Vindex

A colony world established during the Old Republic, Vindex was the location of one of the fiercest battles of the Clone Wars.

Republic and Separatist forces engaged in fierce conflict over the fertile planet. The battle of Vindex raged for nearly four months and was ultimately inconclusive, as both sides withdrew from the system to focus on objectives closer to the Core Worlds. The aftermath of the battle left the planet and its orbit filled with wrecked military vehicles, undetonated ordinance and abandoned military supplies. The few colonists who had survived evacuated, mostly relocating to Disentis or Banat.

As the colonists left, they were replaced by salvagers, smugglers and bandits, keen to pick through the detritus of war for trade commodities. Rival gangs of scavengers often clashed, and what had once been a peaceful agricultural planet soon became an infamous hive of scum and villainy. One of the more successful scavenger gang leaders constructed Vulture Station in orbit around the planet.

Although most of the high value salvage has long since been removed from Vindex, the planet still attracts those looking to make a profit from the aftermath of the Clone Wars. The 145th Squadron keeps an eye on the smugglers, making sure that no military grade hardware is removed from the planet.

Recently, a shipment of undamaged proton torpedoes was found by the scavenger Vokk and removed from the planet by the crew of Saucy Mare.