Item from The Mandalorian by Jon Favreau
Ancient Nightsister navigational device. A mechanical orb that, when activated at the correct location, reveals the hyperspace route beyond the known galaxy to Peridea — a path no navicomputer can calculate.
The star map is Nightsister technology from an age before the Republic — a navigational artifact that encodes a hyperspace route to Peridea, the ancient Nightsister homeworld beyond the galaxy's edge. No modern navicomputer can calculate this route; the distances and gravitational variables exceed anything in known astrogation databases. The orb must be activated at specific planetary locations where Nightsister henge structures align with the correct stellar coordinates. Morgan Elsbeth spent years hunting for it, understanding that the map was the key to reaching Grand Admiral Thrawn and the power he represented. When activated on Seatos, the map revealed a pathway of such distance that the journey required purrgil-class hyperspace capabilities. The artifact is beautiful, alien, and deeply unsettling — a reminder that the galaxy's history extends far beyond what the Jedi and Sith remember.
A dark metallic orb roughly the size of a human head, covered in intricate engravings and mechanical segments that rotate and shift. When activated, it opens like a puzzle box, projecting a three-dimensional star map of glowing red and gold lines tracing a route through uncharted space.
Also known as: the star map, Nightsister star map