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Fondor was a world famous for its extensive orbital shipyards, exceeded only by those at Corellia and Kuat. These shipyards were associated with the Techno Union prior to the Clone Wars. Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer, Executor was constructed in these yards.
Fondor was located in the Freeworlds Region of Tapani Sector, a sector technically part of the Colonies but so old and well-regarded that many considered it a part of the Core Worlds. Fondor itself was completely industrialized eons ago, and its surface scabbed with excavations, factories, cooling towers, steam tunnels, and offices, all related to the planet's central role in starship construction. The planet also housed hectares of laborers' barracks for the dockworkers whose jobs were overhead. The Fondorians were baseline human, but with distinctive hairstyles. The Empire established the Fondor-Gandeal Hyperlane to facilitate import of raw materials to the Fondor Shipyards from Gandeal. Fondor was a main market for the Besadii Hutts.
An Exclusive Task[]
The contract to build the Executor came somewhat unexpectedly, as Kuat Drive Yards was the manufacturer of the Empire's Star Destroyers and later instances of the Executor-class. The Empire required complete secrecy in the project, closing off all nonmilitary traffic in the system. Though the dockyard bosses were angered by the fact that they could no longer serve their commercial clients, the fact the project took up the majority of the yard's resources and the legendary wrath of Vader kept them in check.
In order to efficiently provide resources to the Executor project, the Empire created a classified route to the planet Gandeal. The Gandeal-Fondor Hyperlane remained a well kept secret decades after the Executor was completed.
As an essential manufacturer of Star Destroyers, albeit unique variants, for the Galactic Empire, the shipyards became a target by the Rebel Alliance. In one instance, a prototype Star Dreadnought with a cloaking device was under construction. Rogue Squadron penetrated the shipyards in stolen Imperial starfighters and terminated the project, preventing its completion.