Pulsar Station

Pulsar Station

Weapons: Multiple tributary superlasers

(Supposed) Construction Site: Moon of Dista (Corvis Minor system)

“Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks as if you were going to help someone build himself a Death Star.”

--Captain Corran Horn, on viewing Pulsar Station plans at Liinade III

The Pulsar Station, like the Death Star II, was conceived as part of an elaborate trap. Unlike the second Death Star, however, the Pulsar Station was never constructed. Former director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard, inspired by the use of the second Death Star's superlaser to target capital ships during the Battle of Endor, created plans for a Death Star-type system domination weapon. The station would have been rounded in appearance, with gravity well generator blisters around its center, its surface dimpled with multiple emitter sites for scaled-back tributary laser beams, bristling with smaller antiship weapons, and boasting six TIE fighter wings. With each of the tributary beams capable of taking out a Super-class Star Destroyer, Isard's battlestation would have been a formidable weapon...if she had the raw materials and personnel to construct it.

The fact was, however, that Isard had neither the resources nor the inclination. What she did have was a rogue clone of herself who had allied with Admiral Delak Krennel, warlord of the Ciutric Hegemony. Isard planned to convince Rogue Squadron to help her bring the clone and Krennel to defeat. In order to draw Rogue Squadron to the Corvis Minor system, she manufactured plans for the battlestation and constructed a lab on Liinade III, a world within Krennel's territory. She also assembled a team to analyze the plans, looking for flaws in the design in the same way the Rebel Alliance did at Yavin. The Liinade team ran simulated assaults against the station during various stages of construction. Within a year of construction, the station's hyperdrives would be operational, so that it could flee if attacked. Two months later, one of the tributary lasers would be completed, as would the station's shields, gravity well generators, and two TIE fighter bays, so that it could defend itself.

When the New Republic assaulted Liinade III, Captain Corran Horn discovered the lab. New Republic Intelligence operatives hustled off the workers, dismantled the equipment, and brought it all back to Coruscant. They were soon followed by Corran Horn and Commander Wedge Antillies, who explained the threat presented by what had come to be known as a "Pulsar Station" to the Republic Provisional Council. Believing that Krennel was constructing a Death Star-style weapon, Antillies convinced the Council to release this information to the public, in order to remove the popular support Krennel was attempting to gain.

Krennel was baffled by this accusation, but on the advice of Isard's clone countered that the New Republic had fabricated evidence of this weapon of mass destruction. Undaunted, Rogue Squadron surveyed several systems within the Hegemony, trying to find the Pulsar Station's construction site, finally singling out the Corvis Minor system, as Isard knew they would. Computer simulations determined that Distna, the moon of the fifth planet, could be hollow, raising the possibility that Krennel's weapon was being built inside the moon or, as the Empire had done at Varn, into the moon itself.

When Rogue Squadron arrived in system, they of course found no Pulsar Station awaiting them; only the overwhelming forces of Admiral Krennel.

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