The Penastar Alignment, placement and planets

I have the WEG stuff featuring the alignment, descriptions of government and all branches. Maybe I can help later.

 

Corva Sector and Obtrexta Sector are by each other. Obtrexta Sector is connected to Dantooine by Myto's Arrow. Obtrexta is also near "the Wastes" (Wild Space). So in the vicinity of Dantooine, near Wild Space, we have these sectors. I believe Pellaeon's NJO remnant was the "heartland" of the the Pentastar Alignment. Jerec conquered Sulon and Dorlo, obviously some distance from this heartland, but he held loyalty to Kaine, so I would see Jerec's little hegemony as sorta a "puppet" ally of the Pentastar perhaps.

 

How about as far as the timeline goes? We know the Penastar Alignment was formed shortly after the New Republic, but how long did it last? Its leadership was killed by Daala, wasn't it?

 

Daala killed the Deep Core Imperials, not all of those on the Rim, I thought?

can you list all sources for the pentastar alignment? that way I might look most of them up.

I have 1 WEG book featuring much on the alignment, but only few stuff about locations.
then Abels articles referenced it, connecting it to Jerec.

anything else? adventures, novels, articles, guides?

 

There's a short story, Blaze of Glory, that shows a New Republic mercenary commando team going after a Penastar stronghold.

 

where was this story in? and your misspelling "penastar" sounds like Abel's last name lol.. his own Empire. the man really knows how to make a living!

it is called pantastar alignment if I recall right.

 

Or Pentastar...I think it's Pentastar (all of my sources are back home, and I'm at school). Anyway, it was in the Adventure Journal (either 8, 9, or 10) and reprinted in Tales from the Empire.

 

If it is the story i think it is, you are wrong. It was a group of mercenaries destroying a slaver's base allied with the Penestar.

 

Pentastar Alignment (penta- 5)

The leader, Ardus Kaine, was killed during Operation Shadow Hand (around Dark Empire II).

 

I don't know of any proof they controlled Dantooine itself, just two nearby sectors, probably within NJO Imperial Space.

The are of space which contained Sulon was conquered by Jerec, whom swore loyalty to Kaine, and thus was like a conquered territory of the Alignment rather than within the alignment itself. THink of India, at one point part of the British Empire, never part of actual Britain. And we know Jerec simply used lipservice loyalty to Kaine for resources and personnel, no sign of these worlds being Alignment taxpayers

 

Sin...
"Curious. So the PA controls the vicinity of Dantooine, which at my check was NR territory in TTT and NR in JAT.....curious."

You have to remember that all maps, all pretty much derivatives of a map of "The Slice" we're priivy to are 2-d representations of a 3-d volume of space. As a result, not everything is going to be able to be represented properly.

Sort of like when you see flat maps of the globe, there's all manner of errors due to projections, etc.

 

Wait a moment. It was pretty explicit in TTT that Yaga Minor was part of the Empire proper.

I always figured the heartland of the Alignment to mostly be around the Rim part of Hutt Space.

 

I never said Yaga Minor was part of the Pentastar. But the Pentastar was probably not too farr from it.

 

to clear this up:

Unknown Regions: All unxplored space within the Galaxy

THE Unknown regions: the space marked and not fully explored on the galaxy map


Wild Space: All semi-explored or unexplored Regions on the outer boarder of the galaxy'S edge, or above/below the galactic plane. the boarder, the outermost regions. like f.e. in the galactic arms outer regions.

everywhere in the galaxy, not only near one or several worlds. they are general terms.

 

Right. THe Wild Space I refer to would be that between the Imperial Remnant (NJO era) and the edge of the galaxy.

 

I think the area covered by the Alignment can be easier understood if we assume the following:

It is not one connected huge Imperial area in the Outer Rim, but several. Maybe 2 or maybe a handful of small pocket empires that together are the Alignment.

The word Alignment implies this, in my opinion. "A line", meaning a small/thin area of space across the Outer Rim... but we know not only full lines but also dotted lines f.e.

So what if it is this? several aligned imperial spaces that together are the alignment. in between where the most heavy fights with the NR forces, f.e. at the major trade routes. the basic alignment territory might have been this dotted alignment, while in between the alignment space, the area wasn´t secure alignment territory but still battling against the NR there. like in Israel and Gaza, some areas are secured others still considered to be a part are fought over and not truly a part except on maps.

could this work?

 

And yet noone's up to making a 3D map of the galaxy, as placing all the planets in 2D space is hard enough. Now we have the upper and lower galactic plane to worry about.

And just to confirm, what were the sectors that comprised the PA? I already know of the Velcar Free Commerce Zone (aka Velcar Sector), and Obtrexta Sector.

Also how does this relate to the Imperial Remnant, with its 8 sectors?

 

The PA inc. (at least) Corva Sector, Velcar Sector, Obtrexta Sector, and "the Wastes" of Wild Space.

 

wookiee...
"And just to confirm, what were the sectors that comprised the PA? I already know of the Velcar Free Commerce Zone (aka Velcar Sector), and Obtrexta Sector.[i/]"

We don't have detailed information of the Alignment in terms of Sectors. We, however, know several important related facts.

Kaine was one of Palpatine's earliest converts, staunchest supporters, and a brilliant and charismatic leader. He got to be Grand Moff Tarkin's successor to Oversector Outer the hard way - he earned it. And that's to say, he largely would've held on to it as well. In addition to Oversector Outer, we do know that the Alignment was specifically comprised of:

"With hundreds of capital ships and several legions of loyal Imperial army soldiers and stromtroopers at their command, and more forces joining all the time, the Alignment has swallowed whole systems in its path while installing planetary overseers to its will and desires..."
(Classic Adventures Vol. 4, p. 91)

"During the extent of the 'emergency' Kaine has declared, the Pentastar Alignment and the regions under its control maintain much of the Empire's infrastructure..."
(Classic Adventures Vol. 4, p. 91)

"The Pentastar Alignment encompasses hundreds of worlds..."
(Classic Adventures Vol. 4, p. 99)

 

Was Kaine black, or was that just Teshik? Because I know that Teshik was (we need more stories about him, BTW) but I'm not sure about Kaine.

It's possibly that I'm thinking "Kanye"...

 

I thought Corva bordered the PA but wasn't actually in it?