncovered in the city of [[Yractos]] on Gyndine, where a [[Thalassian slavers/Legends|Thalassian]] [[Slavery/Legends|slaver]] was attempting to sell twelve [[Twi'lek/Legends|Twi'lek]] slaves. During plea bargain sessions with the slaver, [[Jurisconsult]] [[Temlet Dodann]] uncovered evidence that four [[Outer Rim Territories/Legends|Outer Rim]] [[Senator/Legends|senators]] had also been involved with the slavers.<ref name="HNN50" /> Before her discovery by [[Anakin Skywalker/Legends|Anakin Skywalker]], the [[Astromech droid/Legends|astromech]] [[R4-P17/Legends|R4-P17]] was almost destroyed in an industrial accident involving a [[Garbage compactor/Legends|trash compactor]]<ref name="AotCICS">''[[Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Incredible Cross-Sections]]'', pp.</ref><ref name="TNEGtD">''[[The New Essential Guide to Droids]]'', p. 10</ref><ref name="DB">{{DB|droid|r4p17|R4-P17|archivedate=20100311045749}}</ref> in the KDY research shipyards in orbit of the planet.<ref name="AotCICS" />
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| At the beginning of the Clone Wars, the Gyndine system sided with the [[Confederacy of Independent Systems/Legends|Confederacy of Independent Systems]].<ref name="TEA" /> However the planet returned under Republic control during the conflict. In [[21 BBY/Legends|21 BBY]], the Galactic Republic opened a droid reclamation plant in the industrial sector of Gyndine. Captured or damaged Separatist [[Battle droid/Legends|battle droids]] were analysed there in order to recover valuable information before being melted down for raw materials.<ref name="Insider70" />
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| During the [[Imperial Period]], Gyndine was a [[fortress world]]<ref name="FaDCR" /> and the headquarters of [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Imperial]] [[Governor/Legends|Governor]] [[Bin Essada/Legends|Bin Essada]],<ref name="SotME" /><ref name="FaDCR" /> whose responsibilities included the entire Circarpous sector.<ref name="FaDCR" /> During this period, the [[Passenger liner/Legends|passenger liner]] ''[[Queen of Empire]]'' used to travel to Gyndine.<ref name="RD">''[[Rebel Dawn]]''</ref><ref name="AoCI">''[[The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]''</ref> | | During the [[Imperial Period]], Gyndine was a [[fortress world]]<ref name="FaDCR" /> and the headquarters of [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Imperial]] [[Governor/Legends|Governor]] [[Bin Essada/Legends|Bin Essada]],<ref name="SotME" /><ref name="FaDCR" /> whose responsibilities included the entire Circarpous sector.<ref name="FaDCR" /> During this period, the [[Passenger liner/Legends|passenger liner]] ''[[Queen of Empire]]'' used to travel to Gyndine.<ref name="RD">''[[Rebel Dawn]]''</ref> |
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| By [[4 ABY/Legends|4 ABY]], the planet was still an Imperial fortress world but the Empire eventually abandoned the planet in [[6 ABY/Legends|6 ABY]], after the [[Battle of Reytha]]. Gyndine joined the [[New Republic/Legends|New Republic]] sometime between 6 ABY and [[7 ABY/Legends|7 ABY]]. It was a New Republic stronghold during the [[Hunt for Zsinj]] and the [[Thrawn campaign]].<ref name="TEA" />
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| The planet surrendered to the Empire during [[Operation Shadow Hand]].<ref name="TEA" /> During the [[Imperial Civil War]] in [[10 ABY/Legends|10 ABY]], Gyndine protected itself by becoming a fortress world. It guarded itself with a powerful [[Planetary shield/Legends|planetary shield]] and maintained a defense fleet of thirty [[Starship/Legends|starships]].<ref name="DES">''[[Dark Empire Sourcebook]]'', p. 80</ref><ref name="TCSWE">{{CSWECite|I|378|Gyndine}}</ref> The planet later joined the New Republic.<ref name="TCSWE" />
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| | During the [[Imperial Civil War]] in [[10 ABY/Legends|10 ABY]], Gyndine protected itself by becoming a fortress world. It guarded itself with a powerful [[Planetary shield/Legends|planetary shield]] and maintained a defense fleet of thirty [[Starship/Legends|starships]], a small number compared to others.<ref name="DES">{{WEGCite|book=Dark Empire Sourcebook|story=The Fortress Worlds}}</ref> |
| {{Quote|For allowing this to happen, we are all diminished. While I number myself among those who in the end voted against dispatching a force of suitable might to safeguard Gyndine, I wish to reiterate the remarks I made during the arguments preceding that regrettable decision. By all but surrendering worlds like Gyndine, we reinforce widespread conviction that the New Republic is interested only in protecting the Core, and in doing so we play into the enemy's hand by weakening ourselves from within.|[[Etahn A'baht]]|<ref name="AoC:JE" />}}
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| [[File:YVCaptureBeast.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The [[Battle of Gyndine]].]]
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| During the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]], the planet agreed to accept refugees, only to be [[Battle of Gyndine|attacked]] and conquered by the [[Yuuzhan Vong]]. During the battle, the extragalactic invaders deployed [[Fire Breather]]s which burned Gyndine's forests and boiled its lakes. Futhermore, the orbital shipyards were destroyed by the invaders.<ref name="AoC:JE" /> The Yuuzhan Vong also captured several capital ships in dry dock and gave them to the collaborationist [[Peace Brigade]].<ref name="Ylesia">''[[The New Jedi Order: Ylesia]]''</ref> | |
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| As the war went on, [[Thorsh]], a [[Jenet/Legends|Jenet]] intelligence agent, infiltrated Yuuzhan Vong facilities on Gyndine to gather information.<ref name="TUF" /> The New Republic later [[Raid on Gyndine|raided]] the world in order to train new recruits in preparation for the decisive [[Battle of Ebaq]].<ref name="DW">''[[The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way]]''</ref> Just before the end of the war, the New Republic's successor state, the [[Galactic Federation of Free Alliances|Galactic Alliance]], failed to [[Attack on Gyndine|liberate]] the planet.<ref name="TUF" /> However, [[Boba Fett/Legends|Boba Fett]] and his [[Mandalorian Protectors/Legends|Mandalorian Protectors]], whom he had taken command of following the death of [[Fenn Shysa]], later launched an assault on the once more-verdant Gyndine. Deploying [[Meteor-class Q-Carrier|''Meteor''-class Q-Carriers]] and [[Pursuer-class enforcement ship|Pursuer Enforcement Ships]] from a [[Mandalorian dungeon ship]],<ref name="THotM">{{InsiderCite|80|The History of the Mandalorians}}</ref> they were able to [[Defense of Gyndine|reclaim]] the world from its conquerors.<ref name="TUF" /> After the war, Gyndine's surface remained barren and abandoned for years.<ref name="TCSWE" />
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| {{Quote|Bothans have sent a task force to destroy or capture the shipyards here.|[[Han Solo/Legends|Han Solo]]|<ref name="Exile" />}} | |
| In the years following the Yuuzhan Vong War, [[Tendrando Arms]] owned a [[Tendrando Refueling and Repair Station|refueling and repair station]] in orbit of Gyndine. In [[40 ABY]], during the [[Second Galactic Civil War]], Gyndine's shipyard facilities, under the control of the [[Galactic Federation of Free Alliances|Galactic Alliance]], were [[Raid on the Gyndine Shipyards|assaulted]] by a [[Confederation]]-aligned [[Bothan/Legends|Bothan]] task force and damaged. In the chaos, [[Lando Calrissian/Legends|Lando Calrissian]] was able to evacuate his refueling station's crew, who managed to board [[Escape pod/Legends|escape pods]] and get to the safety of Gyndine's surface.<ref name="Exile" /> The [[New Jedi Order]] later used the Tendrando Refueling and Repair Station as a rendezvous point prior to the [[Battle of Centerpoint Station (Second Galactic Civil War)|Battle of Centerpoint Station]].<ref name="Fury">''[[Legacy of the Force: Fury]]''</ref>
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| *{{Hnn|50|news/1344_5.html|Senators Implicated in Slave Ring|https://web.archive.org/web/20050221082919/http://www.holonetnews.com:80/50/news/1344_5.html}}
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| *{{InsiderCite|70|CIS Shadowfeed Dispatch 14:9:15 Edition}}
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| *{{TCWUKCite|6.32|The Fear Architects}} {{Mo}}
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| *''[[Rebel Dawn]]'' | | *''[[Rebel Dawn]]'' |
| *{{Journal|3|Galaxywide NewsNets}} | | *{{Journal|3|Galaxywide NewsNets}} |
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| *{{WEGCite|book=Dark Empire Sourcebook|story=The Ordeal of Boba Fett|stext=''The Ordeal of Boba Fett''}} {{Mo}} | | *{{WEGCite|book=Dark Empire Sourcebook|story=The Ordeal of Boba Fett|stext=''The Ordeal of Boba Fett''}} {{Mo}} |
| *''[[The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse]]''
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| *''[[The New Jedi Order: Balance Point]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[Emissary of the Void]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[The New Jedi Order: Ylesia]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic III: Reunion]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[Legacy of the Force: Exile]]''
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| *''[[Legacy of the Force: Fury]]''
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| *[[Millennium Falcon (novel)|''Millennium Falcon'']] {{Imo}}
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| *[[Millennium Falcon (audiobook)|''Millennium Falcon'' audiobook]] {{Imo}}
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| ==Sources== | | ==Sources== |
| *''[[A Guide to the Star Wars Universe]]'' | | *{{GSWUCite|1|Gyndine}} |
| *''[[Dark Empire Sourcebook]]'' | | *{{WEGCite|book=Dark Empire Sourcebook|story=The Fortress Worlds}} |
| *''[[Star Wars Encyclopedia]]'' | | *''[[Star Wars Encyclopedia]]'' |
| *{{InsiderCite|57|Who's Who in the New Jedi Order}}
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| *''[[The New Jedi Order Sourcebook]]''
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| *''[[Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Incredible Cross-Sections]]''
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| *{{FFCite|21|CIR2, ''Circarpous Joins The Rebellion''}}
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| *''[[Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds]]'' <!-- p. 96 -->
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| *{{InsiderCite|80|The History of the Mandalorians}}
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| *''[[The New Essential Guide to Droids]]''
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| *''[[The New Essential Chronology]]''
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| *''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
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| *''[[Star Wars: The Official Starships & Vehicles Collection 18]]''
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| *''[[The Essential Atlas]]''
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| *{{DB|droid|r4p17|R4-P17|archivedate=20100311045749}}
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| *''[[The Essential Guide to Warfare]]''
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| *''[[The Essential Reader's Companion]]''
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| *[[Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook|''Star Wars: Edge of the Empire'' Core Rulebook]] {{C|Galaxy map}}
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| *[[Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook|''Star Wars: Age of Rebellion'' Core Rulebook]] {{C|Galaxy map}}
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| *[[Star Wars: Force and Destiny Core Rulebook|''Star Wars: Force and Destiny'' Core Rulebook]]
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"Galaxywide NewsNets" – Star Wars Adventure Journal 3
"The Ordeal of Boba Fett" – Dark Empire Sourcebook (Mentioned only)
"Endnotes for Star Wars: The Essential Atlas (part 2 of 5)" – Continuity, Criticisms, and Captain Panaka, Daniel Wallace's StarWars.com Blog (content now obsolete; archived from the original) 
Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link not verified!)