

Like its predecessors, it served as the meeting place for the Moff Council and the site of the state archives, the civil administration, and Bastion Military Control but the Imperial leadership strove to keep the precise location of this new Bastion as secret as possible to prevent the New Republic mounting a direct assault on their command facilities, so the fact that Sartinaynian was Bastion was not initially widely-known. Instead, the capital was orbited merely by the Bastion customs station. Both planets would remain loyal to the New Order, and the continuing leverage enjoyed by Muunilinst could be seen by that world's refusal to surrender one of its defensive Golan battlestations to guard Bastion. However, political realities eventually forced the colonists to join the Republic, and ironically, the colony relied heavily on the alien Muuns of the InterGalactic Banking Clan for financial support, based on nearby Muunilinst.

By the time of the Caamas Document Crisis, the Imperial government was located on Sartinaynian it was the last of these worlds, where the rulers of the Empire relocated shortly before peace with the New Republic in 16 ABY.īastion's location remained a closely guarded secret, until the events surrounding the discovery of the Caamas Document in 16 ABY forced Han Solo and Lando Calrissian to locate the planet in an attempt to find a complete copy in the Imperial archives.ĭuring the Old Republic era, the planet had originally been settled by Humans who opposed alien membership in the Galactic Republic. Originally, " Bastion" was just a term for the worlds on which the Remnant's Council of Moffs and administrative headquarters were temporarily located. Bastion was located in the Sartinaynian system at the terminus of the trade route known as the Braxant Run. " Still a long way from the glittering towers of Coruscant." ― Lando Calrissian and Han Solo īastion, originally Sartinaynian, was the capital world of the Braxant sector in the Outer Rim Territories, and later the New Galactic Empire.

It was a sector capital once, so they're probably used to having a bureaucracy underfoot." " Funny place to put an Imperial capital."
