Sluis Van

Located in the Sluis sector, Sluis Van contains extensive shipyards and the huge Sluis Van Central orbit- dock station, and is defended by perimeter battle stations. The busy shipyards are managed by an outer system defense network and the overloaded Sluissi workers at Sluis Control. Six months after the Battle of Endor, the Sluis Van Congregate was still debating on whether to join the New Republic. Though the Sluis sector lay closer to New Republic sectors than to the Imperially-held Core Worlds, the Sluissi did not want to alienate the Empire, which was still one of their main shipyard clients. Five years after Endor, Grand Admiral Thrawn launched an attack on 112 warships docked at Sluis Van, attempting to capture several of them with a cloaked cargo of spacetrooper-manned mole miners. No warships were captured, but the destruction of their control systems rendered over 40 of them useless. Notable members of the snakelike Sluissi species include Secles Uslopos, henchman for the crimelord Abdi-Badawzi on the planet Socorro. [HTTE, DFR, SWAJ]