Northern Turmoil (I)
Tang Xiao had crossed paths with Planet Ord Mantell before.
Back when he was training under Darth Pregas, Pregas had once sent him to Planet Ord Mantell to slaughter a casino.
But Tang Xiao was not directly involved in what happened on Planet Ord Mantell this time. He was on his way to Planet Korriban.
The protagonist went missing for more than a dozen chapters at a time and was living quite comfortably, wasn't he? Maybe they should dock his pay someday.
It should be mentioned here that no major hyperspace routes passed through the Northern Sector of the galaxy. Because of this, although the Northern Sector did not appear far from Coruscant on a flat star map, it was still an extremely remote region compared to other places.
So although Planet Ord Mantell belonged to the Mid Rim, many people from the Core Worlds considered it little different from the Outer Rim.
The other two places in the galaxy without major hyperspace routes were the Unknown Regions and Hutt Space. This also showed that the Galactic Republic was, in truth, a regime built upon hyperspace routes. Both its administration and expansion relied heavily on them.
Other than hyperspace travel, they had no other means of faster-than-light travel. But from another perspective, since safe and fast hyperspace routes already existed, there really was no need for them to develop other faster-than-light travel methods.
Other universes' faster-than-light travel might run into the Four Peddlers or high-dimensional demons, but in the Star Wars universe, there was truly nothing inside hyperspace. The only danger in hyperspace routes was flying around recklessly and crashing into the mass shadows of celestial bodies...
There were indeed occasionally some high-dimensional animals moving about in hyperspace, but most of them could not be bothered with