Freerock was a planet located in the Expansion Region and the Interior region, situated within Wild Space near the Unknown Regions. Formerly nameless, it was home to an abandoned monastery–turned–outpost. Four months after the Battle of Jakku in 5 ABY, where the Galactic Empire had suffered a final defeat, Freerock was a haven for refugees of the battle and ex-Imperials, including the former TIE pilot Bansu Ro.
Nath Tensent—an ex–New Republic pilot and ex–TIE pilot before that—went to Freerock and found Ro at the Rim's Edge cantina, offering the ex-Imperial a place in his new crew. At the same time, Wyl Lark, who had served with Tensent in the New Republic, found his old squadronmate and offered for him to return to service with the government. Tensent, feeling he had no place in the New Republic, refused to return, and the pair politely parted ways. Between 34 and 35 ABY, the chef Strono Tuggs visited the Rim's Edge on Freerock and tried its signature drink, going on to make an entry about it in his cookbook, The Ultimate Cookbook.
Freerock was a planet situated in the Expansion Region and the Interior region at the coordinates H-13 on the Standard Galactic Grid. It was located within the reaches of Wild Space, near the Unknown Regions.
During the reign of the Galactic Empire, when Freerock was a nameless planet, the corrupt Imperial TIE fighter pilot Nath Tensent visited Rim's Edge cantina at Freerock's outpost, a former monastery. In 5 ABY, the Empire suffered a final defeat at the hands of the New Republic in the Battle of Jakku, in which Tensent served as a New Republic pilot and fought against the Empire's 204th Imperial Fighter Wing. Four months after the battle, Freerock had since earned its name and was a haven for refugees from the planet Jakku, with former New Republic and Imperial personnel sharing war stories at the Rim's Edge. Pirates, explorers, fortune seekers, and smugglers were similarly found at the cantina, some scheming plan with one another. One of the ex-Imperials there was Bansu Ro, who had served as a TIE pilot in the 204th.
Nath Tensent tracked Bansu Ro (pictured) down on Freerock.
After those four months following Jakku, Tensent, having retired from service in the New Republic, returned to Freerock in search of Ro, having recruited two other veterans from the 204th, Creet and Nord Kandende, for his new freelancing crew. The ex–New Republic pilot found and approached his quarry at the Rim's Edge cantina, where Ro was initially poised to draw his vibroknife on his visitor. Tensent then gave his pitch to the ex-Imperial, bringing up the recruitment of Creet and Kandende as an incentive. Meanwhile, Wyl Lark, who had served with Tensent in the New Republic, had tracked down his former squadronmate to Freerock.
T5, Tensent's astromech droid, interrupted Tensent and Ro to inform the former about Lark, and Tensent offered to speak with the ex-Imperial at the establishment Roderick's in a few hours if the latter was interested in the offer to join Tensent's crew. Tensent spoke with Lark at a decaying cloister on the other side of the outpost, where the latter showed concern that Tensent was returning to the criminal life that he had led while he served the Empire. Tensent tried to justify his decisions and the two offered each other places in their respective groups. Following an exchange of polite words, they parted ways.
At some point between 34 and 35 ABY, the Artiodac chef Strono Tuggs once visited the Rim's Edge cantina on Freerock, finding the eclectic atmosphere there similar to that to his former workplace, Maz's castle on the planet Takodana. The chef tried the cantina's signature drink of the same name, which took his mind back to Maz's castle. Tuggs wrote an entry for the drink in his cookbook, the The Ultimate Cookbook, briefly describing his impression of Rim's Edge while he was on Freerock.
Freerock was home to a monastery that was eventually abandoned, later becoming an outpost. During the era of the New Republic, at least two establishments, the Rim's Edge cantina and Roderick's, were located in the outpost.
Freerock appeared in Victory's Price, the third and final novel in Alexander Freed's Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron trilogy, which was published in 2021.
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