A communication station, also referred to as comm interlink, comm node,[1] or comm booth[2] was the public version of a comm unit - an electronic device that handled communications between planets.
History
Jedi Padawan Darsha Assant, Lorn Pavan and I-5YQ tried to find a working comm station in the high-crime district of Coruscant.
One such unit was stationed at the Artorias communications center in 25 ABY. Since it was damaged, a Human mechanic named Sparky was assigned the task of fixing the interlink but was unsuccessful. He desperately sought the assistance of Dulac who pretended to fix it, but did nothing since he was an advance agent of a Yuuzhan Vong fleet.
While tampering with the machine, the agent received a transmission from the crew of the Pythea warning of the impending invasion. However, he ensured the information was not released. During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, the comm station was left offline; preventing communications between the planet and the New Republic. Given their hatred of mechanical technology, the machine was presumably destroyed by the Yuuzhan Vong during their occupation.
Appearances
- The Old Republic: Deceived (and audiobook)
- Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter (and unabridged audiobook)
- The Approaching Storm
- The Approaching Storm abridged audiobook
- "Death in the Catacombs" — Star Wars Insider 79 (Mentioned only)
- Operation: Elrood
- "Galaxywide NewsNets" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 7
- "Showdown" — The Kathol Rift (Reprinted and collected in The DarkStryder Campaign, Deluxe)
- "Shadows of Darkness" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 4 (also reprinted in Hyperspace: The Official Star Wars Fan Club)
- Heir to the Empire (and unabridged audiobook) (First appearance, in book) (as communication station)
- The Last Command (and unabridged audiobook) (as communication station)
- Dark Apprentice
- Before the Storm
- Specter of the Past (and unabridged audiobook)
- Young Jedi Knights: Shadow Academy
- Invasion 0, Part 2
- The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant
- Fate of the Jedi: Abyss (and audiobook)