“You’ll never reach the outskirts in time. Sandstorms are very, very dangerous.”
― Anakin Skywalker to Qui-Gon Jinn and Padmé Amidala
The Si’Klaata Cluster was an area near the Tion Hegemony and the Sisar Run. It contained the Kintan system, as well as the worlds of Klatooine, Tas-La, Vodran, and Vontor. Klatooine, a desert planet was much like others of its type – arid, relatively low population and the occasional space wreck.
Unlike Jakku, the rationale for finding abandoned and even crashed ships was not because of some major space battle in the past but because of its location. For the Si’Klaata Cluster was the ‘finish line’ for the Kessel Run, which ran from the planet Kessel to the Si’Klaata Cluster. And not every ship ended the 18-parsec route used by smugglers to move glitterstim spice from Kessel to an area south of the Si’Klaata Cluster without getting caught by the Imperial ships that were guarding the movement of spice from Kessel’s mines. And those that did, weren’t always in good enough shape to avoid Klatooine’s gravity.
The main reason they remained unmolested was that, to find them was a challenge and the age of the ships meant they offered limited benefit for the outlay. At least for conventional scavengers. But if you’re life depended on fixing things, any spare parts were useful. So, every now and then, Fiach would head out to find a wreck and see what she could bring back.
DERELKROOS DESERT
The locals called the storm by many names. It had a name because many Klatoonians believed there was only the one, the same one that returned again and again. It was linked to their culture and its focus on time.
The storm was blamed for a great many things. It was the source of the famine that had plagued the planet. It was the reason the water had gone away. It was responsible for the interlopers who plagued their lands and often defiled the Fountain of Ancients by bringing technology too close. It was also (quite unfairly) blamed for the ships crashing to the sands so many years before. The ship graveyards were a monument to the storm’s anger.
Fiach didn’t believe a word of it, but she didn’t flaunt the fact.
She’d spied the structure of what must have been a medium freighter, half-buried in the sands, the last time she was out here and she was returning to see if she could salvage something. The forecast was fair so she’d struck out for her quarry.
They say someone poor has no luck, yet those without would argue they have luck…and it’s all bad. Just over half-way between the safety of the town and the wreckage, she looked out and saw the storm forming on the horizon. She knew immediately that it would be a big one. It was time to make a decision.
She decided to go on and from that moment, it was a race to the freighter. Fiach and her speeder shooting as fast as she could push it across the desert, the rising wind heading in the opposite direction. With one hand she tugged the end of her long, looped scarf from beneath her belt and wrapped it around her nose and mouth. Not for the first time, she wished she owned a pair of goggles.
― Anakin Skywalker to Qui-Gon Jinn and Padmé Amidala
The Si’Klaata Cluster was an area near the Tion Hegemony and the Sisar Run. It contained the Kintan system, as well as the worlds of Klatooine, Tas-La, Vodran, and Vontor. Klatooine, a desert planet was much like others of its type – arid, relatively low population and the occasional space wreck.
Unlike Jakku, the rationale for finding abandoned and even crashed ships was not because of some major space battle in the past but because of its location. For the Si’Klaata Cluster was the ‘finish line’ for the Kessel Run, which ran from the planet Kessel to the Si’Klaata Cluster. And not every ship ended the 18-parsec route used by smugglers to move glitterstim spice from Kessel to an area south of the Si’Klaata Cluster without getting caught by the Imperial ships that were guarding the movement of spice from Kessel’s mines. And those that did, weren’t always in good enough shape to avoid Klatooine’s gravity.
The main reason they remained unmolested was that, to find them was a challenge and the age of the ships meant they offered limited benefit for the outlay. At least for conventional scavengers. But if you’re life depended on fixing things, any spare parts were useful. So, every now and then, Fiach would head out to find a wreck and see what she could bring back.
DERELKROOS DESERT
The locals called the storm by many names. It had a name because many Klatoonians believed there was only the one, the same one that returned again and again. It was linked to their culture and its focus on time.
The storm was blamed for a great many things. It was the source of the famine that had plagued the planet. It was the reason the water had gone away. It was responsible for the interlopers who plagued their lands and often defiled the Fountain of Ancients by bringing technology too close. It was also (quite unfairly) blamed for the ships crashing to the sands so many years before. The ship graveyards were a monument to the storm’s anger.
Fiach didn’t believe a word of it, but she didn’t flaunt the fact.
She’d spied the structure of what must have been a medium freighter, half-buried in the sands, the last time she was out here and she was returning to see if she could salvage something. The forecast was fair so she’d struck out for her quarry.
They say someone poor has no luck, yet those without would argue they have luck…and it’s all bad. Just over half-way between the safety of the town and the wreckage, she looked out and saw the storm forming on the horizon. She knew immediately that it would be a big one. It was time to make a decision.
She decided to go on and from that moment, it was a race to the freighter. Fiach and her speeder shooting as fast as she could push it across the desert, the rising wind heading in the opposite direction. With one hand she tugged the end of her long, looped scarf from beneath her belt and wrapped it around her nose and mouth. Not for the first time, she wished she owned a pair of goggles.