Centerpoint Station
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In George Lucas' Star Wars saga, Centerpoint Station is an ancient space station that was capable of moving entire planets with its tractor beams and eons ago was used to move the planets Corellia, Drall, Selonia and possibly Talus and Tralus to their current location. The station sits at a lagrange point between the two worlds. It was first seen in Showdown at Centerpoint.
At over 300km wide and 1000km across, it was nearly twice as wide as the first Death Star. From a distance, it appeared as a huge partially translucent sphere with two small cylyndrical poles facing the two worlds. The interior consisted of a hollowed area known as Hollowtown (which was at one point inhabited), as well as the station's immensely powerful tractor beam arrays. The station was built before the invention of artificial gravity and so it rotated to simulate gravity. The Glowpoint, an artificial sun-like spot at its center, was the power source for the station.
Centerpoint Station had within its mass an extremely intricate collection of systems that were designed by the unknown architects. The best minds in the galaxy had been studying, mapping, and pondering its workings for ages, but there were still gaping holes in the understanding of its key processes. What had been discovered was that the system was capable of generating huge amounts of nuclear, magnetic, electric, tractor beam, and hyperspace generation power for use in a type of "hyperspace tractor beam." The station could project a huge tractor beam through a hyperspace path, grabbing an object as large as a superstar for moving anywhere within its operational range. The station could also harness this power for the destruction of stars and planets, collapsing their cores through massive gravitational fluxes.
Very powerful hyperspace tractor beam arrays consisted of huge conelike structures within the station surrounded by three smaller cones. During the system's operation, this specifically designed geometric array somehow acted as the source of the beam's power. It was discovered, during the Corellian Crisis, that the unique tractor beam system could be used as a weapon capable of destroying entire stars, making it at least as powerful as a Sun Crusher. In this crisis, Thrackan Sal-Solo intended to use the station to force entire star systems into submission and restore the Imperial system in the Corellian Sector. After a gripping battle, the Starburster Plot was averted.
A few years later during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, Anakin Solo refused to use Centerpoint Station to destroy an entire Yuuzhan Vong fleet in the Battle of Fondor, so Thrackan Sal-Solo did instead; however, his aim was off, resulting in the destruction not only of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet but a great deal of the allied Hapan fleet as well.
| Superweapons of the Star Wars Expanded Universe | |
|---|---|
| Space Stations | |
| Star Forge | Centerpoint Station | Death Star | |
| Extraorbital Weapons | |
| Galaxy Gun | Eye of Palpatine | Sun Crusher | |
| Suborbital Weapons | |
| Mass shadow generator | Dark Reaper | World Devastator | |
| See also | |
| List of Star Wars ship-mounted weapons | List of Star Wars ranged weapons | List of Star Wars heavy weapons | List of Star Wars melee weapons | List of Star Wars heavy weapons |
