The Roost was a space station that served as the base of a crew of mercenaries led by Ranzar Malk. The Mandalorian bounty hunter known as Din Djarin visited the space station to join a team of mercenaries, who had been tasked by Malk into rescuing the prisoner Qin from the Bothan-5, a New Republic Correctional Transport. The team betrayed Djarin and left him for dead, but he escaped and returned to the station with Qin, the latter unknowingly carrying a tracker from the prison ship. Malk paid Djarin and let him leave, but ordered a gunship to shoot him down. However, a New Republic X-wing squadron followed the tracker's distress signal and opened fire on the station, destroying it.
The station had some shielding, but lacked weaponry, making it vulnerable to attack.
The Roost first appeared in the sixth episode of Jon Favreau's 2019 television series The Mandalorian. The space station was designed to reflect real-world automotive chop shops, where sweaty workers cut up and assemble motorcycles and hotrods in a greasy and spark-filled garage, as opposed to the makeshift Rebel or orderly Imperial hangars typically seen in Star Wars. Concept supervisor Ryan Church shaped the space station's exterior to consciously reflect Cloud City, but interpreted more crudely. For the chop shop's aperture to space, Church intentionally moved away from the parallel lines of Imperial or First Order hangars, choosing a trapezoidal design instead.
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