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The K749 system, located in the Outer Rim near the Moonflower Nebula, contains the planet Pzob. [COTJ]
Kaal
Kaal, a blue world covered with vast oceans, is located in the Yushan sector in the Mid-Rim. Now a major exporter of agricultural goods, Kaal also boasts many luxurious resorts and casinos, including the Grand Imperial. The planet's only starport is located on a string of islands forming a resort city. When the Emperor died at Endor, a Dark Jedi was so overwhelmed by his master's agony that he crashed his ship (rumored to be carrying a functional cloaking device) into Kaal's ocean. The crash created a tidal wave, which wiped out the Unis Islands resorts in the northwest and damaged several other areas. Kaal was an Imperial resort world until the Empire abandoned it soon after the Battle of Endor, at which point the world was taken over by the local crimelord Tirgee Benyalle. Realizing that the Empire had never exploited the rich agricultural potential of Kaal, Benyalle purchased ten huge repulsorlift harvesters (including the Sea Sprite), which travel over the planet's oceans extracting and processing massive quantities of foodstuffs. Two years after Endor, the New Republic sent representatives to Kaal to negotiate for control of its valuable aquaculture industry. Among the other negotiators were the heads of two Imperial factions and the smuggler Talon Karrde, who was interested in retrieving the crashed Jedi ship and its supposed cloaking device. Kaal's population numbers around 4.5 million. [SWAJ]
Kabaira
Kabaira, located in the Teilcam system of the Outer Rim, has a surface nine-tenths covered with water and dotted by over two million volcanic islands. The few active volcanoes are located in the southern hemisphere, while the eight million Kabairans live in the north, primarily on the two island continents of Madieri and Belshain. Eponte Spaceport, the center of Kabaira's corporate government, is located on the north cost of Madieri and is bordered by mountains. Eponte's high altitude means its climate is typically cool, damp, and foggy. Along Eponte's ancient brick-lined streets one can find the disreputable Drayhar's Cantina, and corporate offices for Delgas Medical and Hydrospeare Corp. Kabaira's main industry is the mining of islands in the southern hemisphere, and indigenous animal life includes the white snow-wolves that inhabit the mountains. Though the planet is controlled by the Empire, underground Rebel activities have been making their hold on the planet more precarious. A number of years before the Battle of Yavin, the smugglers Tere Metallo and Matt Turhaya were involved in a dangerous adventure on Kabaira. [SWAJ]
Kabal
Kabal is an outworld that was officially neutral in the Galactic Civil War, aligned with neither the Empire nor the Alliance. Following the Battle of Yavin, Princess Leia Organa attended a conference on Kabal and met with the leaders of several uncommitted worlds, including Aquaris. An Imperial Star Destroyer, alerted by a tip from the Freeholder Kraaken, arrived at Kabal to wipe out this conference and to punish the planet for its neutral stance. Waves of TIE bombers leveled the city, but the Princess was saved by the timely arrival of the Millennium Falcon. Kabal is also the homeworld of Lady Lapema Phonstom, one of Lando Calrissian's candidates for marriage. Lying near the planet is a small dwarf star with an artificially- accelerated gravitational pull, surrounded by a vast graveyard of derelict starships. [CSW, AAC]
Ka'Dedus
An ultraviolet supergiant star orbited by Af'El, home planet of the Defel. [GG4]
Kaelta
A purple star orbited by Toola, homeworld of the Whipids. [GG4]
Kaikielius system
Lying very close to the Coruscant system. When the revived Empire began its conquest of the Kaikielius and Metellos systems six years after the Battle of Endor, New Republic leaders on Coruscant began to search for a new base of operations. [DESB]
Kail
A planet in the Corporate Sector. Torm Dadeferron, an associate of Han Solo, had family on Kail who controlled several large tracts of land known as the Kail Ranges. Torm's father and brother disappeared after a dispute with the Corporate Sector Authority over land-use rights and stock prices. [HSSE, CSSB]
Kalarba
A terrestrial planet in the remote Kalarba system, Kalarba is orbited by the moons Hosk and Indobok. Sites on the planet include Kalarba City, the Great Sea, and the Three Peaks of Tharen-- a revered symbol of the spirit. Before their service to Captain Antilles, R2-D2 and C-3PO worked for the Pitareeze family on Kalarba. Meg and Jarth Pitareeze operated Kalarba Safari and booked tours of the planet's ancient ancestral lands, while Baron Pitareeze ran a spaceship factory where they manufactured the MT-5 hyperdrive unit. Animal life on the planet includes the flying Vynock. [D]
Kalior V
Kalior V is the location of the Imperial aquaria, whose maintenance is entrusted to a group of Sedrians known as the Shalik family. [GG4]
Kalist VI The site of an Imperial labor colony for political prisoners. Alliance gunner Dak Ralter was born in this colony, and lived there for 17 years until escaping with the help of a downed Rebel pilot. [MTS]
Kalla
Kalla, in the Corporate Sector, is the site of a Corporate Sector Authority university intended for the education of Authority members' children. Consequently, major fields of study include technical education, commerce, and administration with very little emphasis on the humanities. Rekkon was an instructor at the university prior to his adventures with Han Solo, and Fiolla of Lorrd attended the University of Kalla prior to taking a position in the Corporate Sector Authority. General Evir Derricote, commander of the Imperial base on Borleias, was a native of Kalla. [HSSE, CSSB, XWRS]
Kalla VII&127
Prior to the Battle of Yavin, a group of Alliance X-wings eliminated a large Imperial base located near Kalla VII, in an attempt to strand arriving Imperial ships. This resulted in the capture of the frigate Priam. [FP]
Kamar
A dry, hot planet orbiting a white star, Kamar is located just outside the Corporate Sector border and is the homeworld of the insect-like Kamarians. Kamar's native flora includes miser-plants, barrel-scrub, and sting- brush, while its fauna includes digworms, stingworms, bloodsniffers, nightswifts, and howlrunners-- canine hunters with heads resembling human skulls. The nocturnal Kamarians live in small groups called tk'skqua, and their more sophisticated nations have developed technology such as nuclear explosives and fluidic control systems. Members of the unique Kamarian Badlander culture choose to live in the most arid and harsh areas of the planet. Han Solo inadvertently started a new religion among the Kamarian Badlanders based on the holofeature Varn, World of Water during a visit to the planet. [HSR, CSSB]
Kamori
Kamori, whose cities include Tandaro, Jandal, Hyra, and Kimora City, is ruled by Chamber President Thane Dregond. The planet was the site of a powerful earthquake, centered on the Zethusian plains. The quake caused tidal waves, killed hundreds of thousands of citizens, and severely damaged Jandal, Hyra and Kimora City. One of those killed was Glanthe school master painter Dana Dragond, one of Kamori's "living treasures." [SWAJ]
Kamparas
The Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth attended a Jedi training center on Kamparas for two years, from 2/15/90 until 8/33/88, Pre-Empire date. [DFR]
Kanchen sector
The Kanchen sector contains the planet Xa Fel. The heart of the sector fell to Imperial forces after a thirty- hour battle with New Republic warships over the planet. [TLC]
Kanz sector
The Kanz sector contains the planets Argazda and Lorrd. Four thousand years ago, the sector was an isolated region located on the frontier of the Old Republic. During the time known as the Kanz Disorders, the provisional governor of Argazda declared the sector independent from the Republic and tried to enslave the rest of its worlds, including Lorrd. The Republic, preoccupied with other matters, did nothing for three hundred years, until the Jedi Knights finally intervened to free the Lorrdians and end the Kanz Disorders. [CSSB]
Karfeddion
Located in the Senex sector, Karfeddion is the site of several slave farms run by the House Vandron. Breeding farms are designed to produce Ossan and Bilanaka slaves, tailored for agricultural work. During an economic depression on Karfeddion, Lady Theala Vandron was summoned to the High Court of Coruscant to defend the slave farms on her homeworld. [COTJ]
Karideph
The Nikto assassin Ma'w'shiye, during his time as an Alliance agent, served with Lieutenant Akul Witig during the Karideph operations. During this time, Witig gave Ma'w'shiye a heavy overcoat. [SWAJ]
Karnak Alpha
Karnak Alpha, located beyond the Hapes Consortium near the Deep Galactic Core, is home to the fur- covered alien species called Karnak Alphans. The shy, easygoing Alphans hold children in high esteem, always serving them first at meals. Having a large number of children means greater status in Alphan society, and their government has a children's council. They also love unusual zoological specimens, and keep elaborate zoos and beautiful holographic dioramas. Nineteen years after the Battle of Endor, Chief of State Leia Organa Solo met with the Karnak Alpha ambassador and her eight children, and presented the ambassador with a rare Coruscant hawk-bat egg. [YJK]
Karra
A small, dense planet in the Rayter sector, Karra is covered with flat, grassy plateaus separated by jungle canyons and is home to the alien species called Karrans. The planet's temperature is uncomfortably hot and its lifeforms consist almost entirely of insects. Karra's vast variety of insect life includes beetles, leapers, legworms, clouds of tiny swarmers, and a walker-sized mantis. The native Karrans are large, fur-covered insectivores whose primitive technology is centered around pottery and simple hand tools. The Karrans seem to have recently developed sentience based around a communal hive mind, and can apparently control the planet's insect population. Several hundred years ago, a colony was established on Karra to mine varmigio, a material used in hyperdrive cores. When no varmigio was found, the colonists were abandoned. Recently the Empire opened a varmigio mine for the same purpose, but met with no greater success. The Imperial base was later destroyed by swarms of attacking insects, presumably operating under the control of the native Karrans. [SWAJ]
Kashi
The former homeworld of the long-extinct Kashi Mer culture. Soon after the formation of the Old Republic, the planet and its system were destroyed when their star inexplicably went nova. A force-user named Reda Jalooz had previously stolen a small gray stone-- an heirloom of the Kashi Mer monarchy-- but when she came back to return it, she was killed in the sudden supernova. After the Battle of Endor, this strange artifact mysteriously reappeared in the Corva sector. [SWAJ]
Kashyyyk
A jungle planet covered with kilometers-high wroshyr trees, Kashyyyk is the homeworld of the fierce but loyal Wookiees. Various ecosystems exist along each layer of the trees, with each level growing progressively more deadly the farther one travels to the planet's surface (dangerous webweavers, for instance, set traps in the lower levels). The Wookiees inhabit the highest levels in huge cities that are naturally supported by the thick tree branches, since wroshyr branches grow together when they meet. One such city, Rwookrrorro, is over a kilometer wide and built on a flat platform of meter-thick spongy material. It features two- to three-story buildings and a landing platform made from the stump of a wide limb. The most prestigious homes are built on the trees themselves, and nursery rings for young Wookiees are built in the tops of the very highest wroshyrs. The kshyy vines that grow among the trees cannot be cut with blasters and are strong enough to support liftcars. Wookiees have easily incorporated modern technology into their society and can accommodate visiting starships, though they sometimes prefer to use archaic items like their traditional quarrel-firing bowcaster. Colored searchlights in the cities help attract native birds called kroyies, a prize food. Customs of the Wookiee people include the "life debt," where Wookiees feel they must repay the person who has saved their life, and the "honor family," or those people to whom a Wookiee feels a particular bond of friendship. Wookiee adolescents undergo a dangerous rite of passage into adulthood by harvesting silky strands from the heart of the carnivorous syren plant. The Wookiee species was treated as slave labor by the Empire and many were forced to toil on various Imperial construction projects. Many Wookiees still resent humans for the actions of the Empire. Leia Organa Solo hid on Kashyyyk until discovered by a team of Noghri commandos, who made an unsuccessful attempt to capture her. [HTTE, SWS, HSLL, YJK]
Kathol sector
Jacc Maldelbrot, owner of the Royal Casino in Bespin's Cloud City, began his career as a textile worker in the remote Kathol sector. [GG2]
Kauron?
The possible homeworld of the alien Kauronians. The bounty hunter Greedo observed a Kauronian bounty hunter during Greedo's first visit to the Mos Eisley Cantina. [TFTC]
Kelada
Located in the Anarid Cluster, Kelada is an industrial planet (home to a major Arakyd factory) that supplies the Empire with repulsorlift components and parts for Imperial walkers. Recent increases in Alliance activity have resulted in the Empire struggling to maintain control of Kelada, and they have diverted ten Star Destroyers to the system to cement their hold after the disastrous Battle of Endor. Once, Kelada kept an ecological balance between industry and the environment, but the balance is now threatened as forests and savannas are cleared to support greater production. An industrial wasteland is growing just outside the Kelada starport. The starport contains the popular tavern Lorana's Labyrinth, which features mirrored walls and a mazelike bar. The smuggler Dirk Harkness' companion Chessa was tragically killed by Imperial stormtroopers in the Kelada starport. [SWAJ]
Kelavine system
The Kelavine system, located in the Expansion Region far from any trade lanes, contains the gas giant Taloraan as its largest planet. After the Battle of Hoth, Alliance operatives were sent to search for tibanna gas deposits on gas giant planets in the Lequabis, K'taktaxka, Poviduze, and Kelavine systems and the Shasfath Cluster. [SWAJ]
Kelrodo-Ai
Site of the Kelrodo-Ai gelatin mines, famous for their water sculptures and formerly operated by Baron- Administrator Drom Guldi. Guldi and his aide were killed by Wampa ice creatures while on a hunting expedition to Hoth, eight years after the Battle of Endor. [DS]
Keller's Void
Named for the trader who first discovered it, Keller's Void is an empty region of space that serves as a hyperspace shortcut between the Calus and Wroona systems. Occasionally pirates have been known to bring asteroids from the nearby Udine system and place them in the Void, to create mass shadows and force unsuspecting ships from hyperspace. [SWAJ]
Kemplex Nine
Nearly four thousand years ago, Kemplex Nine was a strategic jump-station in the Auril sector and the Cron system, and the only inhabited outpost near the Cron Cluster. During the Sith War, Ulic Qel-Droma gave hints that he intended to attack the undefended station, but it was merely a ruse to draw Republic defenses away from his true target of Coruscant. Later, Qel-Droma did decide to hit Kemplex Nine, but this was meant to draw Jedi forces into a trap. Aleema and Crado, aboard an ancient Sith ship, devastated the station and lured the pursuing Jedi fleet into the ten stars of the Cron Cluster. When they were in position, Aleema activated the Sith weapon and inadvertently ignited all ten stars, utterly wiping out Kemplex Nine and the entire surrounding area of space. [TSW]
Kerensik
A frozen planet located in the protective federation of worlds called the Botor Enclave. New Republic navigator Kane Griggs grew up on Kerensik and joined the Alliance following the Battle of Endor, after working in the Botor Income Ministry as an economist. Kerensiki trees have spines and needles instead of leaves. [DESB]
Kessel
Kessel is a potato-shaped planet with one large moon located somewhat near Fwillsving and Honoghr. It is home to the city of Kessendra, is the only source of the telepathy-inducing glitterstim spice, and was the former site of a brutal Imperial prison and spice mining operation. Kessel's surface is covered with crumbled salt flats and atmosphere-producing factories, which make the air breathable when filtering breath masks are used. Kessel is too small to hold this artificial atmosphere, however, so much of it trails off behind the planet in the wake of its orbit. Beneath the surface of the planet live energy spiders, which spin glitterstim webs as a method of catching their prey (primarily the luminous "bogey"). Following the failure of the Emperor's attempt to destroy the Jedi enclave on Belsavis, several designers of the Eye of Palpatine were reassigned to punitive duty at Kessel. The Kessel system is adjacent to a cluster of black holes known as the Maw, which makes navigating to the planet difficult and helped glamorize the smugglers' "Kessel Run." While Kessel was under control by the Empire it was a common smuggling destination for those dealing in spice, and Han Solo once boasted he had made the Kessel Run in "less than 12 parsecs" by flying dangerously close to the Maw. Solo's life was also saved on one Kessel run by his old associate Badure. Prior to the Battle of Yavin, a bold Alliance rescue operation freed a group of Rebel POWs during a prisoner transfer operation. During the chaos surrounding the Battle of Endor, a Rybet prison official named Moruth Doole (who had secretly been supplying glitterstim to smugglers) staged a prison revolt and took control of the planet from the Empire. Several years later, after Doole's operation was dismantled, the administration of the mines was taken over by Lando Calrissian. Kessel's moon, which once held an Imperial garrison and Doole's ragtag defensive fleet (which was decimated in a battle with Admiral Daala's Star Destroyers), was utterly destroyed by a Death Star prototype from Maw Installation. Lujayne Forge, a member of the famed Rogue Squadron, was from Kessel, daughter of a man who had taught inmates under an Old Republic social program. [SW, JS, COTF, TLC, HSLL, COTJ, FP, XWRS]
Kestic Station
A free-trader outpost near the Bestine system, Kestic station was a frequent stopover for smugglers and outlaw miners. Alliance pilot Zev Senesca lived on Kestic Station with his parents, who supplied the Rebellion with arms until their illegal transactions were revealed by an Imperial informant. The station was subsequently destroyed by the Star Destroyer Merciless. [MTS]
Ketal
The unique ID number on a particular bacta shipment allowed the Xucphra bacta-harvesting corporation to uncover an Alliance base on Ketal. Xucphra promptly informed the Empire, who eliminated the base. [SWAJ]
Ketaris
A major trade center as successful as Svivren, Ketaris was the target of an attack by Grand Admiral Thrawn which became stalled at one point. There was hope from Alliance pilots that Wing Commander Varth could escape the Qat Chrystac battle and hook up with a unit at Ketaris. During Thrawn's attack on Coruscant, Admiral Ackbar was on an inspection tour of the Ketaris region. [TLC]
Khomm
Khomm is a pale green world lying very close to the Deep Galactic Core. It has moonless, has no unusual geologic features, no axial tilt, and a regular orbit. A thousand years ago, the planet's alien inhabitants decided that their society had reached perfection. They froze their bureaucratic culture at this "perfect" level, and began producing clones of previous generations. The genderless clones of Khomm like to keep to their own affairs, rarely leaving their planet and keeping the same roles and schedules from generation to generation. The planet remained neutral during the Galactic Civil War. Khomm's cities are laid out in perfect gridworks, with almost all buildings and residences looking identical and made from the same green- veined rock. Large cloning facilities in each city hold a record of all the major family lines. Dorsk 81 (the eighty-first clone of Dorsk) surprisingly showed unexpected Force aptitude and became one of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy students seven years after the Battle of Endor. The following year, Dorsk 81 returned to Khomm, and the planet was devastated by Colonel Cronus and his fleet of Victory-class Star Destroyers. [DA, DS]
Khuiumin
The Khuiumin system was the primary base for the infamous Eyttyrmin Batiiv pirates, until they were systematically destroyed by the Imperial Victory-class Star Destroyers Crusader and Bombard. The two warships eliminated all 150 craft in the pirate armada and chased the last survivors to the surface of Khuiumin-- where their stronghold was wiped out by the Crusader's concussion missiles. [SWS, SWAJ]
Kiffex
The site of a colony, where the twin con-artists Brea and Senni Tonnika were raised and where they perfected their deceptive money-making skills. [MTS]
Kiilimaar
A planet possibly in the Eva-T system. It was at Kiilimaar, following the Battle of Hoth, that the Rneekii pirates arranged to turn a captured TIE Defender scientist over to the Empire in exchange for a substantial ransom. The Imperial forces, however, double-crossed the pirates and recovered the ransom money. [TSC]
Kimanan
Kimanan is home to the animals known as furballs-- tiny, tubby, clownish marsupials which are considered premium pets. They are sold at Sabodor's pet shop on Etti IV. [HSSE]
Kimm systems
In addition to its trafficking in Senex sector slaves, the stock light freighter Smelly Saint runs counterfeit agri-droids from the Kimm systems. [COTJ]
Kintan
The Nikto assassin Ma'w'shiye, a former Alliance agent, hails from Kintan. [SWAJ]
Kinyen
The home planet of the highly social, three-eyed aliens known as Gran. A common sight on the world are gently waving fields of goatgrass. Ree-Yees, one of Jabba the Hutt's courtiers, was exiled from Kinyen after committing the highly unusual (for Gran) crime of murder. [MTS, TFJP]
Kira Run
Several decades ago, the Haik expedition discovered a reliable hyperlane through the Kira system, which they named the Kira Run. The Kira Run connects the Lazerian and Ropagi systems, and also links the Harrin Trade Corridor with the Enarc Run. It was originally seen as a risky, uncertain route, but recently small shipping companies have begun servicing the Run and bringing it into the company of established trade routes. [SWAJ]
Kira system
A hyperlane running through the Kira system, known as the Kira Run, connects the Lazerian and Ropagi systems. [SWAJ]
Kirdo III
A hot, arid world in the Outer Rim marked by red, cracked plains of dried mud and the white sands of the Kurdan desert. Kirdo III is also the homeworld of the patient, resilient Kitonaks, who live among the dunes where windstorms can reach speeds of 400 km/hr. To withstand the milder storms Kitonaks stand still, angling their bodies into the onrushing wind. This is similar to their method of feeding on the small, burrowing chooba by mimicking the sulfaro plant, the choobas' main feeding site. The vanilla-smelling Kitonaks stand still for hours until a chooba climbs close enough to be swallowed, which is enough food to feed a Kitonak for a month. The Kitonaks roam Kirdo III in nomadic tribes of around 100 individuals, following the migrating chooba. Kitonaks have no natural predators and fear only quicksand and caves, both of which hold mysterious and deadly dangers. Once each decade a great rainstorm covers Kirdo III, flooding the dry riverbeds and ushering in the Kitonak mating ritual known as the "Great Celebration of Life." Kitonaks are skilled at playing beautiful music on chidinkalus, the hollowed-out reeds of chidinka plants, which sometimes results in their capture by slavers and subsequent employment as professional jizz wailers. Droopy McCool, the stage name of one of the band members in Jabba the Hutt's palace, was a Kitonak. Eight years after the Battle of Endor the Imperial battlemoon Eye of Palpatine apparently stopped at Kirdo III to pick up a contingent of stormtroopers, but brought in a group of Kitonaks instead. [GG4, ROTJ, COTJ, TFJP]
Kirrek
One of seven planets in the Teta system, Kirrek had three of its cities destroyed when it resisted the Tetan political coup headed by Satal Keto and Aleema. [DLOS]
Kirtania
Kirtania, the fourth planet in the Yyrtan system, is a green-blue world of jungles, deserts, and mountains, and is home to the arachnid alien species called the Araquia. Kirtania was originally colonized by several groups of humans, who founded the competing economic states of Surana, Kinkosa, and Dulai. Over the years, the states have seriously depleted the planet's natural resources and polluted the environment. The population of the planet includes two million humans and only 1,500 remaining Araquia. Kinkosa has recently agreed to become an Imperial supply station in exchange for the modernization of Kinkosa City and privileged trading status within the Empire. Shiarha Root, the only known cure for the deadly Direllian Plague, grows in Kinkosa's humid rainforests. Some of the many forms of life in the rainforests include river serpents and predator lizards. [SWAJ]
Klatooine
The home planet of the alien species known as Klatooinians. It is a Klatooinian custom to sell their disrespectful youths into indentured service, and Jabba the Hutt picked up the contract of a Klatooinian manservant named Barada. Barada then became the head of Jabba's repulsorpool, but was killed during the rescue of Han Solo. Animal life on the planet includes the ill-tempered Klatooine paddy frog. Jabba was sometimes known to snack on live paddy frogs, served in brandy to keep them from attacking and killing each other. [MTS, TFJP]
Klaymor 4-2
An Imperial reconnaissance mission discovered a Rebel spy probe located near Klaymor 4-2. A single TIE fighter, dispatched from the corvette Astin, was sent do destroy it. [TSC]
Knolstee
A planet in the Corporate Sector. Knolstee is one of the stops made by the luxury liner Lady of Mindor during its voyage from Roonadan to Ammuud. [CSSB]
Kobbahn
Location of the Kobbahn starport. [SWAJ]
Komnor system
When a warlord evicted all Hutts from the Komnor system, Jabba hired the bounty hunter Dyyz Nataz to eliminate the offending ruler. [TFTC]
Korbin
Outlaw stations on Korbin will service any ship, including those belonging to pirates and wanted criminals. [SWAJ]
Koros Major
One of seven planets in the Teta system, Koros Major was the last planet to resist the system's brutal subjugation by the Krath. The Krath leaders, headed by Satal Keto and Aleema, dispatched hundreds of ground troops to the planet and clashed with a joint Republic/Jedi space force in Koros Major's orbit. The Republic ships were badly damaged in the battle and were forced to retreat. [DLOS]
Korriban
A hidden world, Korriban holds the mummified remains of many Sith lords within great temples located in the Valley of the Dark Lords. The tombs are designed to focus and amplify Dark Side energy, which permeates the entire valley. The temples' exterior is guarded by human skeletons, activated through a combination of machinery and Sith magic. Within the temples was an immense crystal, which held the trapped spirits of Jedi Masters who had dared oppose the Sith. Four thousand years ago, Exar Kun visited Korriban to learn Sith secrets and was tormented by the spirit of Freedon Nadd. Nadd destroyed the crystal and unleashed guardian creatures on Kun, who eventually surrendered to the Dark Side of the Force. Emperor Palpatine was known to frequent Korriban, and referred to it as his "place of power." One of Palpatine's last visits occurred around the time of Battle of Yavin. He eventually returned, ten years later, to try to convince the Sithlord spirits to halt the decay of his last remaining clone body. [DLOS, EE]
Kothlis
Kothlis is a colony world of the alien species called Bothans. New Republic Councilor Borsk Fey'lya grew up on this colony world, instead of on the Bothan homeworld of Bothawui. Prior to the Battle of Endor, Bothan spies captured an Imperial freighter carrying highly-classified data about the second Death Star. The Bothan space station Kothlis II, orbiting near Kothlis, allowed the stolen freighter to dock and take on supplies. The Empire soon seized this station, searching for any evidence of the classified information. [DFR, TSC]
Ksiczzic III
The young heiress Tinian I'att and her traveling companions were picked up by the ship Quandary on Ksiczzic III, after their departure from Druckenwell. [SWAJ]
K'taktaxka system
After the Battle of Hoth, Alliance operatives were sent to the Inner Rim and Expansion Region, to search for tibanna gas deposits on gas giant planets in the Lequabis, K'taktaxka, Poviduze, and Kelavine systems and the Shasfath Cluster. [SWAJ]
Kuan
Kuan, orbited by several moons, is located in the Taroon system on the outer edges of the Rim. For nearly twenty years, Kuan was involved in a devastating war with its sister planet Bordal, until the conflict was suddenly ended by the intervention of the Empire. The long interplanetary struggle destroyed much of Kuan's main city, home to illegal swoop races and a popular hangout called The Maze. Animal life on Kuan includes the rondat, and plant life includes the pleasant-smelling shimsha flower. A planetary crop is tarine tea. The highly-decorated Imperial pilot Maarek Stele was a native of Kuan. [TSC]
Kuar
The planet Kuar is located in the system of the same name, near the Teta system. Nearly four thousand years ago, the masked warrior clans led by Mandalore made their base in the ruined underground cities of Kuar. From there they struck at the heart of the Teta system, prompting the Tetan leader Ulic Qel-Droma to fight Mandalore in single combat on Kuar's plains of Harkul. Battling on an unstable web of chains, Qel- Droma defeated Mandalore, thereby winning the loyalty of the warlord and his fierce soldiers-of-fortune. [TSW]
Laakteen Depot was the Alliance base closest to Fondor, around the time of the Battle of Yavin. It took the Alliance almost a year to capture the depot, which was subsequently wiped out by the Super Star Destroyer Executor during the ship's maiden voyage. [CSW]
Laboi II
A small planet orbiting the red giant Er'Dox Kaan, Laboi II has an extremely slow, retrograde rotation which means that one side of the planet faces the sun for almost 2,020 hours at a time. The side facing the sun becomes so hot it melts rock and the night side is cooled to sub-zero temperatures, though these effects are lessened somewhat by temperature-distributing wind storms. There is no plant life on Laboi II, but there are many animal species including the highly intelligent aliens known as the Laboi. The carnivorous, aggressive Laboi, who can survive the extreme temperature differences of their planet, primarily hunt the bantha-sized ovolyan. Laboi, who appear to be fur-covered snakes, make up for their lack of manipulative appendages with a limited telekinetic ability that may be linked to the Force. Laboi II's main export is Laboian mineral crystals, which are popular in the Core Worlds. [GG4]
Lafra
Home planet of the humanoid aliens called Lafrarians. The grey-skinned Lafrarians have vestigial soaring membranes, feathery growths on their heads, and a keen sense of flying skills and spatial relationships. The planet has a variety of terrain, and most Lafrarian settlements are built into mountainsides and on treetops. One of Doc's "outlaw-techs" was a Lafrarian. While on a mission to Belsavis, Han Solo watched the final puttie game of the series between Lafra and Gathus. [HSSE, CSSB, COTJ]
Lahara sector
The Lahara sector, located in the Outer Rim, contains the planet Agamar. [FP]
Lambda sector
The domain of Imperial Moff Par Lankin, a warlord who set up his own private Empire in the chaos following the Battle of Endor. [SWAJ]
Lamuir IV
The normally serious, sensible world of Lamuir IV erupts in a week of parties, parades and dramas during the famous, planet-wide Priole Danna festival. The annual celebration has been a tradition for thousands of years, and attracts revelers from all over the galaxy. One of the festival's greatest attractions is the five-day Anapolla Musical Splash, an eclectic concert of varying styles, where many up-and-coming musicians are first discovered. During the celebration, the priceless antique pistols belonging to jatz musician Fitz Roi were stolen by the Tombat, a mysterious art and jewel thief. The planet's municipalities include Gryle City. [SWAJ]
Lan system
The remote Lan system, consisting of five planets orbiting the large orange star Lan, is located over three days travel past the Outer Rim terminus of the Enarc Run. The system was first scouted by the Old Republic over 1300 years ago, and the mining conglomerate Gaminne Group, Inc. arrived soon after to exploit the system's ore-rich inner planets. The system's five worlds are Lesser Galam, Lan Fellov, Lan Tundi, Lan Barell, and Greater Galam. [SWAJ]
Lan Barell
The fourth planet in the Lan system, Lan Barell is a remote, desolate world home to the small insectoid aliens known as the Qieg. The planet is an arid desert, with most of its moisture found in two thin polar ice caps. The habitable land lies atop three vast, blue-tinged plateaus, which are separated by toxic, ash-filled lowlands. Lan Barell's economy is based on the sales of valuable ore to Mid-Rim communities. The planet once had three moons, but one of the satellites has been broken into rubble due to massive strip mining operations. The world's population includes eight million humans and nearly 135 million native Qieg, who live in colony nests built inside hollowed-out cacti. The Qiemal, a radical sect of militant Qieg, dislike all humans and cling to their old-fashioned ways deep within the cacti forests. Predatory, canine dingories, a natural enemy of the Qieg, are the main source of food for all of the planet's inhabitants. The major city of Lan Barell is Shulell, an eclectic mixture of human and Qieg species and structures. Shulell encompasses the planet's only spaceport, the center of the Lan Barellian government within the Quilan Hive, and the district known as the Grill. The Quilan Hive is a 5000 year-old network of cacti settlements tied together with stone walls, and is the base of operations for the Human-Qieg Guild (a consortium of mining operations that runs the planet). The Grill, a bustling black-market district, is a haven for refugees and exiles and contains a small Rebel Alliance cell. The small community of Carmelle is located about twenty kilometers from Shulell. Nearly 1300 years ago, the mining conglomerate Gaminne Group, Inc. purchased mining rights to the ore- rich inner planets from the Qieg, and built Shulell City on Lan Barell. The system was officially taken over by the Empire fifteen years ago, but the Empire has not bothered with direct control. Due to its extreme isolation, Lan Barell is now a refuge for smugglers and refugees trying to avoid the Empire's attentions. [SWAJ]
Lan Fellov
The second planet in the remote Lan system, Lan Fellov is a barren rock world with a single moon. [SWAJ]
Lan Tundi
The third planet in the remote Lan system, Lan Tundi is a barren rock world with four moons. [SWAJ]
Lanthrym
Located in the Elrood sector. Outlaw stations on Lanthrym will service any ship, including those belonging to pirates and wanted criminals. The criminal Morana Fal, who had escaped from the Soruus system with a suit of prototype battle armor, was last sighted on Lanthrym. [SWAJ]
Lar
An orange star orbited by Mima II, homeworld of the Bilars. [GG4]
Laramus
An Imperial convoy was leaving Laramus when it was ambushed by a Rebel cruiser, several shuttles, and X-wing fighters. None of the Imperial transports were able to escape the Laramus system, and the Rebels captured all 14 without any losses. [SWS]
Lazerian IV
Lazerian IV, in the Lazerian system, contains the city of Lazeria and serves as one endpoint of the Kira Run. The recent interest in the Kira Run by mainstream corporations is expected to greatly help the system's economy. [SWAJ]
Lekua system
Osuno Whett is Associate Professor of Comparative Sapient Studies in the Lekua system. He goes by the title of "ottdefa," given in the system to distinguished scientific or academic teachers. [LCMH, LCSC]
Lelmra
A temporary base for Senator Garm Bel Iblis' private army. While on Lelmra, a violent thunderstorm triggered the "flip-flop" on several buildings made of memory plastic, which folded them up with nearly fifty people still inside. The smuggler Mazzic had a backup base for his organization on Lelmra. [DFR, TLC]
Lenniera
The controversial jatz musician Fitz Roi had a family estate on Lenniera, where he lived until relocating to Calamar on Esseles. [SWAJ]
Lequabis system
After the Battle of Hoth, Alliance operatives were sent to the Inner Rim and Expansion Region, to search for tibanna gas deposits on gas giant planets in the Lequabis, K'taktaxka, Poviduze, and Kelavine systems and the Shasfath Cluster. [SWAJ]
Leria Kerlsil
Leria Kerlsil is a backwater world, but is pleasant, clean, and quiet. Its capital city's streets are lined with blue and purple trees, and the city is adjacent to a well-maintained spaceport. The planet is the only source of "life-witches"-- those who can sustain another's failing life for years but eventually withdraw support, causing that person to die. Life-witches appear rarely and are born seemingly at random. Karia Ver Seryan, a wealthy woman who lives in a large, well-defended mansion, was one of Lando Calrissian's marriage candidates until he discovered she was a life-witch. [AAC]
Lesser Galam
The first planet in the remote Lan system, Lesser Galam is a moonless rock seared by its nearby sun. [SWAJ]
Lesser Plooriod Cluster
The Lesser Plooriod Cluster contains the Ottega system, site of the planet Ithor. After leaving the Corporate Sector, Han Solo and Chewbacca ran an unsuccessful Military-Script exchange scaming the Cluster. Following the Battle of Yavin, an Alliance ship dropped a badly-needed grain container in the Lesser Plooriod Cluster in an attempt to escape an Imperial attack. [HSLL, SWS, FP]
Lianna
The manufacturing world Lianna instituted home rule following the Empire's defeat at the Battle of Endor. The New Republic respected the planet's new non-aligned status, but Imperial reprisals on Lianna for treason seemed inevitable. Lady Santhe, head of the powerful Santhe/Sienar manufacturing corporation, threatened to cut off Lianna's production of TIE fighters unless the planet was left alone. This threat, along with secret payments to the local Moff, resulted in Lianna receiving a special charter of secession from the Empire. One of the products manufactured after Lianna's secession was the compact but powerful TIE tank, also called the Century tank. The inhabitants of the planet are called Lianns. [DESB]
Linuri
The site of a former confrontation between Senator Garm Bel Iblis' private army and the forces of Grand Admiral Thrawn. Apparently, Thrawn's forces did some damage to Bel Iblis' men or scared them out of the system. [DFR]
Loovria
The Sludir slavelord known as Big Quince once fought in the gladiator pits of Loovria, and still carries his gladiator's force pike as a reminder of his time there. [SWAJ]
Lorahns
The planet Lorahns is controlled by a strict religious oligarchy of the Ffib sect. The bounty hunter Boba Fett once earned a 500,000 credit reward for capturing Nivek'Yppiks, a Ffib heretic wanted by Lorahns' leaders. [TFJP]
Loronar
The location of the Loronar space construction center, one of the facilities used by the Emperor to build his largest warships and special weapons platforms. [ISWU]
Lorrd
A planet located in the Kanz sector. Four thousand years ago during the Kanz Disorders, Lorrd was bombed from orbit and its human inhabitants enslaved by the Argazdans. The Lorrdians, forbidden by their masters to communicate verbally, developed an advanced system of kinetic communication through gestures and facial expressions. After nearly three centuries, the Lorrdians were finally freed from servitude by the Jedi Knights. The planet's inhabitants have retained many of their non-verbal communication patterns and are among the galaxy's best mimics. Hart-and-Parn Gorra-Fiolla, Assistant Auditor-General of the Corporate Sector, was a Lorrdian. [HSR, CSSB]
Loth
Organocrystalline structures, a possible form of primitive life in the oceans of
Stroiketcy, have been compared with the rubygrub cysts that are found on Loth. [GG2]
Lumea
The orange star orbited by twelve planets in the Sevarcos system. [SWAJ]
Lur
An icy planet with slightly higher than standard gravity, Lur is located just outside the borders of the Corporate Sector. The upper layers of Lur's atmosphere are heavily ionized, which creates intense electrical storms. This, when combined with Lur's gale-force winds and freezing temperatures, makes starship landings often hazardous. The fur-covered, bipedal inhabitants of Lur have an innate expertise in genetic manipulation and live in cities of a few thousand each. They are peaceful and sociable, and very few ever choose to leave their homeworld. The frozen planet has many lifeforms, some of which were genetically engineered by the Lurrians: noahounds are used as guards, grebnar herds are used for food, and asgnat swarms burrow subterranean cities from the hearts of glaciers. Due to the remarkable abilities of Lur's inhabitants, the Empire quarantined the planet. Unfortunately this has proven ineffective against slavers, who can sell the Lurrians for four to six thousand apiece on the Invisible Market. Han Solo and Chewbacca were unwillingly involved in a Lurrian slavery operation during their early adventuring. [HSR, CSSB]
Lusankya
The location of an Imperial interrogation and brainwashing facility. Some three years after the Battle of Endor, Internal Security Director Ysanne Isard considered capturing Rogue Squadron pilot Bror Jace and sending him to Lusankya. [XWRS] Lweilot Asteroid Belt Located in the Bseto system, the Lweilot Asteroid Belt occupies the third orbital position around the white dwarf star Bseto. The Belt, 90 million kilometers wide, was once another planet in the system. [SWAJ] Lwhekk The homeworld of the Ssi-ruuk, in a distant star cluster. This planet is the center of the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium. [TAB]
An ocean planet in the Hapes Cluster, Maires is the homeworld of a water-breathing alien species known as the Mairans. The large, tentacled Mairans can leave the sea for brief periods, but must spray seawater on their black, rubbery skin to keep it moist. They speak a strange musical language by blowing into drilled shells. The Mairans have long been rivals with the inhabitants of the planet Vergill. Nineteen years after the Battle of Endor, the Vergills began an undersea ditanium mining operation on the planet Hapes, next to the newly-opened Mairan consulate. The Mairans filed an official protest against the noise and mining debris stirred up by the Vergills' actions, but in reality they had deliberately placed their consulate near the richest vein of ditanium in order to spark a confrontation. [YJK]
Mall'ordian
A planet in the Corporate Sector. Mall'ordian is one of the stops made by the luxury liner Lady of Mindor during its voyage from Roonadan to Ammuud. [CSSB]
Maltorr?
The possible homeworld of the insect-like alien species referred to as Maltorrans. A stocky Maltorran was killed during the attack of Xim's war-robots on Dellalt. [HSLL]
Mandalore system
Four thousand years ago, the Mandalore system was home to a group of fierce masked warrior clans led by a mysterious warlord called Mandalore. The clans, made up of deadly but honorable crusaders, rode semi- intelligent Basilisk war droids, boasted cutting-edge weaponry, and were considered to be the best fighters in the entire galaxy. The mask and title of "Mandalore" belonged to no single individual, but were traditionally passed down from one warrior to the next in the event of their leader's death. During the Sith War, the Mandalorians conquered the Kuar system and struck at the neighboring Teta system, forcing the Tetan leader Ulic Qel-Droma to battle Mandalore in single combat. Mandalore was defeated and he swore his armies' allegiance to Qel-Droma and the Krath forces. The warlord was made Qel-Droma's war commander, and his clans won many victories for their new leader. At the close of the Sith War, however, Mandalore's armies were defeated in their attempt to capture the planet Onderon. Mandalore and his surviving warriors were forced to flee to the Dxun moon, where Mandalore was killed by a pair of the moon's deadly beasts and a new warrior donned his mask and assumed his title. Millennia later, the warlike Mandalore people exterminated the Ithullan race, several hundred years before the Battle of Yavin. During the Clone Wars, a group of warriors from the system were defeated by the Jedi Knights. The notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett wears an armored suit similar to those worn by these Mandalore warriors, and his alternate ship Slave II is based on a Mandalorian police ship design. Imperial dungeon ships were originally designed by the Mandalorians, and were introduced during the Jedi purge to contain dangerous force users. Mandalorian battle harnesses are designed to be operated by R2 units, and Freedon Nadd's tomb on Dxun was constructed from Mandalorian iron. [SWS, MTS, DE, DLOS, D, TFTC, DESB, TSW]
Mantessa
The home of dangerous predators called panthacs. Han Solo and Chewbacca had an encounter with these animals while on Mantessa. [TLC]
Mantooine
Mantooine, in the system of the same name, is located in the Atrivis sector in the Outer Rim. The government of Mantooine considers spice smuggling to be a capital offense. Years ago, a group of Mantooine freedom fighters called the Liberators were massacred by the Empire when they took refuge in a captured Imperial base. If the group had been allied with another resistance group in the nearby Fest system, however, the Liberators could have been warned of the coming strike fleet and taken cover in Mantooine's impenetrable forests. This example of the benefits of communication helped build a strong case for a single, unified Rebel Alliance. In a separate incident, the probe droid D-127X's self-sacrifice may have saved Mantooine from an Imperial surprise
attack. [FP, SWAJ]
Markbee's Star
The fourth planet orbiting the star is Zeffliffl, home to the seaweed-like aliens sharing its name. [TCS]
Marngar III
Site of an Imperial University. The Imperial spy Benald Orlan was an honors student at this university, where he attended the Thene campus. [SWAJ]
Matra VI
The gunman Gallandro, hired by Odumin to bring down the Malorm family, killed the group after luring them to Matra VI. This earned Gallandro the wrath of the Assassins Guild, who claimed to have an exclusive contract on the Malorm family. [CSSB]
Mattri asteroids
Garm Bel Iblis' private army had a temporary base in the Mattri asteroids during their hit-and-fade attacks against the Empire. [DFR]
Maw
The Maw is a cluster of black holes near the planet Kessel, visible due to the ionized gasses that are drawn into them. The Maw is destined to swallow the Kessel system itself in another thousand years. The existence of a black hole cluster has led to several theories about its origin, including the idea that the Maw was constructed by an ancient and powerful alien race. Hidden in the center of the Maw is the secret Imperial weapons-research base known as Maw Installation, established by Grand Moff Tarkin (without the Emperor's knowledge) and guarded by Admiral Daala's four Star Destroyers. The scientists at Maw Installation developed both a prototype Death Star and the feared Sun Crusher, though both weapons and the installation itself were destroyed during a battle with New Republic forces. [JS, COTF]
Mayagil sector
The Bith homeworld of Clak'dor VII is located in the Mayagil sector. [GG4]
Mayro
A resort world in the Corporate Sector. Torm Dadeferron, inheritor of the Kail Ranges, was first approached by undercover Corporate Sector police while visiting Mayro. [CSSB]
Mendicat
Imperial General Sulamar, who worked with Durga the Hutt on the Darksaber project, was known to boast of successfully commanding the Massacre of Mendicat without losing a single stormtrooper. In actuality, Mendicat was merely a scrap mining and recycling station, which was destroyed when Sulamar incorrectly programmed the station's orbital computers. [DS]
Mennaalii system
A convoy carrying Rebel troops was passing through the Mennaalii system when it was forced to exit hyperspace to avoid an asteroid field. Here it was ambushed by a group of pirates, but was rescued by an Alliance strike team. [FP]
Mepha'as Prime
The Outer Rim smuggler Jin-Jin won half a million credits in the Arenas of Mepha'as Prime, but lost it all when his real-estate investment on Alderaan was destroyed along with the planet. [SWAJ]
Merisee
Merisee, known for its medicine and agriculture, is home to two intelligent alien species-- the Teltiors and the Meris. Meris are tall, blue-skinned humanoids with webbed hands and a prominent brow ridge; Teltiors are similar in appearance but lack the ridge. Meris have an innate ability to predict the weather. Honn Dangel, a Meris meteorologist in Bespin's Cloud City, gained his current post after leaving the Merisee military. [GG2]
Metellos system
Lying very close to the Coruscant system. When the revived Empire began its conquest of the Metellos and Kaikielius systems six years after the Battle of Endor, New Republic leaders on Coruscant began to search for a new base of operations. [DESB]
M'haeli
M'haeli, an agrarian planet with several moons, is a well-situated refueling point for several nearby systems. The capital city is N'croth, where Governor Grigor rules from the Imperial garrison. The planet's population is made up of two primary species-- human colonists and native H'drachi. Each year the H'drachi hold a mid-summer conclave where they consult the timestream for news of the future. Sights on M'haeli include W'eston Falls, Demon's Brow, and a secret mine of valuable Dragite crystals located in the D'olop Range (which includes Selon Mountian). Years ago, an off-world attack led by Grigor devastated the palace of the human ruling house and paved the way for the planet's takeover by the Empire. Mora, infant heir to the ruling house, was abandoned during the attack and adopted by the H'drachi seer Ch'no. Seventeen years later, the Imperial pilot Ranulf Trommer was assigned as a spy to M'haeli and uncovered an illegal Dragite mining operation being run by Governor Grigor. [ROC]
Miglar 2
The Nikto assassin Ma'w'shiye suffered injuries in a speeder bike accident on Miglar 2, where he lost the facial horns characteristic of the Nikto species. [SWAJ]
Mima II
A small, tropical world orbiting the orange sun Lar. Mima II has a fast rotation and year, and very unstable tectonic plates which are drawn across the planet's surface by the nearby gravitational influence of Lar. Mima II is abundant with plant and animal life, and the sentient Bilars inhabit the lush jungles. The Bilars, pink-skinned, timid vegetarians, are unique in that they can form group minds called claqas. While one Bilar is about as intelligent as a rodent, claqas of six or seven Bilars approach genius-level intelligence. The Bilars have developed sophisticated technology, but there is little on Mima II that is useful in galactic trade. [GG4]
Mimban (Circarpous V)
The fifth planet in the Circarpous system, the cloud-covered swamp world of Circarpous V is often referred to by its local name of Mimban. The planet is largely unexplored, save for a single expedition by Circarpousian xenoarcheologists and an early Imperial scouting survey. The rainy world is a lush green crisscrossed with muddy brown rivers, and is teeming with many forms of life. The foliage is concentrated in dense clumps which leaves plenty of open space for travel, though the incautious can sink to their deaths in pockets of thick gray mud. Mimban was never colonized by the Circarpousians, but the Empire secretly established a mining operation on the planet without the knowledge of the system's inhabitants. The Empire's miners live in five makeshift towns, and perform their work with energy drills. These drills, illegal on populated worlds, create harmful fallout and are a serious hazard for arriving ships, since they shunt their excess electrical charges into the sky. At least three intelligent Mimban species are known to exist on the planet-- the large-eyed "greenies" who beg in the mining towns for alcohol; the thin gray Coway who live underground, and an unnamed furry species with four legs and four arms. The mysterious, long-extinct species known as the Thrella are believed to have built the hundreds of temples and cities that dot the damp surface of Mimban. "Thrella wells," near-bottomless shafts surrounded by interlocking hexagonal stones, often have side passages called Coway shafts, leading to the underground world of the Coway. One particular Coway shaft, lit by a type of luminous fungi, contains a vast subterranean lake which the Coway cross on large lilypad plants. The lake houses a dangerous, amorphous pseudopod-creature, and an abandoned Thrella city is located on the lake's far edge. This shaft's 200 Coway live in a primitive village built in a huge natural amphitheater. Their tribes are ruled by a triumvirate of leaders, who appeal to their god Canu for judgment on important matters. One of the world's more dangerous animals are the huge pale worms called wandrellas, who have black eye- spots surrounding a gaping mouth and are too stupid to be slowed by most attacks. Imperial control of Mimban was entrusted to Captain-Supervisor Grammel, who ruled from the Imperial planetary headquarters built into an ancient towering ziggurat. The legendary Kaiburr crystal, rumored to have properties that focus and intensify the Force, was located deep in the jungle, in the temple of a minor local god named Pomojema. The powerful crystal rested within a ceremonial statue of the god, and was guarded by a sluggish but deadly lizard-creature. Soon after the Battle of Yavin, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO crashed on Mimban while traveling to a conference on Circarpous IV. After facing many dangers, including a showdown with Darth Vader, the Rebels were able to retrieve the Kaiburr crystal and leave Mimban. [SME] Mindabaal A politically influential world in the system of the same name, Mindabaal was the birthplace of the notorious Outer Rim smuggling sisters Josephine and Jericho. The rebellious Jericho attended the Mindabaal Royal Academy boarding school and later escaped, while Josephine began a distinguished career in the Mindabaal Diplomatic Corps. While on a mission to formalize Mindabaal's official entry into the Empire, Ambassador Josephine was kidnapped by her sister. The two later returned to their homeworld only to find it devastated by an Imperial orbital bombardment, at which point the sisters began working the smuggling trade together. [SWAJ]
Mindar
Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa once shared rations on a Mindar battlefield, amid the dead bodies of Imperial stormtroopers. [COPL]
Mindavar system
A group of settlers in the Mindavar system were almost completely wiped out when a deadly virus spread through their colony. The smuggler Reina Gale lost her parents to the virus when she was only an infant. [SWAJ]
Minos Cluster
Located on the fringes of known space, the Minos Cluster contains the Shesharile system. [SWAJ]
Mirit system
The Mirit system is located only hours from the Pyria and Venjagga systems at the edge of the Galactic Core. It contains the planet Ord Mirit, which was the site of a former Imperial base. [XWRS]
Mirshaf?
Captain Dorja, of the Star Destroyer Relentless under Grand Admiral Thrawn, was known to use an ancient Mirshaf gesture of victory. [TLC]
Miser
The innermost planet of the Bespin system, Miser is a small world lacking atmosphere but rich in valuable metals. The planet's powerful magnetic field interferes with most electronic equipment. Miser was heavily mined for raw materials during the construction of Bespin's Cloud City, and deep craters from the operation can still be seen on its surface. The inhospitable temperature extremes made the mining hazardous, and hardy Ugnaughts were needed to staff the operation. The mines have since been abandoned, and are now infested with mynocks. The desolate planet has frequently been used over the centuries as a hideout for smugglers and pirates. Lord Ecclessis Figg, the founder of Cloud City, once proposed a rolling mining center that could stay permanently on the cooler, shadow side of Miser. It was never built, but it provided the inspiration for Lando Calrissian's Nomad City mining operation on Nkllon. [HTTE, GG2]
Mneon system
The Mneon system contains the planet Geran, home of a near-human alien species. [TFJP]
Moddell sector
The Moddell sector contains the planet Endor. A report filed to Imperial Command by an Imperial scout in the Moddell sector briefly described the previously unexplored system and dismissed the threat of the native Ewoks. [SWS]
Moltok
A remote planet covered with wetlands, and lashed with atmospheric electrical discharges and constant rainstorms. Najiba, a low-technology world with a high degree of smuggling activity, is located a mere one- hour's hyperspace travel from the Trulalis system. During one half of its elliptical orbit, Najiba passes near a hazardous asteroid belt known as the "Children of Najiba," at which time all travel to and from the planet is restricted. The inhabitants of Najiba tend to be superstitious and wary of strangers, but are also extremely loyal and hardworking. Around three million humans and Najib inhabit the planet. Reuther's Wetdock is a popular tavern located near the planet's spaceport. Sometime before the Battle of Endor, the Dark Jedi Adalric Brandl hired the smuggler Thaddeus Ross to take him from Najiba to Trulalis, Brandl's former home. [SWAJ]
Nal Hutta
A bruised green, blue, and brown planet in the Y'Toub system, Nal Hutta (meaning "glorious jewel" in Huttese) is one of the primary planets settled by the Hutts after leaving their ancestral home of Varl. The planet's immense size is compensated by its extremely low density, giving it a tolerable gravity. Nal Hutta was once a pleasant world of mountainous rain forests. Since their arrival, however, the Hutts have transformed it into a gloomy planet of stinking bogs, stagnant, scum-covered puddles, and patches of sickly marsh grass inhabited by insects and spiders. The planet's flocks of large, clumsy birds are shot down by swoop-riding hunters. The atmosphere is polluted by strip-mining operations in the Nal Hutta's industrial centers, and a greasy rain drizzles down on the world's destitute inhabitants living in their squatters' villages and ghettos. Entertainment centers located near the Nal Hutta spaceport stand on stilts in the planet's swampy ground. The white palace of Durga the Hutt lies across from the spaceport, and features a swamp- water bathhouse and an infamous network of dungeons. Nal Hutta and its moon, Nar Shaddaa, are located in the center of "Hutt Space" and receive a constant traffic of freight haulers, smugglers, and other galactic traders. Raw materials are continually strip-mined from Nal Hutta's surface and shipped to the Nar Shaddaa moon for processing and transport. The planet is ruled by a council of the eldest members of the "Clans of the Ancients," the oldest Hutt families. The world's population consists of nearly seven billion inhabitants, three billion of them Hutts. Many years ago, the planet was known as Evocar and was the homeworld of the primitive Evocii. When the Hutts arrived, they traded technology to the Evocii in exchange for land-- eventually buying up the planet and forcing the Evocii from their homeworld. The Old Republic relocated the displaced Evocii to the Nar Shaddaa moon, but they fared no better there. Once the Hutts controlled the entire planet, they replaced all Evocii structures with Hutt palaces and shrines and renamed the world Nal Hutta. The planet's nearness to busy hyperspace lanes made it a popular trade world at the time, though the trade lanes have long since shifted. In recent history, Nal Hutta and its moon have become a haven for smugglers, pirates, and criminals. A massive, radioactive gas cloud, containing the hidden planet Ganath, lies very close to Nal Hutta. [DE, GG4, DE2, DESB, DS]
Nanthri Route
The shipping route once plagued by the Nanthri pirates, who united under their leader Cellis Mott until his mysterious disappearance. Mott's list of "ship's articles" are still used by pirates and privateers today. [SWAJ]
Nar Shaddaa
The ungoverned "smugglers' moon" orbiting Nal Hutta, Nar Shaddaa is completely covered by interlocking spaceport facilities and miles-high docking towers reaching to orbit. The moon's all-covering "vertical city" was built over thousands of years, and is protected by often-malfunctioning planetary shields. Though it was once a glorious world of bustling, legitimate trade, Nar Shaddaa quickly lost prestige as the hyperspace trade lanes shifted away. Now quite distant from most galactic commercial centers, Nar Shaddaa is typically allowed to run its own affairs with little Imperial interference. Famous as the birthplace of Jabba the Hutt, Nar Shaddaa is controlled by Hutts and assorted "smuggling guilds" who control various sections of the moon. It is now widely regarded as the center of smuggling operations in the known galaxy, and the pollution, decay, and lawlessness associated with smuggling traffic run rampant on the moon. Sections of Nar Shaddaa's maze-like city include the Duros sector and the Corellian sector, which contains three bars popular with bounty hunters-- the Burning Deck, the Slag Pit, and the Meltdown Cafe, and another corner tavern called the Orange Lady. Most of the moon's 72 to 95 billion inhabitants live in the highest levels of the spaceport-cities. Nar Shaddaa was originally given to the displaced Evocii as a new homeworld, after the Hutts forced the species from Nal Hutta. The Hutts continued to exploit the Evocii in their new home, buying up their land and using them as a cheap labor source. Now their forgotten, inbred descendants can be found inhabiting the lowest levels of the vertical city. Han Solo and Lando Calrissian both used to frequent Nar Shaddaa during their early smuggling days, and still have associates living there. Before their service to Captain Antilles, C-3PO and R2-D2 traveled to Nar Shaddaa in an attempt to apprehend the criminal Olag Greck. The bounty hunter Greedo and his family lived in the moon's Corellian sector for several years, until an Imperial attack on a Rebel hideout resulted in massive destruction and the collapse of nearly twenty sector levels. Following the Battle of Yavin, Alliance agent Kyle Katarn avoided bounty hunters on Nar Shaddaa in order to find Imperial navigational charts related to the Dark Trooper project. Six years after the Battle of Endor, Leia and Han Solo, searching for Vima-Da-Boda in Nar Shaddaa's lowest levels, were attacked by man-eating vrblthers and the bounty hunter Boba Fett. [DE, DE2, DESB, D, TFTC, DF, SWAJ]
Neelgaimon
Following the failure of the Emperor's attempt to destroy the Jedi enclave on Belsavis, several designers of the Eye of Palpatine were reassigned to punitive duty at the sandmines of Neelgaimon. [COTJ]
Nellac Kram
The Imperial freighter (carrying a cloaked cargo of TIE fighters) which was used in the battle of Sluis Van was using the alias Nartissteu, and its port of origin was reported as Nellac Kram. [HTTE]
Nentan
Nentan was a stopover point for civilians wishing passage to Rebel safe worlds. When the base was discovered by Imperial forces, there were not enough transports available to evacuate everyone from the surface. Captain Bren Derlin, serving General Rieekan, led a squad that hid in Nentan's ancient ruins and captured an Imperial transport. This action, which allowed all the base personnel to escape, earned Derlin the rank of Major. [MTS]
Nespis VIII
Once located at the node of the six remaining Auril systems near the Cron Drift, the now-destroyed Nespis VIII was a huge derelict space city. One of the largest of the ancient spaceports, Nespis VIII began its life as a remote beacon-point during the early days of hyperspace travel. Over thousands of years the beacon became a sprawling city, with a vast diversity of architectural styles and historical relics from nearly every period of space travel, including centuries-old murals of the Great Sith War. The city remained well- preserved in the vacuum of space and was abandoned long before the start of the Clone Wars. Six years after the Battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker freed Kam Solusar from the Dark Side of the Force while at Nespis VIII. Later that year (after the destruction of the command base on the fifth moon of Da Soocha), New Republic leaders established their new base at the remote space city, and Leia Organa Solo's third child Anakin was born there. Soon after, the Emperor fired a Galaxy Gun projectile at Nespis VII as the New Republic scrambled to abandon their base. Though the first shot was unsuccessful, a second projectile utterly destroyed the ancient space city. [DE2, EE]
New Alderaan
New Republic Support Services located a planet, renamed New Alderaan, to serve as a homeworld for the refugees from the destroyed world of Alderaan. Following the Battle of Endor, General Jan Dodonna went into semi-retirement on New Alderaan until called back into service to fight the Empire. The planet was later discovered by Imperial Warlord Zsinj and its entire population was forced to temporarily evacuate. During the Emperor's reappearance six years after the Battle of Endor, Mon Mothma's daughter was convalescing on New Alderaan. At the same time, Jacen and Jaina Solo were being protected on an uncharted, green, exotic world code- named "New Alderaan." The small, unassuming settlement near a lake helped disguise a large underground technical complex and its advanced defensive weaponry. The Emperor attacked the complex with his seven Darkside warriors and a phalanx of advanced AT-ATs in an attempt to kidnap the Solo children. [DE, COPL, DE2, DESB]
New Bakstr
A planet with seven moons, a purplish sky, and a very rapid rotation. [SWAJ]
New Cov
New Cov, in the Churba sector, is covered with thick jungles and carnivorous plants. Giant walled cities, accessible through entrance shafts in their transparisteel domes, have been built on the planet to harvest valuable, exotic biomolecules from the local plant life for export. It was a common practice for Imperial forces to arrive occasionally and "raid" the cities for their stores of biomolecules, which was treated by the local Covies as a routine but covert form of taxation. The walled city of Ilic contains a reproduction of Coruscant's Grandis Mon theater and a tapcafe called the Mishra on its entertainment level. New Republic Senator Borsk Fey'lya helped Garm Bel Iblis' army set up a supply line through New Cov, and took on an Imperial Victory-class Star Destroyer with only four Bothan ships in order to protect this connection. [DFR]
New Kisge
Alliance Major Adazian Liebke, a Weequay, serves as a wilderness fighter with the Alliance SpecForces unit on New Kisge. [SWAJ]
New Ralltiir
New Republic historian Voren Na'al interviewed Han Solo about his adventures in the Corporate Sector while Solo and his family were resting on New Ralltiir. [CSSB]
Niian
The smuggler Dannen Lifehold was on a mission on the tropical planet of Niian when his mentor, Captain Twolz, was killed by Imperial stormtroopers. [SWAJ]
Ninth Quadrant
An area of space near the Senex and Juvex sectors, containing the Greeb-Streebling Cluster, the Noopiths, and the planet Belsavis. The quadrant is relatively isolated and its systems are widely spread apart. [COTJ]
Nkllon
Located in the Athega system, Nkllon is a superhot planet closely orbiting its star. Any ships approaching the planet must ride behind the cooled umbrellas of massive shieldships until they reach Nkllon's shadow, or they risk critical solar damage. Lando Calrissian, inspired by a similar design for the planet Miser, constructed a constantly moving mining platform that can stay permanently on the shadow side during Nkllon's ninety-day rotation. This platform is called Nomad City and primarily consists of a Dreadnaught Cruiser supported by forty AT-AT walkers. It holds a crew of 5000 and is surrounded by a cloud of shuttles, pilot vehicles, and mole miners. Some of the metals produced through mining Nkllon include hfredium, kammris, and dolovite. An attack on Nomad City by the Star Destroyer Judicator resulted in the theft of 51 mole miners, and another Imperial attack critically damaged the city and resulted in the loss of its strategic metals stockpiles. Brakiss, leader of the Shadow Academy, had a picture of a molten waterfall on Nkllon in his private office. [HTTE, TLC, YJK]
Nodgra system
The Nodgra system is approximately three days travel from the Socorran system. The crimelord Abdi- Badawzi forced the young smuggler Drake Paulsen to deliver a cargo to the Nodgra system. [SWAJ]
Noopiths
The Noopiths are located in the Ninth Quadrant, near the Senex and Juvex sectors. [COTJ]
Noonar
Noonar, the ruling world of Imperial governor Trophan Thanis, is located in the Noonian system and sector. [SWAJ]
Noonian sector
The Noonian sector, located near the Halthor sector, contains the Noonian system (and its planet Noonar) and the planet Movris. The Noonian system, ruled by Imperial governor Trophan Thanis, contains several food-processing facilities for the Nebula Consumables corporation. Rebel privateers, presumably operating from Movris, were able to steal nearly a quarter of Nebula Consumables' output. Captain Gresia Vleen, an Imperial customs officer aboard the Interdictor cruiser Tory's Catcher, inspects ships traveling the space lanes of the Noonian sector. [SWAJ]
Noquivzor
A pleasant world of treeless plains, gentle hills, and savannas of golden grasses. Animal life on the planet includes herds of horned wildernerfs, which are preyed upon by prides of taopari. Some three years after the Battle of Endor, Rogue Squadron was moved to a starfighter base on Noquivzor as their staging area for the attack on Borleias. [XWRS]
Nordra
The homeworld of Alliance Colonel Riskin, a three-foot alien who commands a base halfway across the galaxy on the planet Baskarn. [SWAJ]
Norulac
The planet Norulac housed a company of bandits who annually raided Taanab, until they were wiped out by Lando Calrissian in the famous Battle of Taanab. Calrissian single-handedly accounted for nineteen kills. [ROJN, SWAJ]
Norval II
Norval (or Norvall) II is the homeworld of General Horton Salm, commander of the Alliance's starfighter training center on Folor. Six years after the Battle of Endor, a detachment of fighters from Norval II joined the Alliance to aid in their struggle against the reborn Emperor. [DE, XWRS]
Nosken
Many years ago, the TriGas Corporation started an ambitious (though ultimately unprofitable) dirigible mining operation on the gas giant Nosken. [GG2]
Nyarikan Nebula
The Nyarikan Nebula is a navigation hazard lying near the Garos system. Its presence has made travel to the Garos system relatively uncommon. [SWAJ]
Nyasko
A planet in the Colunda sector. The Imperial tech Deppo was stationed in an AT-AT batallion on Nyasko, which was kept busy fighting the high degree of Rebel activity in the sector. [DESB]
Alliance leaders met with Sullustan commander Syub Snunb at a rendezvous near Obica just prior to the Battle of Endor. Snunb then led the Rebel fleet to Sullust where they prepared for their assault on the second Death Star. [DESB]
Obroa-skai
Located in the system of the same name, Obroa-skai sits at a strategic location within the borderland regions. During the rise of Grand Admiral Thrawn, the New Republic was attempting to convince Obroa- skai to join their side. Thrawn's forces made a partial dump of the data in the Obroans' central library system which allowed them to learn the location of Wayland. When Mara Jade visited Wayland during her tenure as the Emperor's Hand, the last stop before reaching their destination was Obroa-skai. [HTTE, TLC]
Odik II
The location of a top-secret political detention ward, where Old Republic opponents of Palpatine's New Order were imprisoned. Major Calders, a security warden aboard the first Death Star, began his career as a security guard at the Odik II facility. [DSTC]
Oetrago
Han Solo spent some time on Oetrago, and was unimpressed with the appearance of its plant life. He was reminded of this while seeing the ugly, mutated flowers of Crseih Station. [TCS]
Ogoth Tiir
Jona Grumby, a commodore in the Corporate Sector picket fleet, retired from the Imperial starfleet after he was crippled at the battle of Ogoth Tiir. [CSSB]
Olabria?
The Olabrian Trichoid (possibly originating on the planet of Olabria) was used by Governor Nereus of Bakura in an attempt to kill Luke Skywalker. Its larvae hatch in a host's stomach and burrow towards the heart, feeding on blood. [TAB]
Omar
Located in the system of the same name, Omar was the former site of three Sienar Fleet Systems starfighter production facilities. These advanced manufacturing plants, which produced the new TIE Advanced fighter, were destroyed by the traitorous Admiral Zaarin in the time following the Battle of Hoth. Zaarin hoped to maintain his technological superiority by weakening the Empire's most advanced war materiel. [TSC]
Omman
A culturally-diverse world with a busy starport and a high Imperial presence. The smugglers Drake Paulsen and Karl Ancher were imprisoned in a Bureau of Customs jail on Omman, but escaped with the help of another smuggler, Tait Ransom. [SWAJ]
Omwat
An orange and green world of savannas and mountains, Omwat was the homeworld of the alien Maw scientist Qwi Xux. Tarkin, at that time a Moff commanding a Victory-class Star Destroyer, had determined that Omwati children could be capable of astonishing mental feats. He constructed an orbital education sphere to instruct the brightest Omwati prospects, using the threat of death to their honeycomb settlements on Omwat's surface if they failed. Nasdra Magrody developed the accelerated learning process, and one of the instructors was Ohran Keldor (a designer of both the Death Star and the Eye of Palpatine). Qwi Xux was the only candidate to survive the intense pressures of this force-fed education. [JS, COTJ]
Onderon
Onderon, in the three-planet system of the same name, circles a yellow sun and has four moons with widely-varying orbits. The closest moon, Dxun, is home to numerous bloodthirsty creatures who are periodically able to migrate to the surface of Onderon, due to an annual period in which the two worlds' atmospheres intersect. The human inhabitants of Onderon gradually evolved defenses against the beasts, eventually culminating in the enormous walled city of Iziz. Native life on the planet includes the deadly dragon-bird. 4,400 years ago the Dark Jedi Freedon Nadd brought the power of the Sith to Onderon, and those who opposed it were cast out into the wilderness where they tamed the beasts of Dxun. Hundreds of these "beast riders" created their own kingdoms in the wild, and fought continually to overtake Iziz. About 4402 years ago Onderon was first contacted by the Old Republic, and a delegation of Jedi (including Ulic Qel- Droma) was sent to make peace between the beast riders and Queen Amanda of Iziz two years after that. Following the death of Queen Amanda, her daughter Galia took the throne with Oron Kira, her lover and the leader of a beast rider kingdom. A subsequent uprising by the followers of Freedon Nadd was put down by another Jedi force. At the same time, Satal Keto and his cousin Aleema (members of Tetan royalty) traveled to Onderon to learn the secrets of Sith magic, which led to their formation of the Krath and the political takeover of the Tetan system. Following the Naddist uprising, a permanent Jedi outpost was built on Onderon from the remains of Nadd's ancient starship. Later, during the end of the Sith War, Exar Kun ordered the warrior clans of Mandalore to capture Onderon and the city of Iziz. Defeated in a furious battle by Oron Kira and Captain Vanicus of the Republic navy, Mandalore and his surviving men fled to the Dxun moon. Millennia later, six years after the Battle of Endor, the Millennium Falcon landed on Onderon to repair damage suffered in a battle with the reborn Emperor's flagship, the Eclipse II. Fearing for her newborn son Anakin, Leia Organa Solo hid in warrior leader Modon Kira's safehouse deep in the Onderon wilderness. Palpatine (posing as a pilgrim on his way to the Shatoon monastery) discovered the child at the safehouse and tried to possess his body, but was stopped by the Jedi knight Empatojayos Brand. Later, the leaders of the New Republic gathered in the fortress of Modon Kira and re-established their galactic government, led by Mon Mothma with Leia Organa Solo as her second in command. [TOTJ, FNU, DLOS, EE, TSW]
Oor VII
Inspector Keek, Chief of the Internal Security Police on Brigia, had a medal (presumably obtained secondhand) designating him spelling champion of the planet Oor VII. [HSLL]&127
Oorn Tchis
Alliance pilot Keyan Farlander has an aunt and uncle living on Oorn Tchis. [FP]
Ord Grovner
The location of an Imperial Naval base. The Star Destroyers Crusader and Bombard returned to the Ord Grovner base after wiping out the Eyttyrmin Batiiv pirates in the Khuiumin system. [SWAJ]
Ord Mantell
A planet with twin moons located in the outworlds. Points of interest on Ord Mantell include its busy spaceport (surrounded by canyons), and Ten Mile Plateau, located in the rocky back country. Supposedly a world free from Imperial interests, Ord Mantell happened to be hosting an Imperial fleet on maneuvers when Han Solo arrived there to repair the Millennium Falcon following the Battle of Yavin. While there, Solo encountered his smuggler friend Drub McKumb, who warned Solo of the sizeable bounty on his head. Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia were later captured by the bounty hunter Skorr, and held captive in the abandoned stellar energy plant on Ten Mile Plateau. Skorr planned to use the pair as bait to trap Solo, but his plans were foiled when Solo and Chewbacca staged a daring rescue.
The Pakuuni system, a hotbed of piracy and smuggling in the Outer Rim, contains the planet Pakuuni. Following the Battle of Hoth, Vice Admiral Thrawn was sent to the system to eliminate the pirates and make the area safe for shipping by establishing the Imperial space station NL-1. The Pakuuni pirates joined with Rebel Alliance forces to drive out the Empire, but they were defeated. [TSC]
Palanhi
Located in the Palanhi system, Palanhi is a crossroads planet with a reputation for exaggerating its own importance. The planet has remained neutral in an effort to profit from both sides of the galactic Civil War. Grand Admiral Thrawn had funds transferred into Admiral Ackbar's account through the central bank on Palanhi in an effort to discredit the Admiral and create a false trail to trap anyone who investigated. [DFR]
Pantolomin
Pantolomin is famous for the intricate coral reefs found in the waters off its northern continent. The Coral Vanda, an underwater casino, travels through the network of reefs on three- and seven-day luxury excursions. The Coral Vanda's eight gambling areas include the Saffkin and Tralla rooms, and patrons can view the reefs' fish and animal life through the transparent hull. Other resorts on the planet include the Towers of Pantolomin, owned by Galaxy Tours. The planet's animals include the playful, color-changing amphibians known as halfbacks, and the inhabitants of Pantolomin are referred to as Lomins. Five years after the Battle of Endor, Grand Admiral Thrawn's forces visited Pantolomin and forced the Coral Vanda to surrender its passenger Captain Hoffner, who knew the location of the lost Katana fleet. [DFR, CSSB, SWAJ]
Paonnid
Grand Admiral Thrawn's forces made information raids on several systems in the Paonnid region. Thrawn also studied "Paonidd" extrassa art, which could be related. [HTTE]
Paradise system
The garbage-strewn Paradise system is home to the quarrelsome, unicellular protozoans known as Ugors. Early in their history the Ugors polluted their home planet in the system, yet survived by adopting a form that could survive on garbage and waste. The Ugors, who have built a religion around their love of trash, have begun charging fees to those wishing to make a "pilgrimage" to the Paradise system to pore through and remove useful items from the vast store of garbage. Ugor society is composed of various waste recovery companies, which are controlled by the Holy Ugor Taxation Collection Agency (HUTCA). Ugors frequently find themselves in conflict with the Squibs for control of the galactic trash-hauling business. [GG4]
Parmel system
After the Battle of Hoth, the traitorous Imperial Admiral Harkov was captured in the Parmel system and brought before Darth Vader for questioning and execution. Later, the renegade Admiral Zaarin returned to his deep-space R&D facility in the Parmel system to seize its TIE Defender prototypes. Loyal Imperial forces captured the facility, but were forced to evacuate with the prototype TIEs when Zaarin tried to destroy the space platform. [TSC]
Parmic system
The Parmic system contains a research facility operated by Imperial Admiral Zaarin. It was here that Zaarin equipped his TIE squadrons with a new beam weapon in the time following the Battle of Hoth. [TSC]
Paulking XIV
The home of the fur-bearing trout. A taxidermized specimen is on display in the Poly Pyramid tavern on Rafa IV. [LCMH]
Pentastar Alignment
The Pentastar Alignment is a group of worlds in the Outer Rim, forged into a protective federation after the Battle of Endor by Grand Moff Ardus Kaine. Kaine, Moff of the Outer Rim Territories following the death of Grand Moff Tarkin, saw the Empire's defeat as an opportunity to form a new Empire under his own rule. He called a meeting, dubbed the Pentastar Talks, aboard his Super Star Destroyer Reaper with Imperial officials and representatives from two large private corporations. The resulting Alignment encompasses hundreds of planets, including the Velcar Free Commerce Zone (containing Capza, Entralla, and Bextar) and the worlds Jaemus and Criton's Point. While many aspects of the Alignment are very similar to those of the old Empire, some notable differences exist-- the Alignment's legislative arm, for instance, has two primary factions: Order (including the Politorate, Insurrection, Judgment, and Protectorate branches), and Enforcement, represented by the Pentastar Patrol police force. The New Republic has done little to oppose the Pentastar Alignment since its formation, but mercenary groups such as the Red Moons have secretly worked to sabotage its operations. Pirates and freebooters have also become an increasing problem within the Alignment. [SWAJ]
Perlemian Trade Route
The Perlemian Trade Route runs through the Darpa and Bormea sectors of the Ringali Shell and connects, in order, the planets Corulag, Chandrila, Brentaal, Esseles, Rhinnal, and Ralltiir. The Arkanis sector and its Pii system are a seven-day journey from the trade route. Activity along the route was severely curtailed by Lord Tion's blockade of Ralltiir just prior to the Battle of Yavin. [SWAJ]
Pernam Minor
Meysen Kayson, wealthy owner of the Greel Wood Logging Corporation in the Pii system, had his life saved on Pernam Minor by his friend Kassar Kosciusko. [SWAJ]
Pesitiin
Many years ago, the Bosken & Bosken company started an ambitious (though ultimately unprofitable) mining operation on the gas giant Pesitiin. The planet is famous for its perpetual atmospheric storms. [GG2]
Pesmenben IV
A planet where Lando Calrissian ran a con-job on an Imperial governor. Calrissian laced the dunes of Pesmenben IV with valuable lithium carbonate, convincing the governor to lease the planet, and then tricked the governor into offering bribes to non-existent "union officials." [ROJN]
Petrakis
When the first group of Alliance B-wings saw action near Petrakis, an entire TIE wing turned and fled at the sight of the powerful new craft. [FP]
Phenaru Prime
An entirely mythical planet, created by Alliance strategists to train Rogue Squadron pilots for a return mission to Borleias. Since Borleias' location was classified, the pilots flew simulated attacks on Phenaru; the run through the canyons of Borleias' moon was replaced with a run through a virtual asteroid ring surrounding the spurious world. [XWRS]
Pho Ph'eah
Pho Ph'eah, with a wide variety of terrain, is the homeworld of the Pho Ph'eahians-- aliens with blue fur and four arms. Pho Ph'eah orbits far from its star and receives little sunlight, but is warmed by active geothermal energy. The planet was contacted by the Old Republic millennia ago, and the technologically- skilled Pho Ph'eahians have long been members of the larger galaxy. The assistant manager in the main lounge of Bonadan Spaceport Southeast II was a native of Pho Ph'eah. [HSR, CSSB]
Phorliss
The smuggler Mara Jade briefly worked as Karrinna Jansih, a serving girl in a Phorliss cantina, following the death of the Emperor. [DFR]
Phosphura Belt Nebula
Located near several major trade lanes, the Phosphura Belt Nebula is a mass of greenish clouds randomly charged with electromagnetic bursts. It is a serious navigation hazard, and is home to the highly-organized Phosphura Belt Pirates. The space station Zirtran's Anchor drifts near the nebula. [SWAJ]
Phraetiss
Lando Calrissian ran a botched operation on Phraetiss about ten years before the rise of Grand Admiral Thrawn. It was here that he made the acquaintance of the smuggler Niles Ferrier. [DFR]
Pii system
The Pii system is located in the Arkanis sector, on the border of the Mid-Rim and Outer Rim. There is little of value in the region of space but it can be easily reached, and lies just seven days from the Perlemian Trade Route. The system's seven planets orbit a red giant, and the inner two worlds are scorched balls of rock. An asteroid belt is next, followed by the lush green worlds of Pii 3 and 4. Next is a barren fifth planet, another asteroid field, and a gas giant, while the seventh world is an ice-covered ball. Pii 3 and 4 are the only profitable worlds in the area, and are known for the valuable crimson greel wood harvested and exported from their forests. The entrepreneur Meysen Kayson bought the rights to both planets in the last days of the Old Republic, intending to open a nature preserve. When he discovered the fast-growing greel trees and their deep, luxurious wood, he founded the Greel Wood Logging Corporation. Efforts to transplant the greel tree to other environments have proven unsuccessful, and for now the Pii system is the exclusive source. Kayson secretly diverts most of its profits from his logging company to the Alliance, while allowing the planets to be used as Rebel training grounds and safeworlds. Pii 4 has harsher geography and more rainfall than its sister world, which is covered with gentle rolling plains. Pii 3 was once home to seventh Duro Relocation Colony, which has since been abandoned. Many lifeforms inhabit the planets, including the larkin nerf and zronta grazer on Pii 3 and the greel screamer and timber render predators of Pii 4. Following the Battle of Yavin, a Habassan convoy was attacked by Imperial gunboats near Pii 2, but was rescued by Alliance starfighters. [SWAJ, FP]
Pil Diller
Pil Diller was once home to a species of mournful singing fig trees, according to the Holographic Zoo of Extinct Animals on Coruscant. The planet also has many beaches. [DA, DS]
Pinnacle Moon
(see Da Soocha V)
Piroket Piroket is located close to the planet Tatooine. The Rebel agent Riij, having stolen a droid carrying the complete technical readouts of the "Hammertong" prior to the Battle of Yavin, planned to deposit the droid with a Bothan shipping company on Piroket. [TFTC, SWAJ]
Pits of Plooma
General Garm Bel Iblis fought Grand Admiral Thrawn's forces at Qat Chrystac, where Thrawn used Interdictor Cruisers to bring his ships out of hyperspace at precise locations. More than one assault was staged, and Wedge Antilles helped battle two squadrons of cloned TIE pilots during the first. Imperial shock forces were working their way across Qat Chrystac during Thrawn's siege of Coruscant. Bel Iblis was at Qat Chrystac when he intercepted a distress call from Lando Calrissian's Nomad City mining complex on Nkllon. [TLC]
Quanta sector
The Quanta sector, formerly ruled by Moff Jerjerrod, contains the planet Tinnel IV. [SWAJ]
Quelii sector
The Quelii sector contains the planet Dathomir. The sector was once under the control of Imperial Warlord Zsinj. [COPL]
Quian
The human inhabitants of Quian have light brown hair, aqua-green eyes, and dark complexions. The Imperial spy Benald Orlan is a native of Quian. When Orlan informed the Empire that members of his family were Alliance sympathizers, his father and siblings were executed. [SWAJ]
Quintar Nebula
Found on few star charts, the Quintar Nebula is a thick mass of colorful, swirling clouds that can blind sensors and ionize flight-control systems. Tron Nixx, the navigator for Drek Drednar's pirate crew, used the Force to chart a safe route through the Nebula, where he discovered the hidden world of Taraloon. [SWAJ]
Lying close to the Galactic Core, the Rachuk sector borders the Morobe sector and contains the Chorax, Hensara, and Rachuk systems. The sector was controlled from an Imperial base, located on Vladet in the Rachuk system. [XWRS]
Rachuk system
The Rachuk system is located in the Rachuk sector and contains the planet Vladet, site of an Imperial sector headquarters. A great deal of trade and shipping traffic passes through the centrally-located system. The Rachuk roseola virus infects anyone visiting the system, and manifests itself as a red, itchy rash. Some three years after the Battle of Endor, the Alliance destroyed the Vladet base and forced the Empire to divert more of its forces to the Rachuk system, diluting its strength elsewhere. [XWRS]
Rafa system
Bordering the Oseon system, the eleven planets and numerous moons of the Rafa system are covered with the enormous plastic ruins of the ancient Sharu. The buildings are among the largest constructions in the galaxy and are quite impenetrable. Many human colonies, dating from the early days of the Old Republic, have sprung up around and between the structures. The system was also inhabited by a primitive humanoid species known as the Toka, who were treated as slaves by the Rafa colonists. The system is famous for its life orchards-- groves of crystalline trees whose crystal "fruit" can extend an individual's life when harvested and worn. Working among the crystal trees themselves, however, drains a person's life and intellect, and consequently most of the harvesting is done by the Toka or the criminals in the Rafa's numerous penal colonies. Following Lando Calrissian's procurement of the Mindharp from Rafa V, the Toka were revealed to actually be the Sharu and regained their civilization and mental abilities. [LCMH]
Rafa III
The location of a deep-bore mining operation using laser drillbits. [LCMH]
Rafa IV
Rafa IV is the center of government for the Rafa system. It was ruled by Duttes Mer, colonial governor of the Rafa, until the government was overthrown by the resurgent Toka. Its main spaceport city, Teguta Lusat, lies wedged between the colossal plastic ruins of the Sharu. The city contains numerous taverns, the Hotel Sharu, and a penal colony where the prisoners serve their sentences harvesting crystals from the life orchards. [LCMH, LCFW]
Rafa V
A frozen, dry world of red sand, archaeoastronomers believe that the ancient Sharu evolved on this planet. Orbiting the world are Rafa V's twin moons and a cloud of debris that might be the result of the Sharu's early attempts at spaceflight. It is the site of many life-orchards, harvested by a few hundred convicts, horticulturists, and Toka living in fewer scattered settlements. A colossal Sharu pyramid, projecting seven kilometers above ground level, towers over the other ruins of Rafa V and was the resting place of the famous artifact called the Mindharp. [LCMH]
Rafa XI
The outermost planet in the Rafa system, Rafa XI is a world of icy slush orbiting in the dark. It is the site of a research installation and a helium refinery. [LCMH]
Rafft
A green, forested world with several modest settlements. A small, twelve-man Rebel base was located in a complex of caves on Rafft just prior to the Battle of Yavin. The Rebels, led by Commander Brion Peck, were sent to the planet to sabotage the construction of an Imperial garrison. The group was evacuated by the smuggler Dannen Lifehold after a homing beacon betrayed the base's location. [SWAJ]
Raithal
The location of the Raithal Academy, the most prestigious training center in the entire Empire. After the Battle of Yavin, medical experts from Raithal were sent to an orbiting hospital frigate to study the outbreak of Candorian plague on Dentaal. [SWAJ]
Rakrir
The homeworld of a sentient insectoid alien species. Rakririans are wealthy, highly cultured, and known to be rather finicky-- few leave their homeworld because they are typically dissatisfied with the level of sophistication on other planets. Sabodor, owner of Sabodor's pet store on Etti IV, was a native of Rakrir. [HSSE, CSSB]
Ralltiir
Ralltiir, located in the system of the same name, lies along the Perlemian Trade Route in the Darpa sector of the Core Worlds, just on the border of the Colonies region. Over the last several hundred years, Ralltiir was the only planet in the Darpa sector that was able to maintain its independence from the nearby world of Esseles. In recent history, Ralltiir was an attractive, high-technology world famous for its banking industry and home to the Grallia Spaceport. The planet's powerful financial institutions were politically neutral and had a reputation as a "safe haven" for investors' funds. With the rise of the Empire, certain factions began to infiltrate Ralltiir's financial system and steer its markets in a pro-Imperial direction-- erasing the fiscal records of alien investors, for instance. Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, pro-Alliance members of the Ralltiir High Council tried to stop this and restore balance to the markets-- inspiring the Emperor to use Ralltiir as an example to other worlds that would resist his will. A brutal Imperial force, led by Lord Tion, immediately invaded Ralltiir and left the planet and its ten billion inhabitants in shambles. Tion disbanded the High Council, replaced it with a military tribunal headed by Imperial Governor Dennix Graeber, and set up interrogation centers and public executions of Rebel leaders. He also sealed off the entire Ralltiir system (not even permitting relief organizations to travel through his blockade), severely hurting commerce along the Perlemian Trade Route. Princess Leia Organa, on a mercy mission to deliver medical supplies and equipment to the High Council of Ralltiir, was permitted to land by Tion. The Princess rescued a wounded Rebel soldier, who later revealed the existence of the Death Star project. Ralltiir's economy is now in ruins, as many of its powerful corporations have relocated offworld. Since the occupation, Governor Graeber has been getting rich by secretly supplying the Rebel underground with weapons, which he then uses as a justification to persecute Ralltiir's citizens even further. Prior to the Battle of Yavin, an Alliance raid on the Cygnus Corporation's starfighter performance trials near Ralltiir resulted in the capture of the Assault Gunboat design team. Elea Poista, a top Exex at Bespin Motors and an occasional Alliance contact, gained her position after transferring from a shipping company on Ralltiir. [SWR, SWS, MTS, GG2, FP, SWAJ]
Rampa
A heavy industrial world in the Corporate Sector with an extremely high degree of pollution and contamination. The Rampa Skywatch keeps an eye out for water smugglers hidden among the regular cargo traffic, for Rampa's citizens are willing to pay a very high price for pure R'alla mineral water. Han Solo and Chewbacca made some smuggling runs "down the Rampa Rapids" during their early adventures. [HSR, HSLL, CSSB]
Randon
Female ward-cousins on the planet Randon are traditionally honored (due to their potential inheritance) and are customarily served first. Randoni women wear their hair loose and flowing, and an alcoholic drink from Randon is the Randoni Yellow
Plague. Lue Skywalker and Tenel Ka posed as archaeological traders from Randon during their undercover mission to Borgo Prime. [YJK]
Rayter sector
The Rayter sector contains the planet Karra, located in the sector's largely unexplored rimward section. [SWAJ]
Reboam
A harsh, sparsely-populated world in the Hapes cluster, Reboam once served as a hiding place and as the supposed location of a training center for a group of fifty Jedi Knights. After one year the knights were discovered by Darth Vader and a group of Dark Jedi, who killed them and had them sealed in Reboam's ancient ruins. [COPL]
Redcap
Redcap is a rainy, barren world of shifting mud plains, crossed with jagged canyons and mountain ranges. Since ships can easily sink in the thick mud, landings are restricted to the stable Tyma Canyon, which runs for several hundred kilometers across the planet's surface. Redcap's human inhabitants-- the poverty- stricken descendants of early mining colonists-- live in settlements built on the bases of the mountain chains. Repulsorlifts are inoperable on Redcap, since the omnipresent mud clogs their systems. Instead, residents travel on olai, horned beasts of burden originally brought from a nearby moon to Redcap for use in the mining industry. Points of interest on the planet include Juteau Settlement, which was built near the Garish Ridge and contains the Laughing Bantha tavern. Ruck's Rut is a multileveled network of rifts and fissures located in Tyma Canyon. Redcap is shrouded in gray skies, though low patches of lavender-pink clouds sometimes hug the world's surface. Redcap is nominally under the Empire's control and has a minimal Imperial presence, though the planet's 140,000 inhabitants possess no form of organized government. The old smuggler Toob Ancher, suffering from the Bitter Winter disease, came with Drake Paulsen to Redcap, where the old man's checkered life came to an end. [SWAJ]
Reegan system
Imperial lieutenant Brandei had just completed business in the Reega system before he delivered the young girl Alex to Garos IV, for adoption by Tork and Sali Winger. [SWAJ]
Regar I & II
Regar I is the fifth planet in the Garos system; Regar II is the sixth. [SWAJ]
Reginard
Independent operative Dirk Harkness served as a mechanic in a hidden Rebel base on Reginard soon after he joined the Alliance. [SWAJ]
Reltooine
A planet in the Corporate Sector. Reltooine is one of the stops made by the luxury liner Lady of Mindor during its voyage from Roonadan to Ammuud. [CSSB]
Renatasia system
The Renatasia system, containing eight planets orbiting a yellow star, is located far outside civilized space. It was apparently colonized in a long-forgotten mission many thousands of years ago in Pre-Republic days. No records exist of this early colonization, and the Renatasians gradually became unaware of their extrastellar origin. Renatasia III and IV are green, pleasant worlds, though the Renatasians had colonized every planet in their system by the time they were discovered by a damaged trader ship. The Empire decided to send representatives to probe the society's weaknesses, and the Ottdefa Osuno Whett and the droid Vuffi Raa were sent as envoys to the nation-state of Mathilde on Renatasia IV's second-largest continent. After observing the locals for 700 days, a full report was transmitted and the Imperial fleet arrived, which began to collect slaves and taxes. The Renatasians resisted, and the fleet attempted to seize the system intact through the use of ground forces-- taking heavy losses in a costly but inevitable Imperial victory. Over two-thirds of the population in the Renatasia system was killed in the pacification effort. [LCFW, LCSC]
Rendili
The location of the Rendili space construction center, one of the facilities used by the Emperor to build his largest warships and special weapons platforms. Rendili StarDrive manufactures the Victory-class Star Destroyer. [SWS, ISWU]
Retep III
In the time following the Battle of Yavin, a group of Habassan freighters delivered a cargo of foodstuffs to the Alliance at a rendezvous near Retep III. The transfer operation was attacked by Imperial starfighters. [FP]
Retep V
A Habassan convoy was ambushed by Imperial corvettes near Retep V following the Battle of Yavin. An Alliance strike force helped rescue the convoy. [FP]
Rhinnal
Rhinnal is located in the Darpa sector of the Core Worlds, along the Perlemian Trade Route. The planet has recently emerged from an ice age, and has a surface covered with fjords, mountains, and frigid rivers. Rhinnal was a colony world of nearby Esseles until the rise of the Empire, when the Imperials took over direct control from the planet's Esselian governor. Though it is now ruled by the unobtrusive Imperial Governor Phadreas Kole, many of the planet's major decisions are still made by the heads of various ethnic clans, traditional groups linked by kinship. The planet's 55 million inhabitants place great value on ceremonies and commemorations, and often wear elaborate, colorful clothing. Rhinnal has been famous for generations for its expertise in medicine, and produces the most respected doctors in the galaxy from its training programs. The last remaining Jedi chapter house in the Core Worlds is located on Rhinnal and still accepts patients, though none of its staff are Jedi. The planet's capital city is Rhire, which boasts the prestigious state Medical Academy. After the Battle of Yavin, medical experts from Rhinnal were sent to an orbiting hospital frigate to study the outbreak of Candorian plague on Dentaal. [SWAJ]
Riileb
The homeworldof the alien species also known as Riilebs. Riilebs, almost as tall as Wookiees, are humanoids with antennae that can detect the biorhythm changes of others. Single Riileb females are bald, while married females and all males have hair. Tere Metallo, a tough free-trader who eventually began working for the Alliance, is a female native of Riileb. Metallo was the eldest daughter to the MotherClan on her homeworld, and would have inherited the ClanRing at the age of 30 had she not been sold into slavery by a jealous sister. [SWAJ]
Rimma
The controversial jatz musician Fitz Roi was deported from Rimma after shooting his antique projectile pistols in the Teirra Parko's Crystal Room, located in the main city of Recardeon. Millions of fans rioted upon learning of the scheduled concert's cancellation, causing several hundred thousand credits damage to Recardeon. [SWAJ]
Ringali Nebula
The Ringali Nebula is a spectacular stretch of violet gasses located within the Ringali Shell, and can be seen in the night sky of all the Shell's planets. [SWAJ]
Ringali Shell
The Ringali Shell is a region of space running from the mid-Core to the Colonies region. The Shell encompasses the Bormea and Darpa sectors, the intersection of the Perlemian Trade Route and the Hydian Way, and the colorful Ringali Nebula. [SWAJ]
Ringneldia system
Lando Calrissian picked up replacement parts for the Millennium Falcon while in the Ringneldia system, where all part sizes are standardized around the diameter of a native bean. [LCSC]
Ripoblus
One of the two primary worlds of the Sepan system, with the planet Dimok. The long war between Dimok and Ripoblus was forcibly ended by the intervention of Imperial forces after the Battle of Hoth, though the two worlds briefly (and unsuccessfully) tried to unite against the Empire as their common foe. [TSC]
Rishi
The only places on Rishi habitable by its colonists are the humid, congested valleys, though the native avian Rishii inhabit the high mountains surrounding the city-vales. The conservative colonists live in white stone buildings and forbid the use of repulsorlift vehicles on the streets in the morning. Animal life on Rishi includes the dangerous Maungurs in the planet's warm polar regions, who have flexible "limb-tails" as forelimbs and feature prominently in Rishii legends and stories. The primary food of the Maungur are the leaf-eating khi'rs. Talon Karrde's smuggling group briefly used a Rishi city-vale as a hideout following their evacuation of Myrkr. This city-vale measures approximately 150 kilometers east to west and only a few kilometers north-south, and has sparsely-populated industrial areas to the north. While on her way to the Number Three dump on 412 Wozwashi Street, Mara Jade was ambushed by a bounty hunter. [DFR, SWAJ]
Roche system
The Roche system contains the Roche asteroid field, a relatively stable configuration of asteroids orbiting a small yellow sun. In addition to mynocks and space slugs, the Roche field is home to the intelligent insectoid species called the Verpine. There are three common theories as to how the Verpine came to inhabit the inhospitable asteroid belt: that they are the descendants of spacefaring nomads, that their original planet disintegrated around them over thousands of years, or that they destroyed their planet in a devastating war. The Verpine inhabit networks of tunnels in the larger asteroids, hermetically sealing them from vacuum and covering them with repulsorfields to prevent collision with other asteroids. Verpine can communicate with each other through inaudible radio waves picked up through their antennae, and most Verpine criminals have damaged antennae. Verpine are considered among the best mechanics in the galaxy, and a team of them helped Admiral Ackbar design the B-Wing starfighter. The Verpine tech Zraii, a native of Roche G42, served with the Alliance's famed Rogue Squadron. A serious incident between the Verpine and the Barabel occurred four years after the Battle of Endor, when a mad Verpine hive mother defaulted on several ship-building contracts for the Barabel. The Barabel began to make good on their threat to sell Verpine body parts to the insect-eating Kubaz, and New Republic forces were dispatched to the Roche system to help prevent a war. One year later the smuggler Talon Karrde had an employee bring an assault shuttle to the Roche system, so some Verpine acquaintances could investigate it for possible traps. [TLC, COPL, GG4, XWRS]
Rodaj
The outlaw Jai Raventhorn was working as a mining engineer on Rodaj when her fiancee was killed by the Empire. This inspired her personal quest for revenge against Moff Jellrek. [SWAJ]
Rodia
Rodia, in the Tyrius system, is an industrial planet which is home to the violence-loving Rodians and their vast weapons-manufacturing facilities. The culture of the Rodians romanticizes death and the hunt, as is evidenced by their reverence for the bounty hunter profession, their gladiatorial games, and in their famous dramatic plays. Their society is ruled by the Rodian Grand Protector, and only the most accomplished hunters are allowed to leave their planet. The Salus Corporation, based on Rodia, specifically designed Stalker battle armor for use by Rodian bounty hunters. Rodia was once a lush tropical world, but rapid industrial growth has made many lifeforms extinct. As a result, foodstuffs have become a common import. Years ago, Navik the Red, the Rodian leader of the Chattza clan, eliminated many opposing clan leaders and nearly wiped out the entire Tetsus clan. Greedo, a novice bounty hunter in the employ of Jabba the Hutt, was a Rodian and a surviving member of the Tetsus clan. Another notable Rodian was Andoorni Hui, a female pilot and member of the Alliance's famed Rogue Squadron. [GG4, TFTC, XWRS, SWAJ]
Romar
Located in the Galov sector of the Outer Rim, Romar contains the estate of Imperial Moff Antoll Jellrek near the rocky spires of the Derrbi Wastelands. When the outlaw Jai Raventhorn tried to assassinate the Moff at his estate, she encountered the notorious bounty hunter Beylyssa. [SWAJ]
Roonadan
The fifth planet in the Bonadan system, Roonadan is located within the Corporate Sector. It is the site of a starship departure terminal, and it was here that Han Solo and Fiolla of Lorrd stopped over en route to the planet Ammuud. [HSR, CSSB]
Ropagi system
The Ropagi system is one endpoint of the Kira Run; the Lazerian system is the other. The recent interest in the Kira Run by mainstream corporations is expected to greatly help the system's economy. [SWAJ]
Roti-Ow system
The Roti-Ow system contains a binary star and the planet Altor 14, homeworld of the Avogwi and the Nuiwit. [GG4]
Roundtree system
Rekkon, an educator who helped Han Solo during the mission to Stars' End, was born in the Roundtree system. [CSSB]
Ruan system
Located in the Core Worlds, the Ruan system contains one of the eighteen farming planets administered by the Salliche Ag Corporation. After the Battle of Endor, workers in the Yulant, Ruan, and Broest systems revolted against the Imperially-controlled Salliche Ag by burning fields and destroying hydroponics facilities. [SWAJ]
Rudrig
The quiet planet Rudrig, in the system of the same name, is home to the vast University of Rudrig, the only respected higher school in the Tion Hegemony. The planet-wide university has campuses and classrooms scattered everywhere among the gray soil and purple grasses, and various alien species from throughout the Tion travel here to obtain an adequate education. Weapons are officially prohibited on the planet's surface. Han Solo and Chewbacca were involved in a high-speed chase on a Rudrig freeway during one of their early adventures. After the Imperials destroyed an Alliance base on Briggia prior to the Battle of Yavin, the next scheduled target of the Emperor's Operation Strike Fear was Rudrig. [HSLL, FP]
Rustibar
Imperial General Sulamar, who worked with Durga the Hutt on the Darksaber project, was known to boast of his commanding role in the Rout of Rustibar. [DS]
Ruuria
The home planet of the caterpillar-like Ruurians. Ruurian society is separated into three life-stages: larva, pupa, and chroma-wing. The larval Ruurians are concerned with all aspects of day-to-day life on Ruuria from the moment of their births; eventually each will form a chrysalis (the pupa stage) and emerge as a chroma-wing, concerned only with mating. The historian Skynx, holder of the history chair in the pre- Republic subdivision, Human History subdepartment, was a Ruurian-- a member of the K'zagg Colony on the banks of the Z'gag. Skynx is now a Professor Emeritus at the University of Ruuria. [HSLL, CSSB]
Rydar II
The semi-intelligent Ranat species originated on Rydar II, located in the Rydar system. Several hundred years ago, the human inhabitants of Rydar II attempted to exterminate the Ranats due to their propensity to eat human infants. The extermination was nearly successful, but three Ranats managed to stow away on a visiting smuggling ship. The ship crashed on Aralia, and the Ranats have since populated that planet. [GG4]
Ryloon
The location of several Imperial-controlled orbital factories, where captured prisoners are sent to toil. [COTJ]
Ryloth
An isolated world hidden in a corner of the galaxy, Saarn was used by the Rebel Alliance for military training purposes, and was later used as a remote surveillance outpost after the New Republic moved to Coruscant. Five years after the Battle of Endor, one of Grand Admiral Thrawn's Star Destroyers, the Stormhawk, executed a hit-and-fade attack on Saarn, wiping out the New Republic personnel and setting up a listening post to protect the movements of Thrawn's fleet. [SWAJ]
Sacorria
Located in the Sacorrian system, one of the Outlier systems of the Corellian sector, Sacorria is a pleasant but secretive world with strict regulations. It is the site of the Dorthus Tal prison and its main city has a cobblestone square in town. Sacorria is ruled by the Triad-- a secretive council of dictators consisting of one human, one Drall, and one Selonian. Almost nothing is known about the three rulers, not even their names, though the Selonians on Sacorria are known to be descendants of a dishonored Selonian den. In years past the Triad was merely the puppet of the Corellian Diktat, but it now freely runs the planet and has passed more and more restrictive laws. Women are not allowed to marry without their fathers' consent, and a recent law made it illegal to marry an off-worlder. Sacorria's moon is Sarcophagus, which serves as a vast graveyard for the planet's inhabitants. Fourteen years after the Battle of Endor, Lando Calrissian visited Sacorria to see Tendra Risant, a member of a wealthy and influential family, for a possible marriage proposal. Meanwhile, the Sacorrian Triad set into motion a master plan to force the New Republic to acknowledge the Corellian sector as an independent state. The Triad organized rebellions on each of the five planets in the Corellian system and gained control of Centerpoint Station, which allowed them to set up interdiction and jamming fields over the system and to destroy distant stars at will. The Triad's plans, and their fleet of more than eighty Sacorrian ships, were defeated by the New Republic and a Bakuran task force. [AAC, AAS, SAC]
Saheelindeel
Located in the remote Tion Hegemony, Saheelindeel is a backwater world inhabited by intelligent, green- furred primates. The high festival on Saheelindeel is a time for tribal hunting rituals and harvest ceremonies, and has recently begun to incorporate farm machinery exhibits, shock-ball matches, and airshows in an attempt to become more technologically sophisticated. The Saheelindeeli, led by a matriarch, have an affinity for grandiose actions. Han Solo and Chewbacca briefly worked on Saheelindeel after leaving the Corporate Sector. Following the Battle of Yavin, the Empire established a listening post near Saheelindeel, which was attacked by the Alliance to divert attention from their fleet's movements into the Greater Plooriod Cluster. [HSLL, FP]
Salliche
Points of interest on the agricultural planet Taanab include the Pandath spaceport and the Banthal Company orbital docking array, where the largest cargo ships are typically found. Four thousand years ago, the freighter Kestrel Nova was captured from space pirates near Taanab and was used by Ulic Qel-Droma to travel to the Tetan system. Millennia later, the planet found itself plagued by annual raids of bandits from Norulac. One year, Lando Calrissian happened to be at the Pandath spaceport when the pirates arrived for their latest assault. Calrissian, on a bet, agreed to attack the raiders, and hid his ship in the ice ring surrounding Taanab's moon while he waited for the pirates to make their run on the docking array. When his target was in position, Calrissian ejected his cargo-- hundreds of Conner nets-- into the center of the attacking fleet. As the pirates struggled to untangle themselves, the cocky gambler hit them with tractored ice blocks from the moon's ring and caused even further damage. Finally, Calrissian led the Taanab defense fleet in their clean-up operation, and single-handedly accounted for nineteen kills. Though the Taanab portmaster offered him a permanent job, Calrissian declined, preferring instead to investigate his newly-won deed to a Clendoran brewery. Later, just prior to the Battle of Endor, Calrissian was promoted to Alliance general partly on the notoriety of this incident. Over five years later, Joruus C'baoth coordinated an Imperial attack on Taanab, where he used the Bellicose's turbolasers to destroy a New Republic ship over the direct orders of Captain Aban. [ROTJ, ROJN, DFR, DLOS, SWAJ]
Taboon
Taboon, located in the Stenness system, is circled by many moons-- one of which was the private moon of Great Bogga the Hutt. Bogga, who constructed a great palace on Taboon, was the ruler of the Stenness underworld four thousand years ago. Millennia later, the bounty hunters Zardra and Jodo Kast tracked their targets to the Red Shadow, a Taboon bistro. The ensuing firefight resulted in the explosive death of Mageye the Hutt. [TOTJ, TFTC]
Talasea
The fourth planet in the Morobe system, Talasea orbits the yellow primary star in a red/yellow binary group. A cool, moist, fog-shrouded world, Talasea has a higher gravity than standard and is lashed by severe thunderstorms during the rainy season. Island continents make up its land masses. Animal life includes native insects and reptiles, along with feral mammals descended from those brought for an early farming colony. Indigenous plant life includes green ivy and the kaha tree. Colonized long ago, most of the settlers' descendants left over the years, and the last group of them were wiped out by Darth Vader after the Clone Wars for harboring a fugitive Jedi. Some three years after the Battle of Endor, Rogue Squadron was moved from Folor to Talasea, closer to the Galactic Core, as a staging area for their eventual move on Coruscant. They made their base on the largest of the island continents, inhabiting the ruins of Talasea's Planetary Governor's Palace and the surrounding ivy-covered cottages. The Palace's primitive Grand Room was built of heavy native wood and thick plaster. After Imperial Intelligence agent Kirtan Loor deduced the location of Rogue Squadron's new headquarters, Admiral Devlia ordered a platoon of stormtroopers to secretly infiltrate the base and plant explosives. Though the squadron lost six sentries and pilot Lujayne Forge, all of the Imperial commandos were captured or killed. The Alliance immediately evacuated the base, leaving behind several booby traps for any Imperial follow-up teams to discover. [XWRS]
Tallaan
A planet in the Core Worlds near the Colonies region, Tallaan is the site of the Tallaan Imperial Shipyards. When Grand Moff Tarkin was killed aboard the first Death Star, the Empire released an official statement claiming that Tarkin had actually died in a shuttle crash at the Tallaan shipyards. [SWAJ]
Tallek
When the planet Tallek was hit with an outbreak of deadly thorn fever, Imperial medics placed the sick in isolation camps and let them die. [SWAJ]
Taloraan
The asteroid-packed Udine system is located next to the region of space called Keller's Void. Occasionally pirates have been known to bring asteroids from the Udine system and place them in the Void, to create mass shadows and force unsuspecting ships from hyperspace. [SWAJ]
Ukio
Ukio, in the Abrion sector and the Ukio system, is one of the top five food-producing planets in the New Republic and was the target of an attack by Grand Admiral Thrawn. A spokesman for the Ukian Overliege surrendered the planet to the Empire after Thrawn seemingly demonstrated the ability to fire directly through planetary shields. The smuggler Samuel Tomas Gillespee bought a plot of land on Ukio, which he lost when the Empire took control of the planet. [TLC]
Umgul
A cool, mist-covered world in the same system as Dargul, Umgul is known as a center for gambling and sports attractions. The planet's spaceport is located in Umgul City, built on the limestone banks of a wide river that attracts numerous pleasure barges. The city is covered with signs and attractions for visitors, though cheating in the gambling establishments is punishable by death. Tourists primarily visit Umgul to see the famous Umgullian blob races, held in an arena carved from rock and ringed with fans to blow away the thick fog. The protoplasmic blobs, bred for racing, are kept in stables and monitored by the Umgullian Racing Commission for any signs of illegal enhancement. Lando Calrissian visited Umgul while searching for a possible Jedi candidate. [JS]
Uogo'cor
Located in the Trax sector near the Trax Tube, a major Outer Rim shipping lane. Outlaw stations on Uogo'cor will service any ship, including those belonging to pirates and wanted criminals. [SWAJ]
Urdur
A hideout world for Doc's band of outlaw-techs. Urdur, with its biting-cold winds, was the planet where Han Solo and his companions rested following their escape from Mytus VII. [HSSE]
Ut
A planet in the Hapes cluster. Ut sent a woman to sing a beautiful song as part of a series of gifts from Hapes to the New Republic. [COPL]
Uvena system
The Uvena system contains a group of planets ruled by the alien species called Shistavanen Wolfmen. The Wolfmen are renowned for their hunting and tracking skills, and many are employed by the Empire as scouts. Riv Shiel, a former Shistavanen member of the Alliance's famed Rogue Squadron, was a native of Uvena III. [MTS, XWRS]
Talon Karrde's smuggling gang brought three boosted Skipray blastboats from the planet Vagran. [DFR]
Vallusk Cluster
Admiral Ackbar attacked the Imperial fleet at the Vallusk Cluster, to create a diversion for the Alliance force evacuating their Yavin 4 base. [CSW]
Valrar
Located in the Glythe sector, Valrar is the location of an Imperial base. Khabarakh the Noghri was scheduled to be reassigned to this base following his return from the failed commando mission on Kashyyyk. Valrar was also the reported port of origin for Talon Karrde's ship when his group visited Bilbringi, and was the destination of the
Star Galleon Draklor after unloading Joruus C'baoth on Wayland. [DFR, TLC]
Varl
Varl, the original homeworld of the Hutts, is a barren planet orbiting the white dwarf Ardos. Cyax is the brightest star that can be seen in Varl's night sky, and it features prominently in early Hutt legend. According to other Hutt legends, the planet Varl was once a beautiful world of green forests circling the twin stars Ardos and Evona. Evona was drawn into a black hole, causing complete destruction of many planets in the system, the ruin of Varl, and the transformation of Ardos into a white dwarf. Due to the impossibilities in this legend, the most plausible explanation for the devastation of Varl is that the Hutts destroyed it themselves in an ancient civil war. The Hutts have since relocated to Nal Hutta in the Y'Toub system. [GG4, DESB]
Varn
An aquatic planet, Varn is the subject of the holofeature Varn, World of Water. Aquatic life on the planet includes large lossors and packs of cheeb, while Varn's population of amphiboid fishers and ocean farmers inhabit its archipelagoes. [HSR]
Varonat
Located in the backwater Ison Corridor, Varonat is an isolated, sparsely-populated world of jungles, plains, and mountains. A few thousand colonists live in two main settlements: Tropis-on-Varonat among the pale yellow trees of the Great Jungle, and Edgefields-on-Varonat on the wide plains at the jungle's edge. About 50,000 Morodins-- intelligent, fifteen meter-long lizard-slugs-- inhabit the Great Jungle. The Morodins' bodies produce a nutrient slime that, when spread over crops, encourages growth and produces new strains of plant life. Morodins leave their slime trails in a complex, maze-like pattern. One thousand years before the formation of the Old Republic, a group of Morodins arrived on Varonat to start an agricultural colony. They transformed a vast section of plains into the Great Jungle, and used immense organic starships to transport food back to their home planet. When an ecological disaster befell their homeworld, the Morodins on Varonat were stranded and forgotten. 250 years ago, Adarian Tropis and a group his idealistic followers left Salliche to colonize Varonat. They planted their crops in the Great Jungle, but when the Morodins began leaving slime trails over the crops the colonists drove the creatures off as pests. After the Battle of Endor, a Krish named Gamgalon arrived in Tropis-on-Varonat and began running private Morodin-hunting safaris. These safaris were actually a cover for the harvesting of Yagaran aleudrupe plants, whose berries (when fertilized by Morodin nutrient slime) act as a catalyst for boosting blaster firepower-- much like the spin-sealed tibanna gas of Bespin. The local Imperial governor allowed the illegal safaris to continue since Gamgalon provided him with a share of the profits. Mara Jade, under the name Celina Marniss, worked as hyperdrive mechanic in Gamgalon's organization before joining up with the smuggler Talon Karrde in an adventure on Varonat. [SWAJ]
Varvenna sector
The famous chef Porcellus once worked for the Imperial official Yndis Mylore, governor of Bryexx and Moff of the Varvenna sector. During his tenure Porcellus served meals for the Emperor himself, but he was made a slave to Jabba the Hutt approximately one year prior to the Battle of Yavin. [TFJP]
Vedis IV
The smuggler Lu Esi, an associate of Toob Ancher, was killed when he crashed his freighter over Vedis IV while being pursued by sector authorities. When Toob Ancher felt he was about to die, he left Socorro to finish his life on Vedis IV, though he would not face death until a later adventure on the planet Redcap. [SWAJ]
Velcar Free Commerce Zone
The Velcar Free Commerce Zone (FCZ), named for the Velcar sector in which it is located, is a strip of corporate-run systems within the Pentastar Alignment. The FCZ, ruled by Commerce Master Commissioner Gregor Raquoran, contains many resource-rich worlds that are exploited by powerful Imperial corporates. The corporates are often allowed to bypass environmental and safety rules, and the primitive alien species found on the planets are often forced to toil in mines or other hazardous industrial projects. Worlds within the FCZ include Capza, Entralla, and Bextar. [SWAJ]
Vellakiya system
The Vellakiya system is located in the Mid-Rim, and its third planet is Venaari. [SWAJ]
Velser's Ring
A band of asteroids occupying the third-planet position within the Bespin system. The Ring is believed to be the debris of an unstable gas giant which exploded many millennia ago. Most of the asteroids are composed of frozen gasses and liquids, and the entire Ring can refract light in a rainbow pattern if seen from the proper angle. Ugnaught teams frequently visit the Ring to obtain valuable raw materials for Bespin's Cloud City. [GG2]
Venaari
The third planet in the Vellakiya system, the Mid-Rim world of Venaari is covered with forests, plains, and mountains. The Imperial presence on Venaari has increased since the Battle of Endor, in order to provide greater security for the mysterious Project Orrad, being researched in an underground laboratory. The planet is run by Imperial Governor Vaerganth, who rules from the capital city of Ven-Kav. The local Imperial military is headed by Major Gaevril Daraada. Points of interest in Ven-Kav include the Binary Bar, Herak Square, and the Ven-Kavi Starport, the largest spaceport on the planet. The Venaari Enterprises corporation produces the Venaari Strike Speeder for Imperial use. Around two billion humans inhabit the planet. Since the Empire's recent buildup on Venaari, the New Republic has established a fledgling resistance cell. A New Republic operative, Shandria L'hnnar, managed to steal the plans to Project Orrad and elude the pursuing Imperials with the help of the thief Sienn Sconn. Since the Star Destroyer Retaliator was busy engaging terrorist forces in the Southern Reach, Daraada ordered the bounty hunter Pentix Graphyt to stop the pair. He failed, and L'hnnar escaped off-planet with her information. [SWAJ]
Venjagga system
The Venjagga system is located at the edge of the Galactic Core, only hours away from the Mirit and Pyria systems. The system contains the planet Jagga-Two, site of a small Imperial base that manufactures concussion missiles and supplies the Imperial Star Destroyer-II Eviscerator. The seventh planet in the system is a gas giant. Some three years after the Battle of Endor, the Alliance staged a feint in the Venjagga system to cover their simultaneous assault on Borleias in the Pyria system. [XWRS]
Vento system
The location of an ancient Republic shipyard. Nearly four thousand years ago during the Sith War, the fallen Jedi Ulic Qel-Droma gained control of Coruscant's war room during his attack on the capital world. Qel-Droma told the war room's commander to order all Republic ships to jump to identical coordinates in the Vento system, which would have resulted in a massive collision and the destruction of the fleet. Fortunately, he was stopped before the order could be carried out. [TSW]
Venzeiia 2 Prime
A Rebel spy, fleeing aboard a YT-1300 freighter, was tracked to a salvage yard near Venzeiia 2 Prime. A TIE Defender was dispatched to capture the freighter while the Star Destroyer Glory captured the salvage yard's space station, for daring to harbor a fugitive from the Empire. [TSC]
Verdanth
Prior to the Battle of Hoth, the Alliance sent the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO to the jungle planet Verdanth to investigate a crashed Imperial messenger drone. The drone was actually a trap set by Darth Vader, who planned to use a cybernetic Force link to read the minds of any Rebels investigating the drone and possibly learn the location of their new Hoth base. [CSW]&127
Vergill
A planet in the Hapes Cluster. The inhabitants of Vergill have long been rivals with the water-breathers of the planet Maires. Nineteen years after the Battle of Endor, the Vergills began an undersea ditanium mining operation on the planet Hapes, next to the newly-opened Mairan consulate. The Mairans filed an official protest against the noise and mining debris stirred up by the Vergills' actions, but in reality they had deliberately placed their consulate near the richest vein of ditanium in order to spark a confrontation. [YJK]
Veron
A planet possibly in the Senex sector. The uncommitted ex-governor of Veron took a "vacation" to attend a meeting on Belsavis with Roganda Ismaren. [COTJ]
Vexta Belt
Pirates located in the Vexta Belt attacked Delephran shipping for many years, until they were wiped out by the Delephran militia during their "Piracy Scouring." Former Alliance operative Colonel Andrephan Stormcaller participated in this campaign during his early career. [SWAJ]
Vinsoth
During the Siege of Wann Tsir, following the Battle of Endor, Imperial commander Titus Klev discovered an Alliance agent trying to bring down the shields. This action earned Klev commendations from Imperial command. [DESB]
Waskiro Bib Fortuna broadcast a false story about an ambush in the Ampuroon mining district of Waskiro in an attempt to deceive a Nuffin freighter. [JTH]
Wayland
Wayland, a primitive green and blue world located about 350 light years from the planet Myrkr, is home to Emperor Palpatine's private storehouse. The planet does not have an official designation, and "Wayland" was believed to be the Emperor's personal code name for the world. Wayland's surface is covered with dense, double-canopied forests and grassy plains. Mount Tantiss, located in Wayland's northern hemisphere near the eastern edge of its main continent, is the hidden resting place for Palpatine's trophies, his military treasures, and an operational cloning facility. Generations ago, human colonists settled on Wayland and immediately came into conflict with the planet's two native species, the Psadans and the Myneyrshi. The four-armed, blue-crystalline Myneyrshi and the lumpy, plated Psadans were driven from their land until the colonists' weapons began to fail them. When the Empire arrived, the inhabitants were forced to construct the vast storehouse in Mount Tantiss, which is considered a forbidden place by the natives. Palpatine appointed a Guardian to defend his storehouse, though the Guardian was later defeated in battle by the mad Jedi clone Joruus C'baoth. C'baoth forced all three of Wayland's species to live together in a city built against the southwest side of the mountain, where they lived under his strict rule until C'baoth departed with Grand Admiral Thrawn. An Imperial garrison under the command of Colonel Selid was then placed within the mountain, to help safeguard the cloning operation that supplied Thrawn with a nearly-inexhaustible stock of trained soldiers. The Mount Tantiss complex had only one entrance, located on the southwest side. The peak of the complex consisted of an emergency shuttle hangar, the royal chambers, and the Emperor's throne room, containing a twenty-meter hologram of the galaxy. The fully-functioning Spaarti cylinder cloning chamber sat inside a vast natural cavern many stories high. A mammoth equipment column extended from the cavern's ceiling, and was covered with pipes to nourish the thousands of Spaarti cylinders arranged on the main floor and the surrounding balconies. A circular walkway, located ten stories up and accessible through twenty separate doors, was connected to a work platform on the central column by four retractable bridges. Thrawn had hundreds of ysalamiri transplanted to the cloning chamber to prevent the negative side effects of the rapid pace of his clone growth. The mountain also contained the Emperor's treasure vaults, air intakes on the mountain's surface, and power generators on the northeast side. A secondary maintenance area was located ten kilometers north of the mountain. The cloning complex and most of the mountain were destroyed when Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca sabotaged the central equipment column. Wayland's plant life includes thornbushes and acid vines, while its animal life includes clawbirds, vine snakes, and six-legged nesting creatures. The predators called garrals, attracted to repulsorlifts and used by the Empire as watchdogs, could either be native to Wayland or have been brought to the planet by the Imperials. [HTTE, TLC]
Weerden
Lord Torbin, the Grand Inquisitor, was killed when the Imperial palace on Weerden was rammed by the shuttle Sark I. An assassin droid is suspected of killing the shuttle's flight crew and causing the crash. [SWS]
Wistril
Located in the system of the same name, Wistril is a planet where the Star Destroyer Chimaera stopped to take on supplies. Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade hijacked a supply shuttle on the planet in order to rescue Talon Karrde from the Chimaera's detention block. [DFR]
Woldona system
GrimDeath I, a Victory-class Star Destroyer, was behind numerous raids in the Woldona system and was the subsequent target of an assault by Imperial Zero-G stormtroopers. [SWS]
Womrik
Womrik was a temporary base for Garm Bel Iblis' private army during their hit-and-fade attacks against the Empire. [DFR]
Woostri
Woostri, in the system of the same name, was attacked and captured by Grand Admiral Thrawn. He determined that the natives of Woostri had both a strong fear of the unknown and a tendency to blow rumors out of proportion, and would therefore be vulnerable to his seeming ability to fire through planetary shields. [TLC]
Wor Tandell
Medical droid Too-Onebee made an inspection tour of the Wor Tandell medical facilities with Lord Cuvir-- Imperial Governor of Firro and Too-Onebee's master. During the inspection Cuvir was assassinated by Tiree, a Rebel agent, and Too-Onebee joined the Alliance. [MTS]
Wornal sector
The Wornal sector is located near the Sombure sector. Following the Battle of Endor, Imperial Moff Prentioch and Moff Eyrgen began expanding their individual territories and fighting each other for control of the Wornal sector. Two years after Endor, Prentioch traveled to the water world of Kaal in the hopes of gaining control of its aquaculture industry to help fuel his war effort. [SWAJ]
Wroona
A small blue world in Wroona system, located on the far edge of the Inner Rim. The planet's continents are separated by vast oceans, and their blue-sand beaches stretch for thousands of kilometers. The near-human inhabitants of Wroona, numbering over seven billion, are a blue-skinned species with a lighthearted and optimistic outlook on life. Their society emphasizes materialism and personal gain, and Wroonian merchants, smugglers, and pirates can be found throughout the galaxy pursuing their personal wealth. Their impulsive nature can be summed up by the ancient Wroonian folktale of Master Fate, a being who capriciously blows the winds wherever he pleases. Wroona is run by the Wroonian Guilds, groups that represent all the various trade organizations and businesses, and the planet's primary starport is located on the coast of its largest ocean. Animal life on the world includes Wroonian flycatchers, which hang from coastal cave ceilings by their tongues and swing down to catch their avian prey. The
region of space known as Keller's Void acts as a shortcut between the Wroona and Calus systems. Thousands of years ago, Wroona's civilization was centered around the seafaring trade. The inherent dangers of the sea helped contribute to Wroonians' fearless nature, and the unstable governments of the many coastal kingdoms also contributed to their distrust of authority. Wroona has long been a member of the Old Republic. Many years ago, a band of armored raiders utterly destroyed Wroona's spaceport and killed many, until stopped by the Jedi Knight Soonis. Later, during the rise of the Empire, the Imperials decided to take advantage of Wroona's tactical location. The Empire built a garrison on the surface, appointed an Imperial governor to run the trade guilds, and erected the Wroonian Stardock-- a massive resupply and repair facility in close orbit, used only by capital ships too large to land on the planet. After the Battle of Endor the Wroonians successfully revolted, deposing the Imperials in favor of the leadership of the Wroonian Guilds. Wroona remained independent from the New Republic, becoming a haven for smugglers and mercenaries. Several years after Endor, independent operatives Dirk Harkness and Jai Raventhorn infiltrated the Wroonian Stardock and demolished the Star Destroyer Vengeance, in a revenge strike against Imperial Advisor Bregius Golthan. The Tondra clan, a family of humans from Wroona, operates an algae-processing business in Bespin's Cloud City. [SWAJ, GG2]
Wukkar
A heavily-populated world in the Galactic Core. Wukkar was one of many planets that surrendered to Admiral Ackbar and the Alliance fleet in the years following the Battle of Endor. [DESB]
Wyl sector
The Wyl sector, together with the Aparo sector, forms the inner border of the Corporate Sector. It is ruled by Moff Gozric. [CSSB]
Located in the heart of the Kanchen sector, Xa Fel surrendered to the Empire after New Republic forces were defeated in a thirty-hour battle. Captain Harbid of the Star Destroyer Death's Head accepted the surrender of the Xa Fel government and handled the surface troop deployments. [TLC]
Xappyh sector
Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth was named ambassador at large to the Xappyh sector by the Senate on 8/21/62, Pre-Empire date. [DFR]
Xerton Nine
Home of the Grand Magnus. [SWAJ] Xorth system The Imperially-controlled Xorth system, bordering the Cardua system, deals primarily in agricultural trade. It produces the best Farrberries in the galaxy, which are valued for both their pleasant scent and their stimulating effect. [TSC]
Xyquine
Three years after the Battle of Endor, New Republic forces suffered what Han Solo called a "fiasco" at Xyquine. A passenger transport was destroyed, and pilot Pash Cracken had to invent the "Cracken Twist" to disguise the escaping ships' exit vectors. Mara Jade wore a Xyquine shouldersculp to the private ceremony promoting Thrawn to the rank of Grand Admiral. [DFR, TLC]
The location of a major group of Imperial shipyards, in addition to the facilities at Ord Trasi and Bilbringi. All three shipyards were extremely busy during Grand Admiral Thrawn's offensive against the New Republic. The Outbound Flight program departed from Yaga Minor on 4/1/64 Pre-Empire date. [DFR, TLC]
Yag'Dhul
Yag'Dhul, a small dense planet with three moons, is the homeworld of the alien species known as the Givin. The complex interaction of orbits and rotations between Yag'Dhul and its moons means that the planet is continually beset by massive tidal forces powerful enough to pull the water and the atmosphere to different locations, exposing large areas of the planet to hard vacuum. While some animals on Yag'Dhul survive by traveling along with the tides, the Givin have evolved a hard, sealable exoskeleton which allows them to survive in vacuum. The Givin inhabit hermetically sealed cities built to withstand the strongest tides, and their society is organized around complex mathematics due to the importance of predicting the tides and the advanced calculations necessary to do so. Technology on Yag'Dhul is quite advanced, and the Givin are respected starship builders. [GG4]
Yavin system
Far from the Galactic Core and major hyperspace lanes, the Yavin system does not appear on many astrogation charts. The system's three planets-- Fiddanl, Stroiketcy and Yavin-- orbit a medium orange star. Formed over seven and a half billion years ago, the system was first surveyed during the Old Republic's Expansion Era, and was originally recorded as unfit for human habitation. [GG2]
Yavin
Yavin, in the system of the same name, is an orange gas giant nearly 200,000 kilometers in diameter with a strong magnetic field. The planet occupies the outermost position in the system and has dozens of moons, three of which (designated four, eight, and thirteen) can support humanoid life. Refracted light from the system's star causes the planet to seemingly glow with an inner light. Yavin's atmosphere, almost 65,000 kilometers deep, is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, and the windstorms at this level often exceed 600 km/hour. Throughout this upper atmosphere live several varieties of floating gasbag creatures, which breed once every century. Most are non-predatory and feed on drifting algae, but two species (the floater shark and floater squid) prey on their fellow animals. Yavin's metallic core is surrounded by a thick layer of frozen liquids under tremendous pressure. Many species of nearly two-dimensional "crawlers" live in this frozen layer, at pressures that would crush most other lifeforms. The pressures are so great that carbon and metallic hydrogen are compressed together to form quantum crystals called Corusca gems. The gems, found only at Yavin's core, glow with an inner light and are the hardest substance known in the galaxy. Due to their uniqueness and rarity they are extremely valuable. The Damarind Corporation, an enormous galaxywide consortium of jewel merchants, had an exclusive contract with the Empire to harvest Corusca stones from Yavin. Damarind Fishing Station, in orbit above the gas giant, retrieved gems for several years until eventually going bankrupt due to economic difficulties. Immediately following the Battle of Yavin, an Imperial Salvage Station was temporarily set up in the planet's orbit to analyze the debris from the destroyed Death Star. Seven years after the Battle of Endor, the New Republic attempted to dispose of the Sun Crusher by depositing it in the planet's dense core, but it was quickly retrieved by Kyp Durron. One year later, following an intense battle at Yavin 4, Admiral Daala's Super Star Destroyer Knight Hammer plunged into Yavin's atmosphere and was destroyed. Nineteen years after Endor, Lando Calrissian established GemDiver Station in Yavin's atmosphere to retrieve Corusca gems from the lower levels. The station operated by dropping a quantum-plated diving bell via an energy tether down to Yavin's core, where the largest gems can be found. Jacen and Jaina Solo were kidnapped from GemDiver Station following an Imperial attack. [SW, SWN, DA, DLOS, YJK, GG2, DS]
Yavin 4
The fourth moon of the planet Yavin houses the temples and ruined buildings of the now-vanished Massassi race, and once served as the primary base for the Rebel Alliance. A hot jungle world, Yavin 4 has four main continents separated by six oceans, and contains one landlocked sea. (A scouting report for Wetyin's Colony tentatively named the four continents Koos, Starloft, Swivven, and Wetyin.) Volcanic mountain ranges and wide rivers can be found amid the thick jungles and towering, purple-barked Massassi trees. The moon has both a wet and dry season, and violent, unpredictable storms whip across its surface every few months. Beautiful rainbow storms sometimes occur when the sun rises past the limb of the gas giant Yavin and its light refracts against prismatic ice crystals high in the atmosphere. Yavin 4's flora includes sense-enhancing blueleaf shrub, climbing fern, feather fern, colorful nebula orchids, blistering touch-not shrub, and explosive grenade fungi. Indigenous life in Yavin 4's jungles includes semi-intelligent simians called woolamanders, stubborn Yavinian runyips, mucous salamanders, purple jumping spiders, lizard crabs, swimming crabs, whisper birds, reptile birds, stinger lizards, crystal snakes, armored eels, stump lizards, crawlfish, ravenous stintaril rodents, a six-legged, tusked beast with tentacled eyes, tree ticks, spiderlike anglers, piranha beetles, and flying, two-headed reptiles created during the time of the Sith Lord Exar Kun. Several of the ancient Massassi ruins have been given names, including the Great Temple, the Palace of the Woolamander, and the Temple of the Blueleaf Cluster, and almost all of the ruins are connected via an extensive network of underground tunnels. The pyramidal Great Temple lies next to a broad, branching river. The top of the Temple houses an observation deck, and below that is the vast grand audience chamber. Below the chamber are housing levels, and the ground level contains the Communications Center, common rooms, and the Alliance's former War Room. The Temple's hangars are located underground. Over four thousand years ago the Sith magician Naga Sadow, under a death sentence from the current Sith Lord, fled to Yavin 4 with his followers where he could practice his Dark Side alchemy in peace. Sadow hid his starship and his alchemic equipment beneath the Sith Temple of Fire. Sadow's alchemy helped create many monsters, including a warrior species called the Massassi designed to guard Sadow's Yavin 4 legacy. The Massassi, the mutated descendants of the ancient Sith, gradually devolved into a primitive but dangerous people, using the Dark Side to augment their archaic weapons. When the Dark Jedi Exar Kun arrived on Yavin 4, he enslaved the Massassi and forced them to construct new temples as focal points for Sith power. One temple dedicated to Kun s greatness was built deep in the jungle in the center of a still lake, and featured glittering Corusca gems and a towering obsidian statue of the dark lord. During the Sith War, Kun brought twenty Jedi knights to Yavin 4, where he infected them with the evil spirits of the ancient Sith. Ordering them to go out and slay their Jedi masters, a terrible Jedi holocaust descended on the galaxy. Soon, however, a united group of thousands of Jedi, led to the jungle moon by the repentant Ulic Qel- Droma, arrived to stop Kun. The Dark Lord ordered the Massassi Night Beast into an isolation chamber as a surprise for his enemies, and began putting his final plans into effect. Knowing he could not defeat the Jedi fleet, Kun sacrificed thousands of Massassi lives to trap his own spirit within the walls of the temples. The Jedi attackers mistakenly ignited the moon's jungles, devastating its surface and causing the deaths of the remaining Massassi, but the Great Sith War had finally ended. Before his defeat, Exar Kun had trapped the children of the Massassi within a strange golden globe, and several desperate Massassi traveled to Yavin 8 to seek assistance from the Melodie people. Four hundred years ago, the Jedi master Ikrit discovered the golden sphere containing the Massassi children located beneath the Palace of the Woolamander, and stayed beneath it to await someone who could break its curse. Centuries later, the Rebel Alliance constructed its primary base within the abandoned temples after they evacuated their installation on Dantooine. Under the command of General Jan Dodonna, Alliance engineers cleared out the ancient structures and made them fit for habitation once more, and also installed a turbolift and erected high lookout towers. Dodonna sealed off the nearby Temple of the Blueleaf Cluster when an eerie power crystal, containing what appeared to be trapped spirits, was found inside its main audience chamber. The Sullustan naturalist Dr'uun Unnh took time out from his Alliance duties to begin the first modern-day studies of the jungle moon, cataloguing many of its plant and animal species. Not long after, the first Imperial Death Star discovered the secret base and moved into firing position as the Rebels counterattacked with snubfighters. The battle station was completely destroyed by Luke Skywalker (in what is now referred to as the Battle of Yavin) as it attempted to shatter Yavin 4 with its superlaser. During the fighting, an Imperial pilot named Qorl crashed his damaged TIE in the moon's jungles and fruitlessly awaited rescue, while another crashing TIE killed Dr'uun Unnh. In the aftermath of the battle, the Empire blockaded the moon and periodically attacked the Rebel base with TIE fighters. During one such attack, a TIE bomber crashed in the jungle and awakened the Massassi Night Beast, which had lain dormant for thousands of years in its suspended animation capsule. According to the capsule's records, the Massassi left the creature behind to guard their temples while they fled the system to escape a war. The Night Beast (which could use the Force to shield itself from energy weapons) laid waste to much of the Rebel base until calmed by Luke Skywalker. The creature then took an Alliance ship and left the moon, intending to search for its former masters among the stars. The Alliance eventually evacuated Yavin 4, and much of their food supply was destroyed in the process, which necessitated negotiations with Overlord Ghorin of the Greater Plooriod Cluster. Soon after the Alliance's evacuation, the Empire gave a permit to the Fernandin Scouting Expedition to investigate Yavin 4 as a possible homeworld for the displaced Wetyin's Colony. Eleven years later (seven years after the Battle of Endor), the Great Temple was used as the location of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy, and the long-trapped spirit of Exar Kun reasserted itself. After nearly killing Skywalker, Kun's ghost was finally vanquished by the efforts of the new Jedi trainees. Eight years after Endor, the Jedi Academy was targeted for attack by Admiral Daala's fleet. After a long, destructive battle, Daala's forces were defeated and her Super Star Destroyer Knight Hammer was demolished. Eighteen years after Endor, Anakin Solo visited the Jedi Academy and discovered a mysterious golden sphere hidden beneath the Palace of the Woolamander. One year later, Jacen and Jaina Solo visited the Academy and were held prisoner by the TIE pilot Qorl, still living in the moon's deep jungles. [SW, SWN, DA, COTF, DLOS, YJK, JJK, GG2, CSW, DS, FP, ISWU, TSW]
Yavin 8
The eighth moon of the planet Yavin is covered with vast brown and green tundra plains, located between two polar ice caps and split by an equatorial range of purple mountains. The moon has almost no large bodies of water, though large reservoirs of groundwater lie beneath the permafrost of the mottled tundra-- resulting in the formation of small marshes and swamps during the summer months. The intelligent amphibious humanoids known as the Melodies inhabit the caverns and lakes in the warmer equatorial region near Yavin 8's mountains. Unlike most amphibians, the Melodies begin life on land, then move into water as adults-- their legs are replaced by tails and their lungs by gills. This transformation into adult form, called the Changing Ceremony, happens around a Melodie's twentieth year and takes place in a shallow pool coated with a unique, air-supplying algae. The Melodies are unable to leave their pools during the transformation (which can take weeks), and are thus particularly vulnerable to Yavin 8's many land-based predators. The young Melodies perform most of the necessary functions of their primitive society, since the elders can no longer leave the streams and lakes. Animal life on Yavin 8 is abundant, including silver- backed fish, and also many species of herbivorous burrowers and their carnivorous counterparts (such as the loper and moss-hopper). Seventeen species of grazers, including the wolbak, dysart, dontopod, and songbuk, inhabit the moon's tundra and mountain ranges. Yavin 8's predators include snakelike reels, color- changing ursods, rodent-like raiths, flying avrils, serpentine ropedancers, and arachnid purellas. Plant life on the world is primarily made up of lichens, mosses, algae, and stunted trees and bushes, and includes the edible trico plant. About 54 million Melodies inhabit the moon. Around four thousand years ago, members of Yavin 4's Massassi species journeyed to Yavin 8 to seek help for their children, who had been magically trapped in a golden globe by the Dark Jedi Exar Kun. When the Melodie elders were unable to help them, the Massassi carved the story of their plight in the rocks of the Sistra mountain in the hopes that someone would eventually be able to break the curse. Eighteen years after the Battle of Endor, Anakin Solo and the Jedi trainee Tahiri traveled to Yavin 8 to take their friend Lyric to her Changing Ceremony within the Sistra mountain. They had to battle an avril, a reel, a purella, and a pack of raiths, but the pair uncovered the ancient message of the Massassi and brought back a new Melodie child, Sannah, to be trained at the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4. [GG2, JJK]
Yavin 13
The thirteenth moon of the planet Yavin is a desert world home to two intelligent species of primitive aliens- - the Gerbs and the Slith. The surface of Yavin 13 is covered with rocky mesas, forests of tall cacti, and shifting walls of blowing sand. A vast ocean makes up most of the southern hemisphere, which sends patches of fog and infrequent storms across the arid desert. The nomadic Slith are intelligent serpents, travelling the desert plains at night and hunting small animals with their venomous fangs. The Slith communities of eight to fourteen individuals are ruled by an alpha male (though females do all the hunting), and members communicate with each other by rubbing their scales along the ground. The rabbitlike Gerbs have metallic claws to aid in burrowing, and enormous, sensitive ears. They live in underground warrens of approximately ten families and tend their nearby farms with primitive hand tools. The Gerbs and Slith have traditionally had little to do with one another. Plant life on Yavin 13 includes the saldi bush and korin flower. Animal life includes a vast array of insect species, twilight lizards, solar-collecting burning snakes, and over 60 species of scorpionlike tripions. Around 43 million Gerbs and Slith inhabit the moon. [GG2]
Yetoom
Yetoom, located on the edge of the Senex sector, is the base of operations for Fargednim P'taan, a moderately big drug dealer. [COTJ]
Ylix
A backwater world, Ylix was the home planet of Gallandro the gunman. An ancient feud existed between Ylix and Goelitz (a planet a few systems away) and Ylix was occasionally attacked by Goelitz revolutionaries. As a youth Gallandro enlisted in the Ylix militia, and their forces eventually defeated Goelitz after many devastating battles. [CSSB]
Yllotat system
Prior to the Battle of Endor, the Imperial Dreadnaught Dargon was transporting Rebel and Bothan prisoners to the Star Destroyer Garret in the Yllotat system when it fell under Alliance attack. [TSC]
Yrrna system
Located in the Outer Rim, the Yrrna system was the site of an Imperial cargo transfer area. Following the Battle of Hoth, this cargo area was attacked by the pirate leader Ali Tarrak, using her strike force of stolen TIE Defenders. [TSC]
Y'Toub System
The Y'Toub system, located in the center of the galactic region known as Hutt Space, contains six planets orbiting a yellow star. A massive, radioactive gas cloud containing the hidden planet Ganath lies very close to the system. Four of the system's six planets are habitable, though the largest (and best known) is Nal Hutta, with its orbiting "smugglers' moon," Nar Shaddaa. Consequently, it is sometimes called the Nal Hutta system. [GG4, DESB, DE2, DS]
Yuga Two&127
Ral Shawgrim, a former Alliance technician who tried to steal the X-wing starfighter plans, was a native of Zalso. When Shawgrim's parents, who worked on Zalso during the cor'tan season, were killed by the Empire, Shawgrim joined up with a small Rebel cell on the planet. [SWAJ]
Zebitrope IV
Located in the Zebitrope system, Zebitrope IV is the homeworld of a species of lizard whose members symbiotically support a spongy mold growth on their backs. This mold is the only source of the addictive drug lesai, which eliminates the need for sleep in those who take it. [LCFW]
Zeffliffl
Zeffliffl, the fourth planet orbiting Markbee's Star, is home to the seaweed-like aliens also known as Zeffliffl. They inhabit the shallow seas surrounding the smaller southern continent of the planet, and must spray themselves with seawater when spending time on land. The Zeffliffl exist in close groups of several individuals, and their bodies will automatically reject any outsider who attempts to join this group. [TCS]
Zi'Dek system
Han Solo used to make smuggling runs to the Zi'Dek system. He learned some of their port access codes, but these codes were later changed by the Imperials. [COPL]
Zirtran's Anchor
A trading station drifting near the Phosphura Belt Nebula, Zirtran's Anchor is a hodgepodge of vessels and freighters welded together and connected by interlocking pressure tunnels. Owned and operated by tribal nests of Geelan-- short furry aliens who love bartering and hoarding valuables-- the station continues to grow over time as more ships are added to its bulk. The Anchor is a haven for smugglers and other free- traders, and the Empire only maintains a token customs presence. A Golan battle station was recently purchased by the Geelan to protect the Anchor from outside threats, while the private security firm Defensus Solar keeps internal order. The station is divided into four primary regions: Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Epsilon. The Hub in Sector Alpha is the heart of the Anchor, and it is where most arriving ships must dock. Chabak's is a popular tavern along the Hub's main Spine Passage. Sector Delta contains the Death Mark frigate, a haven for bounty hunters, and the Rusted Cutlass II, the headquarters of the Phosphura Belt Pirates. Most of the Anchor's expansion happens in Sector Epsilon, where the mysterious Kalai aliens have recently attached a ship. The Kalai never appear outside their ship, though some visitors occasionally see "lethagoes"-- the tall, thin offspring of Kalai and humans. Zirtran's Anchor is named for the Zirtran brothers, the original owners of the huge barge that forms the heart of the station. The Geelan purchased the barge and began its expansion, positioning their new station in the Besberra system. One day the Anchor suddenly and inexplicably vanished, later reappearing near the Phosphura Belt Nebula. Investigators found that all lifeforms had completely disappeared, and the station's droids had no memory of the strange event. Though many theories have been proposed, to date no one has solved this eerie mystery. [SWAJ]
Zygerria?
The possible homeworld of the Zygerrian slavers. Three years before the Battle of Yavin, Han Solo and Chewbacca had a run-in with Zygerrian slavers off Janodral Mizar. After convincing the slavers to abandon ship by broadcasting a stolen Imperial ID, Solo gave the ship and its cargo of treasure to the freed slaves. Among them was Alliance historian Arhul Hextrophon and his family. [HTTE, SWS]
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