Nowhere Incident

"We killed ourselves. Paranoia and suspicion ran rampant within the ship, until we were forced to betray our ideals and descend into insanity."

- Anders The Nowhere Incident, otherwise known as the Nowhere disaster or the Nowhere tragedy was an event during the Galactic Civil War, believed to have been orchestrated by the Galactic Empire.

In 3 ABY, the recommissioned civilian cargo ship Nowhere was ordered to deliver weapons and armaments to an Alliance outpost on Yavin 4. However, after the ship's hyperdrive went missing, the crew believed there was a traitor from the Empire in their midst. The subsequent distrust and paranoia caused the ship's crew to kill each other, with the youngest crewmember - Anders - barely escaping with his life.

The tragedy of the Nowhere was kept a secret up until the defeat of the Empire. The families of the deceased crewmembers were outraged as to how an event such as this could happen. According to Leia Organa, the Alliance inadequately performed background checks on its crewmembers - but most importantly on its captain; who had a history of mental instability after suffering a similar incident during the Clone Wars.