This is a complete guide to every planet, sector, and system in the Star Wars films and books, from Abregado to Zygerria, with stars, nebulas, and moons thrown in for good measure. This is intended to be an exhaustive list-- if you notice any omissions, let me know! They will be included in the next revision.

This list does not include every book, but I have tried to cover most of what is considered "canon." To this end, I have not included the Marvel comics, the Davids' Young Adult books, or Splinter of the Mind's Eye, among others. In order to fill in some of the bare spots I have included some West End Games sourcebooks.

This document cannot be retransmitted in any form without the express written consent of Major League Baseball. Just kidding-- do whatever you want with it, but just keep me in the loop if you're reposting it to another board.

CHANGES TO VERSION 2.0:

This version incorporates all planets from the following books: Children of the Jedi, Assault at Selonia, Showdown at Centerpoint, Tales from the Cantina, The Empire Strikes Back: The National Public Radio Dramatization, and the first two Young Jedi Knights books: Heirs of the Force and Shadow Academy.

...and everything from the following Dark Horse comics:

Dark Empire II, Dark Lords of the Sith, Droids, River of Chaos, X-Wing Rogue Squadron, and Jabba the Hutt.

Finally, many of the earlier entries have been expanded and revised to reflect reader suggestions. Thanks everyone-- keep the e-mail coming! The next edition will include Darksaber, The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, Junior Jedi Knights, Tales from Jabba's Palace, the first X-Wing book, more Young Jedi Knights, more comics (including Empire's End and The Sith War), more WEG, just... more.

THANKS TO:

Special thanks to Alec Usticke for helping with various odds & ends. Profound thanks to Mike Beidler for his help with the Windows version-- both for designing the logo and for providing a model which I shamelessly copied. Extra-super thanks to Tom Veitch and Ryder Windham, who were kind enough to comment on "their" planets. A few of the Dark Empire II entries contain background facts provided directly from Tom Veitch and not mentioned in the original source.

Questions, thoughts, complaints, suggestions, and Elvis 8-tracks should be sent to otterpop1@aol.com

SOURCE LIST AND ABBREVIATIONS:

AAC- Ambush at Corellia, Roger MacBride Allen, Bantam 1995.

AAS- Assault at Selonia, Roger MacBride Allen, Bantam 1995.

COPL- The Courtship of Princess Leia, Dave Wolverton, Bantam 1994.

COTF- Champions of the Force, Kevin J. Anderson, Bantam 1994.

COTJ- Children of the Jedi, Barbara Hambly, Bantam 1995.

D- Droids issues 1-6, Droids Special issue 1, Droids: Rebellion issues 1-4, Dan Thorsland, Ryder

Windham, Bill Hughes, and Ian Gibson, Dark Horse Comics 1994-95.

DA- Dark Apprentice, Kevin J. Anderson, Bantam 1994.

DE- Dark Empire issues 1-6, Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy, Dark Horse Comics 1991-92.

DE2- Dark Empire II issues 1-6, Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy, Dark Horse Comics 1994-95.

DFR- Dark Force Rising, Timothy Zahn, Bantam 1992.

DLOS- Dark Lords of the Sith issues 1-6, Tom Veitch, Kevin J. Anderson, and Chris Gossett, Dark

Horse Comics 1994-95.

ESB- The Empire Strikes Back film, 20th Century Fox 1980.

ESBN- The Empire Strikes Back novelization, Donald F. Glut, Del Rey 1980.

ESBR- The Empire Strikes Back: The National Public Radio Dramatization, Brian Daley, Del Rey 1995.

FNU- The Freedon Nadd Uprising issues 1-2, Tom Veitch, Tony Akins, and Denis Rodier, Dark Horse

Comics 1994.

GG4- Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races (Second Edition), Troy Denning and Chuck Truett, West End

Games 1994.

HSLL- Han Solo and the Lost Legacy, Brian Daley, Del Rey 1979.

HSR- Han Solo's Revenge, Brian Daley, Del Rey 1979.

HSSE- Han Solo at Stars' End, Brian Daley, Del Rey 1979.

HTTE- Heir to the Empire, Timothy Zahn, Bantam 1991.

JS- Jedi Search, Kevin J. Anderson, Bantam 1994.

JTH- Jabba the Hutt: The Gaar Suppoon Hit, The Hunger of Princess Nampi, and The Dynasty Trap,

Jim Woodring, Art Wetherell, and Monty Sheldon, Dark Horse Comics 1995.

LCFW- Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon, L. Neil Smith, Del Rey 1983.

LCMH- Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu, L. Neil Smith, Del Rey 1983.

LCSC- Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka, L. Neil Smith, Del Rey 1983.

MTS- The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook, edited by Greg Farshtey and Bill Smith, West End Games 1993.

ROC- River of Chaos issues 1-2, Louise Simonson and June Brigman, Dark Horse Comics 1995.

ROTJ- Return of the Jedi film, 20th Century Fox 1983.

ROJN- Return of the Jedi novelization, James Kahn, Del Rey 1983.

SAC- Showdown at Centerpoint, Roger MacBride Allen, Bantam 1995.

SW- Star Wars film, 20th Century Fox 1977.

SWN- Star Wars novelization, George Lucas/Alan Dean Foster, Del Rey 1976.

SWR- Star Wars: The National Public Radio Dramatization, Brian Daley, Del Rey 1994.

SWS- Star Wars Sourcebook, Bill Slavicsek and Curtis Smith, West End Games 1987.

TAB- The Truce at Bakura, Kathy Tyers, Bantam 1993.

TCS- The Crystal Star, Vonda MacIntyre, Bantam 1994.

TFTC- Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, edited by Kevin J. Anderson, Bantam 1995.

TLC- The Last Command, Timothy Zahn, Bantam 1993.

TOTJ- Tales of the Jedi issues 1-5, Tom Veitch and Chris Gossett, Dark Horse Comics 1994.

XWRS- X-Wing Rogue Squadron: The Rebel Opposition issues 1-2, Michael Stackpole, Mike Baron,

and Allen Nunis, Dark Horse Comics 1995.

YJK- Young Jedi Knights: Heirs of the Force and Shadow Academy, Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca

Moesta, Boulevard 1995.

Abregado

Abregado, site of the Abregado-rae Spaceport, is controlled by an oppressive government which has kept the peace and improved the local spaceport facilities at the expense of individual freedoms. Abregado's government has cut off all supply lines to a clan of rebellious hill people, which has created illegal supply opportunities for ambitious smugglers. Han Solo and Lando Calrissian met up with a contact from Talon Karrde's smuggling organization in Abregado-rae's LoBue cantina, and Wedge Antilles later helped get one of Karrde's ships out of impoundment from the planet. The natives of Abregado are referred to as Gados. [HTTE, DFR]

Abrion sector

The Abrion sector contains the planet Ukio, which is one of the top five producers of foodstuffs in the New Republic. When Ukio was captured by Grand Admiral Thrawn it had serious repercussions on the sector. [TLC]

Abyss

One star in the binary pair Byss and Abyss, which are both orbited by the desert planet Byss in an unusual, figure-eight pattern. [GG4]

Adega system

The Adega system, one of the six remaining Auril systems, contains two suns which the planet Ossus orbits in a figure-eight trajectory. The system is the main source of Ilum crystals (sometimes called Adegan crystals) which were used in the earliest Jedi lightsabers. Bodo Baas, gatekeeper of a Jedi Holocron, was part of a group of Jedi that lived six hundred years ago in the Adega system. Indigenous life in the system includes the Adegan eel. [DE, DLOS, DE2]

Af'El

A large, high-gravity, seldom-visited world orbiting the ultraviolet supergiant Ka'Dedus. Af'El has no ozone layer and ultraviolet light passes freely to the surface, while other light wavelengths are blocked by the heavy gases in the planet's atmosphere. Thus, all lifeforms on Af'El can only see in ultraviolet light ranges, and are blind to other wavelengths of light. Af'El is the homeworld of the Defel, or "wraiths," whose bodies absorb visible light, giving them the appearance of shadows. The Defel live in underground cities to escape Af'El's violent storms. A main export of the planet is the metal meleenium (used in durasteel), which is only known to exist on Af'El. [GG4]

Agrilat

Agrilat contains a crystal swamp where an illegal and dangerous swoop race between Dengar and Han Solo was once held. Dengar was left with severe injuries and a burning hatred for Solo. [MTS]

Aguarl 3

An ocean-covered world that was home to a Rebel base. The underwater base was attacked by a wing of TIE bombers, after the Empire learned its location from a Quarren spy. [ROC]

Akrit'tar

One of Han Solo's former smuggling associates, Tregga, was imprisoned on Akrit'tar and sentenced to life at hard labor after being caught with a smuggled cargo of chak-root. [HSR]

Alderaan

Alderaan, in the system of the same name, was a beautiful, peaceful, moonless planet. It had a surface covered with sweeping plains of tall grasses, arallutes, and T'iil, and was dotted with organic-looking tower cities. Out of their respect for life, the Alderaanians refused to build their cities in the grasses of the fields. Instead, industries and settlements were built into the sides of deep cracks in the surface, on top of sandstone hills, under the polar ice, or on stilts in the planet's shallow seas. Soaring kite creatures acted as airborne taxis to transport people from one city to the next. The Alderaanians culled the wildlife herds on the continent of Thonn to remove those animals too sick to survive the winter. The oro woods, which covered a dozen small islands, were filled with red deer, white cairoka birds, and colorful lichens covering the tree bark.

Four thousand years ago, the Jedi knights Ulic and Cay Qel-Droma were born on Alderaan into a great warrior family. Following the chaos of the Clone Wars, however, the Alderaanians vowed to never again have weapons or standing armies on their world. The planet became the home of galactic culture and civilization, and the people were known for their peaceful natures and their pursuit of knowledge and art. The Alderaanian government became a democracy, yet retained a Royal House of Alderaan for its symbolic value. In 11/70, Pre-Empire date, the Jedi Jorus C'baoth helped to resolve the Alderaan ascendancy contention, ruling in favor of Bail Organa's family line.

The Organa royal family lived in a city located in the center of a lake, and included Senator Leia Organa, her adoptive father Senator Bail Organa (Viceroy and First Chairman of the Alderaan system), and her adoptive mother (Minister of Education). Other members of House Organa included Leia's aunts Celly, Tia, and Rouge, and her cousin Nial. Daughters of Alderaanian nobility were schooled at the Alderaan Select Academy for Young Ladies, then typically presented to the Emperor's Court on Coruscant to win a suitable marriage partner. Alderaan is now famous as the planet utterly destroyed by the Death Star as an example of Imperial power. Another planet in the system is Delaya. [SW, SWR, ROJN, JS, COPL, MTS, DLOS, COTJ, YJK]

Aldereen?

The possible homeworld of the Aldereenians, an obscure insect race. The Aldereenians have a consulate on Coruscant located around two hundred kilometers from the Alderaanian consulate. [COPL]

Algarian

One of the false charges filed against Cray Mingla by the Eye of Palpatine's central computer concerned evidence seized from Rebel spies on Algarian. [COTJ]

Alk'lellish III

The homeworld of the Ketrann, a dangerous carnivore. Governor Wilek Nereus of Bakura owned a set of its four white fangs. [TAB]

Allyuen

Based on instructions from Darth Vader, a group of Imperial probe droids were recalibrated to search for Rebels on Allyuen, Tokmia, and Hoth. [ESBR]

Alpheridies

The homeworld of the Miraluku, who are born without eyes yet can see through the use of the Force. Many of the Miraluku become Jedi. Shoaneb Culu, a Jedi knight who lived four thousand years ago, was a native of Alpheridies. [FNU, DLOS]

Altarrn

The homeworld of a rare animal described as "spidery night gliders." These animals are considered premium pets and are sold at Sabodor's pet shop on Etti IV. [HSSE]

Altor 14

Altor 14, a dry, hot world of rock and sand, orbits the Roti-Ow binary star system and was only recently discovered by a mineral company. Because of its long rotational period (94 hours), all standing water evaporates on the planet's surface during the day. Taproot trees and tarpaulin plants are found on the surface, each with its own unique way of obtaining water. The Avogwi (Altorian Birds) and Nuiwit (Altorian Lizards) are native to this planet, though it is the peaceful Nuiwit who possess the social and technical skills to build advanced societies and participate in galactic trade. The carnivorous, aggressive Avogwi may eventually be forced from the planet's surface by the ever-expanding communities of the Nuiwit. Some Avogwi were drug- and mind-controlled by Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader to serve as enclosure guards. [GG4, COTJ]

Alzoc III

Alzoc III, located in the Alzoc system in the Outer Rim, is the home planet of the alien species known as the Talz, and is the source of Alzoc pearl. The moonless planet is covered with desolate, frozen plains and its powerful sunlight glares harshly off the reflective snow. The Empire garrisoned Alzoc III in a secret operation and forced the Talz to work as slaves in underground mines. The planet was never entered into the galactic registry, and the New Republic only learned of its existence through examining restricted corporate files. Imperial Commander Pter Thanas was assigned to the rim world of Bakura after refusing to destroy a village of Talz miners on Alzoc III. The Imperial battlemoon Eye of Palpatine stopped at the frozen planet to pick up a contingent of stormtroopers, but brought in a group of Talz instead. [TAB, GG4, COTJ]

Ambria

The ringed, desert planet Ambria is located in the heart of the Stenness node. Animal life on Ambria includes herds of staga, small lizards called neeks, and strange, evil creatures from Lake Natth, a place strong with the Dark Side of the Force. Thon, a Jedi master who lived four thousand years ago, made his home on Ambria and instructed several Jedi including Nomi Sunrider and the Vultan Oss Wilum. [DE, TOTJ, DLOS]

Ammuud

A cold planet with a short rotation located in the Corporate Sector, Ammuud is ruled by seven major clans operating under Corporate Sector Authority subcontract. The seven clans (including the Reesbon and the Glayyd) are ruled by patriarchs called "Mors" and governed by a set of formal rules known as the Code, which prevents the clans from engaging in the type of savage warfare found on Ammuud one hundred years ago. Ammuud's main spaceport is a well-defended structure built adjacent to a snow-capped mountain range. People of all types inhabit the surrounding city, which is composed of wood and stone buildings, slums, and open gutters. Animal life on Ammuud includes herds of grazers, flying pterosaurs, and crustaceans in the mountains' icy lakes. Han Solo visited the mountain stronghold of the Mor Glayyd and his sister Ido to collect money due him, and encountered the infamous gunman Gallandro. [HSR]

Amorris

Amorris, in the system of the same name, was the planet to which Lando Calrissian sent ship thief Niles Ferrier after persuading him not to steal any ships from Sluis Van. Calrissian told Ferrier that the Cavrilhu pirate gang was using Amorris as a base. [DFR]

Anchoron

Corellian hero Garm Bel Iblis was believed killed on Anchoron. He survived but was forced to go underground, severing all ties with his former life and working in secret to bring down the Empire. The smuggler Talon Karrde posted men on Anchoron in an unsuccessful search for Grand Admiral Thrawn's clone traffic, and Leia Organa Solo planted a false report stating that a Star Destroyer had been spotted near Anchoron in her attempts to locate an Imperial spy. [DFR, TLC]

Ando

A watery, terrestrial planet with very few solid land masses, Ando is the homeworld of the belligerent, walrus-faced Aqualish. The prestigious Aquala ("finned" Aqualish) prefer to live on floating raft cities and large sailing ships, while the low-status Quara ("fingered" Aqualish) inhabit the larger islands of Ando. Ando has a sister planet in the same system, but its blasted, uninhabitable surface implies it was the site of an Aqualish war soon after the species discovered space travel. The technological society of the Aqualish is helping to create viable galactic exports, primarily foodstuffs from Ando's seas. The planet has been closely watched by the Empire for any sign of insurrection.

The Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth was a member of the Ando Demilitarization Observation Group from 8/82-7/81, Pre-Empire date. Following his departure from Tatooine, the infamous criminal Dr. Evazan was sheltered on Ando in a well-guarded castle on a rocky isle. Ando was also targeted by the Bellicose in a multi-pronged attack by Grand Admiral Thrawn intended to draw New Republic forces away from Ukio. [DFR, TLC, GG4, TFTC]

Andron system

The Andron system contains the planet Aralia, the home planet of the semi-intelligent aliens called Ranats. [GG4]

Annaj

The site at which the Imperial fleet regrouped following their defeat at Endor. [TAB]

Anoat system

The Anoat system contains the planets Anoat, Gentes (the homeworld of the pig-like Ugnaughts), and the colony world of Deyer. After their escape from the Battle of Hoth, Han Solo and Princess Leia found themselves in the Anoat system and made the decision to visit Bespin's Cloud City. [ESB, MTS, DA]

Anoth

A multiple planet orbiting a small white sun, Anoth consists of three parts and will likely break itself into dust in a few hundred years. Anoth is unrecorded on any chart and was chosen by Luke Skywalker and Admiral Ackbar as the primary hiding place for Leia Organa Solo's Jedi children, although Jacen and Jaina Solo stayed on New Alderaan during the Emperor's reappearance. The two largest components of Anoth are close enough to scrape together, causing powerful static discharges between them and bathing the third fragment in sensor-masking electrical storms. The third piece orbits a safe distance from the other two and holds a breathable atmosphere in its valleys in spite of its relatively low gravity. The stronghold where Winter cared for the Jedi children until they reached the age of two was located on the third fragment, at the opening to a network of caves within Anoth's rocky spires and peaks. An Imperial attack with MT-AT walkers led by Ambassador Furgan was launched against the Anoth stronghold in an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap Anakin Solo. [JS, DA, COTF]

Antar 4

Located in the Prindaar system, Antar 4 is the fourth of six moons orbiting the gas giant Antar and home to the alien species known as the Gotal. Antar 4 has an unusual rotational pattern, which makes seasonal climate changes very pronounced. In addition, the moon's orbital pattern around the gas giant creates constantly-changing day/night cycles. Due to this, animal species on Antar 4 have developed organs and senses to help compensate for any absence of light, such as the Gotals' energy-sensing head cones. These cones aid the Gotal in sensing the moods of others, and in hunting the native herds of quivry. Large head cones are considered an attractive feature by other Gotal, and those with small cones sometimes use artificial substitutes to help improve their appearances. Antar 4 has no form of government, but nevertheless trades and interacts effectively with the rest of galactic society. [GG4, TFTC]

Antipose IX

A pilot droid that Lando Calrissian rented to take him from the Oseon to Rafa IV once held a job on the pleasure yacht Arleen, which departed from Antipose IX. [LCMH]

Antipose XII

While on a mission in the Oseon, Lando Calrissian used the password "dubesor"-- a native insult on Antipose XII. [LCFW]

Arabanth

A planet in the Hapes cluster. Arabanth sent an old woman who offered a "thought puzzle" on accepting life and death as part of a series of gifts from Hapes to the New Republic. [COPL]

Aralia

Aralia, a small, tropical world in the Andron system, is home to both the planetary amusement park Project Aralia and the troublesome, semi-intelligent Ranats. The Ranats (who call themselves Con Queecon or "the conquerors") evolved on the planet Rydar II, but came to Aralia when the spice-smuggling ship on which they had stowed away crashed in Aralia's jungles. Ranats live in tribes numbering around one hundred individuals, and inhabit maze-like underground warrens. The Ranat population has expanded greatly since the crash, and they now inhabit most areas of Aralia including its grassy steppes and mountains. The fierce appetites of the Ranats have led to a decline in most of Aralia's fauna including the pig-like roba. After Project Aralia's construction was interfered with by the Ranats, the builders attempted to organize an extermination of the species. This led to an Imperial ruling that Ranats can be killed in self-defense, and they may not be armed under any circumstances. Some Ranats were drug- and mind-controlled by Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader to serve as enclosure guards. [GG4, COTJ]

Ardos

The white dwarf star orbited by Varl, the original homeworld of the Hutts. According to Hutt legend, Ardos was once a double star with Evona until Evona was drawn into a black hole. [GG4]

Arkania

Arkania is a world covered with tundra and diamond mines, where miners extract melon-sized gems from the planet's crust. Four thousand years ago, the Jedi master Arca established a Jedi training outpost in the wilderness of Arkania. Animal life on the planet includes the Arkanian dragon and jellyfish. [TOTJ, FNU, DLOS]

Athega system

The Athega system contains the planet Nkllon, where Lando Calrissian had a mining operation. Due to the heat of its sun, ships must be escorted by a shieldship from the outer parts of the Athega system in order to approach the inner planets. [HTTE]

Atravis sector

The Atravis sector contains the Atravis systems, which were devastated by Imperial attacks. Of the massacres that occurred in the sector, Grand Moff Tarkin said, "They have only themselves to blame." Grand Admiral Harrsk's troops began concentrating in the Atravis sector eight years after the Battle of Endor. [COTJ]

Atrivis sector

Located in the Outer Rim, the Atrivis sector contains the planet Generis. New Republic pilot Pash Cracken was stationed in the Atrivis sector and helped defend (unsuccessfully) the Outer Rim comm center against an Imperial attack. [TLC]

Auril systems

A distant group of six star systems (including the Adega system) which also encompasses the Cron Drift. Originally there were nine Auril systems, though three systems were destroyed (thus forming the Drift) during the Great Sith War. The space city Nespis VIII is located at the node of the Auril systems. [DE2]

Averam

Averam was the location of a local Rebel Alliance cell, where Leia Organa's aide Winter worked for a few weeks under the code name "Targeter." Imperial Intelligence cracked the cell soon afterwards. The natives of Averam are called Averists. [TLC]

Azbrian

Azbrian is the homeworld of Condren Foreck, daughter of a wealthy farmer and a famous athlete on her world. She lives on a farm containing eight-legged herd animals. Foreck was one of Lando Calrissian's marriage candidates, until he discovered she had already married someone else. [AAC]

Bakura

Bakura is a rich, green and blue planet with several moons located on the isolated edge of the Rim Worlds. The eight planets in the Bakura system include one gas giant and Planet Six, an ammonia ice-covered ball. Bakura receives a great deal of rainfall. The capital city of Salis D'aar sits at the base of a mountain range, on a white quartz delta between two parallel rivers. Bakura's exports include strategic metals, repulsorlift components, and an addictive fruit called namana, which is made into candies and nectar. Bakura was settled by the Bakur mining corporation during the end of the Clone Wars, though at least one building on the planet is over 100 years old. The planet's inhabitants tend to be prejudiced against non-human species, though some pale, hairless Kurtzen inhabit the Kishh district. The Bakurans especially dislike droids, since the first wave of Bakuran colonists were nearly wiped out by malfunctioning droids. The Bakur complex in Salis D'aar is a large city-center containing residential, medical, and Imperial office areas, and the old Bakur Memorial Building overlooking Statuary Park. Animal life on Bakura includes the butter newt and the predatory Bakuran Cratsch, and its plants include pokkta leaves, namana trees, and passion-bud vines.

Bakura was once run by a prime minister and a senate-- the descendants of the Bakur Corporation's original ship's captain served as prime minister, and senators were appointed by their colleagues instead of elected by the public. The constant governmental bickering allowed the planet to fall easily to the Empire three years prior to the Battle of Endor. The Imperials built a garrison on Bakura (featuring older, outdated defenses) under the command of Pter Thanas, while Governor Wilek Nereus took over the Bakuran senate. Immediately following the Battle of Endor, Alliance and Imperial forces briefly joined together at Bakura to thwart an invasion by the Ssi-ruuk Imperium. After the subsequent overthrow of Imperial forces, Prime Minister Yeorg Captison took over the leadership of Bakura. Several years later, Yeorg's niece Gaeriel Captison was elected Prime Minister, but was defeated in a succeeding election. The planet retained a powerful defensive fleet to guard against any further Ssi-ruuk attacks, and Bakuran techs designed the ships to escape from interdiction fields. Luke Skywalker returned to Bakura, fourteen years after the truce, to borrow this fleet for a mission in the Corellian system. Half of the Bakuran cruisers were destroyed in the successful mission, and Gaeriel Captison was killed. [TAB, AAS, SAC]

Balfron

Lando Calrissian became infatuated with the twin con-artists the Tonnika sisters after an encounter in the High Stakes Casino on Balfron. [MTS]

Balmorra

A factory world located at the fringes of the Galactic Core. Wide plains surround the planet's capitol, where Governor Beltane runs the planet and oversees production. During the reign of the Empire, the Balmorrans manufactured weapons for the Imperial army, and were the primary builders of the AT-ST walker. The planet was liberated by the New Republic following the Battle of Endor, and it remained independent for five years. Balmorra was brought back into Imperial service during the Emperor's reappearance, but following Palpatine's supposed death near Da Soocha the rebellious Balmorrans began arming the New Republic. In retaliation, the planet was attacked by a force under the command of Military Executor Sedriss, including Shadow Droids and SD-9 battle droids. After suffering surprising losses at the hands of the new Viper Automadons, Sedriss called off his attack in exchange for a shipment of the molecularly-shielded droids. [DE2]

Barab I

Barab I is inhabited by the Barabel. It is a dark, humid world in close orbit around the red dwarf Barab. Barab I has a sixty-hour rotation, and is bathed in ultraviolet, gamma, and infrared radiation due to its proximity to its sun. During the day standing water evaporates, making the surface very humid and hazy. During the cool night, the only time Barab I's animal life is active, this haze condenses and falls to the surface as rain. The Barabel, whose bodies are covered with plates of black keratin, live in underground caverns and are known for their excellent hunting skills.

Many years ago a band of Jedi helped resolve a Barabel dispute over access to choice hunting grounds, leaving the Barabel with a deep respect for all Jedi. Some of the later visitors to Barab I were big-game hunters who actively hunted the Barabel, though now visiting hunters track other prey and instead use Barabel as porters and guides. A spaceport, Alater-ka, was constructed after the Empire took control of Barab I. Several years after the Battle of Endor, the Barabel nearly went to war with the Verpine after the Verpine defaulted on a ship-building contract. [GG4, DFR, COPL]

Bari

A blue star circled by Baros, home planet of the Brubbs. [GG4]

Baros

Orbiting the blue star Bari, Baros is a large, arid planet with higher-than-standard gravity and intense windstorms. Baros is the homeworld of the reptilian Brubbs, whose society is centered around communal groups called habas that consist of 10-10,000 individuals. The Brubbs have university habas and have established a spaceport haba after their recent discovery by the Empire, though this facility has not seen much use due to the difficulty of landing and departing in Baros' high gravity. Brasck, a smuggler who was known to associate with Talon Karrde, was a Brubb. [GG4, DFR]

Basilisk

The site of the Battle of Basilisk, where the Jedi Master Sidrona Diath was killed. [DLOS]

Belsavis

Located in the Ninth Quadrant near the Senex sector, Belsavis (an independent ally of the New Republic) is a world of volcanic rift valleys separated by miles of icy glaciers. The inhabited, steam-filled rifts are heated by the planet's core, which feeds mud pots and hot springs on the surface. The cities within the rifts, some of them covered by light-amplification domes, include Wutz, Bot-Un, Mithipsin, and Plawal (formerly called Pletwell). The enormous rift-covering domes, buoyed by antigrav units in their apices, support a vast network of hanging gardens and moveable growing beds. The vine-coffee and vine-silk grown in these beds account for thirty percent of Belsavis' total economy and require a temperature shift of thirty degrees or more. The domes also protect against the periodic cold storms that formerly swept into the rifts from the surrounding glaciers. The gangly, short-lived Mluki species are representatives of Belsavis' original population. The rift valleys were largely jungle until the Brathflen Corporation, Galactic Exotics, and Imperial Exports arrived and began cultivating cash crops such as vine-coffee and vine-silk in the hanging beds, shalaman and podon orchards, brandifert, lipana, bowvine, and slochan.

The quiet, humid community of Plawal lies between steep cliffs of red-black rock and is run by Jevax, a Mluki who is Chief Person of Plawal. Rock "benches" leading up to the cliff walls provide a narrow foundation for homes and orchards. Most buildings are constructed from prefabricated units, and crammed together on small lots due to the rift's enclosed area. Residences in the old city were constructed directly over warm springs. A thick, sulfur-smelling mist permeates the valley, and can restrict visibility to just a few meters. Plawal's main docking silos are connected by tunnels to the Port Offices and to the rest of the city, including the canneries, the Brathflen Medcenter, Old Orchard Street, the seven main silk-packing plants, the MuniCenter, an import/export business on Pandowirtin Lane, and the Bubbling Mud cafe off Brandifert Court. Madame Lota's House of Flowers (a brothel) and seedy bars such as the Smoking Jets and the Jungle Lust line Spaceport Row. A house on Painted Door Street opens onto Plawal's vast network of subterranean crypts. These crypts, which contain xylen chips and gold wiring from the abandoned laboratories of Jedi Master Plett, were guarded by forgotten, mind-controlled smugglers under the Force influence of Irek Ismaren. Flora in the Plawal rift includes starblossoms, sweetberry vines, aphor trees, orchids, hanging moss, spider plants, shalaman trees, ferns, and Wookiee-beard. Fauna includes mooklas, salamanders, phosphor bugs, frogs, pittins, pellata birds, manolliums (brought from Ithor), watch-critters, and the insectile kretch that infest Plawal's tunnels. The storm-lashed, ionized atmosphere of Belsavis makes sensor probes and ship landings extremely difficult. Only one spot, called the Corridor, in the planet's southern hemisphere is atmospherically stable each day-- smugglers making the "Belsavis Run" come in at the Corridor and skim the ice to one of the unofficial landing pads on the glaciers.

Almost one hundred years ago, the Jedi master Plett built a house and laboratory in the Plawal rift that served as a safe haven for the Jedi and their families. Eighteen years before the Battle of Yavin, the Emperor commissioned the battlemoon Eye of Palpatine to wipe out the Jedi enclave but the ship never arrived. The Emperor's small backup force of interceptors bombed Plawal but were wiped out by Belsavis' Y-wings, and the Jedi departed for places unknown-- after erasing all knowledge of their presence from the inhabitants of the city. After their departure, Brathflen, Galactic, and Imperial/Republic arrived to dome the valley and cultivate vine-coffee and silk. Nubblyk the Slyte began blasting landing pads on the glaciers around this time, and the smuggling trade began in earnest. A small force of tariff police left by the region's Imperial Governor were little use against the smugglers. Brathflen built the first of the light-amplification domes over Plawal (based on Plett's original design) before the Battle of Yavin, and the three companies teamed with Kuat to install a central computer system. About a year after the Battle of Endor, the Slyte disappeared and was replaced by his associate Bran Kemple, which caused Belsavis' smuggling industry to dry up. In the same year, Roganda Ismaren (one of the Emperor's Hands) came to Plawal. Han and Leia Organa Solo visited Belsavis eight years after the Battle of Endor and uncovered a plot by Roganda Ismaren to forge a military alliance with the Senex Lords. [COTJ]

Berchest

A former tourist destination in the Berchest system, Berchest is home to the Calius saj Leeloo-- the City of Glowing Crystal. The city is carved entirely from one massive crystal, created over the years from the red-orange salt deposits of the adjacent Leefari Sea. An icy river flows through Calius to the sea's edge, where the upper-class regions of the city are located. Only a few streets in the city (such as Mavrille Street) were constructed wide enough for vehicular traffic, so traffic on them tends to be heavy. Planetary Governor Staffa and his aide Fingal govern Berchest from Staffa's office in Central Government Tower Number One.

The tourism industry that surrounded Calius dried up following the Clone Wars and the birth of the Empire, and Berchest has since tried to reposition itself as a major trade center by using the established trade routes left over from tourism. Berchest was in Imperial territory during the reign of Grand Admiral Thrawn, and Thrawn led the New Republic to believe that Calius was a transfer point for the trafficking of his clone soldiers. Luke Skywalker encountered the smuggler Talon Karrde on Berchest while investigating this lead. [TLC]

Bespin

A many-mooned gaseous world located near the Anoat system, Bespin is home to several mining operations (including Tibannopolis and Cloud City) that draw valuable tibanna gas from below the cloud layers. Lord Ecclessis Figg oversaw the early construction of Cloud City and drew up speculative plans to mine Miser, the innermost planet of the Bespin system.

Years ago the Jedi Master Djinn Altis instructed his students, including Geith and Callista, from a hidden Jedi training platform in Bespin's clouds. Cloud City is staffed by a large population of Ugnaughts from nearby Gentes (in the Anoat system), and was neither a part of the Mining Guild nor was noticed by the Empire until used by the Imperials in a vain attempt to trap Luke Skywalker. Lando Calrissian, who had won the rights to Cloud City in a sabacc game, was Baron Administrator of the facility during its subsequent seizure by the Empire. The Imperial garrison at Bespin was later used by Grand Admiral Thrawn in his war effort against the New Republic. The floating city of Tibannopolis is now an abandoned ghost town, and its malfunctioning repulsors cause it to drift at an angle. Bespin's fauna includes birdlike rawwks and airborne algae sacks. Streen, one of Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy students, was an independent prospector who used the Force to sense gaseous eruptions from Bespin's lower levels. One of the false charges filed against Cray Mingla by the Eye of Palpatine's central computer concerned retina prints and holograms provided by the government of Bespin. [ESB, ESBN, TLC, JS, HTTE, SWS, COTJ]

Bestine

When the Empire decided to open a high-security base of operations in the Bestine system, the entire population of Bestine IV was evacuated to make room for the installation. Alliance pilot Jek Porkins was one of these dispossessed persons, and learned his piloting skills by hunting sink-crabs on Bestine IV's rocky islands in his T-16 Skyhopper. Kestic station, a free-trader outpost, was located near the Bestine system until eliminated by the Star Destroyer Merciless. Alliance pilot Biggs Darklighter defected to the Rebellion along with his ship, the Rand Ecliptic, during a mission to the Bestine system. [SWN, MTS]

Bilbringi

Located in the Bilbringi system, the Imperial Shipyards of Bilbringi are a mass of dockyard platforms, partially-built ships, and construction vehicles, and are defended by at least four Golan II battle stations. Floating shield generators line the approved approach vectors, preventing any stray ships from wandering into restricted areas. The shipyards, run by Bilbringi Control under the command of General Drost, drastically stepped up warship production during Grand Admiral Thrawn's offensive against the New Republic. During this period of construction the yards ran short of strategic metals, prompting an Imperial raid of Nkllon's Nomad City. Bilbringi was the site where twenty-two asteroids were fitted with cloaking devices for Thrawn's siege of Coruscant; later, an attack on the shipyards by the smugglers Mazzic and Ellor resulted in the demolition of a nearly-completed Star Destroyer. The New Republic attacked the Bilbringi shipyards after giving the false impression that Tangrene was their target, and ran into a carefully-prepared trap set by Thrawn. Help from a coalition of smugglers (who had planned to steal Bilbringi's CGT array to sell to the New Republic) allowed Ackbar's fleet to escape the trap and defeat Thrawn's forces. [TLC]

Bimmisaari

Bimmisaari is inhabited by a species of short, half-furred, yellow-clad aliens called Bimms. Attractions on the planet include their unusual moving trees, the Tower of Law, and a three-level, two-hundred year old marketplace. All weapons of violence are banned from the main city. A commando team of Noghri attempted to kidnap Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo during their diplomatic mission to Bimmisaari, five years after the Battle of Endor. [HTTE]

Bonadan

An industrialized, heavily-populated factory world, Bonadan is one of the busiest ports in the Corporate Sector. The constant air traffic is regulated by the highly-advanced systems of Traffic Control. Its yellow, parched surface is highly eroded, and its topsoil has been destroyed due to countless drilling and construction projects. The remaining surface is covered with factories, refineries, docks, and shipbuilding facilities located in ten spaceports, the largest of which is Bonadan Spaceport Southeast II. This sprawling city, composed of low permacite buildings on fusion-formed soil, contains an Espo command post, an Authority Merchant Marine academy, the Landing Zone bar, the Alien Quarter, and the luxurious Imperial hotel. Mountains are located northwest of the city along with a massive weather-control station. Weapons are banned on Bonadan, and being caught with one by the omnipresent weapons detectors is grounds for immediate arrest.

The modified protocol droid C-3PX managed to assassinate the brother of Vojak on Bonadan by using concealed, internal weaponry. Han Solo was involved in a high-speed swoop chase during an early visit to Bonadan. The smuggler Shug Ninx rescued a mile-long shaft for a Death Star prototype from a Bonadan industrial junkyard, then had it installed as an entrance to his repair facility on Nar Shaddaa. [HSR, DE, D]

Boordii

Han Solo and Lando Calrissian made a botched dolfrimia run on Boordii. Han is still angry with Lando about Lando's seeming overconfidence during the run. [HTTE]

Borgo Prime

A large, honeycombed asteroid home to a seedy spaceport and disreputable trade center. The Borgo Prime asteroid was gradually hollowed out over the years by various mining operations, which ended when the last valuable ores were extracted more than a century ago. The asteroid's tunnels and excavations are now filled with space docks, prefabricated buildings, and gaudily-lit storefronts. The business district is located in the asteroid's core. Shanko's Hive, a tavern owned by an insectoid barkeep, is a cone-shaped structure rising a quarter-kilometer from the inner floor. It is protected by its own atmosphere field, and is decorated with burning candles, incense, and flaming bog-pits. Lando Calrissian's Corusca gem broker was located on Borgo Prime, and Luke Skywalker and Tenel Ka contacted the broker in an attempt to learn who had purchased his latest shipment. [YJK]

Borkeen Belt

A large, highly-dangerous asteroid belt that is also home to a massive space slug, according to the book A Slug Named Grendel. [SWS]

Bortras

Jorus C'baoth, the Jedi Master, was born in the city of Reithcas on the planet Bortras on 4/3/112, Pre-Empire date. [DFR]

Bothawui

The homeworld of the Bothans, an alien species of which Councilor Borsk Fey'lya is a member. [DFR]

Bovo Yagen

Bovo Yagen was the third star targeted for destruction during the starbuster crisis, fourteen years after the Battle of Endor. One source claims the system contains one planet with a population of eight million, while another source lists the system's population as twelve million, spread across two planets and numerous asteroids and space stations. The star was saved at the last instant when Centerpoint Station (the starbuster weapon) was disabled by a planetary repulsor beam. [AAS, SAC]

Bpfassh

A double planet with a complicated system of moons in the Bpfassh system, located near Praesitlyn and Sluis Van in the Sluis sector. During the Clone Wars some Bpfasshi Dark Jedi created trouble throughout the sector, and a Jedi task force (including Jorus C'baoth) was formed to oppose them. One Dark Jedi made it as far as Dagobah before his death. Because of the insurrection, most Bpfasshi today dislike all Jedi. Bpfassh was also the target of a hit-and-fade attack by Grand Admiral Thrawn and the site of an attempted abduction of Leia Organa Solo. During their search for Delta Source, Leia and Winter analyzed an intelligence report from the Bpfassh system suggesting the Star Destroyer Chimaera was at Anchoron. [HTTE, TLC]

Bradden

(see Dom-Bradden)

Brigia

Located in the remote Tion Hegemony, Brigia is a backwater planet inhabited by tall, purple-skinned humanoids. All ships landing on Brigia must undergo phase-one decontamination procedures. The Brigian government, the New Regime, has established a planet-wide monetary system and made it illegal for citizens to hold off-world currency. It also made a large purchase of secondhand military equipment, including an outdated Marauder-class pocket-cruiser. The University of Rudrig agreed to help establish a college on Brigia despite opposition from the New Regime and its Inner Council. University representatives hired Han Solo to deliver the necessary teaching supplies, and the Brigian government attempted to intervene. [HSLL]

Byss

Byss, the homeworld of the one-eyed Abyssin, travels in an unusual figure-eight orbit between the binary stars of Byss and Abyss. Byss is a hot, arid planet, and temperatures reach their highest when the planet is orbiting directly between both stars, a time known as "the Burning." Most plant life on Byss utilize extensive taproots to extract underground water, while animals rely on scattered oases and their own water-storing capabilities. The nomadic, violent Abyssin lead primitive lives, engaging in tribal wars and tending to their flocks of cowlike gaunts. Byss is largely ignored in galactic trade, its one substantial export being the Abyssin themselves as slaves. [GG4]

Byss

Located within the Deep Galactic Core which has been sealed off by the Empire for decades, Byss is a hidden world protected by powerful shields, hunter-killer probots, and the Imperial Hyperspace Security Net. It is also enveloped by the dark side of the Force, and home to the Emperor's Dark Side Adepts. The planet was rumored to be a paradise, which inspired millions to emigrate to Byss where their life-energies were enslaved through the Emperor's use of the Force. The planet was also known prior to the Battle of Yavin as the Emperor's private retreat. Certain freight haulers have been specially licensed to ship to the Deep Galactic Core, though most of those that shipped goods to Byss were never allowed planetside. During the time of the Emperor's reappearance and subsequent military buildup, however, Deep Core haulers were allowed to dock at the Imperial Freight Complex on the outskirts of the Emperor's ruling city.

The Imperial Citadel, which contains the Emperor's private cloning facility, is guarded by advanced turbolasers and powerful monsters called "Chrysalides" or Chrysalis Beasts. Byss contains orbital drydocks for the massive World Devastators and the Galaxy Gun, and was the location from which the reborn Emperor launched his assembled forces against the New Republic. Luke Skywalker attempted to learn the secrets of the Dark Side as the Emperor's apprentice after a Mandalorian prison ship delivered him to Byss. Lando Calrissian and Wedge Antilles led an unsuccessful attack on the Imperial Citadel using a cargo of hijacked Viper Automadon battle droids. [DE, DE2]

Cal

The yellow star orbited by Tibrin, homeworld of the Ishi Tib. [GG4]

Calamari

Calamari, sometimes called Mons Calamari, is almost entirely covered with water and is home to both the peaceful Mon Calamari and the cautious Quarren. The surface of the planet is covered with small marshy islands and enormous floating cities that house both species, with the Quarren inhabiting the lowest, darkest levels. These attractive constructions include Reef Home, Coral Depths, Coral City, and Foamwander City. The architecture and design of the Mon Calamari have organic appearances, with rounded edges and irregular surfaces that show their love for the natural beauty of their world. Raw ores used in construction are mined by the Quarren (who can breathe both air and water) from domed cities on the ocean floor. A permanent history of every event on Calamari is maintained by a community of meter-long, bivalve mollusks, who are extremely intelligent and will communicate their knowledge with those who ask. The Calamarian seas are also home to the dangerous predators known as krakanas-- sharklike animals with twin pincer tentacles.

The Mon Calamari had already constructed enormous starships and begun traveling space when their planet was discovered by the Empire. The Imperials planned to enslave Calamari and, after meeting with resistance from its natives, destroyed three of its floating cities. After this, Calamarian starships were converted into warships and the shipbuilding docks in orbit around Calamari and its single moon became an important resource for the Alliance. Years later, the reborn Emperor used his World Devastators to destroy several more of Calamari's floating cities until the machines were defeated through the use of the Emperor's Master Control Signal. One year after that, Leia Organa Solo visited Admiral Ackbar at his home in the seatree forest in an attempt to bring him out of his self-imposed exile. A subsequent attack by Admiral Daala's Star Destroyers resulted in the destruction of Reef Home City. In ancient times Calamari was home to a now-extinct, ten-legged crustacean known as the mammoth krabbex. [DE, GG4, SWS, DA, AAS]

Caprioril

A tranquil world in the galactic core, Caprioril was the site of the infamous assassin droid tragedy in which a droid slaughtered 20,000 people (including famous swoop racer Ignar Ominaz) at a swoop arena in order to assassinate Governor Amel Bakli. Mara Jade briefly worked as a come-up flector for a swoop gang on Caprioril following the death of the Emperor. [DFR, SWS]

Cardooine

Home of the fragrant Fijisi wood. Sections of the President's Guests floor in the Imperial Palace on Coruscant are done in Fijisi wood from Cardooine. [TLC]

Carida

One of several planets in the Carida system, Carida was once a large, high-gravity world with a wide variety of terrain. The native Caridans were humanoid aliens with thin limbs and heavy barrel chests. Carida was the location of the most important Imperial military training center, which contained a main citadel building surrounded by a towering wall. The planet's varied surface consisted of rocky mountains, frozen ice fields and arctic wastes, jungles filled with carnivorous plants, and arid deserts (including the Forgofshar Desert) that were home to poisonous, multilegged reptiles. Stormtrooper candidates underwent harsh training in these environments to prepare themselves for action on a variety of worlds.

Admiral Daala attended the Caridan academy before her appointment to Tarkin's staff. After the annihilation of Alderaan, several of the Death Star's designers were transferred from the battle station to Carida. Ambassador Furgan was the Caridan representative to the New Republic and oversaw the development of the MT-AT "spider walker," and Admiral Ackbar's aide Terpfen underwent torture and reconditioning on the planet in the hopes that he would serve as an Imperial puppet. Carida was utterly destroyed when Kyp Durron caused its star to go nova through the use of the Sun Crusher. [JS, DA, COTF, HTTE, TFTC]

Cathar

The homeworld of a feline alien species. The Jedi knights Sylvar and Crado, who trained under Vodo-Siosk Baas, were natives of Cathar. [DLOS]

Cattamascar

The site of an early engagement for the Ssi-ruuvi fleet, where they experienced an emergency reorient. [TAB]

Cauldron Nebula

A huge, rainbow-colored nebula composed of hydrogen, oxygen, and neon clouds from seven closely-orbiting blue supergiant stars. The closest habitable world to the nebula is Eol Sha, where colonists mounted an unsuccessful attempt to mine the nebula's gasses. The gas clouds and electromagnetic radiation in the nebula made it an ideal hiding place for Admiral Daala's Star Destroyers, until Kyp Durron caused all seven stars to go nova through his use of the Sun Crusher. Brakiss, leader of the Shadow Academy, had a picture of the seven Cauldron Nebula novas in his private office. [DA, YJK]

Cavrilhu?

The Cavrilhu pirate gang may hail from a planet called Cavrilhu, though they have been reported using Amorris as a base. [DFR]

Cedre system

A lifeless system with a blue star, located about three light years from Dathomir. [COPL]

Celanon system

The Celanon system is home to the mammoth consortium known as Pravaat, which manufactures and sells uniforms to interested parties. [COTJ]

Centerpoint Station

An enormous grey-white space station in the Corellian system, located at the balance point between the twin worlds of Talus and Tralus. Centerpoint presumably draws its power from the gravitational interflux between the Double Worlds. The ancient station, built before the invention of artificial grav, spins on its axis to provide centrifugal gravity. It is composed of a central sphere one hundred kilometers in diameter, with long, thick cylinders jutting from either side of the globe. The ends of the cylinders are referred to as the North and South Poles. The entire station is approximately three hundred fifty kilometers in length, even larger than the infamous Death Star. Centerpoint's simulated gravity becomes stronger the farther "down" one travels in the sphere, away from the axis of rotation. Several studies have been made on shifting the station over to artificial grav, but they have been abandoned due to expense and unknown side-effects. Centerpoint is completely covered with a bewildering array of piping, cables, antennae, cone structures and access ports; it would take several lifetimes to explore the vast and complex interior and exterior of the station.

Hollowtown is the name given to the open sphere in the exact center of the station, which measures sixty kilometers in diameter. The walls of Hollowtown have long been colonized with homes, parks, lakes, orchards, and farmland, which received heat and light from the Glowpoint-- an artificial sun suspended in the exact center of the sphere. To simulate night, farmers installed adjustable shadow-shields, which appeared as bright patches of gold or silver from above. On both sides of the Hollowtown sphere, positioned along the spin axis, is a large cone ringed by six smaller cones; the sets are called the North and South Conical Mountains. Surrounding Hollowtown, and making up the remainder of the central sphere, are two thousand levels of decks and "shells" (decks which measure twenty meters high or more), with Shell One lying closest to Hollowtown.

Centerpoint is believed to be a hyperspace repulsor, used in ancient times to transport the five Corellian planets into their current orbits from an unknown location. At some point the station was colonized, and Hollowtown-- which is actually a power-containment battery for the massive energy of firing a tractor-repulsor hyperspace burst-- became inhabited. Centerpoint remained stable for thousands of years, until the Saccorian Triad discovered that the station could destroy stars with a precise hyperspace shot from its South Pole. Two stars were targeted and destroyed, each accompanied by intense flareups in the Glowpoint. The small sun increased in heat so rapidly that Hollowtown and most of its inhabitants were completely incinerated during the first such incident. The Fed-Dub government immediately evacuated the remaining Centerpoint inhabitants to the Double Worlds, leaving Chief Operations Officer Jenica Sonsen in charge of the station. When word spread of the Hollowtown disaster it sparked several rebellions on Talus and Tralus. A group of starfighters representing one of the rebellions claimed the nearly-abandoned station for themselves, until chased off by a Bakuran cruiser. The massive interdiction and jamming fields, thrown over the entire Corellian system, were also generated from Centerpoint and activated by the Triad. The Triad's fleet was later defeated by New Republic and Bakuran forces, and the planned destruction of Bovo Yagen was averted at the last instant when a shot from the repulsor on Drall disrupted Centerpoint's firing process. [AAC, AAS, SAC]

Chad

Chad (also called Chadra), a watery world orbiting the blue-white star of the same name, is the fourth planet in its system and the homeworld of the sociable, rodent-like Chadra-Fan. Chad's nine moons create a pulsing system of tides, and clans of Chadra-Fan inhabit the bayous among the red gum-tree forests and cyperill trees. The Chadra-Fan do not bother to construct permanent structures due to the unpredictability of destructive hurricanes-- in fact, a "death wave" wiped out much of their civilization just ten years ago. Most Chadra-Fan machinery is powered by methane, and most technology is primitive by galactic standards. Despite this, many Chadra-Fan items are valued as exports due to the care and craftsmanship that went into their design. [GG4, TFTC]

Chad III

An ocean world with several moons. Life in Chad III's deep oceans include the long-necked cetaceans called tsaelkes, hunters called wystohs, and the fish-lizards called cy'een. The Jedi knight Callista was from Chad III, and worked a deep-water ranch on an ark with her family. The ark followed the herds along Chad III's Algic Current, which runs between Chad's equator and its Arctic Circle. Callista was later called away to Bespin by the Jedi master Djinn Altis. [COTJ]

Chadra

(see Chad)

Chalcedon

A rocky, volcanic world with a semi-breathable atmosphere, Chalcedon is a key hub in the galactic slave trade. The planet features dry, violent storms, frequent earthquakes and no indigenous lifeforms, though two colonies and a way station have been established on its surface. Many buildings and other items in the cities are constructed from dark volcanic glass. Traders and peasants inhabit the bazaars, while the bureaucrats (boneless, trunked aliens) live in the cities and control the slave trade. [TCS]

Chandrila

Covered with woods and trees, Chandrila is the homeworld of Alliance leader Mon Mothma. Mon Mothma's father was an arbiter-general of the Old Republic, and her mother was a governor of Chandrila. Dev Sibwarra (the Ssi-ruuk's human liaison) was originally from Chandrila, though his family fled to G'rho during the Jedi purge. The Imperial stormtrooper Triv Pothman was also from Chandrila, until his reassignment to Pzob to await the Eye of Palpatine. [TAB, SWS, COTJ]

Charmath

Site of the University of Charmath. Alliance historian Arhul Hextrophon searched through old, classified data files at the University in order to find the hidden location of Yoda. [SWS]

Charubah

A technological world in the Hapes cluster, Charubah manufactures the Hapan Gun of Command. Those shot with the gun's electromagnetic wave field lose the ability to make rational decisions, and tend to follow any orders given them. [COPL]

Chazwa

Located in the Chazwa system and the Orus sector, Chazwa orbits a tiny white dwarf sun. Its central transshipment location means that heavy freight traffic is a common sight in the system. The smugglers Talon Karrde and Samuel Tomas Gillespee battled two Imperial Lancers at Chazwa, and later it was used as a rendezvous for Karrde, Par'tah, and Clyngunn the Ze'Hethbra to discuss actions against Grand Admiral Thrawn. [TLC]

Chokan system

Han Solo and Prince Isolder both worked as smugglers in the Chokan system years ago. Isolder continued to work there despite the rise of the Empire and a deadly plague in the area because he was seeing a woman in the system. [COPL]

Chrondre

The site of one battle during a multi-pronged attack by Grand Admiral Thrawn. The Star Destroyer Nemesis participated in this battle, which was actually a diversion to draw attention away from Thrawn's true target of Ukio. [TLC]

Churba sector

The Churba sector is where four Bothan ships attacked a Victory-class Star Destroyer and kept it occupied until an Alliance Star Cruiser could assist them. The planet New Cov is in the Churba sector. [DFR]

Cilpar

An Imperially-controlled planet covered with mountains, jungles, and forests. Dozens of ancient native temples, predating the human settlements on Cilpar and nearly indestructible, can be found scattered throughout the forest. Animal life on Cilpar includes the dangerous carnivores called ronks, which are attracted to light and highly allergic to oratay. Male ronks are considered a delicacy on Cilpar, though females are instantly fatal if eaten. Other foodstuffs sold on-planet include mundis and thrashed puerco. The local Moff is Boren Tascl, who was prepared to turn Imperial facilities over to the Alliance following the death of the Emperor. Instead, Tascl rejected the deal and wiped out two suburbs of a Cilpari city, including the neighborhood of Tamarack. Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron arrived on Cilpar three years after the Battle of Endor and set up a base in the mountains west of Kiidan. They were to pick up food and supplies from the Cilpari resistance and escort the convoy to Mrisst, but instead they ran into a waiting TIE fighter ambush. The leader of the Cilpari underground is a mysterious woman known only as Targeter. Elscol Loro represents the legitimate local government of Cilpar; she believes she and her followers were betrayed to the Empire by an Alliance contact. Elscol's husband Throm was killed fighting Moff Tascl's forces at the Battle of the Cliffs. [XWRS]

Clak'dor VII

Located in the Mayagil sector, Clak'dor VII is a small planet orbiting the large white star Colu and is the homeworld of the peaceful, highly-evolved Bith. Clak'dor VII was once a lush garden world with incredibly advanced technologies, but is currently an ecological wasteland featuring bubbling pink swamps due to a conflict between two Bith cities, Nozho and Weogar. The two cities, generations ago, unleashed gene-altering biological weapons on each other, mutating the planet's surface and forcing all surviving Biths to live in hermetically sealed domed cities. Clak'dor VII, due to the disaster, is unable to produce either basic needs for its citizens or goods for export and thus many Biths sell their intellectual abilities for employment as technical consultants. One food product produced by Bith hydroponic tanks are the nutritious (but flavorless) cubes called "bepps." [GG4, COTJ, TFTC]

Colu

The large white star circled by Clak'dor VII, home planet of the Bith. [GG4]

Columus

Homeworld of the Columi, Columus is a small world with an extremely low gravity. Columus is a completely flat, muddy planet with no erosionary forces and a wide variety of plant life. The Columi, a highly technological and intellectual species, inhabit high cities supported by sturdy pylons. The Columi disdain physical exertion and prefer to remain on Columus, developing their minds and helping to run their society through a participatory democracy. Apparently Columus voluntarily joined the Empire. [GG4]

Commenor

Han Solo once joked that he exchanged his sense of chivalry for a ten-carat crysopaz and three bottles of brandy on Commenor. [SWN]

Cona

Cona, the homeworld of the triangle-headed Arcona, is a hot, dense world orbiting the blue giant Teke Ro. Due to Cona's lack of axial tilt and temperature-distributing air currents, the climate is effectively the same everywhere on the planet's surface. Cona's atmosphere contains a high concentration of ammonia, and water is often found only in the gastric pods of Cona's plant life. The Arcona, who obtain water by digging out plant pods with their burrowing claws, live in loose communities of family nests and are easily addicted to salt. Many galactic companies have established mining colonies on Cona. The H'nemthe female M'iiyoom Onith was held over on Tatooine after returning from a visit to her sister on Cona. [GG4, TFTC]

Corellia

Corellia, located in the Corellian sector and system, orbits the star Corell with four other habitable planets. The inhabited worlds are called the Five Brothers, and Corellia is often referred to as the Elder Brother. Corellia is an attractive world, with farms and small towns located between rolling hills, fields, and pockets of razor grass. Sights include the Gold Beaches, the mid-size town of Bela Vistal, and the capital city of Coronet, located on the coast. Unlike many cities, Coronet has many wide open spaces-- small buildings and trading stalls separated by parks and plazas. The center of government in Coronet is the twenty-story Corona House, formerly inhabited by sector Governor-General Micamberlecto. Corellians are known to hold the importance of family in high esteem.

Treasure Ship Row in Coronet, adjacent to Meteor Way and Starline Avenue, was formerly an eclectic bazaar catering to species from every corner of the galaxy. The galactic civil war and the Corellians' increasing isolation, however, caused a sharp decline in the trading industry, and Treasure Ship Row and other areas like it are now deserted. Although all three Corellian species (human, Selonian, and Drall) mingle freely in Coronet, the collapse of the Empire's central authority has led to separatist sentiment and anti-alien factions like the Human League. Beneath the surface of Corellia lies a vast network of tunnels built over thousands of years and home to many Selonians. Archeological excavation has recently begun on a series of underground chambers dating from pre-Republic days. Within this ancient complex is a vast planetary repulsor, once used to move the planet to its current orbit from an unknown location. Corellia was formerly ruled by a royal family, but became a republic three centuries ago after Berethon e Solo introduced democracy to the system. Fourteen years after the Battle of Endor, a riot in the Selonian enclave of Bela Vistal touched off widespread chaos and triggered the takeover of Corellia's government by Thrackan Sal-Solo and the Human League. The Human League was defeated, and Sal-Solo captured, by the intervention of the New Republic and a Bakuran task force. [COPL, AAC, AAS, SAC]

Corellian sector

The Corellian sector contains the Corellian system and dozens of others known as the "Outlier" systems (including the Sacorrian system). The Corellians have a reputation for keeping to themselves, and the Outlier systems are known to be even more secretive. The sector was formerly ruled by the Corellian Diktat, a title held by Dupas Thomree during the early years of the war against the Rebellion. Thomree consolidated his power during these years and caused the sector to become more isolated. After Thomree's death, Daclif Gallamby became Diktat and reduced the levels of Corellian military support for the Empire. After the Emperor's death, Gallamby lost more and more power and eventually disappeared into the Outlier systems. The most recent head of the sector, Governor-General Micamberlecto, had the backing of the New Republic but very little power or influence. Fourteen years after the Battle of Endor, the armies of the Sacorrian Triad attempted to force the New Republic into recognizing the Corellian sector as an independent state by controlling the starbuster weapon. At the same time, Thrackan Sal-Solo attempted to doublecross the Triad and seize power for himself. Both groups were defeated by New Republic representatives and a Bakuran task force. Micamberlecto was killed during the crisis, and Leia Organa Solo was expected to name Duchess Marcha of Mastigophorous the new Governor-General of the sector. [AAC, AAS, SAC]

Corellian system

The Corellian system, located in the Corellian sector, contains five inhabited worlds-- Corellia, Selonia, Drall, Talus, and Tralus-- collectively referred to as the Five Brothers. The five worlds have such close orbits that some theorists believe the entire system was created by unknown entities long ago. Recently, powerful repulsors have been discovered beneath the surface of each planet that seem to indicate they were moved into their current orbits from some unknown location. Centerpoint Station, located directly between the Double Worlds of Talus and Tralus, is the ancient device that theoretically was used to transport the five planets through hyperspace. The system is inhabited primarily by humans, Selonians, and Drall (though the latter two species are rarely seen outside the system), and is policed by the Corellian Defense Force. Pilots from the Corellian system are known throughout the galaxy for their superb skills, and the system is also notorious for its smugglers and pirates. The human-run Corellian shipyards are famous throughout the galaxy for their long, distinguished manufacture of a vast variety of starships. Some disreputable Corellian spaceports are known to construct unreliable, patched-together ships commonly called "Uglies." The system contains a large space station called Gus Treta. A famous Corellian work of literature is The Fall of the Sun by Erwithat, and a respected Corellian honor is the red trouser piping known as the Corellian Bloodstripe. [SW, MTS, COTJ, HSSL, AAC, AAS, SAC]

Corfai

After resupplying on Wistril, the Star Destroyer Chimaera was planning to join the Stormhawk and ambush a New Republic convoy near Corfai. [DFR]

Corporate Sector

The Corporate Sector is composed of tens of thousands of star systems, none of which has developed intelligent life. There is currently no explanation for this, although numerous theories have been proposed. The Corporate Sector Authority (CSA) was formed to exploit the assets of the planets in this sector, and it has become as wealthy and influential as the richest sectors in Imperial space. Typically the CSA uses up all the resources of a planet and moves on to another one, and is not above using slave labor or polluting the environment. The Authority is run by a company-like bureaucracy including a Board of Directors, Territorial Managers, and Auditor-Generals. The protective CSA also has its own military forces, including its Security Police, or "Espos." Planets in the Corporate Sector, in addition to its formal, sterile capitol worlds, include Ammuud, Bonadan, Roonadan, Etti IV, Kalla, Kail, Orron III, Duroon, Mytus VII, and the Trianii colony world. Han Solo and Chewbacca had several exploits in the Corporate Sector during their early adventuring. [HSSE, HSR]

Corsin

Located in the Greater Plooriod Cluster, Corsin was a beautiful world known for its love of life until it was forcibly subjugated by Imperial troops. Alliance historian Voren Na'al witnessed the start of the military occupation while covering the prestigious swoop races on Corsin. [MTS]

Corstris

A forested planet on which Han Solo spent some time as part of his Alliance duties. [TLC]

Coruscant

The governmental capital of the galaxy for generations, Coruscant and its two moons orbit a small white sun in the Core Worlds. Located in the system of the same name, Coruscant is known as the "Scintillant Planet" in old songs. The planet's entire landmass is covered by an enormous, multileveled city (now called Imperial City) whose foundations have been in place since the beginning of the Old Republic, over a thousand generations ago. The oldest and densest population centers border the equator. Kilometer-high skyscrapers (some extending to the lower fringes of the atmosphere) and numerous spaceports cover Imperial City, and its sky is filled with the lights of arriving and departing air traffic. Kitelike hawk-bats make their homes in the artificial canyons, hunting granite slugs on the lower levels. To the south of the city lie the snow-covered Manarai Mountains.

The Imperial Palace, said to be an impregnable fortress, is constructed of grey-green rock and sparkling crystals and is taller than all other neighboring structures including the Senate building. Hanging gardens, marble pyramids, and crystal roofs decorate the Palace, and some areas were decorated by the Emperor with patterns based on ancient Sith hieroglyphics. The Palace contains the Grand Corridor, which links the Council chamber with the Assemblage auditorium, and has a cross hallway lined with suites (including Leia Organa Solo's office) that leads to the Inner Council meeting room. The Grand Corridor, personally designed by Emperor Palpatine, features a high ceiling and cutglass windows, and is lined with greenish-purple, vibration-sensitive ch'hala trees (revealed to be part of an elaborate surveillance system). All residential floors in the Palace contain extensive libraries, and the old-fashioned President's Guests floor is done in hand-carved Fijisi wood. After taking control of the Palace, Palpatine added a set of turbolifts in the rear of the building as well as several secret modifications including hidden entrances. Some residential areas are in the area known as the Tower, located on the border of the Palace with windows overlooking the city. The lower floor of the Palace is entirely dedicated to military operations, and contains the offices of admirals Ackbar and Drayson and a blast-shielded war room in its center. Adjacent to the war room is the Crypt, a computer slicing and decoding center. The Palace's command floor contains offices for Sector Ordnance/Supply and Starfighter Command. One wing of the Palace is a medical area, while another has been specially modified to accommodate the water-loving Mon Calamari. The structures in this humid wing are designed to resemble a coral reef, and an enclosed pool containing protoplasmic glurpfish and other sealife circulates around the rooms. Other areas of the vast Palace include treasuries, pavilions, prisons, music rooms, and summer and winter quarters. The Imperial Information Center is located beneath the Palace.

Other attractions on Coruscant include the Grand Towers, the Skydome Botanical Gardens, the one-kilometer long Grand Reception Hall, the underground city of Dometown, the Grandis Mon theater, the Holographic Zoo of Extinct Animals, the Great Galactic museum (which held ancient Sith artifacts four thousand years ago), the University of Coruscant, and the celebration known as Carnival Week. For the last three hundred years the clock in the Central Gathering Hall has marked the hour by spreading a light across the sky. An Imperial interrogation facility was located deep within a shielded, reinforced section of one of Coruscant's many towers.

The lowest, darkest levels of Imperial City were abandoned long ago and are now home to discarded equipment, wrecked starships, mosses and lichens, spider-roaches and armored rats, and nameless subhumans moving through the shadows. Many feral animal species (having escaped from former confinement) inhabit the lower levels, including the eyeless creatures called "corridor ghouls." A seedy tavern in these levels is said to have not seen the sun in 90,000 years. Jacen and Jaina Solo had an encounter with a group of former bureaucrats in Coruscant's lowest levels, who had taken up residence there to escape Palpatine's inevitable anger over a filing error.

The snow-covered polar regions of Coruscant are home to turbo-ski resorts, and are continuously mined by ice-boring machines. Huge pipelines then deliver the melted ice to the metropolitan areas. The space surrounding Coruscant is defended by Golan III orbital battle stations and a low-orbit space-dock facility, while a powerful energy shield protects the planet itself.

Coruscant was the capital of the Old Republic for many prosperous generations, and the planet's metropolis was called Republic City. During the Great Droid Revolution on Coruscant millennia ago, Jedi Master Arca learned techniques for disabling machines through the use of the Force. After the rise of the Empire, the planet's metropolis was renamed Imperial City and Palpatine took up residence in the Imperial Palace. The Emperor's Court was composed of ambitious courtesans vying for power, and back-stabbing concubines each hoping to bear Palpatine's child. Leia Organa attended a reception for the Emperor at the age of eighteen. Alima, an Imperial officer who ordered the brutal subjugation of Ithor, was a native of Coruscant. In the years following the Battle of Endor, the planet was captured from the Empire by Alliance forces and named the capital of the New Republic. During the fighting the Imperial Palace was shelled and looted, and many members of the Emperor's Court were killed by Rebel partisans. Five years after Endor, Grand Admiral Thrawn attacked the New Republic on Coruscant and blockaded the planet using a group of cloaked asteroids. Six years after Endor, following the rebirth of the Emperor, vicious Imperial attacks forced the New Republic to evacuate the planet. The victorious Imperial factions then began to fight amongst themselves, devastating much of Imperial City and filling Coruscant's orbit with wrecked starships. Following the downfall of the resurrected Emperor, the New Republic recaptured Coruscant and set to work repairing the extensive damage with the help of 40-story construction droids. Imperial Admiral Daala planned to cripple the planet with a suicide Star Destroyer strike, but was unable to implement her plan. [HTTE, DFR, TLC, DE, JS, DA, COTF, COPL, AAC, FNU, DLOS, COTJ, AAS, TFTC]

Corvis Minor

A planet with a very unremarkable history. Each residential floor library in the Imperial Palace on Coruscant contains a multicard set entitled The Complete History of Corvis Minor, which actually holds a small hand blaster. [TLC]

Cron Drift

Located between the six remaining Auril systems. Four thousand years ago during the Great Sith War, four stars simultaneously went nova in the area of space now known as the Cron Drift, destroying three of the nine Auril systems. Multicolored gasses from the multiple explosion fill the area, and powerful x-rays and gamma radiation help mask any visiting ships from sensor probes. Ploovo Two-For-One was a bunko-steerer out of the Cron Drift, and Han Solo and Chewbacca made an unsuccessful attempt at clotheslegging in the Drift after leaving the Corporate Sector. [HSSE, HSLL, DA, DE2]

Crseih Station

Crseih Station, formerly stationed near a black hole (with a glowing accretion disk) located in the intersection of two star clusters, orbited a white dwarf star that was freezing into a quantum crystal. The station, capable of hyperspace travel, is a cluster of asteroids joined together by gravity fields and connecting airlink tunnels between the residential domes. The intense X rays of the adjacent black hole required powerful shielding for the residents and for all visiting ships, and the power required to run the shields made the station uncomfortably warm. Despite the shields, some X rays penetrated the defenses and mutated the plant life on the station.

Crseih had been a secret research facility for the Empire and was used by Lord Hethrir, the Procurator of Justice, as his headquarters. Hethrir tested methods of coercion on unwilling prisoners as the station moved from system to system, until it was sent to the crystal star in an attempt to use the black hole's power for military purposes. After the fall of the Empire, the station became a lawless outpost featuring carnivals, saloons, and aliens from every corner of the galaxy. Crseih was also involved in the slave trade through Hethrir's actions, and was known as Asylum Station by those in the slaving business. The enigmatic being called Waru created a cult on Crseih with his healing abilities until he apparently disappeared from this universe following a confrontation with Luke Skywalker. Crseih Station was then moved to Munto Codru in order to escape the resultant destruction when the crystallizing white dwarf was swallowed by the black hole. [TCS]

Culroon III

An out-of-the-way planet with an amazing history of violence, Culroon III was largely ignored by the Old Republic. Due to their constant wars the primitive Culroon never developed space travel, but they did trade for technological goods including blasters. When the Empire decided to construct a garrison on Culroon III, the Imperial general in charge of the operation agreed to a ceremonial surrender of the Culroon people by their leader, Kloff. When this ceremony turned out to be an ambush by the Culroon, the Imperial staff was rescued by an AT-AT commanded by then-lieutenant Veers. [SWS, MTS]

Cyax system

The Cyax system contains the planet Da Soocha and its uncharted fifth moon, where the Alliance established Pinnacle Base during the Emperor's reappearance. [DE]

Da Soocha

The watery world of Da Soocha (sometimes called Gla Soocha) is located in the Cyax system. Evacuees from Calamari were brought to Da Soocha during the World Devastator attack on their planet, six years after the Battle of Endor. The uncharted fifth moon of Da Soocha (the Pinnacle Moon) was home to the bird-like creatures called Ixlls and was the location of the Alliance's main base following their evacuation of Coruscant. Caverns within the huge stone columns of the moon were enlarged to hold Alliance hangars and operations decks. The reborn Emperor and his flagship were destroyed above this moon, though Palpatine managed to survive by taking another clone body. The Emperor utterly destroyed the Pinnacle Moon with a nucleonic reaction-setting projectile fired from the Galaxy Gun. [DE, DE2]

Dagobah

An uncharted, mist-shrouded swamp planet in the Dagobah system, Dagobah contains no cities or advanced technology yet teems with a wide variety of life. The thick cloud layer surrounding the planet cannot be penetrated by sensors. Dagobah was home to the Jedi Master Yoda, who instructed both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker before his death at the age of 900. Many years earlier, a Dark Jedi from Bpfassh created trouble throughout his sector before being stopped on Dagobah, presumably by Yoda. A dark cave near Yoda's home could be a vestige of the Dark Jedi's power, and it may have served to shield Yoda during the Emperor's Jedi purge. Luke Skywalker returned to Dagobah five years after Yoda's death and discovered a ship's beckon call that could have belonged to the Bpfasshi Dark Jedi. [ESB, ESBN, ESBR, HTTE]

Dalron Five

A planet devastated by the Empire during the infamous Siege of Dalron Five. Siege warfare techniques developed by Alliance General Jan Dodonna were used by the Empire in this assault. Refugees from the planet were later encountered by Shistavanen Wolfman scout Lak Svivrak living on a rocky moon. [MTS]

Dantooine

An olive, blue, and brown-colored planet with no industrial settlements or advanced technology, Dantooine is far removed from most galactic traffic. Its surface is covered with savannas of lavender grasses and spiky blba trees. The planet has two moons and abundant animal life, including herds of hairy beasts, simple balloonlike creatures, and mace flies. Primitive nomadic tribes move along the coasts, though their numbers are so few the planet is essentially uninhabited.

Four thousand years ago, the Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas established a training center among Dantooine's ruins, where he instructed Exar Kun and the Cathar warriors Crado and Sylvar. Millennia later, Dantooine served as a primary base for the Rebel Alliance. When interrogated by Imperials aboard the Death Star, Leia Organa revealed the base's location, though it had been safely deserted for some time. During the New Republic's war against Grand Admiral Thrawn, Admiral Ackbar planned to visit Dantooine following his inspection of the Farrfin and Dolomar defenses. Two years after that, fifty colonists from Eol Sha were relocated on the planet until they were wiped out by a group of Admiral Daala's AT-AT walkers. [SW, TLC, JS, DA, DLOS]

Dargul

Dargul is the sister world of the blob-racing planet Umgul. It is the location of Palace Dargul, residence of the Duchess Mistal. When the Duchess reached the age of marriage and advertised for a consort, a candidate named Dack altered the Palace's computer to name him as the winning suitor. When he could no longer stand the Duchess' company, he fled to Umgul and was captured by Lando Calrissian. Calrissian was given a million-credit reward from the Duchess for the return of her consort. [JS]

Dar'Or

Dar'Or, located in the Dar'Or system and the seldom-visited Jospro sector, is recorded in Imperial charts as OM973. The planet, a low-gravity, forested world, orbits an orange sun and is home to the intelligent flying mammals called Ri'Dar. The Ri'Dar inhabit the middle levels of the dense network of 200-meter tall waza trees that cover Dar'Or, along with the sloth-like sabertoothed indola. Predators of the Ri'Dar include the indola and the avian elix, which was recently introduced to the planet by planetary ecologists to save it from extinction on a supernova-threatened world. The elix came from a high-gravity world, however, and the relatively low gravity of Dar'Or has caused elix populations to thrive at the expense of other species. The Ri'Dar have organized their primitive society into warrens (all families on a single waza tree) and cities (all warrens in a particular section of forest). Due to the endangered elix Dar'Or has been declared an Imperial Species Preservation Zone, but some smugglers have bypassed the travel restrictions and taken elix meat (and the occasional Ri'Dar) from its surface. [GG4]

Dartibek system

The Dartibek system contains the planet Moltok, the homeworld of the alien species known as the Ho'Din. [GG4]

Datar

A group of Rebels was entirely eliminated on Datar, despite Darth Vader's insistence on acquiring prisoners for interrogation. [TFTC]

Dathomir

Located in the Quelli sector, Dathomir is a low-gravity world with three continents, a wide ocean, and four small moons. The planet is covered with a wide variety of terrain including mountains, deserts, purple savannahs, and forests with eighty-meter trees and vines bearing hwotha berries. Indigenous life on Dathomir includes flying reptiles, piglike rodents, long Whuffa worms, burra fish, and the feared rancors. Semi-intelligent, two-legged reptiles live in the desert and call themselves the Blue Desert People.

Humans came to Dathomir hundreds of years ago when a group of illegal arms manufacturers were exiled to the planet by the Jedi Knights. Several generations later, a rogue Jedi named Allya was also exiled to Dathomir. Allya began to teach the Force to the planet's inhabitants and to her descendants, who also learned to tame the wild rancors. Some time later the two-kilometer Jedi spaceborne academy Chu'unthor crashed in a Dathomir tar pit, and the Jedi force sent to recover it was repulsed by the witches-- those female inhabitants who had learned to use the Force. Different clans of the witches (such as Singing Mountain, Frenzied River, and Misty Falls) were formed, including a group following the Dark Side calling itself the Nightsisters. Life among the clans followed a pattern of female dominance, where males were largely treated as property and not allowed to act in important decisions. Imperial forces later constructed orbital shipyards and a penal colony on the surface. 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 Dathomir. After the Emperor learned the power of the Nightsister leader Gethzerion, he ordered all the prison's ships destroyed from orbit to prevent her from leaving the planet. The stranded Imperials at the prison were then enslaved by Gethzerion and the other Nightsisters. Four years after the Battle of Endor, Han Solo won the planet Dathomir in a high-stakes sabacc game from Warlord Omogg, who claimed it had been in her family for generations. Han's subsequent adventures on the planet resulted in the destruction of both the Nightsisters and of Warlord Zsinj's forces. Nineteen years after Endor, a new order of Nightsisters based in the Great Canyon emerged on Dathomir. This clan, allied with the Empire and founded by Luke Skywalker's former student Brakiss, treated their males as equals and sent their best Force students to be trained on the Empire's Shadow Academy. [COPL, COTJ, YJK]

Davnar II

Davnar II is home to a bipedal, scaly, long-snouted alien species. One of Ploovo Two-For-One's henchmen was a native of Davnar II. [HSSE]

Dela system

Lando Calrissian's destination before visiting the Oseon was the Dela system, but he decided against it due to the tricky landing required on a mountaintop spaceport. [LCMH]

Delaya

A sister world of the planet Alderaan. Alliance general Carlist Rieekan was inspecting a satellite transmission station in orbit around Delaya when the Death Star appeared in the system and subsequently destroyed Alderaan. [MTS]

Dellalt

A watery world with two moons and a higher gravity and shorter day and year than standard, Dellalt orbits a blue-white star in the remote Tion Hegemony. Dellalt held a strategic location in pre-Republic days, but it is now a poor, fringe planet, isolated even from the rest of the Tion. Thousands of years ago, the ancient tyrant Xim the Despot built an opulent city and immense treasure vaults on Dellalt. These vaults and the planet's single city are located near a cold lake on the southernmost of Dellalt's three continents. This city was once an impressive metropolis designed by Xim's engineers but it has since fallen into poverty and ruin. The outermost of the apparently empty vaults house the Dellaltian Bank and Currency Exchange (the local currency unit is the driit) and the Landmark Preservation Office, while the actual treasure vaults lie below these empty decoys. The vaults are studded with anti-weapon defenses and hold a now-worthless cache of kiirium and mytag crystals. The intelligent sauropteroids of Dellalt, the Swimming People, run a ferry business at the lakeside docks, towing passengers across on rafts.

Deep within the mountains is a colony of a hundred people calling themselves the Survivors-- apparently stranded on Dellalt in pre-Republic times, their culture survived for tens of thousands of years in isolation. The Survivors still hope to be rescued, and their religion involves watching over Xim's remaining war robots and making human sacrifices to increase the strength of their rescue beacon. All Survivors are hypno-imprinted at childhood, and Survivor infiltrators can be found working in Dellalt's main city. Dellalt's flora includes dendroid vines and soft blue moss, while its fauna includes dog-like animals with prehensile tails, eight legged dray beasts, and lake crustaceans. During one of Han Solo's early adventures, Xim's robots were activated by the Survivors and wiped out a contract-labor mining camp before their destruction. [HSSL]

Delrian

A prison planet used for the incarceration of dangerous criminals. The infamous Dr. Evazan was held on Delrian until he escaped to the Hindasar system. [MTS]

Denab

The Imperial Fourth Attack Squadron was soundly defeated by the Alliance at the Battle of Denab. The Squadron was primarily composed of Victory-class Star Destroyers, and it is their relatively slow sublight speed that is regarded as the key reason for their defeat. [SWS]

Denarii Nova

A rare double star. The smaller star in the pair periodically fed on plumes of flaming gas drawn from its larger partner. This star system was destroyed thousands of years ago by the Sith magician Naga Sadow in order to escape from a group of pursuing Republic gunships. Brakiss, leader of the Shadow Academy, had a picture of the exploding Denarii Nova in his private office. [DLOS, YJK]

Deneba

A red planet, Deneba was the site of a meeting of thousands of Jedi knights and masters within Mount Meru 4000 years ago. The land surrounding the cavernous Mount Meru and the nearby Meru Spaceport is covered with tall, flowing grasses. During this meeting the Jedi, who had taken on the responsibilities of guarding the Core systems, discussed the problem of the Krath takeover of the Tetan system and the failed Jedi/Republic mission to save Koros Major. Ulic Qel-Droma announced his intentions to join the Krath in order to learn their secrets. A subsequent war droid attack, planned by the Krath, resulted in the death of Jedi Master Arca. [DE, DLOS]

Derra IV

An Alliance transport convoy tried to bring badly-needed supplies from Derra IV to the new Rebel base on Hoth. The convoy and its fighter escort were completely destroyed by TIE fighters soon after they left the planet. [ESBR]

Despayre

Despayre, located in the Horuz system in the distant Outer Rim Territories, was the construction site for the first Death Star. The almost unknown status of Despayre helped guarantee the security of the orbital construction yards assembled to build the battle station. [MTS]

Devaron

Devaron, homeworld of the horned Devaronians (or Devish), is a temperate, sparsely-populated world covered by low mountain ranges, deep valleys, shallow lakes, and thousands of navigable rivers. The planet has little political importance but is located near the influential Core Worlds. Devaronian females live in the mountains and raise their families in Devaron's villages and industrial centers. The females control the planet's democratic government and all aspects of production and manufacturing. Devaronian males, however, prefer to aimlessly wander, and either spend their lives exploring Devaron's rivers or leave the planet altogether. Male Devish have much sharper teeth than females, and about 2% of males are born with two sets of teeth-- one for shredding flesh and one for grinding other foods. Devaron produces enough goods to support its inhabitants but does not have any useful exports. During an outbreak of Rebellion on Devaron, the Devaronian Army was placed under Imperial command. Captain Kardue'sai'Malloc (later known as Labria) oversaw the shelling of the ancient city of Montellian Serat and the massacre of 700 Rebel prisoners that followed. [GG4, TFTC]

Deyer

Located in the Anoat system, Deyer is a colony world composed of floating raft cities, terraformed lakes, and abundant fish and crustacean life. The colonists on Deyer had created a peaceful, democratic political system until they spoke out against the destruction of Alderaan, paving the way for a brutal military takeover of Deyer by Imperial troops. Kyp Durron and his family were originally from Deyer. [JS, DA]

Dilonexa XXIII

Located in the Dilonexa system, Dilonexa XXIII orbits a giant blue-white star along with 39 other planets. Dilonexa XXIII is the only world capable of supporting life, as the inner 22 are far too hot and the outer 17 too cold. The planet is nearly 25,000 kilometers in diameter, but its lack of heavy metals gives it a tolerable gravity. Dilonexa XXIII is entirely given over to agriculture. Its farms stretch across the entire surface of the planet, providing foodstuffs, plastics, fuels, and grain for the herds of native bovine. Weather-controlling satellites in orbit help keep the city-sized tornadoes in check with energy weaponry. All heavy metals must be imported to the planet, and the Dinonexican colonists (wealthy, successful farmers) have developed an allergic reaction to foods containing too many trace metals. Lando Calrissian made a run to Dilonexa XXIII, trying to unload a useless (on Dilonexa) cargo of fishing poles, leather hides, and wintenberry jelly. [LCFW]

Dolomar sector

The Dolomar sector was one target in an offensive by Grand Admiral Thrawn. The New Republic put up stiff resistance in this and the Farrfin sectors, and Admiral Ackbar personally made a tour of the defenses in both these areas. [TLC]

Dom-Bradden

Located in the Outer Rim, Dom-Bradden (sometimes called Bradden) is the homeworld of the alien species known as Affytechans. Affytechans, a sentient form of plant life, have high, musical voices and bodies composed of thousands of colorful petals, tendrils, and stalks. While they appear quite beautiful, the Affytechans stink of ammonia and musk. The Imperial battlemoon Eye of Palpatine stopped at Dom-Bradden to pick up a contingent of stormtroopers, but brought in a group of Affytechans instead. [COTJ]

Douglas III

The home of the animal known as the jackelope. A taxidermized specimen is displayed in the Poly Pyramid tavern on Rafa IV. [LCMH]

Dra III

A high-gravity planet known for its sport hunting. The inhabitants of Dra III tend to be heavier and stronger due to the higher gravity. One of the famous hunting beasts of Dra III is the vicious six-legged nashtah, and the powerful (though somewhat outdated) Kell Mark II blaster is one planetary export. [HSR, HSLL]

Drackmar system

A system with multiple suns and the home of the alien Drackmarians. The Drackmarians are methane-breathers with blue scales, sharp talons, and snouts filled with vicious teeth. Omogg, a wealthy warlord from the Drackmar system, lost the planet Dathomir to Han Solo in a sabacc game on Coruscant. [COPL]

Drall

One of the five inhabited worlds in the Corellian system, Drall is a pleasant, temperate planet with a lighter gravity than standard. During the summer, temperatures can reach levels high enough to cause portions of the landlocked Boiling Sea to actually boil, until it is cooled by winter precipitation. The planet is the homeworld of the short, furred aliens also known as Drall. The tidy, sensible Drall formerly hibernated during Drall's winter season, though most have abandoned the practice today. The species is known for its cautious nature, its honesty, and its meticulous skill at record-keeping. The planetary unit of currency is the Drallish crown. Other life on the planet includes the nannarium flower and many varied species of Drallish aviars. A vast, subterranean planetary repulsor is located near Drall's equator-- presumably used in ancient times to move the planet into its current orbit from an unknown location. One of the workers in the contract-labor mining camp on Dellalt was a Drall. During the starbuster crisis fourteen years after the Battle of Endor, Chewbacca took the Solo children and their tutor Ebrihim to Drall to stay with Ebrihim's aunt, the Duchess Marcha of Mastigophorous. The group discovered Drall's planetary repulsor, and Anakin Solo instinctively made it operational. A shot from the repulsor, fired by Anakin Solo, disabled Centerpoint Station and saved the star Bovo Yagen from destruction at the last possible instant. After the crisis, Leia Organa Solo was planning to appoint Duchess Marcha as the new Governor General of the Corellian sector. [AAC, AAS, SAC, HSLL]

Draukyze system

A single Star Destroyer made a hit-and-fade attack on the Draukyze system several months before Grand Admiral Thrawn made a similar attack on Bpfassh. Later, New Republic support ships positioned themselves on the edge of the system to give the false impression they were planning to attack Tangrene. [HTTE, TLC]

Dreena

An uninhabited world in the Hapes cluster. Prince Isolder spent time on Dreena as a child, playing in the pure oceans of the planet. [COPL]

Dufilvan sector

Grand Admiral Thrawn's forces launched a multiple attack on various targets in the Abrion and Dufilvan sectors. The planet Ukio was captured and the New Republic base on Ord Pardron suffered heavy damage. [TLC]

Duros

A terrestrial planet in the Duro system, Duros (sometimes referred to as Duro) is the homeworld of the alien species also known as Duros. The Duros have been travelling space for thousands of years, and the Duro system is filled with vast, orbiting cities and many smaller depots and shipyards. The system is governed by a group of starship corporations, and political decisions are made by their stockholders. The planet Duros is primarily uninhabited, and is covered with automated farms that help feed the inhabitants of the space cities. Animal life on the planet once included a now-extinct cannibal arachnid. Han Solo's ancestor Korol Solo, a pretender to the throne of Corellia, married and fathered a son on Duros. [TLC, COPL, GG4, DA]

Duroon

Duroon, a grey-skied world in the Corporate Sector, is the site of a major Authority installation that uses slave labor. Duroon has three moons, and its surface is dotted with lush jungles located between volcanic vents and fissures. Animal life in the jungles includes an unusual, harmless ball-like creature. Han Solo participated in a gun-running operation to the alien slaves on Duroon. [HSSE]

Dxun

Dxun, one of four moons orbiting the planet Onderon, is home to numerous bloodthirsty monsters. Due to Dxun's erratic orbit, several of the creatures were able to migrate to the surface of Onderon ages ago during a brief period in which the two worlds' atmospheres intersected. Four thousand years ago, after Queen Amanda of Iziz was defeated by the Jedi, the inhabitants of Onderon built a Mandalorian iron tomb on Dxun to house the remains of the Queen and the Dark Jedi Freedon Nadd. Exar Kun later visited the tomb, where the spirit of Nadd helped him discover some hidden Sith scrolls. [TOTJ, FNU, DLOS]

Elrood

The site of a commercial colony, presumably some distance from the Outer Rim, that contains prefabricated room units from the factories of Sullust. [COTJ]

Empress Teta system

(see Teta system)

Endor

Located in the Moddell sector, the forest moon of Endor (also called the Sanctuary Moon) is a temperate, densely forested world. The moon's low axial tilt and the regular orbit of its gas giant primary helps ensure a comfortable climate suitable for its many native lifeforms, including the Endorian pony, the Endoran vethiraptor, and the primitive Ewoks. The Ewoks make their communal dwellings high in the trees, which are considered the spiritual guardians of the Ewoks and can reach heights of 300 meters. Music plays an important role in Ewok culture, and each tribe has a shaman who interprets mystical signs. A natural enemy of the Ewoks are the large humanoid creatures called Gorax, who search the trees for Ewok dwellings low enough to grab. Other predators on the forest moon are numerous but primarily nocturnal.

Endor was chosen as the construction site for the second Death Star, and an Imperial base was established on the surface to generate a protective shield for the orbiting battle station. The superweapon and much of the Imperial fleet were subsequently destroyed in what is now known as the Battle of Endor. A cloud of Darkside energy (a residual effect of the Emperor's first death) is now located in Endor's orbit at the site of this destruction. Throm Loro, a leader of the resistance on Cilpar, helped liberate an Imperial base on Endor and saved the life of a Wookiee prisoner. [ROTJ, ROJN, DFR, JS, DA, SWS, COTJ, XWRS]

Engira

An Imperial replenishment convoy was ambushed outside Engira, resulting in the loss of three freighters and their cargoes of food and ammunition worth over 18 million credits. [SWS]

Eol Sha

Eol Sha, a volcanic world, is circled by a large double moon which is in decaying orbit and will likely collide with the planet in another hundred years. The surface of the planet is covered with scalding geysers and bubbling lava fissures, which were known to hold a dangerous lava fireworm.

A mining operation was established on Eol Sha 100 years ago to extract valuable gasses from the nearby Cauldron Nebula, but when the operation failed the colonists were forgotten. The colonists lived on the planet for generations, surviving on crustacean bugdillos and edible lichens, until relocated to Dantooine by the New Republic. Gantoris, one of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy students, was from Eol Sha. The planet was possibly destroyed when all the suns in the adjacent Cauldron Nebula went nova. [JS]

Er'Dox Kaan

A red giant star orbited by Laboi II, home of the Laboi. [GG4]

Eriadu

A planet possibly in the Senex sector. When the head of House Elegin departed to attend a meeting with Roganda Ismaren on Belsavis, he left his family on Eriadu. One of Eriadu's exports is shellwork jewelry. [COTJ]

Etti IV

A civilized planet in the Corporate Sector, Etti IV is a trade world marked by moss-covered plains, shallow saline seas and a favorable location near many hyperspace routes. Etti IV is very wealthy, inhabited by both prosperous Authority executives and a thriving criminal underbelly. The planet has many diversions for its moneyed citizens, including an Authority Currency Exchange, Sabodor's pet shop, and the Free-Flight Dance Dome. [HSSE, D]

Evona

The possibly mythical star Evona was once a twin star with Ardos, according to Hutt legend. It was then drawn into a black hole, causing the devastation of the orbiting planet Varl. [GG4]

Fakir sector

An Imperial treasury ship and its corvette escort were severely damaged by six Rebel X-wings in the Fakir sector. In addition, Alliance historian Voren Na'al took the cover of a special agent for the Moff of the Fakir sector during his infiltration of the Imperial data storage net on Halowan. [SWS, MTS]

Farrfin sector

The Farrfin sector was one target in an offensive by Grand Admiral Thrawn. The New Republic put up stiff resistance in this and the Dolomar sectors, and Admiral Ackbar personally made a tour of the defenses in both these areas. [TLC]

Fedje

A forested planet on which Han Solo spent some time as part of his Alliance duties. During the New Republic's retreat from Generis, there was hope that Wing Commander Varth had escaped and was able to hook up with a unit at Fedje. [TLC]

Fef

A moderately large planet orbiting an orange-yellow star, Fef is the homeworld of the insectoid Fefze. Fef's thick atmosphere and hot temperature contribute to its teeming variety of lifeforms, all of whom have relatively short life-spans. The Fefze, who form intelligent group-minds (called "swarms") of 10 to 100 individuals, are able to digest all forms of carbon-based organic matter. Due to the abundance of food available to the Fefze and their lack of dexterous manipulative appendages, they have not developed technological skills and Fef has few exports. Fef does receive tourists who come to view the famed Fefze dance swarms. [GG4]

Fere

The Fere (also called Feree) system contains a double star. Two hundred years ago, the planet Fere was home to an advanced alien culture of tall, pale humanoids with six-fingered hands. They were also master starship builders, and some of their small luxury cruisers can still be found in the galaxy today. During a series of wars, someone accidentally carried a deadly plague to Fere which killed all life on the world. [COPL]

Filve

Filve was targeted by the Star Destroyer Judicator in a multi-pronged attack by Grand Admiral Thrawn intended to draw New Republic forces away from Ukio. At the same time, Leia Organa Solo was planning to visit the Filvian government to assure them of New Republic support. When she arrived during the battle, Joruus C'baoth sent the entire Imperial strike force after the Millennium Falcon in a vain attempt to capture her. [TLC]

Firrerre

All life on the planet Firrerre was wiped out through the Empire's use of a biological weapon, and it is still unsafe for any ships to land there. The devastation was ordered by Hethrir, the Imperial Procurator of Justice (himself a native of Firrerre) and carried out by the Empire's elite Starcrash Brigade. The people of Firrerre, humanoids with long, striped hair, were believed to have been rendered extinct by the death of their world, though Leia Organa Solo discovered a passenger-freighter carrying many of its natives in suspended animation. The highest waterfall on Firrerre reaches 1,263 meters. [TCS]

Firro

Many deaths and atrocities were committed on Firro during its brutal subjugation by the Empire, and Lord Cuvir was installed as Imperial Governor of Firro. During a visit to a Firro relief station, Cuvir witnessed the skill of Imperial medical droid Too-Onebee and made the droid his personal physician. Too-Onebee has since joined the Alliance. [MTS]

F'la Ren

A blue-white star orbited by F'tral, home of the Iyra. [GG4]

Flax

Flax, home to the insectoid alien species called Flakax, is located in the Ptera system. Flax is covered by oceans but much of the land is desert, due to high mountain ranges which prevent atmospheric transference of moisture from the seas. The emotionless Flakax live in underground hives, and their lives are spent in continual devotion to the hive and its queen. Flax has no notable technologies or exports, other than the skilled labor provided by the Flakax. After the planet was taken over by the Empire the Flakax were put to work mining Flax's underground minerals. [GG4]

Fondor

The site of a vast starship construction site. It was at these starship yards that the droid Bollux was first activated. [HSSE]

Fornax

The location of the Fire Rings. Han Solo once remarked that a difficult task can be compared to "flying through the five Fire Rings of Fornax." [SWN]

Froz

The home planet of the Frozians-- tall, furred, extra-jointed aliens known for their melancholy outlook on life. Micamberlecto, the New Republic's governor-general of the Corellian sector, is a Frozian. [AAC]

F'tral

A large water-covered world orbiting the blue-white star F'la Ren, F'tral is home to the tentacled cephalopods known as the Iyra. The few volcanic islands on F'tral are home to fisher plants, seducer plants, and cannibal plants. The Iyra inhabit large undersea cities and have developed many valuable technologies, including corrosion-resistant alloys and gravity-field and inertial devices for starships. Iyra society is based on a caste system, with the number of tentacles an individual has corresponding to his or her own caste. The more tentacles an Iyra grows, the higher the caste, and since Iyra tend to grow more tentacles as they grow older an individual can move through several castes in a lifetime. Iyra look down on those in lower castes, and are especially contemptuous of most four-limbed alien species. [GG4]

Fwillsving

A planet somewhat near Honoghr and Kessel. Luke Skywalker considered visiting Fwillsving when he needed replacement fuel cells for his X-wing. [TLC]

Gallinore

A planet in the Hapes cluster and home to the extremely valuable rainbow gems. The gems, actually silicon-based lifeforms, mature after thousands of years and glow with an inner light. [COPL]

Galpos II

GrimDeath I, a pirateship responsible for raids in the Woldona system, was the target of an Imperial spacetrooper assault before it could reach its destination of Galpos II. [SWS]

Galvoni III

The location of an Imperial military communications complex. Alliance historian Voren Na'al infiltrated the complex following the Battle of Yavin in order to gain more information about the Death Star project. [MTS]

Gamorr

Gamorr's varied terrain ranges from frozen tundra to deep forests, and it is considered quite pleasant by off-worlders. The dim-witted Gamorreans, however, care only for the vicious, bloody warfare constantly occurring between rival clans. Gamorrean sows run the clans and do the productive work such as hunting and farming, while the boars spend all their time training and fighting their rivals with primitive hand-axes and swords, vying for the attention of the Alpha female. Gamorr is also home to furry, bloodsucking parasites called morrts, that Gamorreans look upon with affection and allow to feed on their own body fluids. The first interstellar trading ship to land on Gamorr was utterly destroyed after five armies fought a bloody two-day battle for the right to do so. Procedures programs for those intending to visit the planet state only, "Do not visit Gamorr." Many Gamorreans are employed throughout the galaxy as guards, mercenaries, and enforcers, and some have colonized the Outer Rim world of Pzob. [SWS, COTJ]

Ganath

Hidden in a vast, radioactive gas cloud located near Nal Hutta, the Ganath system is completely cut off from the rest of galactic civilization. Their isolated culture has developed more slowly than the rest of the galaxy, and much of Ganathan technology operates on steam power. Spacers from Nal Hutta who attempted to penetrate the gas cloud never returned. The Ganathan space fleet includes the massive steam-powered battleship The Robida Colossus. For years the Ganath system was ruled by King Empatojayos Brand, a Jedi knight who was rescued by the Ganathans after his ship was destroyed. Leia and Han Solo travelled to the capital city of Ganath after they rashly flew into the gas cloud in an attempt to escape from Boba Fett. [DE2]

Gand

Gand is a primarily gaseous planet and home to the alien species also called Gand. Gand society is composed of "pocket colonies" separated by enshrouding mists, and the Gand government is a totalitarian monarchy established centuries ago. Locating fugitives in the thick gasses is the responsibility of Gand "findsmen," who worship the mists and use religious rituals to lead them to their targets. Due to Gand's unique atmosphere, all Gand must wear some type of breathing apparatus when off-planet. After Gand and its slave trade were taken over by the Empire, the Imperials' advanced technology made the arcane techniques of the findsmen largely obsolete. Some Gand findsmen, including the notorious Zuckuss, have found work as bounty hunters. [MTS]

Gandolo IV

A barren, rocky moon located in the Outer Rim. A group of Wookiee settlers, aided by Chewbacca, were attempting to establish a colony on the moon when they were discovered by the bounty hunter Bossk. Bossk and his men, who were in the employ of the Imperial sector governor, abandoned their attempt to capture the Wookiees after Han Solo disabled their ship by landing on it. [MTS]

Garban

Garban, home to the alien species called the Jenet, is the fourth planet in the Tau Sakar system. Garban is a temperate world with high seasonal variance. Years ago the rapidly-reproducing Jenet wiped out most of their natural predators on Garban, which led to overpopulation and the colonization of the other worlds in the system. Jenet are quarrelsome, store useless items in a community junkheap, and have a massive bureaucratic government whose job it is to remember everything they can about each Jenet citizen. After Garban was taken over by the Empire many Jenet were forced to work as slaves in Garban's ore mines. [GG4]

Gathus

The twenty-five man skating team from Gathus played the planet Lafra in several games of a puttie series. Han Solo watched the final match while on a mission to Belsavis. [COTJ]

Gbu

Gbu is an extremely high-gravity planet and home to the alien species known as the Veubgri. Each Veubg is large and stocky, with six legs and long tendrils used as manipulative appendages. Before Leia Organa Solo visited Munto Codru she and her New Republic delegation met with representatives from the Veubgri above Gbu. The meeting was held on an orbiting satellite to avoid the negative effects of Gbu's gravity on human physiologies. [TCS]

Geedon V

The site of a former pirate base. Gallandro, the famed gunman, singlehandedly took over this pirate's nest during one of his early exploits. [HSLL]

Gelviddis Cluster

An atypical type of sand is located on a world in the Gelviddis Cluster. The unique composition of this sand allows Jedi to easily form it into familiar shapes and images through the use of the Force. [COTJ]

Generis

Located in the Outer Rim in the Atrivis sector, Generis was the site of the New Republic's Outer Rim comm center. After a fierce battle Grand Admiral Thrawn's clone forces captured the planet, including the comm center and most of the fleet supply depots. General Kryll and pilot Pash Cracken were able to evacuate Travia Chan and her people during the New Republic's retreat. [TLC]

Gentes

Located in the remote Anoat system, Gentes is the homeworld of the pig-like Ugnaughts. The Ugnaughts lived in primitive colonies on Gentes' less-than-hospitable surface until most left the planet to work at Cloud City on Bespin. [MTS]

Ghorman

The site of the infamous Ghorman Massacre, an early atrocity committed by the Empire which was commemorated every year on its anniversary by those opposed to Palpatine's New Order. The Massacre convinced Bail Organa of Alderaan to join the cause of the Rebellion. [JS, DA]

Gla Soocha

(see Da Soocha)

Glythe sector

The Glythe sector contains the planet Valrar, the location of an Imperial base. [DFR]

Greater Plooriod Cluster

The Greater Plooriod Cluster contains the planet Corsin, which was the site of prestigious swoop races until its occupation by the Empire. [MTS]

Greeb-Streebling Cluster

A cluster located in the Ninth Quadrant, near the Senex and Juvex sectors. [COTJ]

G'rho

The outpost planet on which Dev Sibwarra spent his youth. This was apparently one of the first planets attacked by the Ssi-Ruuk. [TAB]

Gus Treta

A large spaceport located in the Corellian system. Alliance hero Wedge Antilles' parents were managers of a fueling depot in outer Gus Treta until they were killed in a fueling mishap caused by a fleeing pirate ship. [MTS]

Halowan

The location of a top-secret Imperial data storage net and a trans-system data storage library. Alliance historian Voren Na'al infiltrated the Imperial data net on Halowan by posing as an agent for Moff Lorin of Fakir sector. [MTS]

Hapes Consortium

A cluster of sixty-three stars with sixty-three inhabited planets, the Hapes Consortium is an old and very wealthy society that had almost no contact with the rest of the galaxy for three thousand years. It was settled thousands of years ago by a pirate group called the Lorell Raiders, who seized beautiful women from their victims to serve as their mates. The male descendants continued to serve as pirates for generations, until their forces were eliminated by the Jedi Knights. The women then took control of the cluster, and the inherited leadership title of Queen Mother began. The first queen mother began construction on the Star Home, an enormous castle-like spaceship, four thousand years ago.

The worlds of the Hapes cluster include Arabanth, Charubah, Dreena, Gallinore, Reboam, Selab, Terephon, Ut, and Hapes itself, which is orbited by seven moons. Frequent encounters with pirates occur on the cluster's borders, partially because many young Hapan males turn to piracy as a means of rebellion. Hapan naval forces include the feared Battle Dragon and the newer Hapes Nova-class battle cruisers. Queen Mother Ta'a Chume broke Hapes' long isolation when she offered her son Prince Isolder to Leia Organa in marriage. Isolder later married Teneniel Djo of Dathomir, who bore a daughter, Tenel Ka. [COPL, COTJ, YJK]

Hefi

The location of a secret retreat for Death Star designer Bevel Lemelisk, who hid on Hefi after the first Death Star's destruction until discovered by Imperial agents. [MTS]

Hijarna

A deserted, battle-scarred planet first discovered by the Fifth Alderaanian Expedition. Atop a bluff sits the crumbling fortress of Hijarna, made of hard black stone and probably abandoned a thousand years before its discovery. The fortress overlooks a plain crossed with deep ravines and marked with indications of former devastation. It is unclear whether the fortress was built to defend against this destruction, or was somehow the cause of it. Talon Karrde called a meeting with his fellow smugglers in Hijarna's fortress to discuss actions against Grand Admiral Thrawn. [TLC]

Hindasar system

The infamous criminal known as Dr. Evazan set up a "medical" practice in the Hindasar system after escaping from the prison world of Delrian. Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi had a confrontation with Dr. Evazan in the Mos Eisley cantina on Tatooine. [MTS]

Hishyim

Grand Admiral Thrawn provided the ship thief Niles Ferrier with an assault shuttle from the Hishyim patrol station so he could present it to Talon Karrde to establish credibility. [TLC]

H'nemthe

A planet with three moons and home to the alien species also called H'nemthe. During the season of trine, all three of the planet's moons give off their light. On average, there are twenty H'nemthe males for every female-- after mating, the male is gutted with the female's razor-sharp tongue. Virgin females are not often allowed to leave the planet, and are permitted to eat only fruits and vegetables. Plant life on H'nemthe includes the carnivorous m'iiyoom nightlily, a white flower which blooms during the season of trine. [TFTC]

Honoghr

A planet with three moons in the Honoghr system (near Fwillsving and Kessel), and the homeworld of the Noghri. Honoghr is a devastated world; almost all of its plant and animal life has been destroyed. From space it appears to be uniformly brown, broken only by the occasional blue lake and the green area known as the Clean Lands. The main city of Nystao is located in the center of the Clean Lands-- it is home to the Common Room of Honoghr within the Grand Dukha and is the only city with adequate spacecraft repair facilities. The Noghri people are divided into clans (including the clans Kihm'bar, Bakh'tor, Eikh'mir, and Hakh'khar) that have had a long history of bloody rivalry. Each clan is ruled by a dynast, and female maitrakhs lead family or subclan units. In the center of each village is a cylindrical building called a dukha, constructed of polished wood encircled by a metal band and containing the clan High Seat and a genealogical chart carved into one wall. The ancient Noghri laws of discovery and judgement involve a period of public shaming in the main city by order of the clan dynasts. The village of clan Kihm'bar is at the edge of the Clean Lands and is ruled by Dynast Ir'khaim. Animal life on Honoghr includes the carnivorous stava.

During the Clone Wars, a battle between two starships resulted in one of them crashing on Honoghr's surface, setting off catastrophic earthquakes and releasing toxic chemicals into the atmosphere. Darth Vader came to offer Imperial assistance, and teams of deadly Noghri commandos joined the Empire in return for Emperor's help in restoring their world. Noghri clans and their respective dukhas were relocated to the Clean Lands, and Imperial decontamination droids set to work apparently renewing the soil. In actuality, the Empire had seeded Honoghr with a hybrid form of kholm-grass that inhibited all other plant growth, keeping the planet lifeless for generations and forcing the Noghri to remain in the Emperor's debt. Before Vader's death, he named Grand Admiral Thrawn his designated heir and ruler of the Noghri commandos. The Noghri renounced their service to Thrawn after Leia Organa Solo showed them the extent of the Empire's treachery, and they began to grow new crops along the banks of a hidden river running between two jagged cliffs. After Thrawn's defeat, the New Republic was planning to relocate the Noghri people to a new world. [HTTE, DFR, TLC]

Horuz

The little-known Horuz system is located in the Outer Rim Territories and contains the planet Despayre, the construction site of the first Death Star. The Empire used the master encrypt code ILKO to transmit data from Coruscant to Horuz during this construction. [TLC, MTS]

Hosk

A moon orbiting Kalarba in the remote Kalarba system. One hemisphere of the moon is covered by the towers and outlying buildings of Hosk Station. Hosk Station's central city is domed, and all energy weapons are ostensibly surrendered upon arrival. Sites in the city include Trillka's Repair Shop and the Hosk Droid Arena, and the station is patrolled by automated security forces. A snake-like Hulgren has been seen living in the station's lower levels. R2-D2 and C-3PO helped avert the destruction of Hosk Station when its power core was ruptured by the criminal Olag Greck. [D]

Hosrel XI

The location of a remote navy base, where a squadron of pilots had a brief battle with Lehesu of the Oswaft. [LCSC]

Hoth

The remote Hoth system is located on the fringes of civilized space, and its sixth planet is an icy, unpopulated world also known as Hoth. The system receives a great deal of meteor activity. Hoth's native lifeforms include the tauntaun and its natural predator, the Wampa ice creature. Tauntauns eat a fungus that grows beneath the top layer of snow and cluster together in caves during Hoth's bitter night to keep from freezing. The Rebel Alliance's main base was established on Hoth following their evacuation of Yavin 4. The Alliance encountered trouble adapting their equipment to Hoth's extreme temperatures and were attacked by the Wampa ice creatures. The base was later discovered by an Imperial probe droid, leading to the defeat of the Rebels by Darth Vader's forces in the engagement now known as the Battle of Hoth. [ESB, ESBN, MTS]

Ikon

A red dwarf star orbited by an asteroid belt. After the Battle of Yavin, Princess Leia Organa traveled to the asteroid belt to help Rebel sympathizers install a turbolaser. [ROC]

Indobok

An ash-covered moon orbiting the planet Kalarba in the remote Kalarba system. Indobok's canyons and mountains are frequently hit with powerful ash storms. The planet is home to the alien species called the B'rknaa-- creatures of ash and stone who are animated through the life force of Indobok's energy crystals. The B'rknaa share a group mind, and can join their bodies together to create larger B'rknaa. In fact, the entire Indobok moon is composed of a single adult B'rknaa. [D]

Intuci

Years ago, the planet Intuci was raided by the armies of the war criminal Sonopo Bomoor. Bomoor's forces sacked the city of Bonaka Nueno, and arranged a massacre of its citizens in Bonaka Square. Among the victims was the family of Kosh Kurp, who later became the Empire's leading specialist on offensive weaponry. Kurp had his revenge on Bomoor during an attempted business deal with Jabba the Hutt. [JTH]

Ison Corridor

The Ison Corridor is located in a backwater section of the galaxy. Mara Jade once worked as a hyperdrive mechanic in the Corridor. [DFR]

Ithor

Ithor is a bright green and blue planet with many moons in the Ottega system (sometimes referred to as the Ithorian system) located in the Lesser Plooriod Cluster. The fourth planet in the system and home to the nature-loving Ithorians, Ithor is a beautiful world of unspoiled rainforests, rivers, and waterfalls. Three continents have been developed on the humid planet, though they still appear to be overgrown jungles to most visitors. Two large land masses and many islands are maintained in their original, unexplored state. The Ithorians, commonly called "hammerheads" or "Meerian hammerheads," consider their jungle sacred and only set foot in it during emergencies. Instead, they have constructed vast floating cities (including the Tree of Tarintha, the Cloud-Mother, and the Grand Herd Ship Tafanda Bay) which float above the Bafforr treetops in no particular pattern. Ithorian starships, essentially herd cities with hyperdrives, travel the spacelanes selling unusual and rare merchandise. Brathflen Corporation, which operates on Belsavis, is a major Ithorian trading company. At times the Mother Jungle has been known to "call" certain Ithorians to live on the surface as ecological priests, who then never return to their herd cities. All Ithorians are bound by the Ithorian Law of Life, which states that for every plant harvested, two must be planted in its place. A large grove of semi-intelligent Bafforr trees, located in the Cathor Hills, was half-destroyed by the Empire. This grove acts as an intelligent hive mind and is worshiped by the Ithorian people. In addition to the Bafforr, Ithor's flora includes blueleaf, tremmin, fiddleheaded bull-ferns, donar flowers, and indyup trees; animal life includes the manollium bird and the arrak snake. One of the most beautiful attractions on the planet is the Falls of Dessiar. Every five years Ithorians gather at their planet for "The Meet," where the most important decisions regarding Ithorian society are made. During this Time of Meeting the herd cities link up through an intricate and graceful network of bridges and antigrav platforms.

Years ago, the Imperial captain Alima, commanding the Star Destroyer Conquest, forced the Ithorian Momaw Nadon to reveal secret agricultural and cloning information. Nadon, High Priest of the Tafanda Bay, gave up the information to save the rainforests and his herd city from destruction. For this transgression Nadon was exiled from Ithor, and lived on Tatooine for many years until exacting his revenge on Alima. Ithor's herd cities are a common destination for tourists, especially young couples. Wedge Antilles and Imperial scientist Qwi Xux once visited Ithor as a safe haven, though they were attacked by Kyp Durron who partially erased Xux's mind. [SWS, MTS, SWR, DA, COTJ, TFTC]

Ithull

Ithull was the homeworld of both the incredibly huge Colossus Wasps and the now-extinct Ithullan race. Four thousand years ago in the Stenness node, the tough exoskeletons of the Colossus Wasps were hollowed out, fitted with hyperdrive engines and other necessary hardware, and used as cargo ships. Several hundred years ago, the warlike Ithulls were attacked by the even more fierce Mandalore. The Mandalorians succeeded in completely exterminating the entire Ithull race. The bounty hunter Dyyz Nataz was known to wear a suit of Ithullan battle armor. [TOTJ, TFTC]

Janodral Miznar

Han Solo once fought a group of Zygerrian slavers off Janodral Miznar and gave the ship and cargo to the freed slaves. Janodral Miznar has a local law that pirate or slaver victims get to split the proceeds if the pirates are captured or killed. [HTTE]

Jerijador

The exports of Jerijador include cheap shoe kits, which are sold in the markets of Belsavis. [COTJ]

Joiol

Joiol, in the Orus sector, was investigated as a possible stopover point in Grand Admiral Thrawn's clone trafficking by Clyngunn the Ze'Hethbra, who found nothing significant. The smuggler Mazzic was picked up by Thrawn in the Joiol system and informed that the Empire was not behind an attack on the smugglers at Trogan. [TLC]

Jomark

Jomark is an isolated, watery planet with three small moons located in the Jomark system. Its 300,000 square kilometers of surface area are taken up in strings of tiny islands and one modest continent. Although no one has taken official notice of the planet for years, the last census reported its population as a sparse three million. The High Castle of Jomark sits on the main continent 400 meters above Ring Lake, on a volcanic cone between rocky crags. Jomark's colonists are reverent towards the ancient castle, which was constructed by a long-vanished alien race. Several villages lie clustered near the southern shore of Ring Lake including Chynoo, where Joruus C'baoth meted out justice to the villagers from a High Castle throne placed in the town square. Cracian Thumpers are used as riding mounts by Jomark's colonists. [HTTE, DFR]

Jospro sector

A seldom-visited sector containing the Dar'Or system, the Jospro sector is home to tiny creatures that paralyze the neocortex of the human brain. Imperial forces on Bakura used these creatures to suppress the memories of Eppie Belden. [GG4, TAB]

Juvex sector

Adjacent to the Senex sector and near the Ninth Quadrant, the Juvex sector contains the Juvex systems. Like the Senex sector, it is run by groups of Ancient Houses, which include the House Streethyn. Bran Kemple was a small-time gunrunner in the Juvex systems before taking over the smuggling business on Belsavis. Eight years after the Battle of Endor, some of the Juvex Lords met with Roganda Ismaren on Belsavis with the intent of forging a military alliance. [COTJ]

K Seven Forty-nine system

The K749 system, located in the Outer Rim near the Moonflower Nebula, contains the planet Pzob. [COTJ]

Kabal

Kabal is the homeworld of Lady Lapema Phonstom, one of Lando Calrissian's candidates for marriage. [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]

Kail

A planet in the Corporate Sector. Torm, 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]

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 Kalla university prior to his adventures with Han Solo. [HSSE]

Kamar

A dry, hot planet orbiting a white star, Kamar 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. The Badlands are the most arid and harsh areas of the planet, while the sophisticated nations of Kamar have developed nuclear explosives and fluidic control systems. 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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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. 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. 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. [SW, JS, COTF, TLC, HSLL, COTJ]

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]

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

The planet Khomm has remained unchanged for a thousand years, due to the fact that its alien inhabitants determined that their society had reached perfection. Their bureaucratic culture was frozen at this "perfect" level, and their population is now made up entirely of clones of previous generations. Dorsk 81 (the eighty-first clone of Dorsk) surprisingly showed unexpected Force aptitude and became one of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy students. [DA]

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 last survivors retreated to the surface of Khuiumin, only to have their stronghold wiped out by the Crusader's concussion missiles. [SWS]

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]

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]

Kinyen

The home planet of the highly social, three-eyed aliens known as Gran. Ree-Yees, one of Jabba the Hutt's courtiers, was exiled from Kinyen after committing the highly unusual (for Gran) crime of murder. [MTS]

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. One of the band members in Jabba the Hutt's palace was a Kitonak. 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]

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]

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. [MTS]

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]

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 a deep 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. 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. [DLOS]

Kothlis

Kothlis is a colony world of the alien species called Bothans. Councilor Borsk Fey'lya grew up on this colony world, instead of the Bothan homeworld of Bothawui. [DFR]

Ku'Bakai system

The Ku'Bakai system is named for its blue giant star, whose unpredictable solar flares have left the first four planets of the system scorched and lifeless. The fifth planet, Kubindi, is the homeworld of the Kubaz. The sixth, eighth, and eleventh planets house insect farms for the Kubaz to use in preparing their unique cuisine. [MTS]

Kubindi

Kubindi, the fifth planet in the Ku'Bakai system, is the homeworld of the insect-loving Kubaz. Due to the unpredictable solar flares of Ku'Bakai, Kubindi suffers baths of intense radiation and constantly-changing weather patterns. The adaptability of insects have made them particularly successful lifeforms on Kubindi, and be found in many varieties including the bantha-sized sun-beetle. Insects are considered a true delicacy on Kubindi, and the civilized, cultured Kubaz have organized their society around insect trading circles. Kubaz families farm designer insect hives and trade with others; the largest trading families make most planetary governmental decisions. Kubindi is isolated and seldom sees galactic traffic. As a result, many Kubaz are attempting to develop their own starship technology. Garindan, the Mos Eisley spy known as "Long Snoot," was a Kubaz. Several years after the Battle of Endor, the Kubaz negotiated with the Barabel to purchase Verpine body parts to use in their cuisine. [GG4, MTS, COPL]

Kwenn Station

The space station where Jabba the Hutt acquired his pet Kowakian Lizard-Monkey, Salacious Crumb. [MTS]

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 and a keen sense of flying skills and spatial relationships. 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, COTJ]

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]

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]

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 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 scam in the Cluster. [HSLL, SWS]

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]

Lorrd

During a period of time known as the Kanz Disorders, the human inhabitants of Lorrd were enslaved and forbidden to communicate verbally. As a consequence, the Lorrdians developed an advanced system of kinetic communication through gestures and facial expressions. Although they were freed from servitude by the Old Republic and the Jedi, Lorrdians are still among the galaxy's best mimics. Hart-and-Parn Gorra-Fiolla, Assistant Auditor-General of the Corporate Sector, was a Lorrdian. [HSR]

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 but are unwilling to leave their planet. This frequently makes them the targets of slavers who can sell them 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]

Lwhekk

The homeworld of the Ssi-ruuk, in a distant star cluster. This planet is the center of the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium. [TAB]

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

The Mandalore system was home to the warlike Mandalore, who exterminated the Ithullan race several hundred years ago. 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. Mandalorian battle harnesses are designed to be operated by R2 units, Mandalore prison ships were built to confine Jedi, and Freedon Nadd's tomb on Dxun was constructed from Mandalorian iron. [SWS, MTS, DE, DLOS, D, TFTC]

Mantessa

The home of dangerous predators called panthacs. Han Solo and Chewbacca had an encounter with these animals while on Mantessa. [TLC]

Markbee's Star

The fourth planet orbiting the star is Zeffliffl, home to the seaweed-like aliens sharing its name. [TCS]

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]

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.

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]

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]

Mindar

Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa once shared rations on a Mindar battlefield, amid the dead bodies of Imperial stormtroopers. [COPL]

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 was the source of most metals when Cloud City was being constructed by Lord Ecclessis Figg. Figg 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]

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

The oxygen-rich planet Moltok is one of the inner worlds of the Dartibek system and is the homeworld of the Ho'Din. Active volcanoes fill Moltok's skies with ash, which helps protect the planet's surface from the harmful effects of its sun. The Ho'Din live in the hot rainforests of the lower latitudes and have a deep religious reverence for the plant life found there. Moltok is a heavy exporter of high-priced medicinal plants, but technology is discouraged by the Ho'Din due to an early ecological catastrophe resulting from an attempt at mining. The government on Moltok is controlled by the clergy of the dominant [Dinante Fli'R] religion. The Jedi master Plett, who built a house and laboratory on Belsavis, was a native of Moltok. [GG4, COTJ]

Mons Calamari

(see Calamari)

Moonflower Nebula

A large nebula of dust and gasses, located in the Outer Rim past the K Seven Forty-nine system. The nebula contains two or three stars and a vast asteroid field, where the Imperial battlemoon Eye of Palpatine lay undiscovered for thirty years. [COTJ]

Morvogodine

The vandfillist artist Maxa Jandovar was arrested by Imperial forces on Morvogodine. She later died in custody. [TFTC]

Mrisst

Mrisst was first contacted by the Old Republic through the Tenth Alderaanian Expedition, and one of the interesting discoveries was that none of the dozens of Mriss cultures had developed any type of three-dimensional art. Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron planned to deliver a convoy of food and supplies to Mrisst but were ambushed on Cilpar by a group of TIE fighters. Mrisst was a target in a planned assault by Grand Admiral Thrawn due to its proximity to the heart of the New Republic, and was also intended as a lure to defeat the New Republic fleet if they made a concerted effort to defend the planet. [TLC, XWRS]

Munto Codru

Munto Codru is home to the four-armed aliens known as Codru-Ji, and is considered of only marginal interest to the rest of galactic society. The planet features several moons, beautiful mountains, and ancient castles in its temperate zone, which are famous for their elaborate carvings on translucent rock walls. The castles were constructed by a now-vanished civilization and are now used as provincial capitals by the Codru-Ji. Codru-Ji society is based on a complicated system of political families and entities (including the Sibiu, the Temebiu, and the province of Kirl) and is headed by Chamberlain Iyon. Coup abduction and ransom in this society is a common and expected political maneuver, during which no one of noble birth is to be injured. Animal life on Munto Codru includes a four-winged bat and the six-legged, fanged wyrwulfs, which are actually the Codru-Ji themselves in the earliest, infant stage of their lives. Leia Organa Solo's three children were abducted while she was on a diplomatic mission to Munto Codru. [TCS]

Mussubir Three

A planet possibly in the Senex sector. The uncommitted ex-governor of Mussubir Three took a "vacation" to attend a meeting on Belsavis with Roganda Ismaren. [COTJ]

Myomar

The location of Imperial maintenance facilities. Han Solo reportedly acquired several powerful deflector shield generators from these facilities for installation on the Millennium Falcon. [SWS]

Myrkr

Although Myrkr has been settled for 300 years and was well within the Old Republic's boundaries, both the Old Republic and the Jedi always avoided the planet. As a result, Myrkr is unknown to virtually all galactic citizens, with the exception of smugglers and other lawbreakers. The historical aversion of the Jedi was due to one of Myrkr's native life forms, the tree-dwelling ysalamir. The ysalamir has evolved a defensive mechanism allowing it to push the Force from itself in a protective bubble, and many ysalamir grouped together can create a vast region in which the Force does not exist. Another of Myrkr's animals, the predatory vornskr, uses the Force to assist in hunting and tracking prey. The high metal content of Myrkr's trees make sensor readings unreliable, which is one reason why the smuggler Talon Karrde built his chief base deep in the western part of the Great Northern Forest. This base was overrun by Grand Admiral Thrawn's forces after Karrde helped Luke Skywalker escape in Hyllyard City, Myrkr's major population center. Myrkr is located about 350 light years from the planet Wayland. Ood Bnar, a five thousand-year old Jedi master, was a member of the Neti-- an alien species that evolved from trees on Myrkr. [HTTE, DFR, TOTJ, DE2]

Mytus VII (Stars' End)

A small, rocky planet with low gravity and no atmosphere, Mytus VII was home to the Authority prison known as Stars' End. Mytus VII orbits at the edge of its solar system, whose small star is located at the very end of Corporate Sector Authority space. The prison, where inmates were kept in suspended animation between interrogations, was commanded by Authority Viceprex Hirken. Stars' End was destroyed by Han Solo and his companions during an attempted jailbreak. [HSSE]

Nal Hutta

A large, terrestrial 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 planet of Varl. 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. A massive, radioactive gas cloud, containing the hidden planet Ganath, lies very close to Nal Hutta. The planet is ruled by a council of the eldest members of the "Clans of the Ancients," the oldest Hutt families. Although the planet was once ruled by a humanoid race, the Hutts have forced the survivors off their planet and into the lowest levels of Nar Shaddaa. [DE, GG4, DE2]

Nar Shaddaa

The ungoverned "smugglers' moon" orbiting Nal Hutta, Nar Shaddaa is completely covered by interlocking spaceport facilities and miles-high docking towers, built over thousands of years and protected by often-malfunctioning planetary shields. Nar Shaddaa, the birthplace of Jabba the Hutt, is controlled by Hutts and various "smuggling guilds" who control various sections of the moon, and is widely regarded as the center of smuggling operations in the known galaxy. Pollution, decay, and the lawlessness associated with continual smuggling traffic run rampant on the moon. Sections of the 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. Most inhabitants live in the highest levels of the maze-like spaceport-cities, though the inbred humanoid survivors of Nal Hutta's original ruling species can be found living in the deepest canyons, having been forced from their planet by the Hutts a thousand years ago.

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 travelled to Nar Shaddaa in an attempt to apprehend the criminal Olag Greck. The bounty hunter Greedo and his family lived in the 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. Leia and Han Solo, searching for Vima-Da-Boda in Nar Shaddaa's lowest levels six years after the Battle of Endor, were attacked by man-eating vrblthers and the bounty hunter Boba Fett. [DE, DE2, D, TFTC]

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

A derelict space city near the Cron Drift, located at the node of the six remaining Auril systems. The city was constructed over thousands of years and was abandoned just before the Clone Wars. It has remained well-preserved in the vacuum of space, and centuries-old murals of the Great Sith War decorate its walls. Luke Skywalker freed Kam Solusar from the Dark Side of the Force while at Nespis VIII. After the destruction of the fifth moon of Da Soocha, Alliance command regrouped at the remote space city. [DE2]

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. Unfortunately, the planet was discovered by Imperial Warlord Zsinj and its population was forced to temporarily evacuate.

During the time of the Emperor's reappearance, 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 Jacen and Jaina Solo. [DE, COPL, DE2]

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]

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]

Noopiths

The Noopiths are located in the Ninth Quadrant, near the Senex and Juvex sectors. [COTJ]

Norulac

The planet Norulac housed a company of bandits who annually raided Tanaab, until they were wiped out by Lando Calrissian. [ROJN]

Norval II

A detachment of fighters from Norval II joined the Alliance to aid in their struggle against the reborn Emperor. [DE]

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]

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]

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]

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 were able to migrate to the surface of Onderon ages ago, due to a brief period in which the two worlds' atmospheres intersected. The human inhabitants of Onderon evolved defenses against the beasts, culminating in the enormous walled city of Iziz.

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 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. A subsequent uprising by the followers of Freedon Nadd was put down by the Jedi. 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. Native life on the planet includes the deadly dragon-bird. [TOTJ, FNU, DLOS]

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]

Ord Mantell

Han Solo, in the time between the Battles of Yavin and Hoth, encountered his smuggler friend Drub McKumb on Ord Mantell. McKumb warned Solo of the bounty on his head, and Solo later ran into Boba Fett and other bounty hunters but managed to escape. Later, Grand Admiral Thrawn staged an assault on Ord Mantell to create fear in the surrounding systems and ease New Republic pressure on his shipyard supply lines. [ESB, TLC, MTS, COTJ]

Ord Pardron

Ord Pardron, possibly in the Dufilvan sector, is the site of a major New Republic base and was used in a multi-pronged attack by Grand Admiral Thrawn. By attacking multiple targets Thrawn forced Ord Pardron to parcel out its ships to help, requiring all remaining ships to stay at Ord Pardron to fight the Death's Head and leaving the planet Ukio undefended. Ukio was captured, and the Ord Pardron base was severely damaged. Ord Pardron is also the homeworld of Dera Jynsol, one of Lando Calrissian's candidates for marriage. [TLC, AAC]

Ord Trasi

The location of a major group of Imperial shipyards, in addition to the facilities at Yaga Minor and Bilbringi. All three shipyards were extremely busy during Grand Admiral Thrawn's offensive against the New Republic. Information supplied to the New Republic from a bounty hunter on Ord Trasi stated that three Imperial Star Destroyers were within a month of completion at the shipyards. [TLC]

Orelon

A large, bright star located in the Hapes cluster of sixty-three stars. [COPL]

Orooturoo

Princess Nampi, an immense worm-like alien who attempted to steal Jabba's cargo, was a native of Orooturoo. [JTH]

Orron III

Orron III is a fertile agricultural planet at a strategic location within the Corporate Sector. The green and blue world has almost no axial tilt, resulting in a year-round growing season. The Corporate Sector Authority tends the endless fields with robot agricultural machines, and has constructed a city-sized Authority Data Center on the planet. The only space traffic allowed on the world are Authority ships and massive agricultural drone barges, and the region is defended by the Shannador's Revenge-- a two kilometer-long Invincible Class dreadnaught. The spaceport is extremely large, built to accommodate the arriving and departing robo-barges. Han Solo and others tried to infiltrate the Authority Data Center on Orron III to learn the location of several missing persons. [HSSE]

Orto

A small, cold planet circling its red dwarf sun in an elliptical orbit, Orto is home to the trunked alien species known as Ortolans. Orto has a thin atmosphere and a short growing season, with arable lands concentrated near the equator. Beneath the northern polar ice cap geologists have discovered an enormous crater, leading to a theory that Orto was once struck by a planetary body which resulted in its somewhat inhospitable climate and the extinction of many of its lifeforms. The music- and food-loving Ortolans do not have a highly industrialized society, although they have been quite efficient in food production processes. Orto has been taken over by the Empire, and the Ortolans have been forced to mine heavy metals and radioactive fuels for Orto's new Imperial processing centers. One of the band members in Jabba the Hutt's palace was an Ortolan. [GG4, ROTJ]

Orus sector

Grand Admiral Thrawn gave the false impression his clone traffic was running through the Orus sector, leading Talon Karrde to visit Chazwa in an attempt to find the traffic's origin point. Planets in the Orus sector include Chazwa, Poderis, and Joiol. [TLC]

Oseon system

Adjacent to the Rafa system and composed of nothing but thousands of asteroids, the Oseon system is famous for its wealthy inhabitants and its booming tourist trade. Seven wide bands of asteroids orbit their sun, and many of these bodies have been turned into luxury resorts or private estates. Many tourists come to see the famous Flamewind of Oseon, a yearly phenomenon caused by an increase in stellar flares. The flares interact with asteroid vapor, creating brilliant bands of ionized gas thousands of kilometers long that fill the system with fluorescing colors. The Flamewind lasts an average of three weeks, and the strong radiation prevents all communications and in-system space traffic with the exception of message torpedoes. Carrying personal weapons in the Oseon is a capital offense. [LCFW]

Oseon 2745

An asteroid in the Oseon system which is closer to the sun than most, and consequently is uncomfortably hot in spite of its air-conditioning and life support systems. Oseon 2745 is primarily a mining colony, unlike most of the pleasure-resort asteroids in the rest of the system. [LCMH]

Oseon 5792

Located in the Fifth Belt of Oseon asteroids, 5792 was the private estate of Bohhuah Mutdah, an immensely fat retired industrialist who was the wealthiest individual in the Oseon system. The asteroid was disk-shaped, fifteen kilometers in diameter and less than three kilometers thick. One side of the disk was covered with lakes, trees, gardens, and a palace, all kept under transparent domes with artificial gravity. The other side housed a well-defended spaceport containing a wide collection of spacecraft. The asteroid was destroyed by Renatasian raiders during Lando Calrissian's smuggling mission in the Oseon. [LCFW]

Oseon 6845

The asteroid Oseon 6845, like most places in the Oseon system, caters to wealthy and powerful Oseoni. It is the largest asteroid in the system-- 700 kilometers in diameter-- and has a surface honeycombed with nightclubs and resorts, including the Hotel Drofo. The Esplanade, a tree-lined walkway with a three-meter deep gravity field, is located at the center of a small city on the asteroid's equator. The stores fronting the Esplanade are said to be among the most expensive properties in the galaxy. A spaceport is located on the northern pole of 6845, and the asteroid has been artificially accelerated to give it a 25-hour rotational cycle. [LCFW]

Oslumpex V

Vinda and D'rag, Starshipwrights and Aerospace Engineers Incorporated, have their operation on Oslumpex V. Han Solo's ship was placed on the Red List because he owed 2500 credits to this company. [HSR]

Ossel II

A high-gravity world of steaming bogs and swamps, Ossel II is the homeworld of the dim-witted alien species known as the Ossan. The Ossan have an extremely primitive society and have developed spears and clubs to defend themselves against the cucul, a predator that resembles a floating log. Most intergalactic visitors to Ossel II come to purchase syp wood, which the Ossan provide in exchange for being allowed to serve a tour of duty on the trade ships. Some Ossan are used as agricultural slaves on Karfeddion for benefit of the House Vandron. [GG4, COTJ]

Ossus

Ossus, located in the Adega system (one of the six remaining Auril systems), orbits the twin Adegan suns in a figure-eight trajectory. It was an important Jedi stronghold and learning center in ancient times, and there is some speculation that the Order of Jedi Knights began on this planet. Ossus was once covered with many cities, and a range of rocky mountains was located near the Knossa spaceport. The steep canyon walls are still covered with elaborate murals, and the planet's atmosphere is charged with occasional electrical storms.

About 4000 years ago all the cities of Ossus were abandoned during the Great Sith War. The Ysanna, a tribe of warrior-shamans who use the Force to guide their primitive weapons, took up residence on Ossus following its abandonment. A 10,000 year-old lightsaber, given to Leia Organa Solo by Vima-Da-Boda, surfaced 800 years ago in an archaeological dig on Ossus. Luke Skywalker visited an arid, sandy portion of the planet during the Emperor's reappearance and discovered the Ysanna tribe, an ancient Jedi library, and a vault of lightsabers hidden beneath the roots of the Neti Jedi master Ood Bnar. At the time of Skywalker's departure, the New Republic was planning to send in excavation teams to explore Ossus' ruins. [DE, FNU, DLOS, DE2]

Ottega system

Located in the Lesser Plooriod Cluster, the Ottega system's fourth planet is Ithor. Consequently, it is sometimes referred to as the Ithor system. The smuggler Mako Spince was crippled by NaQoit bandits during a run to this system. [DE, SWS]

Ottethan system

Neema, daughter of the Jedi Vima-Da-Boda, was executed in the Ottethan system for attempting to use the dark side of the Force against her husband, an Ottegan warlord. The Ottethan system was the ruling system of his twelve-system empire, located on the far perimeter of the galaxy. She was fed to the rancors that run wild in the Ottethan forests. [DE]

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. Grand Admiral Thrawn forced the Coral Vanda to surrender its passenger Captain Hoffner, who knew the location of the lost Katana fleet. [DFR]

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]

Paulking XIV

The home of the fur-bearing trout. A taxidermized specimen is on display in the Poly Pyramid tavern on Rafa IV. [LCMH]

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]

Pho Ph'eah

The alien species inhabiting Pho Ph'eah has blue fur and four arms. The assistant manager in the main lounge of Bonadan Spaceport Southeast II was a native of Pho Ph'eah. [HSR]

Phorliss

The smuggler Mara Jade briefly worked as a serving girl in a Phorliss cantina following the death of the Emperor. [DFR]

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]

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. [DA]

Pinnacle Moon

(see Da Soocha)

Piroket

The Rebel agent Riij, having stolen a droid carrying the complete technical readouts of the "Hammertong," planned to deposit the droid with a Bothan shipping company on Piroket. [TFTC]

Pits of Plooma

During his smuggling years, Han Solo attended an Ithorian Herd Meeting located "halfway from the Pits of Plooma to the Galactic Rim." [COTJ]

Plah

A lifeless moon orbiting Tibrin. [GG4]

Poderis

Poderis, in the Orus sector, is a harsh world with a ten-hour rotational cycle and a severe axial tilt which can create windstorms of up to 200 km/hr. In addition, the unusual geology of Poderis has forced its colonists to build their cities on the tops of a vast network of mesas. An angled wall one hundred meters wide (called a shield-barrier) runs along the outer edge of these cities, which helps deflect Poderis' damaging seasonal winds. Poderis' stubborn colonists are fiercely independent and the unimportant planet seldom receives visitors. Luke Skywalker visited Poderis in an attempt to uncover the Empire's clone trafficking network, and narrowly escaped a trap set for him by Grand Admiral Thrawn. [TLC]

Praesitlyn

The location of a major communications station, located within sixty light-years of Bpfassh in the Sluis sector. [HTTE]

Prefsbelt IV

The location of an Imperial Naval Academy. [SWS]

Prindaar system

The Prindaar system, named after its star, contains the gas giant Antar and its six moons. The fourth moon, known as Antar 4, is the homeworld of the alien species known as the Gotal. [GG4]

Proxima Dibal

A star orbited by a single desert planet, which is home to feathered song serpents. The serpents are sold in Sabodor's pet shop on Etti IV. [HSSE]

Ptera system

The Ptera system is home to the planet Flax, homeworld of the insectoid species known as the Flakax. [GG4]

Pzob

The third planet in the K Seven Forty-nine system, Pzob is a world of thick, ancient forests which was colonized by a group of Gamorreans many years ago. Official reports on Pzob have not been updated in almost fifty years. Some eighteen years before the Battle of Yavin, the Empire established a base on Pzob where forty-five stormtroopers were to await the Eye of Palpatine. The battlemoon never arrived, and over the years every stormtrooper except Triv Pothman was killed by internal fighting and constant skirmishes with the Gamorreans. Pothman served as a slave in the Gamorrean Gakfedd clan village for two years, followed by a year with the Klagg clan. Eight years after the Battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker and his companions landed on Pzob. A ship from the Eye of Palpatine captured them, Pothman, and the Klagg and Gakfedd clans. [COTJ]

Qat Chrystac

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]

Quelli sector

The Quelli sector contains the planet Dathomir. The sector was once under the control of Imperial Warlord Zsinj. [COPL]

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]

Rakrir

The homeworld of a sentient insectoid alien species. Sabodor, owner of Sabodor's pet store on Etti IV, was a native of Rakrir. [HSSE]

Ralltiir

A planet sympathetic to the Rebellion, Ralltiir was brutally subjugated by Imperial forces under the command of Lord Tion. Interrogation centers were set up and Rebel leaders were executed. Princess Leia Organa, on a mercy mission to deliver medical supplies and equipment to the High Council of Ralltiir, rescued a Rebel soldier who later revealed the existence of the Death Star project. [SWR, SWS, MTS]

Rampa

A heavy industrial world 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]

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. Luke Skywalker and Tenel Ka posed as archaeological traders from Randon during their undercover mission to Borgo Prime. [YJK]

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]

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]

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]

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. 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]

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. A serious incident between the Verpine and the Barabel occurred 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. 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]

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 gladitorial 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. 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. 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. [GG4, TFTC]

Roonadan

The fifth planet in the system containing Bonadan, 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]

Roti-Ow system

The Roti-Ow system contains a binary star and the planet Altor 14, homeworld of the Avogwi and the Nuiwit. [GG4]

Rudrig

The quiet planet Rudrig 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 grey 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. [HSLL]

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. [HSLL]

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

Located in the Outer Rim, Ryloth is the principal planet in the Ryloth system (located near Tatooine) and is home to the alien species known as Twi'leks. The rocky, mountainous planet has no rotation, so one side of the planet always faces the sun and the only habitable areas are in the band of twilight separating the two sides. Heat storms in Ryloth's thin atmosphere help to distribute warmth throughout the twilight zone, which the Twi'leks inhabit within networks of mountain catacombs. Wind-driven turbines power their primitive industrial civilization, and fungi and cowlike rycrits are raised for food. Ryloth's primary exports are the addictive ryll spice and Twi'lek females, who are desired for their seductive dancing skills. The Twi'lek government is organized around a five-member "head clan," who are in charge of all community decisions. When one member of the clan dies, the remaining four are exiled into the dayside desert (the "Bright Lands") and a new head clan is selected.

A major Twi'lek corporation is Galactic Exotics, which developed orchards on the planet Belsavis. A small Imperial refueling center and training outpost was established on Ryloth, supported by the Empire yet often used by smugglers. Tarkin, then a Commander, had early plans to turn this refueling station into an important location in the Outer Rim. Both Jabba the Hutt's majordomo Bib Fortuna and Maw scientist Tol Sivron were natives of Ryloth. [SWS, COTF, COTJ]

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. [HSLL]

Sand Crab Nebula

Han Solo once spoke of an imaginary Imperial fleet, supposedly located in the Sand Crab Nebula. [AAS]

Sarcophagus

Sarcophagus is the moon of Sacorria, located in one of the Outlier systems in the Corellian sector. It is a vast graveyard, visited only by those who are burying their dead. [AAC]

Sarka

Grand Admiral Thrawn attacked a convoy from Sarka, which was defended by a New Republic Bulk Cruiser converted to a starfighter carrier. There was also a reception for a Sarkan delegation held in the Imperial Palace following the birth of Leia Organa Solo's twins. [DFR, TLC]

Sedri

Covered by warm shallow seas, Sedri is home to both the aquatic Sedrians and a communal intelligence of tiny polyps known as Golden Sun. Golden Sun is attuned to the Force and provides power, healing, and other necessities to the Sedrians, who worship Golden Sun as the center of their society. Golden Sun's use of the Force also creates massive gravity readings, causing problems for hyperspace navigation near the system. The peaceful Sedrians have constructed underwater cities (the largest is Fitsay) and have appointed a High Priest to safeguard the cave in which Golden Sun lives. [GG4]

Selab

A planet in the Hapes cluster and home to the trees of wisdom. Believed by many to be only a myth, the trees bear fruit that can greatly increase the intelligence of those who have reached old age. [COPL]

Selaggis

The location of a colony that was obliterated by Warlord Zsinj's Super Star Destroyer Iron Fist. Han Solo saw the destroyed colony while on a five-month hunt to locate and destroy the Iron Fist. [COPL]

Selonia

One of the five inhabited worlds in the Corellian system, Selonia has a clean blue sky and a surface composed of hundreds of islands separated by innumerable seas, inlets, and bays. Terrain on the many islands includes meadows, woodlands, and rolling hills. The small land areas are evenly distributed around the planet-- no point on land is more than 150 kilometers from the water, and no water is more than 200 kilometers from land. Famous sights on the world include the Cloudland Peaks. Beneath the surface of Selonia is a powerful planetary repulsor, which was used in ancient times to transport the planet into its current orbit from an unknown location. Selonia is the homeworld of the alien species known as Selonians, who have thick tails, sleek fur, and long faces filled with needle-sharp teeth. Selonians are hive animals, who live together in genetically-related dens. Each den is made up of one fertile female (the queen, who gives birth to all members of a den), a few fertile males, and several hundred sterile females. All sterile females with the same father are said to be in the same "sept," and members of a sept are genetically identical. It is the sterile females who interact with other species and perform all the important functions of Selonian life; the fertile Selonians are treated merely as breeding stock. Selonians make poor liars and have a deep psychological need to reach a consensus among each other, even if the resulting agreement does not always make sense. Selonians are often comfortable inhabiting underground tunnels and warrens.

Many years ago, a Selonian den tried to cheat other members of their same den. For this dishonor, the perpetrators were exiled from Selonia and Corellia, and eventually settled on Sacorria. Fourteen years after the Battle of Endor, two Selonian factions-- the Republicists and the Absolutists-- struggled for control of the planetary repulsor. The Republicists intended to turn it over to the New Republic in exchange for Selonian sovereignty, while the Absolutists planned to use it as a weapon for the creation of Selonian independence. The Hunchuzuc Den, allied with the Republicists and the Chanzari Den, proposed to use Han Solo as a bargaining chip to open negotiations with the New Republic. The Overden, the ruling power on Selonia and allied with the Absolutists, won the Hunchuzuc over to their side when they claimed to control the Selonian repulsor. Kleyvits, representing the Overden, held Leia Organa Solo captive and tried to force her to recognize Selonia's independence from the New Republic. When it was revealed that the dishonored Saccorian Selonians were actually operating the repulsor, the Overden suddenly lost all power in favor of the Hunchuzuc Den. During the crisis, a Bakuran attack force led a diversionary assault on Selonia and one of its ships was destroyed by Selonia's repulsor. [AAC, AAS, SAC]

Senex sector

Adjacent to the Juvex sector and near the Ninth Quadrant, the Senex sector is ruled by an elite group of ancient, aristocratic Houses. The sector contains the planet Karfeddion, and apparently Eriadu, Veron, and Mussubir Three as well. Yetoom and Belsavis are located on its edge. The Ancient Houses and their Lords are very independent, desiring to rule their planets as they see fit and scorning any interference from outside governments. They were largely left alone under Palpatine's rule, and neither the post-Endor Empire nor the New Republic have been very successful in influencing them. The Senex Lords have long been accused of mistreating their workers and violating the Rights of Sentience. The oldest of the Houses is House Vandron, headed by Lady Theala Vandron, which operates slave farms on Karfeddion. The House Elegin is headed by Drost Elegin, and the House Garonnin gets a large portion of its revenue from strip-mining asteroids. The sleek Mekuun ships called Tikiars are often favored by the aristocrats of the Ancient Houses. Stinna Draesinge Sha, a pupil of Nasdra Magrody's, was assassinated in the Senex sector in House Vandron territory. Eight years after the Battle of Endor, many of the Senex Lords met with Roganda Ismaren on Belsavis with the intent of forming a military alliance. [COTJ]

Sesswenna sector

Grand Moff Tarkin developed the Tarkin Doctrine of rule by fear while he was a governor in charge of the Sesswenna sector. [MTS]

Shadow Academy

A torus-shaped space station located near the Galactic Core, covered with weaponry and protected by a functional cloaking device. Shadow Academy, capable of hyperspace travel, can move to a new location at a moment's notice. Built for the express purpose of training Jedi in the dark side of the Force, the station is stark and austere, with harsh, spartan accommodations for its students, locks on every door, and chrono chimes marking every quarter-hour. Brakiss, a former student of Luke Skywalker's, leads the Academy with the assistance of the Nightsister Tamith Kai. Various sections of Shadow Academy include the docking bay, a large meeting room, a holographic training chamber, and Brakiss' private office. The entire station is riddled with chain-reaction explosives, set to detonate if the new leader of the Empire is displeased with Brakiss' progress. Consequently, Brakiss is never allowed to leave the station. [YJK]

Sionia?

The possible homeworld of the near-human aliens known as Sionian Skups. Skups can be distinguished from humans by their closely-spaced eyes and brittle, glasslike hair. Many master thieves have come from the Sionian home world. Anky Fremp, an early friend of Greedo's during his youth on Nar Shaddaa, was a Sionian Skup. [TFTC]

Sisk

Sisk orbits a red dwarf star of the same name and is home to the arachnid species Sic-Six. The star Sisk was once an orange star but underwent a partial atomic collapse, cooling the planet Sisk and turning it from warm and lush to cool and barren. Sic-Six are highly antisocial, preventing any formation of government or mass production, though their technology is quite complex. Sic-Six are valued throughout the galaxy due to the fact that poison bites from their fangs are intoxicating to most species. [GG4]

Skor II

A small dense world orbiting the star Squab. It was on this planet that the alien species known as Squibs evolved. Skor II's resources tend to be concentrated in various parts of the planet, which led to the nomadic nature of the Squibs since they had to travel to find the resources they needed. When a Dorcin trader landed on Skor II, the Squibs traded the mineral rights to a frozen wasteland for the secrets of starship technology. Now most Squibs roam the galaxy collecting junk, haggling for bargains, and competing for trash-hauling business with their primary rivals the Ugors. [GG4]

Sluis Van

Located in the Sluis sector (along with Bpfassh and Praesitlyn), Sluis Van contains extensive shipyards and the huge Sluis Van Central orbit-dock station, and is defended by perimeter battle stations. The busy shipyards are managed by an outer system defense network and the overloaded Sluissi workers at Sluis Control. Grand Admiral Thrawn launched an attack on 112 warships docked at Sluis Van, attempting to capture several of them with a cloaked cargo of spacetrooper-manned mole miners. No warships were captured, but the destruction of their control systems rendered over 40 of them useless. [HTTE, DFR]

Smarteel

Jabba the Hutt visited Cabrool Nuum's base on Smarteel in an attempt to sell Nuum a captured freighter. In the ensuing adventure, Jabba killed Nuum and his two children. [JTH]

Solaest

The site of the Solaest Uprising, which was suppressed by Imperial forces. [SWS]

Spefik

Two wings of TIE fighters attacked the anti-orbital ion cannons on Spefik. The cannons were destroyed by a salvo from pilot Ranulf Trommer. [ROC]

Spuma

New Republic intelligence agents on Spuma discovered increased trooper recruitment into the fleet of Admiral Harrsk, one of the few Imperial warlords remaining eight years after the Battle of Endor. [COTJ]

Squab

The star orbited by Skor II, home planet of the Squibs. [GG4]

StarCave

(see ThonBoka)

Stenness node

Sometimes referred to as the Stenness system, the node is actually a group of three planetary systems whose primary industry is mining. The node is located on the rim of the galaxy on the mining frontier and contains the planets Ambria and Taboon. The twenty-five humanoid species inhabiting the node are collectively referred to as "Nessies," who control the various mining operations and cut deals with outside traders. BolBol the Hutt is said to practically own the Stenness system.

Four thousand years ago, the Stenness underworld was controlled by a Hutt named Great Bogga, and the Nessies transported mutonium cargoes in ships made from the hollowed exoskeletons of the Colossus Wasps of Ithull. Han Solo and his former lover Salla Zend used to run Kessel spice to the Stenness system and compete to see who could strike the best deal from the Nessies. The bounty hunters Zardra and Jodo Kast, pursuing the Thig Brothers into the Stenness system, caught up with their quarry on Taboon. The ensuing firefight resulted in the death of Mageye the Hutt. [DE, TOTJ, TFTC]

Stic

Stic is a planet of continual climactic and geologic change and is home to the insectoid species known as the Xi'Dec. Due to the necessity of adapting to the rapid changes of Stic the Xi'Dec have evolved hundreds of specialized sexes throughout their history, each with its own unique appearance and abilities. Currently there are over 180 different sexes of Xi'Dec with the Xi'Alpha (the most common sex) composing almost six percent of the population. During various periods of Xi'Dec history warrior, constructor, messenger, and other sexes have appeared and disappeared to suit the needs of the community. Xi'Dec society is organized around the family unit, which never contains more than one member of the same sex, and has developed moderate technology. Tourism is a main industry of Stic, and many Xi'Dec are employed in the galaxy in genetics, geology, and other scientific fields. [GG4]

Storthus

The homeworld of the giant Stone Eels, creatures composed of living rock. [D]

Sullust

Sullust is a volcanic world in the Sullust system, which is located between Yetoom and Ithor. The planet, covered with thick clouds of hot, barely-breathable gasses, is habitable (for most species) only in its vast networks of underground caves. In these caves the native Sullustans have built beautiful underground cities, which serve as tourist draws for many other galactic citizens. The amiable Sullustans are highly valued as pilots and navigators, due to a Sullustan's instinctive ability to remember any path he or she has traveled. The massive SoroSuub (or SoroSub) Corporation is based on Sullust and employs nearly half the population in its mining, energy, packaging, and production divisions. Sullustan exports include injecto-kit shoes, prefabricated room units, and plastic corneal replacements.

Despite the Rebel sympathies of many Sullustans, the SoroSuub Corporation dissolved the Sullustan government, seized control of the planet, and declared its allegiance to the Empire. After being forced out of the Sullust system by the Empire, Councilor Sian Tevv brought Nien Nunb's private raiding squad into Alliance service. The Alliance fleet assembled near Sullust prior to the Battle of Endor. [ROTJ, ROJN, SWS, TLC, COTJ]

Sumitra sector

The Sumitra sector contains the planet Tierfon where a Rebel starfighter base was established to patrol the outer edges of the sector. The Empire was aware of Rebel activity, but since the sector contains 12,387 planets and moons locating Tierfon base was a difficult task. [SWS]

Svivren

A planet well-known as a major trading center, Svivren is also noted as being a particularly difficult planet to conquer. Svivreni traders can be seen in the galaxy wearing their traditional garb of dulbands and robes. A Crystal Gravfield Trap of General Bel Iblis' was lost at Svivren, creating an urgent need for a new CGT array during the siege of Coruscant. [TLC]

Taanab

Four thousand years ago, the freighter Kestrel Nova was captured from space pirates near the agricultural world of Taanab and was used by Ulic Qel-Droma to travel to the Tetan system. Millennia later, the planet was annually raided by bandits from Norulac. Lando Calrissian (on a bet) destroyed the raiders by using unorthodox but effective flying skills and battle tactics, and was promoted to Alliance general partly on the notoriety of this incident. 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]

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]

Talus

One of the five habitable planets in the Corellian system, Talus is a blue, white and green world the same size as its sister planet Tralus, and both orbit a common center of gravity (where Centerpoint Station is located). Together they are referred to as the Double Worlds, and both are ruled by the elected Federation of the Double Worlds, or Fed-Dub. Beneath the surface of Talus is a planetary repulsor, which was used in ancient times to move the planet into its current orbit from an unknown location. When a flare-up in Centerpoint Station (fourteen years after the Battle of Endor) caused many deaths, the survivors were relocated to Talus and Tralus. When word spread of the incident, a rebellion against Fed-Dub occurred on Talus. A group of starfighters, possibly representing the Talus rebellion, subsequently flew to Centerpoint and claimed the station for themselves, until chased off by a Bakuran task force. [AAC, AAS, SAC]

Tandell system

Tiree, a Rebel agent, killed the Imperial Governor Lord Cuvir while on Wor Tandell. Cuvir had discovered Tiree encoding a report on Imperial fleet movements in the Tandell system. [MTS]

Tangrene

Tangrene was the site of a major Imperial Ubiqtorate base, until General Garm Bel Iblis' private army bypassed three Star Destroyers and completely destroyed the installation. Later, while the Ubiqtorate base was being rebuilt, the New Republic tried to give the impression that they were intending to attack Tangrene to acquire a CGT array. In reality, their true target was Bilbringi. [DFR, TLC]

Tarsunt system

Xenobiologists studying Jabba the Hutt's famed rancor discovered that the ship which had brought the creature to Tatooine had last docked in the Tarsunt system. It has since been revealed that rancors exist on the planet Dathomir and in the Ottethan system. [MTS]

Tatooine

A harsh, desert planet orbiting a double star in the Outer Rim, Tatooine is far out of the galactic mainstream (near the Ryloth system) and is ignored by almost everyone. The G1 and G2 stars of the system are referred to as Tatoo I and II, and the planet is orbited by two moons. The two native alien species of Tatooine are the meddlesome Jawas and the fierce Tusken Raiders, commonly called Sandpeople. The nomadic Sandpeople are intoxicated by sugar water and are most dangerous during their adolescent years, though much of their lives remains a mystery. The junk-dealing Jawas travel the desert in former ore hauling/mining vehicles called Sandcrawlers and live in protected fortresses in the badlands; their numerous clans annually assemble for a large swap meet. Animal life on the planet includes the bantha, dewback, womp rat, sandfly, bone-gnawer, gravel-maggot, sandsnake, Krayt dragon, and the feared Sarlacc. Many colonists on the planet run moisture farms (which condense water from the dry air with vaporators) and pika and deb-deb fruits have been known to grow in certain oases. The native hubba gourd is a primary part of the diet of both the Sandpeople and Jawas. Strange mists sometimes form where the sodium-rich dunes meet the rocky cliffs, though the origin of these mists is a mystery. Locations on Tatooine include the Dune Sea, the Jundland Wastes, Anchorhead, Toshi Station, Bestine township, Beggar's Canyon, the Stone Needle, Bildor's Canyon, and the Mos Eisley spaceport.

Mos Eisley, the primary city of Tatooine, has been described as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy." It is bordered by mountains on the north, and on the opposite side by the decaying buildings of the southern sector. The wreckage of the Dowager Queen, the planet's first colony ship, can be found in the center of town. Other sites in Mos Eisley include the Lucky Despot hotel and casino, Lup's General Store, dewback stables, the Mos Eisley Inn, Ruillia's Insulated Rooms, Gap's Grill, Pylokam's Health Food booth, the Court of the Fountain restaurant, outdoor cafes, Spaceport Speeders, Kayson's Weapons Shop, a monastery where ships can have their transponders illegally altered, a treasure filled town house owned by the notorious Jabba the Hutt, and the infamous Mos Eisley Cantina owned by Chalmun the Wookiee. A grove of Cydorrian driller trees, planted by the Ithorian Momaw Nadon, grows in the mountains north of Mos Eisley. Jabba the Hutt also owned a well-guarded palace in the Tatooine desert which served as the center of his widespread criminal empire. The world is ruled by a Planetary Governor.

The Jedi knight Dace Diath, who lived four thousand years ago, was a native of Tatooine. Millennia later, the Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi came to the desert planet to place the infant Luke Skywalker in the care of Kenobi's brother Owen Lars and his wife Beru. Several years after that, a message from Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, whose ship had been captured above Tatooine, helped bring Kenobi out of his life as a hermit near the Dune Sea and into the service of the Alliance. Immediately before the Battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker and his friends returned to Tatooine to free Han Solo from Jabba's palace, which resulted in the death of the crimelord. Eight years after Endor, the Imperial battlemoon Eye of Palpatine stopped at Tatooine to pick up a contingent of stormtroopers but brought aboard Sandpeople and Jawas instead. [SW, SWN, SWR, ROTJ, ROJN, MTS, DLOS, COTJ, TFTC]

Tau Sakar system

The Tau Sakar system contains seven life-bearing planets orbiting the star Tau Sakar. Garban, the fourth planet in the system, is the homeworld for the alien species known as the Jenet. Because of the similarities between all seven worlds, there is some speculation that the entire system was planetscaped by an unknown alien species sometime in the distant past. The Empire has taken control of this system, and has forced the Jenet to mine the rich ores that are found in all seven planets. [GG4]

Teke Ro

A blue giant star circled by Cona, homeworld of the Arcona. [GG4]

Terephon

A planet with dark blue skies in the Hapes cluster. Prince Isolder's personal bodyguard, Captain Astarta, was from Terephon. [COPL]

Terrijo system

Located between New Cov and Pantolomin, the Terrijo system is where Han Solo removed a homing beacon planted on the Lady Luck by starship thief Niles Ferrier. [DFR]

Teta system (Empress Teta system)

A system of seven carbonite-mining worlds, including Kirrek and Koros Major, named for the female warlord who conquered the system during the early days of space travel. The raw carbonite produced in the Tetan mines is a vital ingredient in the construction of hyperdrives. The royal descendants of Empress Teta rule the system, sharing power and profits with the leaders of the influential Carbonite Guild.

Four thousand years ago, the privileged sons and daughters of the Tetan royalty began experimenting with the Dark Side of the Force, introduced to them by the royal heirs Satal Keto and Aleema. They formed a group known as the Krath, which used Sith magic and military force to quickly conquer the system. Public executions of rebellious carbonite miners were held in the central plaza of the ruling Tetan city of Cinnagar. The Krath took up residence in Cinnagar's iron citadel, which contains an inner city and an opulent palace behind its walls. Beneath the citadel are underground dungeons and a vast cavern, where the Krath hung political prisoners. The Jedi knight Ulic Qel-Droma, following a Tetan attack on a Deneban Jedi assembly, traveled to Cinnagar in order to learn the Krath's Dark Side secrets. A Jedi attack force later attempted to rescue Qel-Droma from the iron citadel, but he insisted on remaining in Cinnagar. [DE, DLOS]

Thanos

The blue-white star orbited by Togoria, homeworld of the Togorians. [GG4]

Thanta Zilbra

Thanta Zilbra is the name of a star, its star system, and the system's primary planet. Thanta Zilbra was the second star destroyed during the starbuster crisis, and Wedge Antilles assisted in the New Republic evacuation of the planet's settlement. Unfortunately, Thanta Zilbra's population of ten to fifteen thousand was greatly underestimated by the evacuation force and thousands were left behind when the star went nova. [AAS]

Thila

The Rebels reorganized on Thila following their evacuation of the main base on Yavin 4. It was here that Alliance historian Voren Na'al began his research into the histories of the Heroes of Yavin. [MTS]

ThonBoka (StarCave)

StarCave is a sack-shaped grey nebula composed of dust, gas, and complex organic molecules. It can be entered only from one direction, and its lightning-charged interior spans over twelve light-years. The ThonBoka has given rise to thousands of space-dwelling lifeforms, ranging from the intelligent, manta ray-like Oswaft to carapace-creatures and interstellar plankton which serve as the Oswafts' food. The Oswaft, ruled by a council of Elders and capable of naturally traversing hyperspace, tend to be cautious creatures who never leave the safety of their habitat. Three blue-white stars, located in the center of the nebula, surround the Cave of the Elders-- the only architectural structure in the ThonBoka. This Cave is constructed entirely from precious gems and is an exact replica of the surrounding nebula, but is only twenty kilometers across. After discovering the Oswaft, the Imperial navy viewed the aliens as a threat. They blockaded the entrance to the ThonBoka, preventing the flow of nutrients and slowly starving its inhabitants, until defeated by Lando Calrissian and others. [LCSC]

Thrakia

The homeworld of an intelligent insect species with genetically transmitted memories. Three hundred years ago these insects, who had previously communicated by scent, realized that they could also communicate by clacking their mandibles together. To this day, they view this ability as a sign that their species has been gifted by a higher power. [COPL]

Tibrin

Tibrin is completely covered by a shallow ocean and is homeworld to the alien species known as Ishi Tib. Tibrin circles the yellow star Cal and hasone barren moon called Plah. The planet has no seasons and ocean currents evenly distribute warm water, which creates a temperate zone covering most of the planet's surface. The only land masses on Tibrin are protruding coral reefs and sand bars, where the ecologically-minded Ishi Tib have constructed their cities. Ishi Tib live in communal "schools" ranging from a few hundred to more than 10,000 individuals, and their organizational skills are prized by galactic corporations who often hire Ishi Tib as managers. [GG4]

Tieos

The location of an Imperial base. [SWS]

Tierfon

Located in the outer Sumitra sector, Tierfon is the site of a Rebel starfighter outpost buried 250 meters into a rock cliff. Tierfon is a relatively small base, housing only eight X-wing fighters and 158 pilots, troops, and support staff. [SWS]

Tion Hegemony

A group of backwater systems on the outer fringes of Imperial space. Due to the Tion's remoteness the Empire does not bother with direct control, and as a result it is a haven for smugglers, con-artists, and other petty and unsuccessful crooks. Common smuggling cargoes include chak-root and R'alla mineral water. Planets in the isolated Tion, which unsuccessfully struggles to keep up with the rest of galactic society, include Saheelindeel, Brigia, Rudrig, and Dellalt. [HSLL]

Togoria

Togoria, a world of grassy plains and rolling hills orbiting the blue-white star Thanos, is the homeworld of the feline Togorians. The Togorians have near-complete separation between the sexes, with the males and females only seeing each other a few days each year. The males spend the remainder of their time nomadically wandering the plains with domesticated flying lizards called mosgoths, used as riding mounts. Similar flying reptiles known as liphons are dangerous predators, but the Togorian's mosgoths help keep them at bay. The females spend their time in the cities, tending animals such as the bist and etelo and maintaining their society's solar technology. The government is headed by the Margrave of Togoria, a hereditary office always held by male descendants. The Margrave's closest female relative, living in the capital city of Caross, rules over the cities and the day-to-day activities of their females and young children. Togorian technology is still relatively low-tech, although the females have proven to be an attractive market for personal technology and Togoria's vast mineral resources have yet to be tapped. [GG4]

Tokmia

Based on instructions from Darth Vader, a group of Imperial probe droids was recalibrated to search for Rebels on Allyuen, Tokmia, and Hoth. [ESBR]

Toola

Toola is a glacier-covered, bitterly cold world orbiting the purple sun Kaelta. It is home to the primitive alien race called Whipids, who delight in hunting the indigenous caraboose, furry mastmots (also called motmots), seagoing arabores, and flying snow demons. Toola has only a brief growing season during the summer months when grasses appear to join the purple lichens on the plains. Whipids have only the most primitive technology and live in loose nomadic tribes led by the best hunter, called the Spearmaster. The only significant export from Toola is ice for water-scarce planets, and Whipids can be found in the galaxy acting as trackers and mercenaries. Luke Skywalker traveled to Toola to inspect the ruined home of a slain Jedi Master, who had been the curator of Jedi records on Coruscant. [COPL, GG4]

Toprawa

The rebels on Toprawa transmitted the Death Star plans to Princess Leia's ship, the Tantive IV, in the operation known as Skyhook. [SWR]

Trade Spine

Also known as the Corellian Trade Spine, the Spine is scattered throughout with Duros maintenance depots. Admiral Daala lay in wait for targets at a hyperspace node on the far end of the Spine, where ships bound for Anoat or Bespin would have to drop into realspace to recalibrate their navigation instruments. [TLC, DA]

Tralus

One of the five habitable planets in the Corellian system, Talus is a blue, white and green world the same size as its sister planet Talus, and both orbit a common center of gravity (where Centerpoint Station is located). Together they are referred to as the Double Worlds, and both are ruled by the elected Federation of the Double Worlds, or Fed-Dub. Beneath the surface of Tralus is a planetary repulsor, which was used in ancient times to move the planet into its current orbit from an unknown location. When a flare-up in Centerpoint Station (fourteen years after the Battle of Endor) caused many deaths, the survivors were relocated to Talus and Tralus. When word spread of the incident, two rebellions against Fed-Dub occurred on Tralus. A group of starfighters, possibly representing one of the Tralus rebellions, subsequently flew to Centerpoint and claimed the station for themselves, until chased off by a Bakuran task force. [AAC, AAS, SAC]

Trammis III

Trammis III is famous as the home of the gigantic reptiloids sometimes called dinosaurs. The inhabitants of the planet speak Trammic, which is related to the Old High Trammic spoken by the Toka of the Rafa system. [LCMH]

Trebela

A major Rebel network was exposed in Trebela's capital city by Imperial Governor Kraxith. Surprisingly, most of the Rebel groups discovered had been working independently and were not aware of the others' activities. [SWS]

Triton

When Han Solo's tauntaun froze to death in a Hoth blizzard, he commented that it was "deader than a Triton moon." [ESBN]

Trogan

Trogan, in the system of the same name, features the Whistler's Whirlpool tapcafe on the coast of its most densely-populated continent. At the center of the Whirlpool is the Drinking Cup, a natural rock bowl which violently fills with seawater six times a day due to Trogan's strong tides. The Whirlpool was a disappointing failure as a tourist attraction and has since been abandoned. Talon Karrde arranged a smugglers' meeting at the Whirlpool, which was attacked by bribed soldiers from the nearby Imperial garrison. [DFR, TLC]

Tund

Located in the remote Tund system, this hidden world was home to the mysterious and ancient Sorcerers of Tund. Many are not sure if "Tund" refers to a single system or to a cluster of stars. No one is sure what species the sorcerers themselves were, since they were known to cover themselves in heavy grey robes. Years ago Rokur Gepta, a snail-like Croke, infiltrated the Sorcerers of Tund and learned their secrets. He then murdered his teachers and transformed the planet Tund from an attractive world of prairies, forests, and jungles to a blasted, sterile wasteland. The deadly radiation was held back in some places by force fields, so Gepta could land his ship on Tund safely. [LCMH, LCFW, LCSC]

Tynna

The homeworld of the otter-like Tynnans. Most Tynnans have a layer of fat beneath their skin to protect them from the cold waters of their planet. Odumin, the Corporate Sector Authority territorial manager (also known as Spray the skip-tracer), was a native of Tynna. [HSR]

Tyrius system

The Tyrius system contains the planet Rodia, which is the homeworld of the alien species known as Rodians. [GG4]

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]

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. [MTS]

Vagran

Talon Karrde's smuggling gang brought three boosted Skipray blastboats from the planet Vagran. [DFR]

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. According to Hutt legends, 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]

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]

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]

Vinsoth

The planet Vinsoth is covered by vast plains and is home to the unusual-looking aliens called the Chevin. The Chevin are hunter-gatherers who follow the herds of backshin as they travel the plains, and have enslaved a native humanoid race also called Chevins. Ephant Mon, a gunrunner who spent time in Jabba the

Hutt's court, was a native of Vinsoth. [MTS]

Virgillia?

The possible homeworld of the Virgillians. Captain Tessa Manchisco was a Virgillian who fought in the Virgillian Civil War. Her crew consisted of humans and one Duro. [TAB]

Viridia system

Han Solo used to make smuggling runs to the Viridia system. He learned some of their port access codes, but these codes were later changed by the Imperials. [COPL]

Vjun

The planet Vjun contains Bast Castle, once the private refuge of Darth Vader and later the headquarters of the Emperor's Dark Jedi. The planet is lashed with acidic, burning rain, and no plant life can survive on its bleak surface. Kam Solusar served as a Darkside warrior on Vjun, before Luke Skywalker turned him to the light side on Nespis VIII. [DE2]

Vodran

Vodran, covered with swamps and thick jungles, is home to the galactic pest known as the dianoga or "garbage squid." This seven-tentacled creature has one eyestalk and has evolved a transparent camouflage to protect it from Vodran's huge predators. These animals can be now found feeding on garbage virtually everywhere in the galaxy. Luke Skywalker was attacked by a dianoga in one of the Death Star's trash compactors. [SW, MTS]

Vogel 7

The site of an Imperial Naval Academy where TIE pilot Ranulf Trommer was raised. [ROC]

Vontor

The site of the Third Battle of Vontor, the final defeat of the historical tyrant Xim the Despot. During this battle, Xim's orbital fortress and nearly all of his war-robots were vaporized. [HSLL]

Vortex

Vortex, the homeworld of the hollow-boned, winged Vors, is a blue and gray planet with a sharp axial tilt causing sudden seasonal changes and severe windstorms. The Cathedral of Winds, the center of Vor civilization, is an immense glassy structure designed to produce tones when Vortex's wind currents pass over and through it. The Vors perform a beautiful concert of etherial music by opening and closing orifices in the building with their bodies. The Vors are an emotionless species, and tend to concentrate on larger goals rather than on individuals. They refused to perform their music for off-worlders during the reign of the Empire, and have only recently allowed New Republic and other dignitaries to attend these shows. All recording is prohibited, and only one concert is performed each year. The Vors inhabit underground dwellings during the storm season, which can be seen from above as small mounds arranged in rings in the purple, vermilion, and tan grasses of the plains. During a visit to Vortex by Admiral Ackbar and Leia Organa Solo, Ackbar's sabotaged B-wing crashed into and destroyed the centuries-old Cathedral of Winds and killed at least 358 Vors. A different, more streamlined Cathedral was then constructed by the Vors to replace the one destroyed in Ackbar's crash. [DA, COTF]

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]

Xa Fel

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]

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]

Yaga Minor

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

Yavin is an orange gas giant with dozens of moons, three of which can support humanoid life. Its core is metallic (though one source claims it is composed of frozen liquids), and the windstorms in its atmosphere can reach speeds of 600 km/hour. Pressures near the core are so great that the air becomes liquefied and certain elements are compressed together to form quantum crystals called Corusca gems. Corusca 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 Empire once maintained a Corusca gem mining operation at Yavin, though the station quickly went bankrupt due to economic difficulties. 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. 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]

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. The moon is covered with a wild, largely unexplored jungle composed of towering Massassi trees.

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 had them construct new temples as focal points for Sith power. When a united group of Jedi tried to stop him, the resulting battle caused the destruction of most of the moon's jungles and the deaths of the remaining Massassi-- Kun was forced to trap his spirit within the temples in order to survive. Thousands of years later, the Alliance constructed its primary base within the abandoned temples. The first Imperial Death Star was destroyed (in what is now referred to as the Battle of Yavin) as the station attempted to fire its superlaser on Yavin 4. During the fighting, an Imperial pilot named Qorl crashed his damaged TIE in the moon's jungles and fruitlessly awaited rescue. The Rebel base was abandoned following the battle, but the Great Temple was used eleven years later as the location of Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy.

The pyramidal Great Temple lies between two broad rivers and lies near the ruins of the Palace of the Woolamander. 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. Yavin 4's flora includes nebula orchids, feather ferns, and blueleaf shrub. Indigenous life in Yavin 4's jungles include the social (and edible) woolamanders, mucous salamanders, purple jumping spiders, piranha beetles, lizard crabs, whisper birds, fur-covered runyips, crystal snakes, stump lizards, ravenous stintarils, a six-legged, tusked beast with tentacled eyes, and flying, two-headed reptiles created during the time of Exar Kun. [SW, SWN, DA, COTF, DLOS, YJK]

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]

Y'Toub System

The Y'Toub system, located in the center of the galactic region known as Hutt Space, contains the planet Nal Hutta and the "smugglers' moon," Nar Shaddaa. [GG4]

Yuga Two

A planet covered with dense rainforests and clinging trees, Yuga Two is a popular tourist destination due to the Yuga Planetary Park. Alliance historian Voren Na'al bought passage from Yuga Two to Tatooine on a Galaxy Tours ship to begin documenting the histories of the Heroes of Yavin. [MTS]

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]

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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