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As a result, Kuat was essential for the Empire's strategy of planetary containment and fast infantry deployment. " We've bombed the shipyards at Kuat and the supply base on Imdaar." ― Admiral Gial Ackbar, to Leia Organa, shortly after the Battle of Yavin įollowing the transformation of the Republic into the authoritarian Galactic Empire, most of the New Order's Imperial-class Star Destroyers were constructed, repaired, and resupplied at the massive shipyard, with it being the only shipyard capable of maintaining more than a handful at a time. Guarded by a significant ground-based garrison along with a large Imperial fleet, its defenses were considered nearly impenetrable, with a large percentage directed towards space combat. ĭue to the planet's geopolitical significance, its defenses were formidable.
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The orbital ring had a total inhabitable area of less than three hundred thousand square kilometers, thus making its livable space smaller than a typical planetary substation. Inside the scaffolding existed the skeletons of ships and other craft, with tiny bright dots drifting to and from the ships under construction with the habitats of the station. Serving as Kuat Drive Yards' legendary shipyards, the ring appeared to galactic citizenry as an immense scaffold in space, bridged and augmented with enormous habitats and machinery. Unlike other planets in the galaxy, a single, large man-made ring circled its equator. A factory world, it was the homeworld of the Kuati people, and ruled by traditional aristrocrats. Kuat was a standard terrestrial planet of clouds, water, and land.