The Mensix Mining Facility, formally known as mining facility AG3-T, was a largest mining installation on the planet Mustafar during the Imperial Period. It was built by Mensix Corp near the Klegger Corp Mining Facility destroyed at the end of the Clone Wars.
The mining facility AG3-T was located in the Mining Fields, a region of Mustafar that was the primary operating area of the Mensix Mining Company. The massive mining complex was built on the side of a mountain, overlooking a large lava river.
A Mustafarian miner working alongside mining droids
The Mensix Facility was the headquarters and the main mining facility of Mensix Corp. It was nearly an identical replica of the older Klegger Corp Mining Facility, and even used the same technologies dating back to the days of the Old Republic. The mining facility possessed three massive collector arms that were used to collect large amounts of molten rock from the lava river. A giant centrifuge then processed this magma to extract the valuable ores from the lava. The Mensix Mining Facility could process almost five thousand metric tons of raw materials harvested from the rich lava flows every day. The facility was the central hub of activity on its continent of Mustafar.
Mensix Corp miners chatting in a corridor of the facility
The mining facility was also used as a planetary spaceport. The main level of the facility was opened to the public and could be directly accessed though the landing pad that was served by extra-system space shuttles. The main level included the Mensix Corp command center, a conference room, a cantina, a medical bay, several offices and various technical rooms.
The Mensix Mining facility was built shortly after the end of the Clone Wars. At the end of the Clone Wars, in 19 BBY, the Klegger Corp Mining Facility was destroyed, leaving Klegger Corporation, the most important mining company on Mustafar bankrupt. Fortunately, Milo Mensix, a local Mustafarian corporation executive, was able to salvage the assets of Klegger Corp, preventing the mining business on the planet to fall apart. This allowed the Mensix Mining Company to take over as the primary mining corporation on Mustafar and build its own facility, in the neighborhood of the ruins of the Klegger Corp Mining Facility.
The Mensix Mining Facility during the Galactic Civil War
Around the time of the Battle of Yavin, staff of the mining facility, all Mustafarians, included Foreman Chivos, Surveyor Jo Keslev, Urup Fal'co, Chief Armstrong, Foreman Donko Jen, Chief Ulon Glost, and Milo Mensix himself. Other people working in the facility included the archaeologist Ithes Olok, the geologist Pwwoz Pwwa, the historian Epo Qetora, and the pilot Menddle.
During the Galactic Civil War, the Galactic Empire got envious of to the rich production of the Mensix Mining Company and even considered to take over the company. After the Battle of Yavin, the Galactic Empire forced Milo Mensix to make the Empire his main client and requested more that what his company could produce. As the Empire threatened to subjugate Mensix Corp if he did not meet the imposed deadlines, Milo Mensix pushed his staff and machinery to work over capacity. The mining facility was solicited to process 20 percent more materials than normal, causing damage to the equipment. Finally, a wide strike of the mining crews erupted in 1 ABY and made the situation even more complicated for the company.
Milo Mensix's crisis center during HK-47's droid revolution
Foreman Chivos therefore recruited a band of spacer to deal with several immediate problem for the company, including repairs of the mining facility. Afterwards, the desperate Milo Mensix tasked the spacer with exploring the wreckage of an Old Republic cruiser in order to find lost technologies that could be used to improve the mining facility. In the crashed ship, the spacers discovered the artificial intelligence of a droid trapped in a computer. This AI belonged in fact to the assassin droid HK-47. The droid had been intentionally confined in a common computer by Separatists twenty years before because it was too dangerous. HK-47 tricked the spacers into helping him to escape the ship's computer. The droid claimed that he could help Mensix Corp to find the wanted technology if they transferred his memory to the computers of an old research facility, and then to an abandoned Separatist droid factory on Mustafar. The spacers accepted and followed HK-47's instructions. However, they later realized that they inadvertently allowed HK-47 to begin the production of a large droid army. Furious at having been stuck in a crashed ship for two decades, the assassin droid wanted to take revenge by destroying all organics on the planet. The spacers returned to the Mensix Mining facility as quickly as possible to warn Milo Mensix that the mining complex was the main target of HK-47's droid army. The Mustafarians had limited defensive capabilities but they fought heroically and, thanks to the decisive intervention of a large group of spacers hired by Milo Mensix, they finally defeated the droid army at the Koseyet Mining Camp. Eventually, HK-47 and the remnants of his army were defeated in an epic battle in a volcano crater. After the conclusion of HK-47's droid revolution, Mensix Corp took control of the old Separatist droid factory with the intention to sell the resources stockpiled there to the Empire, and eventually to be released of the Imperial menace.
The cantina
Around the same time, in 1 ABY, a freighter piloted by Captain Diskret Stahn was attacked by pirates while traveling to Naboo. The ship escaped but was severely damaged, forcing Captain Stahn to make a detour to Mustafar. The pilot landed at the Mensix Mining Facility for repairs and supplies. Unfortunately, Diskret Stahn and his passenger, the dancer Pei Yi, had to wait for a very long time because the repairs were considerably delayed. Hence, they spent most of their time in the mining facility's cantina. Other beings who visited the facility in the meantime included Uggo, the protocol droid Q4P3, and the treasure hunters Menth Paul and Ikt. Later the same year, a spacer who explored the facility collected a lava cannon.
The Mensix Mining Facility appeared in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts, prior to its closure on December 15, 2011. The Mensix Mining Facility were added to the game with the release of the expansion pack Trials of Obi-Wan on November 1, 2005.
- Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Guide: Prima Official Game Guide