Conheav Sector
Overview: Conheav sector was first settled millennia ago, during one
of the Old Republic's surges of colonization. From the beginning Conheav
sector had a good economy, at first based upon the exploitation and export
of natural resources, and then based upon industrial and commercial growth.
Conheav sector was one of the first sectors in the inner rim to become
developed. Because of this Conheav sector has become the corporate headquarters
for a number of large companies that operate in this and the neighboring
sectors. None of the galactic giants have their headquarters here, but
many of them, such as Kuat Drive Yards and SoroSuub, have important manufacturing,
sales, and shipping centers in the sector. This means that there are a
lot of rich and powerful people in the sector.
With the rise of the Empire, Conheav sector
was placed under the control of one Moff Ferwa. Ferwa was extremely lax
as Imperial moffs go, and when the inevitable protests against the Empire
arose, he couldn't be bothered to put them down brutally as he should.
He only got away with this because at the time COMPNOR was young, and didn't
have the manpower to have loyalty agents in every sector. Because of this,
however, resistance to the New Order slowly died away in the sector, since
the population really had very little to object about. In Conheav sector
the populace was largely isolated from the atrocities of the Empire, and
for the most part see the Empire as a force for order in the galaxy. Once
COMPNOR finally placed agents in Conheav sector, they saw that Ferwa was
a possible risk due to his reluctance to use extreme force in potentially
dangerous circumstances. Ferwa was eliminated quietly. When Ferwa was disposed
of, Moff Lesbeat was brought into the sector.
Lesbeat didn't take long to develop a power base through organized crime
in the form of the Nestor syndicate, and through
corporate and political maneuvering. By this time the types of situations
that had caused COMPNOR to eliminate Lesbeat's predecessor had largely
vanished, so Lesbeat was able to run the sector in such a way that he didn't
anger the population, but he was, unlike Ferwa, able to keep from angering
COMPNOR as well.
Despite the fact that there is little resistance
to Imperial rule in the sector, Lesbeat has used the ever-present threat
of piracy, and has fabricated a few false rebel cells in order to justify
having a full sector fleet under his control. Most of the ranking officers
in the Conheav sector fleet owe something to the Moff, creating a very
large and loyal fleet for Lesbeat. When the Empire fell at Endor, surprisingly
little changed in the Conheav sector. Luckily for Moff Lesbeat a full superiority
fleet was being transferred from coreward to a sector in the outer rim,
and was restocking at Lechar when the news of the Emperor's death arrived.
Lesbeat acted quickly and commandeered the fleet, increasing his naval
strength by almost 25%. Lesbeat now had a full 30 Imperial Star Destroyers
under his command, in addition to hundreds of smaller combat vessels. Largely
because of this powerful force, but also because of deft political and
criminal maneuvering, Moff Lesbeat was able to maintain order in his sector
and, more importantly, keep it under his control. Lesbeat stayed aloof
from the power struggles amongst the Imperial factions, and it was business
as usual for most of the population in the sector. The exports kept going
out and the economy stayed strong. When Grand Admiral Thrawn arrived on
the scene, Lesbeat recognized that he was the best chance the Empire had
yet seen to reunite and regain control of the galaxy. Moff Lesbeat was
one of Thrawn's first major supporters, and sent supplies and ships to
aid in his efforts. After all, the only reason that Lesbeat hadn't sided
with any of the other Imperials was because he saw this infighting as counter
productive. Lesbeat wanted a unified Empire, where he could stay in power
for the rest of his life, without having to worry about the New Republic.
In Thrawn Lesbeat saw a chance to gain such an Empire. After Thrawn's ultimate
defeat, almost all of the ships that had been sent to serve in his armada
returned, and Lesbeat reverted to his previous policies of neutrality amongst
the Imperial warlords. Moff Lesbeat still hopes to find a faction that
has a reasonable chance of rebuilding the Empire, but his hopes aren't
as high as they once were.
One interesting thing to note is that ever since
Lesbeat took over Imperial forces, both military and civil, have had access
to near-instantaneous communications within the sector. One of Lesbeat's
first acts was to implement a system of subspace signal amplifiers along
all of the hyperspace routes in the sector. This means that any Imperial
vessel with the proper codes can use this system to send messages to any
other Imperial vessel throughout the sector with a lag time of a minute
or two at the most. This system is not open for public use, however, due
to its expense, and doesn't make communication with Imperial forces outside
of the sector any faster, although it does allow quick communication with
Conheav Prime, and Conheav Prime has access to the holonet if any extremely
important messages must be sent out of the sector.
Map:
Note: there are more inhabited systems in the Conheav sector than are shown on this map, but these are the most important ones. Eventually I hope to have all of the systems shown here detailed under the planets section of my webpage.