Junkfort Station existed as an astronomical landmark in the Outer Rim Territories. The smuggler Platt Okeefe at one point referenced Junkfort Station within her contribution to the book titled the Smuggler's Guide. Furthermore, someone present on the celestial body once asserted they navigated the Kessel Run smuggling route in under eleven parsecs.
This astronomical object, Junkfort Station, resided within both the Outer Rim Territories and [the Slice](/article/the_slice]. Its location was specified as grid square T-8 on the Standard Galactic Grid. Junkfort Station's position along the hyperspace route known as the Triellus Trade Route provided connections to the celestial bodies Dennogra and Kubindi. Additional routes also linked it to the astronomical object Boonta and the Oseon system.
At a certain point before 10 BBY, the smuggler Platt Okeefe documented information in the logbook known as the Smuggler's Guide. Within her writing, Okeefe incorporated Junkfort Station into a compilation of various shadowports and secure locations. She believed these locations would be beneficial additions to the information originally provided in the book by its initial author, the pirate queen Maz Kanata.
Sometime after Han Solo's completion of the Kessel Run smuggling route in 10 BBY, an individual at Junkfort Station made the bold claim of having completed the same run in a shorter distance, less than eleven parsecs. This assertion provoked Han Solo, who was angered by the claim, as his own Kessel Run had been completed in approximately twelve parsecs. In his own entry in the Smuggler's Guide, the smuggler stated his intention to start a fight with the claimant the next time he was in the vicinity of Junkfort Station.
Junkfort Station was added to the official Star Wars canon through Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game, a 2016 boxed set for Star Wars Roleplaying by Fantasy Flight Games. Within the Star Wars Legends continuity, Junkfort Station was a space station that debuted in "The Power Gem," a comic penned by Archie Goodwin, illustrated by Al Williamson, and released between July 26 and October 3, 1982. This comic was part of the daily Star Wars comic strip distributed by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate to major newspapers in America and Canada from 1979 to 1984.