Invasion of Aranya

"Very well. Blockade the planet. Seize the spaceports. Don’t allow a single living being to escape. With luck, [the holocron] will be in our hands before another standard day passes."

- Raixan Fauth In the early days of the Fauth State conquest, dark side warlord Raixan Fauth and his forces launched a blockade of the Unknown Regions planet of Aranya. Hoping to acquire an ancient holocron that he believed to be on the planet, what Fauth and his men did not expect was that it had already been discovered, by a young Force-sensitive peddler named Calen Solayr, and General Saedus' attempts to locate it were fruitless. Forming an alliance with escaped Jedi apprentice Anhri Claynes, Solayr and his astromech droid Z1-X1 launched an attempt to leave the planet, aided and abetted by hyperspace explorer Skyric Worrsayn, who bargained with them to gain their assistance in escaping, in exchange for transport onboard his ship, the Kitehawk.

However, their escape went awry when they were captured by the Fauth State's mobile capital, the Ziz. The group managed to briefly wreak havoc within before discovering and freeing captured Jedi Master Rend Arcturius. Their attempt to vacate the world-sized ship was halted when they were confronted by Saedus himself, who released an installation of the Dread Crown superweapon over the planet below. Acting quickly, Solayr boarded it himself with the hopes of disabling it from within. As he fell, the rest of the group took advantage of its release to escape as well, and managed to rescue the young peddler, who had succeeded in his endeavor, before finishing off the installation and jumping to hyperspace, heading towards the capital of the Triumvirate Subversive Intelligence Service, Hideaway.

Unbeknownst to them, Fauth had used their escape as an elaborate ruse, and had managed to obtain the coordinates to his enemy's base. Rallying his fleet, he followed them towards the planet, leading to the following battle there.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The New Frontier