Ghauba

Ghauba is an Outer Rim colony world, home to independent settlers who had all but broken away from Imperial control and to non-humans fleeing the Empire's persecution in the Core. Its population numbered roughly fifty-five to sixty thousand people spread across three colony cities, chief among them Outpost City. Kybuss, a Sluissi mechanic, worked the docks there.

Two fugitive slicers wanted by the Empire were sheltering on the world, and the Empire came hunting them, which Quinel Neviden recognized would doom the colony whether or not the targets were found — an example made of a settlement harboring fugitives. Over roughly eight hours, stormtroopers and TIE fighters massacred the colonists, who fought back with hidden weapons but stood no real chance, reducing Outpost City to burning ruins and bodies. As the Misfit Stray lifted off, the Star Destroyers in orbit opened a "Base Delta Zero" bombardment, raining turbolaser fire across the entire planet until its atmosphere glowed orange-hot and all three colony cities burned. The colony was left a graveyard; Tammea, orphaned during the escape when both her parents died, was very likely the only one to get off-world.

In the aftermath, Ghauba is recounted as the atrocity that orphaned Tammea and continues to haunt Quinel Neviden, who describes it as a Base Delta Zero that turned an entire colony into molten slag. Official footage released by the Empire characterizes the event as a crackdown on insurrectionists harboring known terrorists, making no mention of Tammea or the Stray.

Ghauba's destruction is discussed as retaliation for the two slicers' sabotage of Imperial Star Destroyers, the act that drew the Empire's attention to the colony. Imperial propaganda continues to frame the colonists as having brought the massacre on themselves.