Harm's Way

Harm's Way was a remote space station in the Bright Jewel system owned by the pirate captain (publicly known as a mining baron) Thomos Kree, an affiliate of the Black Sun crime syndicate.

Overview
Thomos Kree, a native of Ord Mantell, owned the station as a baron since 37 BBY after purchasing it from a failing mining company. Using funds afforded to him by his successful pirate career, Captain Kree extensively modified the station and even equipped it with medium point defense cannons (which were legal in many sectors on civilian stations and freighters for security against pirates and fast-moving debris).

Legally, it was disguised as an asteroid mining complex with civilian accomodations, though in reality provided resupply, repair, and hideout services to the Black Sun's vast hordes of pirates, smugglers, and roving mercenaries. It also had a residential component that several hundred families called home; these residents - typically family members of Black Sun operatives who were gifted free housing - often worked in other wings to maintain the station's restaurants, hangars, "trade" centers, motels, and repair stations that were frequented by passing spacers as well as visitors (and government inspectors) from the nearby Ord Mantell. The Mantellian government was well aware of the station's underworld dealings - hence their constant barrage of undercover inspectors - though official investigations frequently turned up cold.

In 15 BBY, Captain Kree's actual pursuits were revealed after he was spotted by an Imperial patrol craft fleeing from a recent pirate raid and was tracked back to Harm's Way. Now with "structure suspected as being involved in an extortion or trafficking operation" as a feasible excuse, a joint force of Imperial Navy troopers and Mantellian police officers raided the station and, after defeating the many gangsters and mercenaries within, seized over 250 million credits worth of illegal narcotics, munitions, and stolen goods; more than 600 arrests and detainments, including Captain Kree (who would escape imprisonment on Coruscant four years later and returned to piracy) were made. The station was subsequently repurposed as an Imperial Navy refueling center (and continued mining operations under an appointed Imperial baron) and was destroyed during the Galactic Civil War by Rebel gunships.