In these pages, you will find information on the worlds of our galaxy

Aargau

A banking world famous for its beautiful Dragonbird Gardens. It was on Aargau, during a week-long conference, that Baron Tagge and the heads of the Corporate Sector companies first formed the Corporate Sector Authority.

Abrion sector

The Abrion sector contains the planet Ukio, which is one of the top five producers of foodstuffs in the New Republic.

Adarlon

Adarlon contains the city of Belrand. The famous actress Neile Janna returned to Adarlon to resume her career after a twenty-year retirement, planning to play the role of legendary Hydian Way trailblazer Freia Kallea.

Adim

Aduba

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.

Agash

Akertron

Albanin Sector

Alderaan

Alderaan, which once shared the Alderaan system with its sister planet Delaya, was a beautiful, peaceful, moonless planet and one of the foremost worlds of the inner systems. Its sweeping steppes and gentle hills were covered with rich grasslands, and weather patterns were predictable and pleasant. Though the planet lacked oceans, Alderaan had many shallow lake chains and one ice-rimmed polar sea. The various species of grasses covering the plains numbered more than 8000, and colorful flowers (including arallutes, T'iil, and Alderaan flame-lilies) were even more numerous. In late summer as the grasses dried, their seeds would be swept up by the winds in impressive "seedstorms," which were sometimes thick enough to prevent air travel. Alderaanian rainbow wood was a popular planetary export. Animal life on the world included huge saillike thrantas-- docile lighter-than-air beasts which were used as mounts and airborne taxis by Alderaan's inhabitants. Other animals included stilt-legged flightless birds and armored caterpillars, which metamorphosed into furry moths after a dozen years of living underground. Domesticated grazers and nerfs were raised as food sources, and every year lowly nerf herders would travel into the cities to sell their animals' meat. The Alderaanians culled the wildlife herds on the continent of Thonn to remove those animals too sick to survive the winter.

Some of the galaxy's greatest artists and thinkers came from Alderaan, and the world was often considered the center of galactic culture. Certain artists used Alderaan's wide grasslands as their canvases, planting seeds in intricate patterns and displaying their art as it grew and blossomed. One of the world's greatest holidays was the "Silver Flow," celebrated each spring when thousands of hatching glimmerfish choked the waterways. Points of interest on Alderaan included the oro woods, which covered a dozen small islands in the planet's largest inland sea. The woods, dubbed a planetary treasure by Alderaan's government, were filled with trees hundreds of meters tall covered with brightly-colored lichens, and harbored gold-striped red deer and white cairoka birds. Elsewhere, on the northern steppes at the edge of Alderaan's great plains, lay the ancient and mysterious ruins collectively known as the Castle Lands. The ruins, former colony hives built by the long-vanished insectoid Killik race, were concentrated in eighteen groupings, each unique in appearance and each constructed during a different age. While Alderaan's human inhabitants chose to leave the Castle Lands intact, many artists often traveled there to seek creative inspiration. In other areas of the planet, some particularly clear, deep lakes were used as aquatic preserves where tourists could observe underwater mud castles built by crustacean colonies. The low-grade, blue quella gem is found only on Alderaan and Delaya.

Out of their respect for life, the Alderaanian colonists refused to build their cities in the grasses of the fields. Instead, organic-looking cities and industries 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. Terrarium City, also known as the City Under Glass, was built by first excavating an enormous bowl and filling it with a liquid polymer. The polymer was then shaped and hardened with lasers according to an intricate, pre-programmed city layout. When all eighteen levels of Terrarium City were completed, the bowl was capped with a transparent sheet and needlelike towers were extended above, so its residents could travel up to view the countryside. Crevasse City was built directly into the walls of a canyon network, and was nearly invisible from the air. Aldera, the capital city of Alderaan, was located on an island in the center of a circular lake. It was home to the famous Alderaan University, established generations ago by the great philosopher Collus. The university was one of the most prestigious learning institutions in the galaxy, and had recently been a center for dissent against Palpatine's New Order. The airy, organic architecture used everywhere on Alderaan inspired many imitators; Bespin's Cloud City, for instance, incorporates many elements of Alderaanian design.

Millennia ago, the first human colonists came to Alderaan and discovered the remnants of the lost Killik civilization. The early colonists included miners, but most were retired businessmen or wealthy dignitaries searching for a beautiful world on which to spend their lives. 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, the Alderaanians made a radical decision-- vowing to never again have weapons or standing armies on their world. The planet became a model of peaceful coexistence, and the people were known for their pursuit of knowledge and art. The Alderaanian government became a democracy at some point in its past, 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 Aldera, 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. Bail Organa was one of the original founders of the Rebel Alliance, making Alderaan a center for opposition and dissent and arousing the attention of the Empire. Alderaan is now famous as the planet utterly destroyed by the first Death Star as an example of Imperial power-- a scattered asteroid field is now all that remains of the once-lovely world. After the planet's destruction, the Empire initially claimed that Alderaan had torn itself apart due to the explosion of several secret underground superweapons. When actual footage of the Death Star's action (recorded by a satellite orbiting Delaya) was released to the media, the Empire admitted responsibility, but claimed it was necessary to prevent Bail Organa from completing a deadly biowar virus program. The surviving Alderaanians who were offworld at the time were invited by Emperor Palpatine to relocate to his private resort world of Byss. A hydroponics facility on the planet Borleias, producing Alderaanian foodstuffs, became extremely profitable after the destruction of the world increased demand for now-scarce Alderaanian goods. Besides the Organa family, other notable Alderaanians include Rogue Squadron member Tycho Celchu and the famous poet Hari Seldona. Jedi Master Jewel was born on Alderaan.

Delaya

A sister world of the planet Alderaan, Delaya is located in the Alderaan system. The low-grade, blue quella gem was found only on Alderaan and Delaya; since Alderaan's destruction, Delaya is the only source. 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.

Algara

One of the false charges filed against Cray Mingla by the Eye of Palpatine's central computer concerned evidence seized from Rebel spies on Algara. Famous NR Admiral Oliver Cromwell is from Algara, and during the reign of First Emperor Xindell, Cromwell returned to his homeworld, although it was occupied by imperial forces, to aid NR Intel. Later Jedi Art Farliner joined him and assisted in the elimination of a rogue Force user who used drugs, created from local moluscs, to enhance people's natural Force abbilities and attempted to create his own army of these man.

Algara has a deep blue sea contrasted by red coloured mountains and green forests, that sometimes fight against purple ferns that cover most of the plains instead of grass.The clime changes slowly, but you can find everything from paradise island with warm and smooth whether and polar regions. The red mountains of the north rise up to more than 5000m, topped with snow. Djungel like forests in the middle of the main continent are not very well known yet, but its told to be the main locality for renegades. Some of the known species inhabited there are: - gliding-cats, that have evolved in a snake like manner. - tree wolves: 2m long beasties, hunting in a pack of 4 or 5 individuals. They have yellow eyes with red pupils, sharp claws to get up the trees, hold and kill their prey. Crwllic, is the best known card game of Algara - be carefull of playing with an native - bad playing is seen as insult. Before the Republic of Algara was proclaimed, the planet was ruled by a king and nobles with strong influence by the religious leaders. The republicans teamed up, and in a bloody war, where more than a third (some speask even of more) of the inhabitants of the planet where killed by deceases. The Republic joined the Old Republic and, after Palpatine, the New Republic. But beeing close to the Imperial influence, Algara fell back into Imperial control when Xindell rose to the throne.

Governor General Frentran has taken command at Algara, ending Lono’s purge of Traditionalists. Frentran continues to plot an independent course and it is unknown how much rope the Grand Moff is willing to extend him.

Now that Governor General Frentran has been re-assigned, his deputy, Major Prentice, has assumed the role of Governor General.

Alis Asteroid Field

Alsakan

Alsakan was founded millennia ago, before the foundation of the Old Republic, by colonists on the Kuat Explorer. Three thousand years ago the kilometers-long Invincible-class dreadnaughts were first built, which drew their inspiration from the colossal battle cruisers of the ancient Alsakan Conflicts. Now a heavily-populated world in the Galactic Core, Alsakan was one of many planets that surrendered to Admiral Ackbar and the Alliance fleet in the years following the Battle of Endor. Imperial commander Titus Klev was born on Alsakan; his father was a Clone Wars veteran and his mother a member of a wealthy merchant family. Corporate Sector viceprex Mirkovig Hirken was also born on Alsakan, into one of the oldest families on the planet.

Anraq Sector

Anoat system

Located in the backwater Ison Corridor. The Anoat system contains the planets Anoat, Gentes (the homeworld of the pig-like Ugnaughts), and the colony world of Deyer. Animal life on Anoat includes the Anoat lizard-ant, who can be found in great numbers during the creatures' mating season. Moff Rebus, a weapons specialist working for the Empire, had a hidden stronghold located under the sewage system of Anoat City. Rebus was captured by Alliance agent Kyle Katarn following the Battle of Yavin. 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.

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.

Aramand

Aramand, in the Colonies region, is 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 Aramand, then called Arkania. Centuries ago, the scientifically-minded Arkanians began cyber-enhancing the brains of their primitive neighbors, the Yaka. Soon the stocky Yaka were one of the most intelligent and quick minded species in the galaxy, with a bizarre sense of humor to match. Animal life on the planet includes the Arkanian dragon and jellyfish.

Athega

Atrig

Atraken

Governor General al Faisal was happy to be transferred from Fleet Admiral Seider’s fleet. As a result, he has been one of his most implacable foes since winning the post on Atraken. While the fleet continues to operate in this sector, al Faisal is unusually stingy in his support of them, and can often be found off-world when the Fleet Admiral comes to call.

Atrivis sector

Located in the Outer Rim, the Atrivis sector contains the Mantooine and Fest systems and the planet Generis. During the early formation of the Rebel Alliance, Mon Mothma helped unite various insurgent organizations, including the Atrivis Resistance Groups. Five years after the Battle of Endor, New Republic pilot Pash Cracken was stationed in the Atrivis sector and helped defend (unsuccessfully) the Outer Rim comm center against an Imperial attack.

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. Two Star Destroyers neutralized Bakuran resistance, and Captain Alecs Brellar served as the temporary Imperial governor until Wilek Nereus could arrive. Nereus allowed the Bakuran senate to remain in place under his control, and built a planetary garrison (featuring older, outdated defenses) which was placed under the command of Pter Thanas. 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.

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.   The recapture of Balmorra was one of then-Grand Warlord Xindell's early accomplishments in his rise to the throne.

Barab

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.

Baralou

Evil in every way, Governor General Geryon has a list of vices a mile long. He is also on of the best tax collectors the Empire has ever had. Geryon is a boot-licker and a sycophant, but he knows his own limits. Instead of grasping for more, he is perfectly happy to amass his own fortune and indulge his corruption on Baralou.

Bellis

Belsavis
Belsavis 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 fruit, 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 the Belsavian smuggling industry to dry up. In the same year, Roganda Ismaren (one of the Emperor's Hands) came to Plawal.

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.

Bespin

Located in the isolated Ison Corridor, the Bespin system contains three planets (Miser, Orin, and Bespin) and the asteroid belt Velser's Ring, all of which orbit the star also called Bespin. The system is rich in natural resources, including tibanna gas and valuable metals.

Bespin, the outermost planet in the system of the same name, is a large gas giant approximately 118,000 kilometers in diameter which rotates every twelve hours. Bespin has many moons, though only H'gaard and Drudonna (known as The Twins) are large enough to command attention. The planet's solid metal core is surrounded by a thick layer of liquid-metal rethen, which is in turn surrounded by a layer of liquid rethen. Above the rethen is Bespin's colorful cloud layer, which only extends 1000 kilometers into the heart of the planet. The "Life Zone," in which humans and Bespin's native animals can survive, is a thirty kilometer- deep band located within the cloud layer. Plant life in Bespin's Life Zone is exclusively made of vast colonies of floating algae, such as the numerous pinks and the phosphorescent glowers. Animal life includes predatory velkers, batlike rawwks, and the kilometers-wide, jellyfish-like grazers called beldons. The clouds are also home small herd of saillike Alderaanian thrantas, which are the only surviving members of their species after Alderaan=92s recent destruction. Naturally-occurring tibanna gas is a useful hyperdrive coolant which can be found in Bespin's upper layers of clouds. Spin-sealed tibanna gas, however, is an extremely rare element used in boosting blaster firepower, and this gas can be found in abundance in the lowest levels of the gas giant's atmosphere.

Many years ago, Lord Ecclessis Figg constructed the first floating settlement on Bespin near the planet's equator-- the Floating Home. At the time, it was the only outpost built on a gas giant to last more than a decade. Ten years after its founding, expansion began which would eventually turn the outpost into the vast metropolis of Cloud City. The construction materials for this expansion were mined from Miser, the innermost planet of the Bespin system. Cloud City is over sixteen kilometers in diameter and houses almost five and a half million inhabitants. The highest levels house casinos and nightclubs, while the lowest generally house factories and production plants. The seedy, corrupt environs of Port Town are found on the middle levels. Hotels in the upper plaza include the Yerith Bespin, the Stratosphere, and the Holiday Towers (formerly owned by Jabba the Hutt). Some of the many casinos include the Royal, the Pair O'Dice, and the Trest. Besides gambling, the many diversions for this level=92s wealthy tourists include watching the monthly =93sky rodeo=94 performed by the thranta herd and its alien riders, or boarding a floating health spa to breathe cloud vapor (which is rumored to have therapeutic value). Due to Bespin=92s rapid rotation, visitors can enjoy two sunrises and sunsets every standard day.

The three branches of Cloud City's government are the Exex group of business administrators, the Parliament of Guilds, and the single Baron-Administrator. The massive repulsorlift generators keeping the city afloat also draw spin-sealed tibanna gas from the lowest levels of the planet's atmosphere. The gas is sent into the city's refineries, where it is pressurized, purified, and frozen into carbonite blocks for storage and sale. Ostensibly, Figg & Associates, Ltd. manufactures tibanna gas for use as a hyperdrive coolant-- in reality, the company sells spin-sealed gas to weapons manufacturers not affiliated with the Empire. The city is small enough to avoid the official notice of the Mining Guild, but an annual payment was typically made to Guild leaders to keep them from organizing Cloud City's workers. Though the city's primary industry is tibanna gas production, other profitable Cloud City companies include Bespin Motors. Before the destruction of Alderaan, Bespin participated in a lucrative trade triangle with the Alderaan and Corellian systems, and Cloud City still receives much of its shipping from the nearby Corellian Trade Spine. Most of the city's industrial work is handled by a large population of Ugnaughts (originally from nearby Gentes) belonging to the Irden, Botrut, and Isced tribes. The Storm Guard weather watch keeps an eye on Bespin's atmosphere from Kerros' Tower (the highest point on Cloud City), and security is handled by the city's Wing Guard. A hollow wind tunnel runs through the center of the city.

Another floating city, Tibannopolis, was once a prosperous boomtown but is now an abandoned ghost town, picked clean of valuables and drifting at an angle due to its malfunctioning repulsors. Many other refineries, waystations, and resorts drift through Bespins sky, including independent prospectors searching for elusive tibanna gas strikes.

Years ago the Jedi Master Djinn Altis instructed his students, including Geith and Callista, from a Jedi training platform hidden in Bespin's clouds. The smuggler Lando Calrissian managed to become Baron- Administrator of Cloud City after winning the rights from Baron Raynor in a sabacc game. During his tenure Calrissian made the droid EV-9D9 his security chief, and the psychotic robot destroyed one quarter of Cloud City's droid population before being discovered and escaping aboard the hijacked Mining Guild cutter "Iopene Princess." Calrissian also established a new group of Commando-pilots to be used for Cloud City's defense. Later, the city was used by Darth Vader in a vain attempt to trap Luke Skywalker. Calrissian helped his friends escape Vader's ambush, and the city was subsequently seized by the Empire. Rogue Squadron pilot Rhysati Ynr, a native of Bespin, was forced to flee Cloud City with her family when Imperial forces arrived.

Bespin remains a key defensive planet for the Empire, near to the Jedi world of Hoth, and positioned on the edge of Imperial space.

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. The Alliance cruiser Defiance barely survived a surprise attack from the Star Destroyer Immortal near Bestine, which was the site of an important base. A later attack on the Rebel flagship Independence, just prior to the Battle of Yavin, also resulted in a narrow escape for the Alliance.

Governor General Romanova has turned Bestine into an armed camp. With guards on every street corner and gatherings of more than ten strictly outlawed, she has reduced the world to abject servitude.

Bilbringi

A cosmopolitan world, Bilbringi has long been a center of Imperial commerce and political agitation. While the sector has been divided in recent years, Bilbringi still boasts one of the more prosperous private shipyards in Imperial space, and its technicians are highly recruited throughout the Empire.

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, a three-level, two-hundred year old marketplace, and the city of Glastro, which is surrounded by asaari woods. All weapons of violence are banned from Bimmisaari's main city. Several years ago, the Bimm Glah Ubooki discovered a crashed Imperial R&D vessel and, together with seven of his brothers, sold the prototype weapons found on the wreck. The eighteen identical Glah brothers have since opened import businesses around the galaxy, selling strange and unusual items. Each brother insists that he is Glah Ubooki, though his confused customers often insist otherwise.

The home of the Bimms could be assigned to only one officer--Governor General Singh. Having spent the vast majority of his career in the Exploration Corps, Singh has contacts with all levels of the space-happy Bimm society. He is wildly popular and has not had to employ force at all to transfer command from the old Traditionalist Moff.

Boeus sector

Located in the Inner Rim, the Boeus sector was formerly Imperial territory under the command of Imperial Governor Darvon Jewett. Jewett made overtures to the New Republic after Imperial forces withdrew from his sector soon after the Battle of Endor, and managed to keep trade and communications flowing throughout his region.

Bonadan

An industrialized, heavily-populated factory world in the system of the same name, Bonadan is one of the busiest ports in the Anraq 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 a 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 planet is home to the popular Bonadan Blasters shockball team, which is heavily merchandised by the Corporate Sector Authority.

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.

Borleias (Blackmoon)

The fourth planet in the Pyria system, Borleias is a steamy, blue-green world with a single dark moon, which gives the system its Alliance codename of Blackmoon. The only inhabited world in the system, Borleias lacks most valuable natural resources and passes through a dense meteor shower once each year. The density of Borleias' sector of space means that there are only a limited number of hyperspace routes to and from the world, but it still sits at a favorable hyperspace crossroads. The planet's barren moon has a thin atmosphere and is covered with silent craters, frozen lava tubes, and canyons of black volcanic rock.

The Old Republic first established a small base on Borleias for the purpose of plotting runs to the Corporate Sector and elsewhere. The Alderaan Biotics hydroponics facility, a producer of Alderaanian foodstuffs, was also built on Borleias' far side, but over the years it was abandoned and left to the care of maintenance droids. The Empire eventually took control of the Republic base, adding shields, ion cannons, and TIE squadrons for its defense. The installation's commander, General Evir Derricote, also discovered the forgotten Biotics facility and made it profitable once more, while secretly siphoning Imperial credits and resources to make his headquarters more powerful and secure than it would otherwise appear to be. Because of the Pyria system's close proximity to the galactic core, the Rebel Alliance chose to capture Borleias and make it their key to hitting Coruscant, some three years after the Battle of Endor. During their first attack, however, the Alliance greatly underestimated the defensive strength of the Blackmoon installation and were soundly defeated. On the return mission, Rogue Squadron pilots torpedoed a power conduit at the end of a rift valley to help bring down the base's shields, while a commando team captured the facility from the ground. This attack was a success, and Borleias became the new operations and staging base for Rogue Squadron.

Bothawui

The homeworld of the Bothans, an alien species of which New Republic Councilor Borsk Fey'lya is a member, though Fey'lya was actually born on the Bothan colony world of Kothlis. Another notable Bothan is Peshk Vri'syk, an expert pilot and member of the Alliance's famed Rogue Squadron. Sometime around the Battle of Yavin, a Star Destroyer and an Imperial dungeon ship arrived at Bothawui. They landed drop ships and soon controlled Lktim, one of the planet's largest cities. It is unclear whether the Empire was there to transport a group of political prisoners, or whether they intended to arrest the Bothan diplomat Tereb Ab'Lon (who was secretly working for the Alliance). Prior to the Battle of Endor, Bothan spies captured an Imperial freighter carrying highly-classified data about the second Death Star. In order to find the freighter, the Empire captured several Bothan ships near Bothawui and interrogated their crew. This led them to the space station Kothlis II, near Kothlis.

In the last twenty years, Bothans have been persecuted to an increasing degree in the Empire, and many have returned to their home on the Outer Rim. The Bothans continue to be an invaluable people to the New Republic, but their value as spies has been dramatically reduced by the pogroms orchestrated by Miles Teg and COMPNOR. One of most famous Bothan politicians - Borsk Fey'lya recently died, and it is rumoured that Miles Teg could had some connection to sudden death of old bothan.

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.

Briggia

A blue planet, Briggia was the former location of an Alliance base. It was the first target of the Empire's Operation Strike Fear, prior to the Battle of Yavin, and was immediately evacuated by Alliance personnel.

Briggia has been the site of several dramatic battles between the New Republic and the Galactic Empire.  The planet has changed hands at least three times, and the people of Briggia have tended to become rather sanguine about the war, recognizing that Briggia will endure.

Brintooin

Byblos

Byblos, in the Colonies region, is an urban world with an extremely massive population. Most of the planet's 164 billion inhabitants live in hundreds of huge city towers, architectural wonders which can run up to 5000 levels tall. The base of the towers are industrial levels, and most structures flare out as they rise, creating a hollow interior capped by a clear transparisteel dome which acts as a central lighting well. Each tower has a specific purpose-- there are corporate, residential, starport, and Imperial garrison towers. One tower is completely taken up by the prestigious University of Byblos, and tubeways connect the various towers to one another. Byblos is a major manufacturing center for high technology and military equipment, though the planet must import most foodstuffs. The world is ruled by an Imperial governor.

Byblos is now the “regional hub” for the Grand Moff’s priority region. Its bustling urban centers have been clogged with a fresh rush of Imperial bureaucrats and officers, snatching up the best office space and residential areas. Despite this, Governor General Sollust has succeeded in insuring that the disruption to the university and research facilities are minimal. As a graduate of the University, Sollust knows that it is vital to her successful tour on Byblos that the faculty and students remain in good order. From the top nine floors of the towering Palpatine Praxis, Sollust looks down on her alma mater and directs her substantial garrison in the promotion of Imperial order.

Byss

Llocated in the heart of the Deep Galactic Core, the planet Byss was Emperor Palpatine's private world. The secret planet was accessible only through certain encoded routes, due to the near-impossibility of navigating through the dense mass of stars found in the Deep Core. Byss and its five moons were in a binary system and orbited both a blue star and blue dwarf star. Tectonically stable, with almost no axial tilt, it was an extremely pleasant world of plateaus and canyons seldom bothered by storms, earthquakes, or other violent phenomena. Microscopic life in the many lakes and rivers was nourished by the blue-green sunlight. The planet's flora was dominated by lichens and ferns, while its fauna was primarily nocturnal and mostly harmless. While Byss had no native intelligent species, the planet contained several ruins dating from before the Expansion Era.

Years ago, Emperor Palpatine chose the world as his private retreat, and Imperial architects and engineers were commissioned to build him an opulent palace. Several million humans per month, lured by the rumors of a paradise planet, were allowed to emigrate to Byss-- where the Emperor and his Dark Side Adepts began feeding off their life energies. The planet's population reached almost 20 billion, and all outgoing communications were censored by security agents. Byss was well-guarded against attack with powerful planetary shields, hunter-killer probots, and the Imperial Hyperspace Security Net. The Imperial control sector covered most of one continent, and Palpatine's kilometers-high Imperial Citadel could be found at its center. The vast Citadel contained gardens, museums, the Emperor's Clone Labs, barracks for Imperial troopers, and a fully-equipped dungeon; it was guarded by advanced turbolasers and dangerous monsters called "Chrysalides" or Chrysalis Beasts. Certain freight haulers were specially licensed to ship to the protected Deep Core, where they delivered their cargoes to the heavily-defended Imperial Freight Complex. The Freight Complex, on the outskirts of the Emperor's ruling city, was three kilometers wide, nearly 168 kilometers high, and was tethered to an orbital satellite for added stability. It contained a popular spacers' hangout known as the Byss Bistro.

Calamari

Calamari (sometimes called Mons Calamari) is a tectonically stable world almost entirely covered with water, and is home to both the peaceful Mon Calamari and the cautious Quarren-- over 27 billion inhabitants in all. 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, Kee-Piru, Coral City, Heurkea, 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 rare ultima-pearl can be found in Calamari's seabeds.

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. A Quarren, Seggor Tels, is believed to have deliberately lowered Calamari's defenses to allow the Empire's attack; this has heightened tensions between the Mon Calamari and the Quarren ever since. After the Empire showed its true colors, 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. Many Calamarians were taken as slaves by the Empire including the famous Ackbar, who was forced to be the personal servant of Grand Moff Tarkin. Ackbar was later rescued from slavery by an Alliance force and named Admiral of the Rebel fleet.

The greatest single victory of the first Emperor Xindell was his conquest of Calamari.  The Republic defended the world ferociously, but the Empire triumphed.  During the Interregnum, the New Republic won back the world through a diplomatic accord, but the new Emperor Xindell continues to look hungrily on the valuable world.

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. Caridan combat arachnids were crimson, twelve-legged creatures covered with spines, that communicated on a hypersonic level. They were bred for their fighting abilities as well as their valuable, diamond-hard chitinous exoskeletons.

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 had always been the central training facility for stormtroopers, but under Grand Admiral Bismark, it became something more.  Carida was converted into the principal Academy world for Naval commanders and it was completely militarized.  Carida has been governed by Miles Teg for almost three decades, and it is rumored that several secret facilities have been added to Carida.  At the very least, a large Research and Development yard exists on Carida.  Nerissa Daala grew up on Carida, separated from her mother for most of her life.

Carida is most famous for its dramatic lightning storms, which can kick up in less than a quarter hour and can last throughout the day.

The Imperial Army has decided to move its headquarters to Carida, to proclaim its independence from the Navy and the Imperial Senate. Since Grand Moff Teg no longer governs the world, day-to-day affairs are coordinated by the Commandant of the Academy, Captain Morgan. Morgan is an old ally of Teg, and War Hawk influence is still strong. Additionally, the first Imperial Expeditionary Force, under Brigadier Khurgee and reporting directly to the Grand Warlord, has its base of operations on Carida. This world continues to be a bulwark of Imperial militarism, and a bastion of War Hawk ideology.

Carpath Sector

Carosus

Celanon

Celanon, in the system of the same name in the Outer Rim, is said to have a "multicolored skyline" due to its numerous holographic advertising boards. Celanon's two main industries are agriculture and the commerce that flows into Celanon City. The planet's spaceport is well-defended and very busy. The Celanon system is also home to the mammoth consortium known as Pravaat, which manufactures and sells uniforms to interested parties. Prior to the Battle of Yavin, an explosive device was loaded onto an Imperial freighter at Celanon. The device was later stolen by the Alliance and used to demolish the Star Destroyer Invincible.

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.

Chandrila is located in the Seswenna sector of the Core Worlds, along the Perlemian Trade Route. The agricultural planet's two main continents are covered with rolling, grassy plains. The inhabitants of Chandrila have a remarkably low birth rate, keeping the world's population of 1.2 billion in check, and tend to live in scattered, small communities instead of large metropolises. All citizens have a direct voice in government, and are known for vociferously arguing politics among each other. The planet is ruled by the democratic Chandrilan House, which is overseen by Imperial Governor Gerald Weizel. Weizel, a rather aloof leader appointed as a replacement for Grandon Holleck, rules from the Imperial base on the outskirts of Hanna, Chandrila's capital. Sights on the planet include the attractive Gladean State Parks, a wild game reserve near Hanna, Brionelle Memorial Military Academy, and a dacha owned by Alliance founder Mon Mothma on the shores of Lake Sah'Ot. The Chandrilans also keep elaborate gardens and many other symbols of natural beauty.

Chandrila is famous as the homeworld of Mon Mothma, whose father was an arbiter-general of the Old Republic and mother a governor of Chandrila. Canna Omonda was named Chandrila's representative to the Imperial Senate after Mon Mothma's resignation from that office. When Senator Omonda criticized the Emperor for disbanding the Senate, Palpatine charged Omonda with treason and sent three Star Destroyers to Chandrila to seize her; her public execution was scheduled during Coruscant's Fete Week. Later, the Empire placed stiff agricultural tariffs on the Bormea sector which were clearly designed to hurt Chandrila, one of the largest agricultural exporters in the Core Worlds. Six months after the Battle of Endor, the Empire deployed seven Star Destroyers to Chandrila where they enforced a strict blockade of the planet. The reasons for this are unknown, but it is believed that Grand Vizier Sate Pestage may have implemented a plan to hold Chandrila hostage in case New Republic forces were able to threaten Coruscant.

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.

Churba

The planet Churba, located in the Mid-Rim in the sector of the same name, is home to the corporate offices for Sencil Corp, a major manufacturer of black-market assassin droid components. Sometime after the Battle of Yavin, Imperial officials nationalized Sencil Corp along with several other droid corporations, giving them control of the Mid-Rim droid market. Churba is also the homeworld of Imperial Intelligence agent Kirtan Loor.

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."

Consisting of the Sern, Lambda, Colunda, and Trax Sectors, the Colonies Priority Region is the domain of Grand Moff Teg. It is rumored that some special project is being completed in this region, but details are still sketchy in the extreme. What is known is that this Region has been singled out for special treatment and is being thoroughly re-organized under the Grand Moff.

Forming the first Priority Region since the death of Grand Moff Blade Knight, Emperor Xindell cobbled together a small empire for his chief deputy Miles Teg. Teg immediately sacked all the local governors, replacing them with military Governor-Generals who would report directly to him and insure compliance with the New Order. These new officials operate from Imperial garrison bases and are completely dependent upon the new Grand Moff for their position. This is how Teg and the Emperor like it, since their predecessors tended towards independent thinking. Each new Governor General has the following traits in common: they are human, were distinguished members of the Imperial Armed Forces, are graduates of the Carida Academy system, and are loyal members of COMPNOR. Finally, each knows that he serves at the whim of the Grand Moff, and he is known to drop by from time to time to check on their progress.

Colunda sector

The Colunda sector, containing the planet Nyasko, was a former hotbed of Rebel activity. An AT-AT group stationed on Nyasko was kept busy keeping down the uprisings.

Commenor

Commenor, in the system of the same name, lies just outside the Core Worlds near Corellia. Its largest moon is Folor, where the Alliance established a starfighter training center. A great deal of shipping traffic passes through the system. Han Solo once joked that he exchanged his sense of chivalry for a ten-carat crysopaz and three bottles of brandy on Commenor.

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. Animal life includes the Corellian sea ray and the Corellian sand panther, a dangerous predator with poisoned claws. Points of interest 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.

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. Three years after the Battle of Endor, the main Imperial battle fleets garrisoned key worlds, including Corellia and Kuat, due to their valuable shipyards.

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.

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 both the Corellian Defense Force and the Corellian Security Force, or CorSec. 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 Engineering Corporation's shipyards are famous throughout the galaxy for their long, distinguished manufacture of a vast variety of starships. Due to the strategic importance of these stardocks, the Empire kept the system heavily defended after the Battle of Endor. Some disreputable Corellian spaceports are known to construct unreliable, patched-together ships commonly called "Uglies." The system also contains a large space station called Gus Treta. It was in the Corellian system that Mon Mothma convinced three major resistance groups to join forces, which marked the beginning of the Rebel Alliance.

A famous Corellian work of literature is The Fall of the Sun by Erwithat, and a respected honor is the red trouser piping known as the Corellian Bloodstripe. Corellians are known to hold the importance of family in high esteem. Other Corellian traditions include ryshcate, a dark brown sweetcake made with vweliu nuts, which is traditionally baked and served at important celebrations, and Jedi Credits or JedCreds, was were commemorative medallions made when a Corellian Jedi became a Master. The language known as Old Corellian, though it has been essentially extinct for 4000 years, still survives among smugglers and pirates. Notable Corellians include Han Solo, General Crix Madine, General Garm Bel Iblis, and Wedge Antilles.

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 his tenure with the Corellian Security Force, Rogue Squadron pilot Corran Horn planted a false report implying that he had murdered six smugglers on Drall. The report was created so Horn and his supervisor could stage a public falling-out and remove suspicions of their working together to flee the Empire, but an Imperial death warrant was issued on Horn for the imaginary crime.

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.

Talus, Tralus

Two 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.

Corporate Sector

Consisting of tens of thousands of star systems, the Corporate Sector is a free-enterprise fief located on the edge of the galaxy, and bordered by the Aparo and Wyl sectors. The Corporate Sector is as wealthy and influential as the richest sectors in Imperial space, and the skylines of its many urban worlds are lit by the multicolored flashes of countless advertising signs. It offers the widest selection of products anywhere, and tourists come from all over the galaxy to purchase its unique goods. The entire sector is run by a single corporation, known as the Corporate Sector Authority (CSA). The CSA is composed of dozens of contributing companies (over 1000 companies are currently on the waiting list to join) and is run by the 5 members of the Direx Board, who are in turn headed by the ExO. The CSA has exclusive rights to use the sector's resouces as they see fit-- typically they use up a planet and move on to another one, and are not above using slave labor or grossly polluting the environment. Since it has no internal competition, the CSA can mark up the prices of their goods to many times their actual worth, and businesses in the sector do not accept any currency except Authority Cash Vouchers and crystalline vertexes. A portion of the CSA's enormous profits were secretly funneled to Emperor Palpatine, with the understanding that the Empire would take no direct role in the operation of the sector. Therefore, the protective CSA has formed its own military forces, including Security Police (or "Espos") and a comparatively poor and outdated starfleet. Planets in the Corporate Sector, in addition to its sterile, climate-controlled capitol world, include Etti IV, Orrin, Mytus IV, and Trianii. The feline Trianii have been actively opposing the Corporate Sector's annexation of their worlds, and much of the fighting occurred in the Tingel Arm. An armistice in this conflict has recently been called after three years of fighting.

Originally established several hundred years ago by the Old Republic, the Corporate Sector was once a group of several hundred systems all devoid of intelligent life. The corporations allowed to operate in the sector could purchase entire regions of space, but were held in check by the watchful eye of the Republic. During the Emperor's rise to power, however, several corporate allies of Palpatine convinced him to expand the sector to encompass nearly 30,000 stars. Eleven native intelligent species were discovered in this expanded region, though this fact has been effectively covered up. The CSA was soon established to manage all aspects of the sector's operations, and thus the "modern" era of the Corporate Sector began. Han Solo and Chewbacca had several legendary exploits in the Corporate Sector during their early adventuring, including a jailbreak from the infamous Stars' End. Following the Battle of Hoth, the Corporate Sector company Galactic Electronics developed a new "mag pulse" weapons technology and sold it to the Rebel Alliance. In retaliation, the Imperial Star Destroyer Glory traveled to the sector and seized the corporation's deep-space research facility. Emperor Palpatine once had plans to build a great palace for himself in the sector, and construction continued even after Palpatine's supposed death at the Battle of Endor. In the last thirty years, a new Great House has risen to the Direx Board--House Teg.  This house, led by Miles Teg, has assumed the contract on the Emperor's Palace, pledging it to the Emperor Xindell when the sector is returned to the Empire. The Palace remains empty.

Coruscant

The governmental capital of the galaxy for generations, Coruscant and its two moons orbit far from a small white sun in the Core Worlds. Located in the system of the same name near the Kaikielius and Metellos systems, Coruscant is known as the "Scintillant Planet" in old songs and was renamed Imperial Center during the reign of Emperor Palpatine. Coruscant's coordinates are zero-zero-zero on all standard navigational charts, a clear sign of its long history and galaxy-spanning influence. 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. The complex multileveled surface makes weather in Imperial City particularly difficult to predict. To the south of the city lie the snow-covered Manarai Mountains.

The pyramidal Imperial Palace, formerly known as the Presidential Palace, is constructed of gray-green rock and sparkling crystals, and is taller than all other structures on the planet including the neighboring Senate building. The Palace is said to be an impregnable fortress and is decorated with hanging gardens, marble pyramids, and crystal roofs, while some areas were decorated by the Emperor with patterns based on ancient Sith hieroglyphics. 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). Above the Grand Corridor are cafes situated on promenade balconies, where diners can watch the busy foot traffic below. All residential floors in the Palace contain extensive libraries, and the old-fashioned President's Guests floor is done in hand- carved Fijisi wood. The building also contains a set of turbolifts in the rear and several hidden entrances, installed by Palpatine when he took control. Some residential areas are found in the section of the Palace known as the Tower, located on the edge of the building with windows overlooking the city. The personal quarters for the Chief of State are located deep within the Palace's core, and its "windows" are actually holographic screens showing panoramic views taken by outside cameras. The Emperor's throne room is a vast sunken auditorium crowned with a prismatic skylight, and the Emperor also kept a personal observation deck within the Palace's tallest spire. For public celebrations and speeches, Palpatine would sometimes appear on the Palatial Balcony. The lower floor of the Palace is entirely dedicated to military operations, and contains the offices of the Grand Warlord and Grand Admirals 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. Other areas of the vast Palace include treasuries, pavilions, prisons, music rooms, cafes, and summer and winter quarters, and decks jutting out from its sides hold tourism information centers. The Imperial Information Center, an exhaustive storehouse of data, 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 Galactic Museum (which held ancient Sith artifacts four thousand years ago), the University of Coruscant, the Candreal Gardens Center, the Imperial Security Operations Building, and the Temple of the Circle. Celebrations and festivals included Carnival Week and New Year Fete Week, when Palpatine was known to hold public executions of his enemies. The traditional Imperial Fair, involving parades and exhibits, was held in the Pliada di am Imperium. During the Coruscant's ancient War Day celebration, laser cannons were fired off in ceremonial salute. Monument Plaza is a popular mall built around one of the peaks in the Manarai mountain range, where visitors can actually touch bare rock. For the last three hundred years the clock in the Central Gathering Hall has marked the hour by spreading a light across the sky, and every evening spectacular gray-green and red auroras flash throughout Coruscant's atmosphere. 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, duracrete worms and shadow-barnacles, wild gangs such as the Lost Ones, and nameless subhumans moving through the shadows. Due to the danger, the lowest forty or fifty levels are typically restricted from normal traffic. Many feral animal species (having escaped from former confinement) inhabit these levels, including the eyeless creatures called "corridor ghouls." A seedy tavern in this area is said to have not seen the sun in 90,000 years.

The snow-covered polar regions of Coruscant are home to turbo-ski resorts, and are continuously mined by ice-boring machines. Since the planet's inland seas and oceans have long since been drained, the melted ice is delivered by huge pipelines to the densely-populated 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. During the reign of the Empire, Coruscant was protected by a sophisticated double layer of energy fields-- arriving ships would pass through the outer shield, which would then close behind them before the inner shield could be opened. Many other spaceyards help build starships and gigantic habitation spheres, while kilometers-wide orbiting mirrors focus reflected sunlight onto Coruscant's northern and southern latitudes, raising the temperature slightly to make the cold regions more habitable. Certain raw materials are mined from a belt of asteroids located on the fringes of the Coruscant system.

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. During the Sith War nearly four thousand years ago, a force led by Ulic Qel-Droma, Aleema, and the masked warlord Mandalore made a deadly strike on Coruscant and Qel-Droma succeeded in capturing the Republic war room. But Aleema was anxious to capture power for herself and ordered their armies to retreat, abandoning Qel-Droma to capture, trial, and a certain death sentence. During his trial in the Republic Senate Hall, however, Qel- Droma was rescued by the Sith Lord Exar Kun. During the escape, the Jedi master Vodo Siosk-Baas and Netus, leader of the Senate, were both killed. After the rise of the Empire, the planet's metropolis was renamed Imperial City and Palpatine took up residence in the Imperial Palace. Among the Emperor's many actions was the placement of Coruscant's alien population into segregated districts. 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, and Mon Mothma and Bail Organa met at Chatham House (Organa's home in Imperial City) to plan their organized rebellion against the Empire. Alima, an Imperial officer who ordered the brutal subjugation of Ithor, was a native of Coruscant. Just before the Battle of Yavin, the Alliance destroyed an Imperial repair dock near Coruscant in an attempt to set back the Death Star project. Following the Battle of Yavin, Alliance agent Kyle Katarn infiltrated the heavily-guarded Imperial Security Operations building and procured a decryption key needed to decode a stolen nava card. Katarn managed to escape with the key despite the intervention of the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Following the Battle of Hoth, the traitorous Admiral Zaarin attempted a coup d'etat at Coruscant. Zaarin's forces seized Palpatine's personal Star Destroyer, the Majestic, and placed the Emperor aboard a shuttle on its way to Zaarin's Star Destroyer Glory. The Emperor was saved by the timely arrival of loyal Imperial forces including Darth Vader, Vice Admiral Thrawn, and TIE pilot Maarek Stele, but Zaarin managed to escape.

After Palpatine's death during the Battle of Endor, control of the Empire was won by Internal Security Director Ysanne Isard, who moved into the Imperial Palace and ruled the gradually-shrinking Empire from Coruscant. Approximately three years after 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. Immediately thereafter, the Grand Warlord Xindell drove the Republicans from Coruscant and declared himself Emperor. The Dowager Empress Kayla enjoys a splendid palace of her own, donated by the merchant House Teg to cultivate favor with the Empress. During the Interregnum, Coruscant was convulsed by Shewka's Revolt, when the Grand Inquisitor claimed to embody the spirit of the departed Emperor Xindell. While the fighting caused significant damage, Regent Bismark was able to restore control and Coruscant was saved as the capital of the galaxy. Now, under the second Emperor Xindell, Coruscant has embarked on a huge public works program, restoring old fascades and building new facilities. One of these, the Pyramid of Progress, is the central repository of Imperial Research and Development. Coruscant has been governed for over 40 years by Moff Moyer, a terrifically loyal servant of whoever sits on the throne.  Moyer is the senior Senator and presides in the absence of the Grand Moff.  Moyer's key to success has been his quiet lack of ambition.  After elevation to Moff, Moyer did not grasp for more systems as most would.  As a result, he has not cultivated any enemies.

Coyn

Located in the Elrood sector near the planet Tro'Har, Coyn is the homeworld of the imposing Coynite alien species. Coynite warriors, standing as tall as 2.8 meters, wear their hair in long braids and carry ceremonial longaxes called coyn'skars. Under the Coynite Cradle Law, males cannot own their own land, marry, or disobey their fathers' wishes until they have become adults. In an extreme display of the Cradle Law, a warrior named Tra'Parr'Sratt fulfilled his insane father's demands by killing his seven brothers, his mother, and finally his father-- an act praised by other Coynites as the highest example of familial honor. Tra'Parr'Sratt now works for the gangster Abdi-Badawzi on Socorro.

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.

A mysterious, mist-shrouded swamp planet in the Dagobah system and the Albanin sector, Dagobah contains no cities or advanced technology yet teems with a wide variety of life. Some of this world's exotic lifeforms include giant swamp slugs, dragonsnakes, nightbats, carnivorous fungi, bioluminescent spotlight sloths, and butcherbugs, who spin their slicing wirewebs between adjacent gnarltrees. Colorful Jubba birds whistle a highly soothing song, which may be caused by a slight manipulation of the Force. The petrified gnarltree forests can be found throughout the swamp, and the trees have a unique life cycle-- at the appropriate time a knobby white "spider" will break off from its parent tree, roam the swamp hunting and feeding on animals, and eventually take root in a clear spot to grow into a new gnarltree. Other Dagobah plants include flower- fruits, mushrooms that explode if exposed to light, and prismatic vine-flowers that grow above the dense tree canopy, where reptilian flying creatures can also be seen hunting small scurrying rodents. The thick cloud layer surrounding the planet cannot be penetrated by standard sensors. Dagobah was home to the legendary Jedi Master Yoda, who instructed both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker before his death before the Battle of Endor at the age of 900.

During the fall of the Old Republic, an eight-man research team led by Halka Four-Den scouted Dagobah but was lost, presumably killed off by some of the planet's lethal lifeforms. Around twenty-five years before the Battle of Yavin, 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 this Dark Jedi's power, and it may have served to hide Yoda's presence during the Emperor's Jedi purge.

Dalron

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.

Governor General Nelson was once a fine starship commander. Even now, he favors orbital defense to ground defense. But, in the purges following Daala’s revolt, Nelson found his career swamped in a cloud of suspicion. After a personal meeting with the Grand Moff, Dalron was assigned as a test world, to see if Nelson’s career would die or be revived. Accordingly, he is working very hard on making sure that Dalron is a picture of order and tranquillity.

Dantooine

An olive, blue, and brown-colored planetwith no industrial settlements or advanced technology, Dantooine is far removed from most galactic traffic. Its surface is covered with empty steppes, 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 the primary base for the Rebel Alliance. Rebel engineers originally built the base from temporary, self-erecting modules, and defended it with stolen weapons and an energy shield stolen from an Imperial correctional facility. As time passed, the Alliance grew more secure, fortifying their base and becoming increasingly careless with security. This ended, however, when Rebel soldiers discovered an Imperial tracking device hidden in a cargo shipment. Though the beacon had not betrayed their location, the Alliance had no way of knowing this. All personnel evacuated the Dantooine base in a single day, leaving behind only the permanent structures and some disabled vehicles. The Alliance fleet then hopped from system to system, until erecting their new headquarters base on Yavin 4. Later, when interrogated by Imperials aboard the Death Star, Leia Organa revealed the Dantooine base's location, knowing it had long since been deserted. Imperial scout ships were immediately dispatched to Dantooine; when they uncovered Leia's ruse, Grand Moff Tarkin ordered the Princess executed.

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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 savannas, 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, nearly four hundred years ago, the two-kilometer Jedi spaceborne academy Chu'unthor crashed in a Dathomir tar pit. (The Jedi master Djinn Altis was known to travel in a ship also called the Chu'unthor, but based on available dating information it is unlikely that it was the same ship.) Yoda and the other Jedi sent to recover the crashed Chu'unthor were repulsed by the witches--those female inhabitants who had learned to use the Force. Different clans of these 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. Around one hundred years ago, the Nightsister Charal managed to escape from Dathomir and fell in with a group of alien marauders, who then crashed on the forest moon of Endor. 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.

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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, including Commander Narra, were completely destroyed by TIE fighters soon after they left the planet. General Evir Derricote, later the commander of the Imperial base on Borleias, was at Derra IV and helped destroy the Rebel convoy.

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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.

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Drackmar system

A system with multiple suns and home to the alien Drackmarians. Drackmarians are methane-breathers with blue scales, sharp talons, and snouts filled with vicious teeth. Members of this species do not sleep, and are noted for their generosity and their stubborn independence. The Drackmarians were fierce opponents of the Empire and are now very loosely aligned with the New Republic.

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.

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Duro

A terrestrial planet in the Duro system, Duro (sometimes referred to as Duros) is the homeworld of the alien species also known as Duros. The Duros have been traveling 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. The planet Pii 3, in the Pii system, was once home to seventh Duro Relocation Colony, which was abandoned when its Duros settlers became restless and returned to the stars.

The important world of Duro has been delegated to Governor General Kurita, former Army commander aboard the VSD “Tyrant”. Kurita knows he has slowed down, but still relishes the chance to get back into space and command an invading army. On Duro, he relentlessly trains and challenges his troops, convinced that the call will come if he is ready.

Elom

Elom is located in the Sombure Sector and has been made the Sector Capital by the New Republic. The main export of Elom is the mineral called lommite which is used in production of Republic war machines and other areas. With a few exceptions, most of Elom's Planetary Defense force is composed of Elomin soldiers serving in the New Republic. Very few Elomin are assigned out of all-Elomin units for unknown reasons.

Galactic News Network reporter Kella Rand's first offworld assignment was covering a mining revolt on the cold world of Elom.

Elrood

Elrood, located in the sector of the same name, is the site of a commercial colony that contains prefabricated room units from the factories of Sullust. The Dark Jedi Durrei, who joined with a Imperial faction in the Corva sector after the Battle of Endor, was a native of Elrood.

Elrood sector

The Elrood sector, presumably some distance from the Outer Rim, contains the planets Elrood, Lanthrym, Tro'Har, and Coyn. The smuggler Saylor Marjan ran spice through the sector to help pay off a debt owed to the crimelord Saadoon-Kauldi.

Endor

Located in the Moddell sector and the remote Endor system, Endor is a silvery gas giant orbited by nine moons. Its largest moon is the size of a small planet, and is variously known as the Forest Moon, the Sanctuary Moon, or often simply as Endor. The Endor system is very difficult to reach, since the uncharted territory and massive gravitational shadow of the gas giant require several complicated hyperspace jumps. Therefore, over the years many star travelers have crashed and become stranded on the habitable Forest Moon of Endor. Endor is a temperate moon of forests, savannas, and mountains, with a relatively light gravity. The world'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, boar- wolves, glowing sprites called Wisties, fast mischievous teeks, winged condor dragons, gunlabirds, predatory Yootaks, and stump-dwelling tempters that lure prey with their camouflaged, articulated tongues. The most common sentient species on Endor were the primitive, furry Ewoks, who made their communal dwellings high in the trees. Called "lifetrees" by the Ewoks, the trees can reach heights of 1000 meters and are considered the spiritual guardians of the Ewok species. Music plays an important role in Ewok culture, which is made up of a rigid clan system. Ewoks are skilled engineers (among their inventions are gliders and catapults), and each tribe has a shaman who interprets mystical signs. A natural enemy of the Ewoks are the 30-meter high humanoid creatures called Gorax, who search the trees for Ewok dwellings low enough to grab. Gorax inhabit the rocky highlands of the barren Desert of Salma, which lies beyond the Yawari Cliffs north of the dense forest. The Desert is also marked by acid pools and dry lakes, and large rearing spiders are known to live in the bottoms of the Gorax caves. West of the forest are vast grassland plains known as the Dragon's Pelt, which are dotted with jutting lava rocks. In the distance lies a range of snow-capped mountains called the Dragon's Spine. Stilt-legged yuzzums inhabit the savanna, hunting small rodents called ruggers. A colony of off-planet alien marauders have built a stone castle on the Dragon's Pelt, and use the two-legged, slow-witted blurrgs as beasts of burden for their raids into the forest to attack Ewok villages.

Almost a century ago, the humanoid marauders crash-landed on Endor with the Dathomirian Nightsister Charal. Following the orders of their leader Terak, the long-lived aliens built a castle and searched for a power source to repair their disabled starship. Much later, a starship belonging to the Towani family crashed on the forest moon. A giant Gorax captured both parents and imprisoned them in his mountain fortress in the Desert of Salma. Mace and Cindel (the Towani children) managed to rescue their parents from the Gorax with the help of Wicket the Ewok and the other members of his tribe. Later, the marauders, led by Terak and Charal, killed the entire Towani family except for Cindel. With the help of the Ewoks and the stranded human Noa, the marauders were eventually defeated and Cindel and Noa were able to leave the forest moon. Soon after, the Empire selected Endor as the construction site for the second Death Star, and established an Imperial base on the surface to generate a protective shield for the orbiting battle station. A Rebel strike force, including Han Solo and Leia Organa, was able to destroy the shield generator with the help of Wicket's Ewok tribe. The Death Star 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, where he saved the life of a Wookiee prisoner.

When the Death Star was destroyed, its wreckage shattered the Sanctuary Moon's fragile ecology.  Within weeks, a light-blocking layer of dust enveloped the world, and the nascent New Republic struggled to evacuate the Ewoks and the other valuable fauna from the world.  Within a year, the world was a husk of its once-verdant self.  It was then that the Sith moved in.

Under the leadership of the Dark Lord Shewka, the Sith established a colony on Endor, and began terraforming the moon so that it could sustain life again.  Some of the more aggressive life forms survived the calamity, and became "sport" for the violent Sith Warriors.  Endor became a closed world, permeated with the Dark Side energies of the Emperor Palpatine and the Sith Order that rose in his place to spread ineffable darkness. The second Emperor Xindell spent many years training on Endor, and it remains the personal fief of the Dark Lord of the Sith. From time to time, the Sith will  re-introduce a group of captured Ewoks, only to torture them mercilessly and use them as target practice. Endor's beauty is now twisted and dark,  and no Ewoks sing in the night.

Eriadu

Eriadu, a polluted factory planet in the Seswenna sector, is a trading and governmental hub in the Outer Rim. Eriadu was the capitol world of Grand Moff Tarkin's territory, established as Tarkin's base of operations when he was placed in charge of the Outer Rim Territories. Tarkin ruled from the Governor's Palace on the planet's surface. During a trip from Eriadu to the newly-completed Death Star at Despayre, Tarkin's shuttle was attacked by a strike force of Alliance Y-wing starfighters. Although the Grand Moff was rescued by the timely arrival of a Star Destroyer, the Rebels managed to rescue Tarkin's Mon Calamari servant Ackbar.  One of the planet's exports is shellwork jewelry.

Etti IV

Located in the Etti system, Etti IV is one of the Corporate Sector's large urban worlds. A civilized planet, 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 Corporate Sector 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. Etti IV was the site of the first great battle of the Second War of Galactic Conquest. Grand Admiral Teg and Commodore Farliner fought for nearly two full weeks over this world, eventually drawing in the bulk of Imperial and Republican forces. The battle ended inconclusively, and the world remained in the hands of the New Republic.

Farrfin

Farrfin was one target in an offensive by Vice Admiral Thrawn before the Battle of Endor. 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.

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Fest

Fest, located in the system of the same name, is in the Atrivis sector of the Outer Rim and borders the Mantooine system. An Imperial Weapons Research Facility, hidden in a steep mountain range, was located on Fest and performed metallurgical research on new alloys. Following the Battle of Yavin, Alliance agent Kyle Katarn infiltrated the facility and stole a sample of the metal Phrik, used in armoring the Dark Troopers. The Fest system was also home to a resistance group opposing the Empire.

Filve

One of New Republic main shipyards are located on Filve.

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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.

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. The planet is also home to vicious Gamorrean watch-beasts, which are used as guard animals at the Imperial Army training centers on Sirpar.

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.

Garnib

A former Logistics officer, Governor General de Rochambeau knows how to keep an inventory. She has begun cataloging all of Garnib’s potential resources and considers it her personal quest to make sure that every credit has a name. With an accountant’s zeal, she is turning Garnib into a very dull place to live.

Gelgelar

A backwater world located in the system of the same name, Gelgelar has no Imperial presence. The Twi'lek known as Loh'khar the Finder arranged for transport from Kelada to Gelgelar for some Alliance operatives.

Generis

Located in the Outer Rim in the Atrivis sector, Generis was the site of the New Republic's Outer Rim comm center.

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Ghorman

Ghorman is located in the system of the same name in the Sern sector near the Core Worlds, and was the site of the infamous Ghorman Massacre, an early atrocity committed by the Empire. During a peaceful anti-tax demonstration, a warship sent to collect the taxes landed on top of the protesters-- killing and injuring hundreds. Tarkin, the warship's captain, was promoted to Moff for this action. The Ghorman Massacre was commemorated every year on its anniversary by those opposed to Palpatine's New Order, and it convinced Bail Organa of Alderaan to join the cause of the Rebellion. Years later, when an Imperial base on Ghorman was being enlarged, an Alliance attack on a vital supply convoy delayed the base expansion for over a year. Governor General Horus was once a crack fighter commander who served with Teg under the first Emperor Xindell. Even now, he often takes out his personal TIE Avenger for maneuvers in Ghorman’s Dagger Mountains.

Gorath

Gorath is sector capital of the Testarr Sector.  It is a large, mining colony that is a vital part of the Empire's infrastructure. It has less-than-normal gravity, and often catches visitos off guard. One of the prominent features of Gorath is the Great Clancy Flats, where a Rebel Mon Calamari star cruiser crashed during the latter days of the Civil War.  Gorath has a determined resistance cell, and Grand Warlord Bis Hevlok has conducted an orbital strike on the second city of Gorath, Phlendaris, to attempt to supress the resistance.  Former Governor-General Caligula operated a significant smuggling and embezzlement ring from Gorath.

Grizmaullt

Grizmaullt is one of the worlds ruled by Senator Frensh. It is a quiet agricultural colony, known only for its remarkable pottery.

Gyndine

Gyndine is an Imperial territorial administrative world, which has the nearby Circarpous system under its jurisdiction. It is ruled by the obese Imperial governor Bin Essada. Cargo ships are known to make deliveries of denta beans to Gyndine's grain market, and animal life on the planet includes the dangerous ethersquid. During the Imperial Mutiny two years after the Battle of Endor, Gyndine protected itself by becoming a "Fortress World," guarded by planetary shields and a fleet of thirty defensive ships. Bin Essada was executed by the first Emperor Xindell and Gyndine quickly came over to Xindell's side.

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.

Hapes Star Cluster

A cluster of sixty-three stars with many inhabited planets, the Star Cluster is an old and very wealthy society that had almost no contact with the rest of the galaxy for three thousand years. Encompassing hundreds of different governments and thousands of cultures, the cluster was first 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, Maires, Vergill, and Hapes itself, which is orbited by seven moons. The Fountain Palace on the planet Hapes is home to the Hapan royal family, who stay in Reef Fortress in emergencies. Located on an isolated island accessible only by boat, Reef Fortress is a secure stronghold of stone parapets entered through a cave grotto and protected by night perimeter shields. The Dragons Teeth, jagged rocks jutting from Hapes' blue-green ocean, are a nearby landmark. Frequent encounters with star pirates occur on the Hapes Consortium's borders, partially because many young Hapan males turn to piracy as a means of rebellion. The Hapan naval space forces include the feared Battle Dragon and the newer Hapes Nova-class battle cruisers; for use on oceans, Hapes manufactures the Hapan Water Dragon. Four years after the Battle of Endor, Queen Mother Ta'a Chume, matriarch of the Royal House of Hapes, broke the cluster's 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.

Recently, Hapes has become independent of the two great nations. Significant divisions within  the society has meant that an undeclared civil war is waged within the cluster.  Republican sympathizers, led by Prince Isolder, continue to steer the Queen Mother towards tacit support for the Republic.  Imperial sympathizers, on the other hand, hold sway in most of the noble families of Hapes, and is gaining support through the steady support of the Empire. First armed conflict between Republic and Empire during the rise of second Xindell happened on Hapes, when imperial fleet under command of FA Seider arrived here to sway Hapes over to Imperial cause, but run into fleet under command of Commodore Farliner, acompanyed by FA Bossk forces. However, due to divided loyality in Hapan government, Seider was allowed to leave system.

Harrin

The Harrin Trade Corridor is linked to the Enarc Run via the recently-discovered Kira Run.

Located in the Horuz sector, the Herios system's third planet is a small jungle world called Hensara III. Some three years after the Battle of Endor, Alliance operative Dirk Harkness and his Black Curs were forced to crash their ship in one of Hensara III's lakes after running into the Strike cruiser Havoc. The Havoc landed AT-AT and AT-ST walkers, along with two platoons of stormtroopers, to find and eliminate them. Harkness and his group were rescued by Rogue Squadron, who easily wiped out Imperial resistance without suffering any casualties in the battle later called the Rout of Herios.

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. Dark Lord Shadow was able to transfer the debt of the Noghri to the Sith Order by appearing as Darth Vader for a time.  It is unclear if the Noghri view their debt as a personal one to Vader (in which case, his son and daughter may have influence) or if they view it as a debt to the Sith. For now, Dark Lord Kalender employs the illusion to secure the Noghri as special assassins from time to time.

The desolate home of the Noghri has been left to the protection of Governor General Barton. She is aging now, and has little time for the hustle and bustle of the more cosmopolitan worlds. On Honoghr, she supervises the annual “Ritual of Renewal” that keeps the Noghri loyal to the Empire, and she works on her memoir. Her loyalty unchallenged, her service unquestioned, the assignment to Honoghr is a quiet reward from the Grand Moff.

Horthav

For the Lambda Sector capital, the Grand Moff dispatched on of his top female aids. Once charged with zero-g spacetrooper training on Carida, Governor General Valeria is one of the Army’s most forward looking officers. From the large, prosperous world of Horthav, she has begun a special spacetrooper technology center, working on ways to improve the armor and decrease its bulk.

Horuz sector

Horuz

The Horuz system, formerly containing the prison planet Despayre, is located in an isolated corner of the Outer Rim far from any hyperspace lanes. The first Death Star was built in the Horuz system above Despayre, and upon completion the battle station utterly destroyed the planet. The Empire used the master encrypt code ILKO to transmit data from Coruscant to Horuz during this construction.   Now protected by the Despayre asteroid field, Horuz has become home to a very small group of religious settlers, pledged to peace and atonement for the sins of the Death Star.

Despayre

Despayre, a prison planet located in the Horuz system in the distant Outer Rim, was the construction site for the first Death Star. The almost unknown status of the world helped guarantee the security of the orbital construction yards assembled to build the battle station. Despayre was green jungle planet broken by rivers and shallow seas, and home to countless predators including carnivorous crustaceans, poisonous flora, and deadly insects. The planet's penal colony was the only outpost in the system, and many prisoners were used to help construct the Death Star. When the battle station was completed, it tested its superlaser on Despayre and utterly destroyed the planet.

Hoth

Hoth, the sixth planet in the system of the same name, is an icy, unpopulated world covered with glacier fields, circling a blue-white sun. The isolated world is not even recorded on some standard navigational charts. Hoth is orbited by three moons, and receives a great deal of meteor activity. The planet's daylight temperature averages -32 degrees centigrade even in the temperate equatorial zone, and can plunge another 20-30 degrees at night. Hoth's native lifeforms include the common tauntaun and its natural predator, the Wampa ice creature. The many species of tauntauns eat fungus growing in cave grottoes and beneath the snow layer, and cluster together in caves during Hoth's bitter night to keep from freezing. Sights on Hoth include spectacular frozen ice geysers, and a 1000-kilometer long chasm in the planet's southern hemisphere. The bottom of this chasm is filled with water, kept in its liquid state due to the immense pressure of the two opposing cliff faces. Several glaciers, slowly sliding into the chasm's depths, harbor algae and burrowing, algae-feeding ice worms.

Following the Battle of Yavin, Luke Skywalker crashed on Hoth in an effort to escape pursuing TIE fighters. He encountered two lifelike androids, programmed to look and act like an Imperial governor and his daughter, who had been hiding on Hoth in order to escape from the Empire. Later, the pirate Raskar captured Skywalker and Han Solo above Hoth, and Solo flew the group to a deep chasm on the planet's equator. There they discovered a hidden cave filled with rare lumni-spice lichens guarded by a fire- breathing dragon-slug, and barely escaped with their lives. After the Alliance fully evacuated from Yavin 4, they established their main base on Hoth (in a series of ice caves at the northern edge of the temperate zone), christening it Echo Base. The Alliance encountered trouble adapting their equipment to Hoth's extreme temperatures, and were also 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.

Four years after the Battle of Endor, the Jedi Knights decided to make their principle base on this desolate world.  Now, home to the Knights for over 20 years, Hoth has remained a desolate place, but there is an air of nobility to its harsh conditions.  The Jedi have brought this troubled iceberg some peace. Jedi training centre consists of several under-ice caverns, outfitted with needed technology to allow human life to exist on Hoth. Heart of base is "Inner Sanctum",  where only memebers of Jedi Council are allowed to enter.

Hoth system

The remote Hoth system is located in the Ison Corridor on the fringes of civilized space, and its sixth planet is a frozen, unpopulated world also known as Hoth. The system also contains a dangerous asteroid belt, formed billions of years ago by the collision of two planets. Within the belt there is rumored to be a pure platinum asteroid, called "Kerane's Folly" after the prospector who discovered it, left to verify its purity, then could never find it again. On some asteroids grow delicate crystal ferns, which could be a primitive silicon-based lifeform.

Over the centuries many smugglers and criminals have built bases in some of the larger asteroids, including the notorious pirate Clabburn, who placed huge space slugs to guard his hideouts. After the Battle of Hoth, the Millennium Falcon tried to escape pursuing Star Destroyers in the asteroid field and was nearly swallowed by a space slug.

Intran

Years ago, the planet Intran  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.

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Itani

The aquatic planet Itani, home to the alen Issori and Odenji species, is a prosperous technology and commerce center located in the Trulalis system. Centuries ago, the Issori's cousin species the Odenji were nearly wiped out by the "melanncho"-- a sadness so powerful it can make the sufferer go insane. The respected scholar Arner Figgis and the smuggler Fahs Oxsor are both natives of Itani.

Governor General Onizuka is a staunch conservative, fiercely loyal to order above all other values. He is troubled by the fact that four of the Governor Generals in this sector are women, believing them to be less than adequate to the task. Despite this, he remains loyal to the Grand Moff and the Empire, those being the galaxy’s only hope of maintaining any semblance of order.

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 worshipped 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, the arrak snake, and the flitter-- a small flying rodent that can mimic speech. 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.

Ithor remains the Imperial sector capital of the Neuvalis sector.

Jardeen

Located in the system of the same name in the Anraz sector of the Inner Rim, Jardeen is an abandoned world of plains and hills, dotted with the moss-covered ruins of an ancient alien species. The builders of the ruins mysteriously died out centuries ago, and the world is rumored to be a haunted realm of ghosts. After the Battle of Endor, the Gotal crimelord Mahk'khar planned to sell an ancient relic to the Dark Jedi Durrei, at a rendezvous on Jardeen.

A great battle between elements of the Sith Fleet and Republican Fleet Admiral Bossk was fought here, ending in near-disaster for the Republic. The last minute arrival of CIC Dritz allowed Bossk to escape with his fleet--barely. At the end of the battle, Commodore Farliner captured one of Sith corvettes and won the battle with its commanding officer who was Sith Initiate, swaying him ower to Light Side.

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.

Governor General Absalmon is only thirty years old, and hiss youth occasionally causes some difficulty with his senior subordinates. Despite this, he is a capable commander and he is hoping to get back into the field after “doing his time” as Governor General.

Joralla

Governor General Max Welo is a brute of a man. He loves wrestling two and three of his soldiers at a time and enjoys a large feast like nothing else. He has a loud sense of humor, and is fond of tearing Republican spies limb from limb, literally.

Junction

This important Imperial base has been assigned to Governor General Pendragon, an old Army officer and senior Artillery instructor at Carida. It is still rumored that his artillery students are the most accurate in the history of the New Order.

Juris sector

Near the Ninth Quadrant, the Juris sector contains the Devaronian systems. Like the Corporate sector, it is run by groups of Ancient Houses, which include the House Streethyn. Bran Kemple was a small-time gunrunner in the systems before taking over the smuggling business on Belsavis.

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Kai-Tan

A planet in the Corporate Sector. Torm Dadeferron, an associate of Han Solo, had family on Kai-Tan 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.

All of Kai-Tan's land is owned by the Royal Family of Kai-Tan. The legendary Sith Princess Andrea leads the family now, and exacts a large measure of respect throughout the sector for her enlightened leadership. Kai-Tan was the first planet won back to the Empire by Emperor Xindell, and it was temporarily the fief of the Grand Inquisitor Shewka.

Kai-Tan is also the homeworld of former NR CIC Dritz Do'Urden. Dritz is the son of a prominent family of the tiny colony of sylvan people on Kai-Tan. The colony is older than antiquity, and none of the humans on Kai-Tan can recall ever seeing one of its members die. The origins, objectives, and history of the colony are unknown to the galaxy. Very few members of the colony have left the planet, and even fewer have truly involved themselves in galactic affairs. Only Dritz and his father, Zak'nefien, have held high power in the galaxy. Dritz as CIC of the NR... twice, and Zak'nefien as personal advisor to the first Emperor Xindell.

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.

Kalla

Kalla,  is the site of a Corporate Sector Authority university intended for the education of Authority members' children. Consequently, major fields of study include technical education, commerce, and administration with very little emphasis on the humanities. Rekkon was an instructor at the university prior to his adventures with Han Solo, and Fiolla of Lorrd attended the University of Kalla prior to taking a position in the Corporate Sector Authority. General Evir Derricote, commander of the Imperial base on Borleias, was a native of Kalla.

Kalla VII

Prior to the Battle of Yavin, a group of Alliance X-wings eliminated a large Imperial base located near Kalla VII, in an attempt to strand arriving Imperial ships. This resulted in the capture of the frigate Priam.

Kallistas

A dry, hot planet orbiting a white star, Kallistas is located just outside the Corporate Sector border and is the homeworld of the insect-like Kamarians. Kallistas's native flora includes miser-plants, barrel-scrub, and sting- brush, while its fauna includes digworms, stingworms, bloodsniffers, nightswifts, and howlrunners-- canine hunters with heads resembling human skulls. The nocturnal Kamarians live in small groups called tk'skqua, and their more sophisticated nations have developed technology such as nuclear explosives and fluidic control systems. Members of the unique Kamarian Badlander culture choose to live in the most arid and harsh areas of the planet. Han Solo inadvertently started a new religion among the Kamarian Badlanders based on the holofeature Varn, World of Water during a visit to the planet.

Governor General Egyptos loves music. So much so, that she has formed a band out of Imperial Army draftees. She can frequently be found hiring expensive artists from all over the galaxy to come perform for her. As a result, her family’s considerable wealth has been tapped, and it is rumored that she is occasionally involved in more illicit revenue generation.

Kanchin sector

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.

Grand Admiral Miles Teg made Kashyyyk his base of operations during the brief, but sharp, Operation: Maelstrom. The local wookie labor force insured an efficient dockyard, and the Empire appears to remain committed to the forced labor of a number of sentient species.

Kessel

Kessel is a potato-shaped planet with one large moon located somewhat near Fwillsving and Honoghr. It is home to the city of Kessendra, is the only source of the telepathy-inducing glitterstim spice, and was the former site of a brutal Imperial prison and spice mining operation. Kessel's surface is covered with crumbled salt flats and atmosphere-producing factories, which make the air breathable when filtering breath masks are used. Kessel is too small to hold this artificial atmosphere, however, so much of it trails off behind the planet in the wake of its orbit. Beneath the surface of the planet live energy spiders, which spin glitterstim webs as a method of catching their prey (primarily the luminous "bogey").

Following the failure of the Emperor's attempt to destroy the Jedi enclave on Belsavis, several designers of the Eye of Palpatine were reassigned to punitive duty at Kessel. The Kessel system is adjacent to a cluster of black holes known as the Maw, which makes navigating to the planet difficult and helped glamorize the smugglers' "Kessel Run." While Kessel was under control by the Empire it was a common smuggling destination for those dealing in spice, and Han Solo once boasted he had made the Kessel Run in "less than 12 parsecs" by flying dangerously close to the Maw. Solo's life was also saved on one Kessel run by his old associate Badure. Prior to the Battle of Yavin, a bold Alliance rescue operation freed a group of Rebel POWs during a prisoner transfer operation. During the chaos surrounding the Battle of Endor, a Rybet prison official named Moruth Doole (who had secretly been supplying glitterstim to smugglers) staged a prison revolt and took control of the planet from the Empire.

After Kessel was won back to the Empire in an assault led by Fleet Admiral Krull, the planet settled down to the quiet life of a penal colony.  Very recently, Fleet Admiral Seider has made Kessel his base of operations, fortifying the world and operating his fleet from its hellish surroundings.

This most important prison planet has been re-invigorated by the Grand Moff. Now home to the Empire’s dissidents, traitors, and Republican prisoners of war, Kessel is guarded by some of the most sophisticated weaponry in the galaxy. The glitterstim trade is now strictly controlled, and only star galleons are used to transport the stuff from point to point. Governor General Belisarius is a veteran of over fifteen planetary conquests, and he sees this post as a launching pad to another field command. Chief Warden Thanas is a bent, sadistic man who suffered under the previous Reconstructionist administration. Accordingly, he pays special attention to his inmates of that nature, especially the former governor of Kessel.

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.

Khomm is a pale green world lying very close to the Deep Galactic Core. It has moonless, has no unusual geologic features, no axial tilt, and a regular orbit. A thousand years ago, the planet's alien inhabitants decided that their society had reached perfection. They froze their bureaucratic culture at this "perfect" level, and began producing clones of previous generations. The genderless clones of Khomm like to keep to their own affairs, rarely leaving their planet and keeping the same roles and schedules from generation to generation. The planet remained neutral during the Galactic Civil War. Khomm's cities are laid out in perfect gridworks, with almost all buildings and residences looking identical and made from the same green- veined rock. Large cloning facilities in each city hold a record of all the major family lines.

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.

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Kira Sector

Several decades ago, the Haik expedition discovered a reliable hyperlane through the Kira system, which they named the Kira Run. The Kira Run connects the Lazerian and Ropagi systems, and also links the Harrin Trade Corridor with the Enarc Run. It was originally seen as a risky, uncertain route, but recently small shipping companies have begun servicing the Run and bringing it into the company of established trade routes.

Kira

A hyperlane running through the Kira system, known as the Kira Run, connects the Lazerian and Ropagi systems.

Kirima

Kirima, the fourth planet in the Yyrtan system, is a green-blue world of jungles, deserts, and mountains, and is home to the arachnid alien species called the Araquia. Kirima was originally colonized by several groups of humans, who founded the competing economic states of Surana, Kinkosa, and Dulai. Over the years, the states have seriously depleted the planet's natural resources and polluted the environment. The population of the planet includes two million humans and only 1,500 remaining Araquia. Kirima has recently agreed to become an Imperial supply station in exchange for the modernization of Kinkosa City and privileged trading status within the Empire. Shiarha Root, the only known cure for the deadly Direllian Plague, grows in Kirima's humid rainforests. Some of the many forms of life in the rainforests include river serpents and predator lizards.

Klatooine

The home planet of the alien species known as Klatooinians. It is a Klatooinian custom to sell their disrespectful youths into indentured service, and Jabba the Hutt picked up the contract of a Klatooinian manservant named Barada. Barada then became the head of Jabba's repulsorpool, but was killed during the rescue of Han Solo. Animal life on the planet includes the ill-tempered Klatooine paddy frog. Jabba was sometimes known to snack on live paddy frogs, served in brandy to keep them from attacking and killing each other.

Korseg

Governor General Paleologos currently supervises things on Korseg, but he would like to move up. Terrifically ambitious, Paleologos comes from a very prominent family on Coruscant, and he caused quite a stir when he joined the War Hawks. Now, that move has paid off, but he has no intention of staying on the quiet world of Korseg.

Kothlis

Governor General von Hextrophon enjoys his new post on Kothlis immensely. His principal hobby is torture, and the local Republican opposition keeps his dungeon well stocked, for now.

Kuat

Kuat, located in the Kanchin sector in the most densely-populated section of the galaxy, is the location of the massive Kuat Drive Yards starship construction facility. Kuat Drive Yards, or KDY, is one of the Empire's primary producers of warships and manufactures the feared Imperial-class Star Destroyer. Due to the strategic importance of the Kuat Drive Yards, the Empire defended the Kuat system with fifteen Star Destroyers after the Battle of Endor, and rigged the stardocks with explosives in case it was necessary to scuttle them.

Since the rise of the Xindells, Kuat has remained the principal capital shipyard of the Empire. Its prominence as a military installation is demonstrated by the fact that the entire Imperial Reserve Fleet is based at Kuat. Senator Viceroy Krensh rules Kuat with a vast secret police. His other worlds, Grizmaullt and Xa Fel, serve primarily to enhance his prestige in the Senate. His hear is on Kuat, and in its famous Drive Yards.

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.

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Kwenn

A space station, containing the Royal K Casino, where Jabba the Hutt acquired his pet Kowakian Lizard- Monkey, Salacious Crumb. Meysen Kayson, wealthy owner of the Greel Wood Logging Corporation in the Pii system, also owns a sizable percentage of Kwenn station.

Kwenn has always been a recreational world, and though Imperial, still boasts a rich and diverse clientele.

The domain of Imperial Moff Par Lankin, a warlord who set up his own private Empire in the chaos following the Battle of Endor. Moff Lankin was one of the first casualties of the first Emperor Xindell's  rise to power. Lankin was aboard the VSD "Bardiche" when Xindell's fleet swept from hyperspace.  His last words are reputed to be, "If only I had known the truth about that demi-human."

Latoma

An Imperial convoy was leaving Latoma when it was ambushed by a Rebel cruiser, several shuttles, and X-wing fighters. None of the Imperial transports were able to escape the Latoma system, and the Rebels captured all 14 without any losses.

Lazerian IV

Lazerian IV, in the Lazerian system, contains the city of Lazeria and serves as one endpoint of the Kira Run. The recent interest in the Kira Run by mainstream corporations is expected to greatly help the system's economy.

Lianna

The manufacturing world Lianna instituted home rule following the Empire's defeat at the Battle of Endor, under the auspices of the Corporate Sector Authority. The New Republic respected the planet's new non-aligned status, but Imperial reprisals on Lianna for treason seemed inevitable. Lady Santhe, head of the powerful Santhe/Sienar manufacturing corporation, threatened to cut off Lianna's production of TIE fighters unless the planet was left alone. This threat, along with secret payments to the local Moff, resulted in Lianna receiving a special charter of secession from the Empire. One of the products manufactured after Lianna's secession was the compact but powerful TIE tank, also called the Century tank. The inhabitants of the planet are called Lianns. Lianna has been at the center of fighting throughout the reign of Xindell. As sector capital, it has always been in the center of Corporate Sector intrigues. Lianna is a cosmopolitan planet, dominated by the massive buildings of the Corporate Sector's most powerful corporations. Recently leadershi of Corporate Authority requested presence of NI Grand Admiral Miles Teg and NR representatives, to discuss disturbances to buisness due to battles between NR and Ni in Etti and Mythus systems. Commodore Farliner arrived, impersonation NR governor of Mythus, but his forve abbilities was detected by NI detectors, and Teg`s attempt to capture him ended in breef but action-filled chase.

Mandalore

Four thousand years ago, the Mandalore system was home to a group of fierce masked warrior clans led by a mysterious warlord called Mandalore. The clans, made up of deadly but honorable crusaders, rode semi-intelligent Basilisk war droids, boasted cutting-edge weaponry, and were considered to be the best fighters in the entire galaxy. The mask and title of "Mandalore" belonged to no single individual, but were traditionally passed down from one warrior to the next in the event of their leader's death. During the Sith War, the Mandalorians conquered the Kuar system and struck at the neighboring Teta system, forcing the Tetan leader Ulic Qel-Droma to battle Mandalore in single combat. Mandalore was defeated, and he swore his armies' allegiance to Qel-Droma and the Krath forces. The warlord was made Qel-Droma's war commander, and his clans won many victories for their new leader. At the close of the Sith War, however, Mandalore's armies were defeated in their attempt to capture the planet Onderon. Mandalore and his surviving warriors were forced to flee to the Dxun moon, where Mandalore was killed by a pair of the moon's deadly beasts and a new warrior donned his mask and assumed his title.

Millennia later, the warlike Mandalore people exterminated the Ithullan race, several hundred years before the Battle of Yavin. During the Clone Wars, a group of warriors from the system were defeated by the Jedi Knights. The notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett wears an armored suit similar to those worn by these Mandalore warriors, and his alternate ship Slave II is based on a Mandalorian police ship design. Imperial dungeon ships were originally designed by the Mandalorians, and were introduced during the Jedi purge to contain dangerous force users. Mandalorian battle harnesses are designed to be operated by R2 units, and Freedon Nadd's tomb on Dxun was constructed from Mandalorian iron. New Republic R&D created advanced body armor, superior to one used by Imperial Stromtroopers or Spacetroopers, based on design of Mandalorian Battle armor.

Mandalore is a special world, and one that the Grand Moff has always favored. Accordingly, he assigned Governor General Miniver to deal with the war-torn world. Miniver has assumed the position of Clan Elder and she is teaching the various clans how to fight together again. It is possible, that in time, the once-feared Mandalorian warriors will again ravage space, but this time in the service of the Empire.

Mantooine

Mantooine, in the system of the same name, is located in the Atrivis sector in the Outer Rim. The government of Mantooine considers spice smuggling to be a capital offense. Years ago, a group of Mantooine freedom fighters called the Liberators were massacred by the Empire when they took refuge in a captured Imperial base. If the group had been allied with another resistance group in the nearby Fest system, however, the Liberators could have been warned of the coming strike fleet and taken cover in Mantooine's impenetrable forests. This example of the benefits of communication helped build a strong case for a single, unified Rebel Alliance. In a separate incident, the probe droid D-127X's self-sacrifice may have saved Mantooine from an Imperial surprise attack.

Site of an Imperial University. The Imperial spy Benald Orlan was an honors student at this university, where he attended the Thene campus.

Marettan Sector

Mektrun Cluster

Merson Asteroid Field

Mestra Asteroid Field

Minos Cluster

Located on the fringes of known space, the Minos Cluster contains the Shesharile system.

Monadin

The oxygen-rich planet Monadin is one of the inner worlds of the Dartibek system and is the homeworld of the Ho'Din. Active volcanoes fill Monadin'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. Monadin 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 Monadin 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 Monadin.

Governor General Markab genuinely dislikes the Ho'Din. He finds their behavior petulant and annoying, and frequently arrests local leaders just to get them off the local vids.

Mon Calamari (see Calamari)

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.

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.  Hyllyard City is 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. Twenty years ago, Miles Teg obtained some ysalamiri from Moff Lepidus of Tel. It is unknown how broadly he has succeeded in cultivating the small creatures, but it is rumored that he has colonized the creatures on several worlds throughout the Empire. It is rumoured, that some of most powerfull New Republic Jedi managed to overcome effect of Yslamiri.

Mytus

Mytus IV

A prominent world of the Corporate Sector, Mytus IV is a diverse world, with large cities and verdant farmland.  The world is the principal base of House Teg, and has seen two major battles in the early days of the Xindell's Second War of Galactic Conquest.  While the world remains under Republican control, the presence of House Teg continues to destabilize the peaceful regime and works to overthrow the republic. Mytus is the birthworld of Miles Teg, and Seneschal Stilgar currently manages house affairs while the Master is away.

Mytus VII(Stars' End)

A small, rocky planet with low gravity and no atmosphere, Mytus VII is located in the debris-cluttered Mytus system and was home to the Corporate Sector Authority prison known as Stars' End. Mytus VII orbits at the edge of its system, whose small star is located at the distant end of the galaxy and the farthest border of Corporate Sector space. The prison, where inmates were kept in suspended animation between interrogations, was commanded by Authority Viceprex Mirkovig Hirken. Stars' End was destroyed by Han Solo and his companions during an attempted jailbreak. Prior to the Battle of Yavin, a group of Alliance pilots escaped from Mytus VII in a freighter and were subsequently rescued by a Rebel shuttle.

Star's End prison has been converted into a museum by the New Republic, but several portions of the prison remain closed to visitors.  It is unknown what remains in the depths of this prison.

A bruised green, blue, and brown planet in the Y'Toub system, Nal Hutta (meaning "glorious jewel" in Huttese) is one of the primary planets settled by the Hutts after leaving their ancestral home of Varl. The planet's immense size is compensated by its extremely low density, giving it a tolerable gravity. Nal Hutta was once a pleasant world of mountainous rain forests. Since their arrival, however, the Hutts have transformed it into a gloomy planet of stinking bogs, stagnant, scum-covered puddles, and patches of sickly marsh grass inhabited by insects and spiders. The planet's flocks of large, clumsy birds are shot down by swoop-riding hunters. The atmosphere is polluted by strip-mining operations in the Nal Hutta's industrial centers, and a greasy rain drizzles down on the world's destitute inhabitants living in their squatters' villages and ghettos. Entertainment centers located near the Nal Hutta spaceport stand on stilts in the planet's swampy ground. The white palace of Durga the Hutt lies across from the spaceport, and features a swamp- water bathhouse and an infamous network of dungeons. Nal Hutta and its moon, Nar Shaddaa, are located in the center of "Hutt Space" and receive a constant traffic of freight haulers, smugglers, and other galactic traders. Raw materials are continually strip-mined from Nal Hutta's surface and shipped to the Nar Shaddaa moon for processing and transport. The planet is ruled by a council of the eldest members of the "Clans of the Ancients," the oldest Hutt families. The world's population consists of nearly seven billion inhabitants, three billion of them Hutts.

Many years ago, the planet was known as Evocar and was the homeworld of the primitive Evocii. When the Hutts arrived, they traded technology to the Evocii in exchange for land-- eventually buying up the planet and forcing the Evocii from their homeworld. The Old Republic relocated the displaced Evocii to the Nar Shaddaa moon, but they fared no better there. Once the Hutts controlled the entire planet, they replaced all Evocii structures with Hutt palaces and shrines and renamed the world Nal Hutta. The planet's nearness to busy hyperspace lanes made it a popular trade world at the time, though the trade lanes have long since shifted. In recent history, Nal Hutta and its moon have become a haven for smugglers, pirates, and criminals. A massive, radioactive gas cloud, containing the hidden planet Ganath, lies very close to Nal Hutta. Nal Hutta remains at the heart of a vast criminal empire, and as an Imperial sector capital, it has the added benefit of serving as the Empire's principal nexus with the huge black market.

Nar Shaddaa

The ungoverned "smugglers' moon" orbiting Nal Hutta, Nar Shaddaa is completely covered by interlocking spaceport facilities and miles-high docking towers reaching to orbit. The moon's all-covering "vertical city" was built over thousands of years, and is protected by often-malfunctioning planetary shields. Though it was once a glorious world of bustling, legitimate trade, Nar Shaddaa quickly lost prestige as the hyperspace trade lanes shifted away. Now quite distant from most galactic commercial centers, Nar Shaddaa is typically allowed to run its own affairs with little Imperial interference. Famous as the birthplace of Jabba the Hutt, Nar Shaddaa is controlled by Hutts and assorted "smuggling guilds" who control various sections of the moon. It is now widely regarded as the center of smuggling operations in the known galaxy, and the pollution, decay, and lawlessness associated with smuggling traffic run rampant on the moon. Sections of Nar Shaddaa's maze-like city include the Duros sector and the Corellian sector, which contains three bars popular with bounty hunters-- the Burning Deck, the Slag Pit, and the Meltdown Cafe, and another corner tavern called the Orange Lady. Most of the moon's 72 to 95 billion inhabitants live in the highest levels of the spaceport-cities.

Nar Shaddaa was originally given to the displaced Evocii as a new homeworld, after the Hutts forced the species from Nal Hutta. The Hutts continued to exploit the Evocii in their new home, buying up their land and using them as a cheap labor source. Now their forgotten, inbred descendants can be found inhabiting the lowest levels of the vertical city. Han Solo and Lando Calrissian both used to frequent Nar Shaddaa during their early smuggling days, and still have associates living there. Before their service to Captain Antilles, C-3PO and R2-D2 traveled to Nar Shaddaa in an attempt to apprehend the criminal Olag Greck. The bounty hunter Greedo and his family lived in the moon's Corellian sector for several years, until an Imperial attack on a Rebel hideout resulted in massive destruction and the collapse of nearly twenty sector levels. Following the Battle of Yavin, Alliance agent Kyle Katarn avoided bounty hunters on Nar Shaddaa in order to find Imperial navigational charts related to the Dark Trooper project. Six years after the Battle of Endor, Leia and Han Solo, searching for Vima-Da-Boda in Nar Shaddaa's lowest levels, were attacked by man-eating vrblthers and the bounty hunter Boba Fett. The Republican Jedi Master, Shawn Ch'aaka, spent 15 years operating from Nar Shadaa as a leader of the Smuggler's Guild. Art Farliner have spent some time on Nar Shadda with smugglers, prior to joining New Republic, and worked togeather with Shawn here.

Varl

Varl, the original homeworld of the Hutts, is a barren planet orbiting the white dwarf Ardos.   Ardos is immediately adjacent to the Y'Toub system, which contains the Hutt's present home, Nal Hutta. Cyax is the brightest star that can be seen in Varl's night sky, and it features prominently in early Hutt legend. According to other Hutt legends, the planet Varl was once a beautiful world of green forests circling the twin stars Ardos and Evona. Evona was drawn into a black hole, causing complete destruction of many planets in the system, the ruin of Varl, and the transformation of Ardos into a white dwarf. Due to the impossibilities in this legend, the most plausible explanation for the devastation of Varl is that the Hutts destroyed it themselves in an ancient civil war. The Hutts have since relocated to Nal Hutta in the Y'Toub system.

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.

New Alderaan

New Republic Support Services located a planet, renamed New Alderaan, to serve as a homeworld for the refugees from the destroyed world of Alderaan. Following the Battle of Endor, General Jan Dodonna went into semi-retirement on New Alderaan until called back into service to fight the Empire. The planet was later discovered by Imperial Warlord Zsinj and its entire population was forced to temporarily evacuate.

Obroa-skai

Located in the system of the same name, Obroa-skai sits at a strategic location within the borderland regions. When Mara Jade visited Wayland during her tenure as the Emperor's Hand, the last stop before reaching their destination was Obroa-skai. As a sector capital, Obroa-skai is a heavily defended world, and significant progress has been made in recent years at eliminating Republican sympathies.

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.

Ord Mantell

A planet with twin moons located in the outworlds. Points of interest on Ord Mantell include its busy spaceport (surrounded by canyons), and Ten Mile Plateau, located in the rocky back country. Supposedly a world free from Imperial interests, Ord Mantell happened to be hosting an Imperial fleet on maneuvers when Han Solo arrived there to repair the Millennium Falcon following the Battle of Yavin. While there, Solo encountered his smuggler friend Drub McKumb, who warned Solo of the sizeable bounty on his head. Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia were later captured by the bounty hunter Skorr, and held captive in the abandoned stellar energy plant on Ten Mile Plateau. Skorr planned to use the pair as bait to trap Solo, but his plans were foiled when Solo and Chewbacca staged a daring rescue.

Later, Solo, Skywalker, and Chewbacca were captured by several bounty hunters (including Skorr, Dengar, and Bossk) working with Boba Fett, who imprisoned the trio in an abandoned moisture plant in Ord Mantell's back country. Again, Solo and his companions managed to outwit the bounty hunters and flee the planet.

Ord Pardron

Ord Pardron, is the site of a major New Republic base. Ord Pardron is also the homeworld of Dera Jynsol, one of Lando Calrissian's candidates for marriage.

2 big continents, several climatic regions, one massive mountain chain from SE->NW->NE due to continental drift beeing the main influencing on the clima. Common industrial pollution on a moderate level, quite stabile systems, w/o the main predators, that have only some refuges in the polar regions or in the deep see, respectively. Marine industry is quite advanced, especially in marine agriculture at the famous Majgo coast.

The Planet is lead by a Prime Minister that also rules the Local Parliament. The Prime MInister since the Empire retreated is Klart Grabys, the former local rebellion leader.

The local rebellion on Ord Padron used everything to overthrow the imperial presence 50 years ago. In the counterattack and while retreating, the Empire bombed the industry to leave a non-industrial planet behind. After being only loosely associated to the New Republic, an imperial intelligence mission worked out wrong for the NI, and Klart Grabys used it to lead the planet totally into the NR. An this time, Oliver Cromwell was there to terraform and decontaminate the agricultural fields. Cromwell helped Grabys succeed, and in return Grabys appointed Oliver Cromwell Ambassador of Ord Pardron. The planetary based defenses (Pions or Plasers) are be situated on huge floating ships called Warhammers.

Orrin

A volcanic world, Orin has an elliptical orbit, passing through the asteroids of the nearby Velser's Ring twice during its year. Its black surface is rocked by frequent earthquakes and covered with rivers of lava and erupting volcanos. Orrin's surface temperature is unbearably high and its atmosphere is choked with thick soot.

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.

Pallis Sector

Pantolomin

Pantolomin is famous for the intricate coral reefs found in the waters off its northern continent. The Coral Vanda, an underwater casino, travels through the network of reefs on three- and seven-day luxury excursions. The Coral Vanda's eight gambling areas include the Saffkin and Tralla rooms, and patrons can view the reefs' fish and animal life through the transparent hull. Other resorts on the planet include the Towers of Pantolomin, owned by Galaxy Tours. The planet's animals include the playful, color-changing amphibians known as halfbacks, and the inhabitants of Pantolomin are referred to as Lomins.

Paonid

Paradise

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.

Paqualis

After the Battle of Hoth, the traitorous Imperial Admiral Harkov was captured in the Parmel system and brought before Darth Vader for questioning and execution. Later, the renegade Admiral Zaarin returned to his deep-space R&D facility in the Parmel system to seize its TIE Defender prototypes. Loyal Imperial forces captured the facility, but were forced to evacuate with the prototype TIEs when Zaarin tried to destroy the space platform.

Pardron

The Pardron system contains a research facility operated by Imperial Admiral Zaarin. It was here that Zaarin equipped his TIE squadrons with a new beam weapon in the time following the Battle of Hoth.

Pendarr

Many years ago, the Bosken company started an ambitious (though ultimately unprofitable) mining operation on the gas giant Pendarr. The planet is famous for its perpetual atmospheric storms.

Governor General Suriname is old navy, and his family has been part of the Navy since they began keeping track. He loves to bore visitors with tales of the glory days of exploration, when the galaxy was completely unknown to humanity.

Phyco Sector

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.

Protazk

A star orbited by a single desert planet of the same name, which is home to feathered song serpents and the tiny scavengers called dinkos, which emit a highly offensive smell. Both animals are sold in Sabodor's pet shop on Etti IV.

Qat Chrystac

Quiberon Asteroid Field

Deep inside the Quintar Nebula, the Quiberon Asteroid Field is a treacherous piece of space.  Found on few star charts, the Quintar Nebula is a thick mass of colorful, swirling clouds that can blind sensors and ionize flight-control systems. Tron Nixx, the navigator for Drek Drednar's pirate crew, used the Force to chart a safe route through the Nebula, where he discovered the hidden world of Taraloon.  Taraloon lies at the heart of the nebula, but passage through the asteroid field and the nebula are almost impossible tasks.

Ralltiir

Ralltiir, located in the system of the same name, lies along the Perlemian Trade Route in the Darpa sector of the Core Worlds, just on the border of the Colonies region. Over the last several hundred years, Ralltiir was the only planet in the Darpa sector that was able to maintain its independence from the nearby world of Esseles. In recent history, Ralltiir was an attractive, high-technology world famous for its banking industry and home to the Grallia Spaceport. The planet's powerful financial institutions were politically neutral and had a reputation as a "safe haven" for investors' funds. With the rise of the Empire, certain factions began to infiltrate Ralltiir's financial system and steer its markets in a pro-Imperial direction-- erasing the fiscal records of alien investors, for instance. Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, pro-Alliance members of the Ralltiir High Council tried to stop this and restore balance to the markets-- inspiring the Emperor to use Ralltiir as an example to other worlds that would resist his will. A brutal Imperial force, led by Lord Tion, immediately invaded Ralltiir and left the planet and its ten billion inhabitants in shambles. Tion disbanded the High Council, replaced it with a military tribunal headed by Imperial Governor Dennix Graeber, and set up interrogation centers and public executions of Rebel leaders. He also sealed off the entire Ralltiir system (not even permitting relief organizations to travel through his blockade), severely hurting commerce along the Perlemian Trade Route. Princess Leia Organa, on a mercy mission to deliver medical supplies and equipment to the High Council of Ralltiir, was permitted to land by Tion. The Princess rescued a wounded Rebel soldier, who later revealed the existence of the Death Star project. Ralltiir's economy is now in ruins, as many of its powerful corporations have relocated offworld. Since the occupation, Governor Graeber has been getting rich by secretly supplying the Rebel underground with weapons, which he then uses as a justification to persecute Ralltiir's citizens even further. Prior to the Battle of Yavin, an Alliance raid on the Cygnus Corporation's starfighter performance trials near Ralltiir resulted in the capture of the Assault Gunboat design team. Elea Poista, a top Exex at Bespin Motors and an occasional Alliance contact, gained her position after transferring from a shipping company on Ralltiir.

The sector capital of Colunda received a war hero for its Governor General. Ozawa was the Imperial Army officer who seized the Marshall Highlands on Hoth, preventing the Rebels from activating their timed destructive charges and allowing the Empire to capture Echo Base intact. While the personnel and fighters all escaped, the Empire was still able to catch several smaller cells as a result of this victory and Ozawa was promptly decorated. Every year on the anniversary of the battle, Ozawa orders a parade, with himself as Grand Marshall.

Redrish

Redrish is a rainy, barren world of shifting mud plains, crossed with jagged canyons and mountain ranges. Since ships can easily sink in the thick mud, landings are restricted to the stable Tyma Canyon, which runs for several hundred kilometers across the planet's surface. Redrish's human inhabitants-- the poverty- stricken descendants of early mining colonists--live in settlements built on the bases of the mountain chains. Repulsorlifts are inoperable on Redrish, since the omnipresent mud clogs their systems. Instead, residents travel on olai, horned beasts of burden originally brought from a nearby moon to Redrish for use in the mining industry. Points of interest on the planet include Juteau Settlement, which was built near the Garish Ridge and contains the Laughing Bantha tavern. Ruck's Rut is a multileveled network of rifts and fissures located in Tyma Canyon. Redrish is shrouded in gray skies, though low patches of lavender-pink clouds sometimes hug the world's surface. Redrish is nominally under the Empire's control and has a minimal Imperial presence, though the planet's 140,000 inhabitants possess no form of organized government. The old smuggler Toob Ancher, suffering from the Bitter Winter disease, came with Drake Paulsen to Redrish, where the old man's checkered life came to an end.

Governor General Goddard is an old scientist/warrior. His “hobby” is bio-genetic weaponry and the Grand Moff has given him a wide license to continue his work on Redrish. No one can say exactly what he is up to in the depths of Redrish’s jungles.

Resht

Rishi

The only places on Rishi habitable by its colonists are the humid, congested valleys, though the native avian Rishii inhabit the high mountains surrounding the city-vales. The conservative colonists live in white stone buildings and forbid the use of repulsorlift vehicles on the streets in the morning. Animal life on Rishi includes the dangerous Maungurs in the planet's warm polar regions, who have flexible "limb-tails" as forelimbs and feature prominently in Rishii legends and stories. The primary food of the Maungur are the leaf-eating khi'rs. Talon Karrde's smuggling group briefly used a Rishi city-vale as a hideout following their evacuation of Myrkr. This city-vale measures approximately 150 kilometers east to west and only a few kilometers north-south, and has sparsely-populated industrial areas to the north. While on her way to the Number Three dump on 412 Wozwashi Street, Mara Jade was ambushed by a bounty hunter.

Roche Asteroid Field

The Roche system contains the Roche asteroid field, a relatively stable configuration of asteroids orbiting a small yellow sun. In addition to mynocks and space slugs, the Roche field is home to the intelligent insectoid species called the Verpine. There are three common theories as to how the Verpine came to inhabit the inhospitable asteroid belt: that they are the descendants of spacefaring nomads, that their original planet disintegrated around them over thousands of years, or that they destroyed their planet in a devastating war. The Verpine inhabit networks of tunnels in the larger asteroids, hermetically sealing them from vacuum and covering them with repulsorfields to prevent collision with other asteroids. Verpine can communicate with each other through inaudible radio waves picked up through their antennae, and most Verpine criminals have damaged antennae.

Verpine are considered among the best mechanics in the galaxy, and a team of them helped Admiral Ackbar design the B-Wing starfighter. The Verpine tech Zraii, a native of Roche G42, served with the Alliance's famed Rogue Squadron. A serious incident between the Verpine and the Barabel occurred four years after the Battle of Endor, when a mad Verpine hive mother defaulted on several ship-building contracts for the Barabel. The Barabel began to make good on their threat to sell Verpine body parts to the insect-eating Kubaz, and New Republic forces were dispatched to the Roche system to help prevent a war.

Rodia

Rodia, in the Tyrius system, is an industrial planet which is home to the violence-loving Rodians and their vast weapons-manufacturing facilities. The culture of the Rodians romanticizes death and the hunt, as is evidenced by their reverence for the bounty hunter profession, their gladiatorial games, and in their famous dramatic plays. Their society is ruled by the Rodian Grand Protector, and only the most accomplished hunters are allowed to leave their planet. The Salus Corporation, based on Rodia, specifically designed Stalker battle armor for use by Rodian bounty hunters. Rodia was once a lush tropical world, but rapid industrial growth has made many lifeforms extinct. As a result, foodstuffs have become a common import. Years ago, Navik the Red, the Rodian leader of the Chattza clan, eliminated many opposing clan leaders and nearly wiped out the entire Tetsus clan. Greedo, a novice bounty hunter in the employ of Jabba the Hutt, was a Rodian and a surviving member of the Tetsus clan. Another notable Rodian was Andoorni Hui, a female pilot and member of the Alliance's famed Rogue Squadron.

Ropagi system

The Ropagi system is one endpoint of the Kira Run; the Lazerian system is the other. The recent interest in the Kira Run by mainstream corporations is expected to greatly help the system's economy.

Rordak

Ryloth

Located in the Outer Rim near Tatooine, Ryloth is the principal planet in the Ryloth system and is home to the alien species known as Twi'leks. Twi'leks are humanoid aliens with two large, fleshy "head-tails" growing from their skulls. The Twi'leks call these prehensile appendages "lekku" and can communicate in secret through lekku gestures, though they also have a spoken language, Twi'leki. Their 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 raw 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. Points of interest on Ryloth include the city of Kala'uun.

A major Twi'lek corporation is Galactic Exotics, which developed orchards on the planet Belsavis. Ryloth is also home to SchaumAssoc., a Twi'lek advertising agency that pioneered media and public relations for the Corporate Sector. Years ago, 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. Jabba the Hutt's majordomo, Bib Fortuna, was one of the first to widely sell ryll spice off-planet, which attracted the Empire's attention and brought slavers to Ryloth. Fortuna was sentenced to death but escaped, and returned later with an army of Jabba's men to exact revenge. Seven Ryloth cities were burned and Jabba took slaves and riches, while Fortuna rescued Nat Secura, the last son of a great Twi'lek family. Fortuna made plans to someday return with Secura and rule Ryloth as he saw fit. Not long before the Battle of Endor, Fortuna enslaved a clan chief's daughter named Oola, and trained her to serve as a dancer in Jabba's palace. Maw scientist Tol Sivron, Rogue Squadron pilot Nawara Ven, and the ancient Jedi knight Tott Doneeta were also natives of Ryloth.

Santarine

Site of one of the first Emperor Xindell's greatest defeats.  Inadequately coordinated forces allowed the Republic, under Dritz Do'Urden one of its greatest victories against the Empire.  FA Krull nearly lost his fleet over this defeat.  Santarine was subsequently attacked by the Empire, but remains in the hands of the New Republic.

Sarin Sector

Saurton

A high-gravity planet located in the Mid-Rim, Saurton is an arid, cold world of tundra, forests, and mountains. The planet's severe axial tilt causes extreme seasonal changes and unpredictable weather, and all planetary travel is restricted to ground vehicles due to the violent windstorms. Saurtons cross the planet's surface on six-legged reptilian mounts called striders, and sometimes on unique, single-wheeled machines called wheelbikes. Saurton has been colonized for several hundred years, and its 1.5 million settlers are primarily stubborn breedtash ranchers known for their independence and sympathy towards the Rebellion. The planet's capital and largest city is Besia Osurne, home to 250,000 people and containing the popular Trail's End tavern near the stockyards. The Empire, testing a pathogen-based loyalty enhancement project, infected the entire population of Saurton with a deadly plague called the Gray Death through aerial spraying. Imperial forces set up medical facilities, ostensibly to protect the citizens from the plague, but in reality forcing them to become dependent on the Empire for their continued survival.

Governor General Malebranche has archaeology as a hobby. He can often be found digging around in the ruins of the old Saurton monks, hoping to find something of value to win his entrance to the Imperial Academy of Archaeology. Of course, Malebranche is also stupid. An efficient commander of infantry, he is unlikely to have the wit necessary to fulfill his academic ambition.

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.

Sellasas

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.

One of the worlds of the Corporate Sector, Selenius has seen several inconclusive battles fought over its ultimate ownership. While the Empire finally gained the upper hand during the reign of the Regent, it still harbors significant Republican sympathies.

Seltos

Following the Battle of Hoth, Grand Admiral Thrawn leaked word that a convoy carrying missile boats would be passing near the planet Seltos. This was intended as bait to trap the renegade Admiral Zaarin and his traitorous forces.

Sern sector

The Sern sector is located near the Core Worlds, and contains the planet Ghorman.

Seswenna sector

The "First Sector" of the galaxy, Seswenna contains Coruscant, Corellia, Chandrila, and the remnants of Alderaan.  Seswenna is, has been, and is likely to remain the single most important sector for the Empire's continued vitality.   It is so important, each world in the sector has an Imperial Moff, and the Emperor himself oversees the sector's management. For this reason, it is occassionally called "The Royal Sector".

Siruan

Site of the last battle of the Schanda War, Siruan was partly devastated by the huge world-eater.  The combined forces of the Galactic Empire and the New Republic succeeded in destroying the Schanda, but only at great cost.  Siruan has been slow to recover, and still wears the scars from that great battle.

Skine

An arid, heavy-gravity world, Skine was used by the Empire as a training outpost for Imperial Army soldiers. The large planet has a wide variety of terrain but possesses no valuable natural resources, and is protected by three orbiting defensive satellites. Many training centers dot the surface, including the Arctic Environments Combat Range at the north pole and the Deep Oceans Operations Camp in the tropical seas. Skine's equatorial continent is covered with a thick muddy jungle, and the planet's main starport is located on an equatorial island. Skine is also the homeworld of the timid Eklaad, quadrupedal aliens possessing prehensile snouts and covered with tough armored hides. Skine's 1.5 million Eklaad live in tribes ruled by hereditary chieftains, and have not advanced beyond stone-age technology. Once, the Eklaad had a planetwide Council of Chieftains, but that ruling body has not convened since the arrival of the Imperial Army.

Sluis sector

The Sluis sector contains the planets Dagobah, Bpfassh, Praesitlyn, and Sluis Van.

Sluis Van

Located in the Sluis sector, 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. Six months after the Battle of Endor, the Sluis Van Congregate was still debating on whether to join the New Republic. Though the Sluis sector lay closer to New Republic sectors than to the Imperially-held Core Worlds, the Sluissi did not want to alienate the Empire, which was still one of their main shipyard clients.  Notable members of the snakelike Sluissi species include Secles Uslopos, henchman for the crimelord Abdi-Badawzi on the planet Socorro.

Sombure sector

The Sombure sector is located near the Wornal sector. Imperial Moff Prentioch, ruler of the Sombure sector, began to expand his own territory following the Battle of Endor. His forces made advances into neighboring sectors including Wornal, where he ran against the competing forces of Moff Eyrgen. Both Eyrgen and Prentioch were crushed by the first Emperor Xindell.

Spica

A tropical pleasure world in the Mid-Rim. With very little axial tilt, and almost no dangerous native life, Spica is one of the most popular vacation destinations among the wealthy Core World citizens. The planet is almost entirely covered by a sparkling sea, broken only by small islands. Scouted by the Old Republic over a thousand years ago, Spica is now leased from the Empire by the Tourist Guild. Air traffic to the planet is limited to passenger liners and registered transports, and personal weapons are forbidden. Spica's mostly human population numbers only 500,000, and the Spica Security Police handle most local disturbances. Ataria Island is home to Spica's major spaceport and its most exclusive resorts. Spectacular cliffs compose its north and west sides, and luxurious beaches can be found to the east.

The exclusive Aspre Plunge resort is built directly into Ataria Island's north cliff face, and it extends one hundred meters below the water's surface. Gamblers in the Aspre Plunge's famous casino can look out its windows and view Spica's colorful marine life. A small Imperial garrison is located near Ataria Island's spaceport. The Shinkai Abyss, an underwater chasm lying near Ataria Island, runs almost 5000 kilometers and is encrusted with sparkling crystal. Spica's large, predatory Camray eels inhabit the Abyss and make popular trophies for vacationing sport hunters. Spica's largest island is on the opposite side of the planet, and its southern cape is an intersection of dangerous ocean currents called the Point. A crashed alien spaceship of unknown age or origin lies beneath the ocean and is a popular attraction for recreational divers. Spica is famous for the annual Spica Regatta, in which yacht crews race each other around the entire planet in a matter of days. Underwater plant life includes lacy green seafern, and marine animals include the parasitic Galub slug.

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. Piringiisi is one popular resort spot on the planet, known for its hot springs and caustic green mud. 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, and SoroSuub once manufactured Dragon battle armor for the Sullustan military. The Sullustans have established a permanent system Home Guard navy to protect their shipping from pirates and criminals. Drutash grubs are considered a Sullustan delicacy.

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 Imperials, Councilor Sian Tevv brought Nien Nunb's private raiding squad into Alliance service. Prior to the Battle of Yavin, after the Alliance rescued a Sullustan leader kidnapped by the Empire, the Sullustans seemed to join the Alliance. However, it was not until late in the war when the leaders of Sullust finally held a vote and decided to officially secede from the Empire. The Alliance fleet assembled near Sullust just prior to the Battle of Endor. Nien Nunb's sister Aril Nunb later served as the Executive Officer for Rogue Squadron.

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. Mara Jade was sent to Svivren by the Emperor after she failed to kill Luke Skywalker at Jabba's palace on Tatooine. Later, 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.

Talasea

The fourth planet in the Morobe system, Talasea orbits the yellow primary star in a red/yellow binary group. A cool, moist, fog-shrouded world, Talasea has a higher gravity than standard and is lashed by severe thunderstorms during the rainy season. Island continents make up its land masses. Animal life includes native insects and reptiles, along with feral mammals descended from those brought for an early farming colony. Indigenous plant life includes green ivy and the kaha tree.

Colonized long ago, most of the settlers' descendants left over the years, and the last group of them were wiped out by Darth Vader after the Clone Wars for harboring a fugitive Jedi. Some three years after the Battle of Endor, Rogue Squadron was moved from Folor to Talasea, closer to the Galactic Core, as a staging area for their eventual move on Coruscant. They made their base on the largest of the island continents, inhabiting the ruins of Talasea's Planetary Governor's Palace and the surrounding ivy-covered cottages. The Palace's primitive Grand Room was built of heavy native wood and thick plaster. After Imperial Intelligence agent Kirtan Loor deduced the location of Rogue Squadron's new headquarters, Admiral Devlia ordered a platoon of stormtroopers to secretly infiltrate the base and plant explosives. Though the squadron lost six sentries and pilot Lujayne Forge, all of the Imperial commandos were captured or killed. The Alliance immediately evacuated the base, leaving behind several booby traps for any Imperial follow-up teams to discover.

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.

Tantive

Tarsunt 

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

Tatooine

A harsh, desert planet orbiting a double star in the Outer Rim, near the worlds of Ryloth and Piroket, Tatooine is located in the system of the same name. Far from the galactic mainstream, Tatooine happens to occupy a strategic location at the nexus of several hyperspace routes. Unfortunately, there is very little of interest on Tatooine, and it is ignored by almost everyone, with the exception of smugglers and criminals. The G1 and G2 stars of the system are referred to as Tatoo I and II, and the planet is orbited by two moons. Over the centuries Tatooine has been the site of many orbital battles between rival gangsters and smugglers, and its surface is littered with ancient starship wrecks-- most of which have long since been buried by the fierce sandstorms that rage across its surface every year. Tatooine has only been officially colonized for a few hundred years, but it boasts two native alien species: the meddlesome Jawas and the fierce Tusken Raiders, commonly called Sandpeople.

The nomadic Sandpeople spend their lives swathed in thick wrappings, looking out at the world from behind fearsome masks. They are intoxicated by sugar water and are most dangerous during their adolescent years, when they must survive rigorous rites of passage (such as hunting krayt dragons) to become adults. The Storyteller is the most respected member of Tusken communities, and it is considered blasphemy (and grounds for instant death) to speak a single word of the sacred stories incorrectly. Many Tusken Raider clans return annually to their traditional encampments in the Needles, a section of the Jundland Wastes, to wait out the dangerous sandstorm season. The Sandpeople have an almost symbiotic relationship with their bantha mounts-- a member who has lost his bantha is considered incomplete, and an outcast among his people. 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, dune lizard, sandsnake, rockmite, feathered lizard, sand-jigger, meewit, cliffborer worm, strange (but harmless) protoplasmic creatures, and the feared Sarlacc, which is said to take a thousand years to digest its prey. Tatooine is also home to the terrifying krayt dragon, possibly feared more than any other animal in the sector. Though it is considered a suicidal venture, some hunt the krayt dragon to obtain its legendary, priceless gizzard stones, known as "dragon pearls." 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. Some water prospectors roam the desert searching for untapped sources of subterranean moisture. The native hubba gourd is a primary part of the diet of both the Sandpeople and Jawas, and other plant life includes razor moss and the funnel flower. Strange mists sometimes form where the sodium-rich dunes meet the rocky cliffs, though the origin of these mists is a mystery. Points of interest on Tatooine include the Dune Sea and the neighboring Jundland Wastes, Anchorhead, Motesta, Toshi Station, Bestine township, Beggar's Canyon and its 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 (owned by the Whipid gangster Lady Valarian), Lup's General Store, the Spaceport Traffic Control Tower, dewback stables, the Mos Eisley Inn, Ruillia's Insulated Rooms, the underground Mos Eisley Towers hotel, Gap's Grill, Pylokam's Health Food booth, the Court of the Fountain restaurant, outdoor cafes, Spaceport Speeders, Kayson's Weapons Shop, Heff's Souvenir Shop, Turhaya's Landspeeder Repair shop, the Red Moon Saloon, a Dim-U monastery where ships can have their transponders illegally altered, a treasure-filled town house owned by the crimelord Jabba the Hutt, and the infamous Mos Eisley Cantina owned by Chalmun the Wookiee. After the Battle of Endor, the master chef Porcellus opened the Crystal Moon restaurant in Mos Eisley, and its fame has spread throughout the Outer Rim. A grove of Cydorrian driller trees, planted by the Ithorian Momaw Nadon, grows in the mountains north of Mos Eisley, and somewhere in the desert there is rumored to be a colony of alien Kitonaks. Jabba the Hutt also owned a well-guarded palace in the Dune Sea, which served as the center of his widespread criminal empire. The world was ruled by Governor Aryon from the city of Bestine, and Prefect Eugene Talmont was in charge of the local Imperial garrison.

The Jedi knight Dace Diath, who lived four thousand years ago, was a native of Tatooine. Several centuries ago, exiled monks of the B'omarr Order built a huge monastery in the on the edge of the Dune Sea, nearly 2500 kilometers from Mos Eisley. The bandit Alkhara took up residence in part of the monastery and remained there for 34 years, raiding nearby moisture farms while expanding and improving the citadel. The B'omarr monastery was the home of many other gangsters and bandits until eventually becoming the palace of Jabba the Hutt, who expanded the citadel to encompass a hangar and garage. Throughout the changes, the B'omarr monks kept to their own affairs in the palace's lowest levels, trying to reach a level of enlightenment at which their brains could be surgically removed by the other monks and placed in glass jars, freed from the distractions of the flesh. Decades ago, 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 and the collapse of his organization. The B'omarr monks reclaimed the palace, persuading several of Jabba's lieutenants to join them as disembodied brains.

After the rise of Emperor Xindell, Tatooine became the principal base of the Second Imperial War Fleet.  Adguan Lothar transformed certain portions of the world, terraforming it to a great degree and destroying the market for moisture farming by hydrating a large area around his palace. Lothar also purged Tatooine of its significant criminal element and crushed the strong smuggling ring.  Now, Tatooine has a thriving tourist trade, as visitors from around the galaxy come to view the Palace of Lothar, the ruins of the Lars residence, and the hut of Obi-Wan Kenobi.  With the tourists has come a new wave of criminals, and the current Governor of Tatooine seems to be exploiting the criminal element to its fullest, demanding extra resources and supplies from the current head of the Lothar family, Harthov.

Tel

Sector capital of the Brak Sector, Tel was at one point the principal base of the First Imperial War Fleet.  During that time, Moff Lepidus became a servant of House Teg and provided them with their first ysalamiri. Tel is a cosmopolitan world and the center of Brak Sector trade. After FA Krull was replaced by FA Daala, the First Fleet was shifted to the frontier, and Tel has been a very quiet Imperial world since.

Telenon

Telenon was once a peaceful world, inhabited by close to a billion farmers who hoped  for nothing more than to escape the constant ravages of war. All that changed when the Schanda world-ship "Tyrant's Dream" appeared in the system.  Despite the full exertion of both the New Republic and the Galactic Empire, Telenon was consumed by the Schanda, fueling their drive into the galaxy.  Telenon is now a desolate asteroid belt.  Some 5000 miners continue to work in the asteroids, picking out what few valuable minerals remain after the Schanda finished.  The vast majority of Telenon's survivors were recovered by Imperial vessels and settled on the space station "Chaldecony Throne".  Only 5 million sentients escaped the destruction, and the descendants of Telenon have become some the Empire's most loyal subjects.  The 900,000 that were rescued by the New Republic were scattered across the Republic, and no longer constitute an identifiable group.  Every year, the "Chaldecony Throne/Telenon Association" undertakes a pilgrimage to the Telenon system, with diplomatic immunity granted by the New Republic. FA Vilks is from Telenon, and he have a special hatred to Empire for not allowing many of Telenon refuges to return to New Republic.

Terephon

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

Testarr Sector(Empress Testarr sector)

Containing eight carbonite-mining worlds including Kashyyyk and Gorath, the sector and is named for the female warlord who conquered the system during the early days of space travel. Raw carbonite is produced from the Testann mines, primarily from the thick outer rings of a gas giant in the systems, and is a vital ingredient in the construction of hyperdrives. The royal descendants of Empress Testarr still have significant clout, sharing power and profits with the leaders of the influential Carbonite Guild.

Four thousand years ago, the privileged sons and daughters of the Testarr 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 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 an  attack on a Deneban Jedi assembly, traveled to Cinnagar in order to learn the Krath's Dark Side secrets. In the ensuing months Satal Keto was killed and a Jedi attack force attempted to rescue Qel-Droma from the iron citadel, but he had succumbed to the Dark Side and insisted on remaining in Cinnagar. Qel-Droma joined forces with the Sith Lord Exar Kun, and the two implemented their plans to bring about a new Golden Age of the Sith. Six months later, with the Krath armies conquering nearby systems, the warlord Mandalore chose to strike at the heart of the overextended  empire. Ulic Qel-Droma defeated Mandalore in single combat, and won the warlord's loyalty and the use of his deadly armies. Later, Aleema attempted to reassert her power over the Krath forces by abandoning Qel-Droma during an attack on Coruscant, but he was rescued and eventually had Aleema killed.

Thyferra

Located in the Polith system, Thyferra is the homeworld of the mantis-like Vratix and is the center of the galaxy's bacta industry. Thyferra was first contacted during the middle years of the Old Republic. Though the Vratix had already colonized Thyferra's single moon and other bodies in the Polith system, the contact with the Republic ushered in a new technological revolution. The Vratix soon invented the healing fluid called bacta by growing alazhi and mixing it with the chemical kavam. The remarkable fluid was extremely profitable, and wealthy, powerful Vratix operations spread across many worlds. When the Empire arose, two large bacta-harvesting corporations (Xucphra and Zaltin) negotiated a special deal with the Imperials, allowing the companies to gain a virtual monopoly on the bacta industry. These two massive conglomerates control ninety-five percent of the galaxy's bacta and are collectively known as the "Bacta Cartel." Xucphra and Zaltin, run by a small group of ten thousand wealthy humans (often family related), now run Thyferra's government and dominate the lives of the average Vratix worker.

The planetwide government is led by two Vratix canirs (chief officers) who are appointed by an elected council, each canir representing one of the two corporations. Since Xucphra and Zaltin are in fierce competition with each other, governmental gridlock frequently ensues and little is accomplished to benefit the 2.8 million Vratix citizens. This has given rise to the Ashern (Black Claw) terrorist group, which views the corporations as a threat and tries to bring them down by any means necessary. Several years ago a group of Ashern terrorists contaminated Bacta Lot ZX1449F from Thyferra, which was shipped to Coruscant and caused two million Imperial citizens to develop an allergy to the healing fluid. In the political confusion following the Battle of Endor, Thyferra remained neutral and profited enormously by selling bacta to both sides. Two and a half years after Endor, the New Republic, anxious to please the Thyferran leaders, recruited the human pilots Bror Jace (from Zaltin) and Erisi Dlarit (from Xucphra) into the famous Rogue Squadron.

Thyrsus

Governor General Parmalak has to be one of the least appealing officers in the Imperial Army, and one of its most ruthless. He operates one of the best intelligence operations in the region, and his agents generally know what is happening two and three systems away. He is Teg’s chief spy in the sector.

Tibro

Tibro is completely covered by a shallow ocean and is homeworld to the alien species known as Ishi Tib. Tibron circles the yellow star Cal and has one 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 Tibro 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. Doctor Kanjil Mang, an Ishi Tib anthropologist from the University of Tibrin, has recently been studying the Ugnaught society in Bespin's Cloud City.

Tierfon

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.

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.

Trandosha, or Toprawa

After the Alliance stole the Death Star plans, they were delivered to the Toprawa Relay Station. The rebels on Toprawa then transmitted the plans to Princess Leia's ship, the Tantive IV, in the operation known as Skyhook. Later, as punishment for helping the Alliance, the people of Toprawa were forced into a pre- industrial state-- relying on campfires and bantha-drawn carts as their highest form of technology. Loyal Imperial forces began living in shining, illuminated citadels out of reach of the lowly Toprawans. Periodically, stormtroopers would ride a grain cart into village squares and watch as the peasants crawled forward on their stomachs, wailing lamentations over the Emperor's death at Endor. Grain was only given to those whose penance seemed the most sincere in the eyes of the observing Imperials. Some three years after the Battle of Endor, Imperial Intelligence agent Kirtan Loor spent a week on Toprawa after being ordered back from a stay on Borleias.

While the Toprawans are near-human, a second sentient species arose on this world, with an entirely different physiology and name for the planet. Depending on who you speak to, the world is named for one or the other sentient species.  While the Toprawans were humiliated by the Empire, the Trandoshans were pressed into forced labor like the wookies of Kashyyyk.

The infamous bounty hunter, and current Jedi, Bossk is a Trandoshan. Standing about 1.9 meters tall, the reptilian trandoshans had been stripped of their dignity by the Empire.  Some trandoshans, like Bossk, escaped the planet and exist solely to take their vengeance on the Empire and the unfeeling galaxy.

Trasi

Nobody is quite sure how the Trasi system came to be listed in the Old Republic databanks as a system containing no significant planetoids especially as, at some time, the system's one inhabitable planet was colonised by humans. Owing to this mistake in the records the colony was left untroubled during the time of the Galactic Empire and was only re-discovered by the New Republic when a research team went from New Alderaan entered the system attempting to find a way to extract hydrogen from its star.

The atmosphere of Trasi is very hot and humid but, much to the confusion ofRepublic Geologists, it never rains. This proved a boon when the planet was opened up to general travel as the weather conditions soon turned many parts of the planet into popular tourist resorts. Plantlife on Trasi is uniquely adapted to this ecosystem and is capable of drawing moisture from the atmosphere, contributing to the lack of rain. Attempts to export this plantlife to other planets have failed as they rely on Trasi's unique atmosphere which is 50% Argon. Similarly, off-world plantlife is incapable of surviving on Trasi as the atmosphere contains very little Nitrogen.

The inhabitants of Trasi are split into two groups. The native Skren are a race of feline creatures. They are, on the whole, a friendly people but they choose to keep themselves to themselves and live in small communities in the planet's numerous mountain ranges. The humans, descendants of the original colonists, show the strains of hundreds of years of isolation from the rest of the Galaxy. With no outside help they have been forced to revert to more primitive technology, a large amount of it borrowed from the Skren. They have also developed their own language, a hybrid of Basic and Skren. Although most Trasians living in the coastal tourist resorts now speak Basic it is an ability much rarer inland.

The New Republic is currently involved in efforts to raise the standard of living of the Trasians. Things like free education are still not widely available outside Trasi's prosperous capital city, Meldrum. It is hoped that the presence of the Republic's First Naval Fleet, who have set up their headquarters on the planet, will help to provide more money for the local economy to deal with such problems.

Travnin

Trax sector

The Trax sector, located in the Outer Rim, contains the planets Deysum III and Uogo'cor, and the Trax Tube-- a major Outer Rim shipping lane. Alliance supply purchaser Redda Macrebe works throughout the Trax Tube systems.

Trianii

The homeworld of the feline Trianii species, located far from the disputed border between the Corporate Sector and the Trianii colony worlds. The Trianii Ranger Atuarre was born on this world.

The Corporate Sector has won the upper hand on Trianii, forcing the feline Trianii into segregated cities and towns.  Recently, the New Republic has won control of the agricultural world, but it remains to see if Trianii's segregated society can be integrated by the Republic.

Turak

The planet Turak is located in the Hadar sector, and has several moons. Prior to the Battle of Yavin, at least five Star Destroyers on patrol near Turak discovered the Alliance fleet in orbit around the world. The Imperials engaged the Rebel fleet but suffered severe losses. Shocked by this development, Emperor Palpatine ordered the implementation of Operation Strike Fear to crush the Rebellion. Later, Alliance pilot Keyan Farlander flew his first mission near Turak.

Governor General Cartwright once served in the crack cold assault unit of the Stormtrooper Corps under General Veers. Unfortunately, he lost a leg to frostbite and has had to make due with a prosthetic since the Battle of the Coruscant Icecap. As a result, he tends to be cautious, but he still lavishes attention on the Stormtrooper units stationed on his world.

Ukio

Ukio, in the Abrion sector and the Ukio system, is one of the top five food-producing planets in the New Republic.

Ulion

Governor General Panthenar is a protege of Captain Lermontov. As such, she knows the struggle female officers have had winning a full measure of respect and she works twice as hard to insure there is no doubt about her skills.

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.

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.

Uvena system

The Uvena system contains a group of planets ruled by the alien species called Shistavanen Wolfmen. The Wolfmen are renowned for their hunting and tracking skills, and many are employed by the Empire as scouts. Riv Shiel, a former Shistavanen member of the Alliance's famed Rogue Squadron, was a native of Uvena III. The current FA Vilks, of the New Republic, is a Shistavanen Wolfman. Although he was born and lived on Telenon, which was consumed by Schanda, he dreams of liberating the world of his ancestors from Imperial domination, but the clan leaders have become very wealthy under the Empire, and are disinclined to risk their position.

Vaathkree

Located in the backwater Ison Corridor, Vaathkree is an isolated, sparsely-populated world of jungles, plains, and mountains. A few thousand colonists live in two main settlements: Tropis among the pale yellow trees of the Great Jungle, and Edgefields on the wide plains at the jungle's edge. About 50,000 Morodins-- intelligent, fifteen meter-long lizard-slugs-- inhabit the Great Jungle. The Morodins' bodies produce a nutrient slime that, when spread over crops, encourages growth and produces new strains of plant life. Morodins leave their slime trails in a complex, maze-like pattern.

One thousand years before the formation of the Old Republic, a group of Morodins arrived on Vaathkree to start an agricultural colony. They transformed a vast section of plains into the Great Jungle, and used immense organic starships to transport food back to their home planet. When an ecological disaster befell their homeworld, the Morodins on Vaathkree were stranded and forgotten. 250 years ago, Adarian Tropis and a group his idealistic followers left Salliche to colonize. They planted their crops in the Great Jungle, but when the Morodins began leaving slime trails over the crops the colonists drove the creatures off as pests. After the Battle of Endor, a Krish named Gamgalon arrived in Tropis and began running private Morodin-hunting safaris. These safaris were actually a cover for the harvesting of Yagaran aleudrupe plants, whose berries (when fertilized by Morodin nutrient slime) act as a catalyst for boosting blaster firepower-- much like the spin-sealed tibanna gas of Bespin. The local Imperial governor allowed the illegal safaris to continue since Gamgalon provided him with a share of the profits. Mara Jade, under the name Celina Marniss, worked as hyperdrive mechanic in Gamgalon's organization before joining up with the smuggler Talon Karrde in an adventure on Vaathkree.

Vergil

The inhabitants of Vergill have long been rivals with the water-breathers of the planet Maires. Nineteen years before the Battle of Endor, the Vergills began an undersea ditanium mining operation on the planet Hapes, next to the newly-opened Mairan consulate. The Mairans filed an official protest against the noise and mining debris stirred up by the Vergills=92 actions, but in reality they had deliberately placed their consulate near the richest vein of ditanium in order to spark a confrontation.

Veron

The uncommitted ex-governor of Veron took a "vacation" to attend a meeting on Belsavis with Roganda Ismaren.

Vladex

Located in the Rachuk system, Vladex is a blue and green world dotted with islands and receives a great deal of rainfall. The Empire established a base in the lush jungle on Vladex's Grand Isle to discourage piracy in the local systems, and the garrison became the center of Imperial control for the Rachuk sector. Built in the crater of an extinct volcano, the base was ringed by two steep mountain ranges on the west and east. To the south the wall had mostly broken down and the base extended out of the crater to the edges of the bay. Geothermal generators powered the energy shield and twin ion cannons, while a comfortable mansion housed the command staff, including Admiral Devlia. Some three years after the Battle of Endor, an Alliance force including members of Rogue Squadron attacked the Vladex headquarters in reprisal for an Imperial raid on Talasea. The Alliance did not wish to capture Vladex, but intended to cripple the base so the Empire would be forced to allocate more forces to its defense. Several Y-wing squadrons blew out the northern wall of the crater, allowing starfighters to fly in under the base's defensive shield. The Alliance leveled the base in the successful raid, and Rogue Squadron pilot Corran Horn helped destroy a Lancer-class frigate on their way out.

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.

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 Xindell destroyed the mad clone in the months leading up to his death.  C'baoth succeeded in stirring Xindell's interest in cloning, and it is rumored that the current Grand Inquisitor Xarht is the product of Xindell's experiments in this area.  The storehouse on Wayland remains a secure facility, guarded by the Royal Guards personally.

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. 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.

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.

Governor General Kensai is an avid horticulturist. He cultivates several gardens in a private greenhouse, mostly poisonous flowers.

Whendyll

Lord Torbin, the Grand Inquisitor, was killed when the Imperial palace on Whendyll was rammed by the shuttle Sark I. An assassin droid is suspected of killing the shuttle's flight crew and causing the crash.

Wukkar

A heavily-populated world in the Galactic Core. Wukkar was one of many planets that surrendered to Admiral Ackbar and the Alliance fleet in the years following the Battle of Endor.   Wukkar was then re-taken during the rise of Emperor Xindell.  The Republic mounted a successful counterattack, handing the Empire a grievous defeat.  One of Erisis Daala's first tasks as Fleet Admiral of the First Fleet was to re-take Wukkar.  This attack succeeded, but the Republic simultaneously succeeded in engaging the Imperial Navy in a vicious battle over Kashyyyk.

Xa Fel

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.   Xa Fel is presently one of the worlds ruled by Senator Krensh.

Xengara sector

Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth was named ambassador at large to the Xengara sector by the Senate on 8/21/62, Pre-Empire date.

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.

Yaga Minor

The location of a major group of Imperial shipyards, in addition to the facilities at Ord Trasi and Bilbringi. The Outbound Flight program departed from Yaga Minor on 4/1/64 Pre-Empire date.

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.

Yag'Dhul has recently been re-captured by the Empire, and it is suspected that the Givin will soon be applying their considerable talents to Imperial ship designs.

Yavin system

Far from the Galactic Core and major hyperspace lanes, the Yavin system does not appear on many astrogation charts. The system's three planets--Fiddanl, Stroiketcy and Yavin-- orbit a medium orange star. Formed over seven and a half billion years ago, the system was first surveyed during the Old Republic's Expansion Era, and was originally recorded as unfit for human habitation.

Stroiketcy

Likely a captured comet, Stroiketcy is one of the three planets of the Yavin system. The planet is noted for its trailing "tail" of atmosphere and its solid rock core. Due to its wide elliptical orbit, Stroiketcy varies between the second- and third-planet position in the Yavin system during its year. The world's surface is almost entirely water, with only a handful of rock outcroppings breaking the surface amid constant rainfall and fog. At either pole are two permanent ice caps (called Vanyets and Tsorria), and huge glaciers can be found drifting across the deep oceans. Stroiketcy's elliptical orbit causes an extended winter period when it is far from the system's sun, at which time all open water on the planet may freeze. Though it has never been confirmed, unicellular life might exist in Stroiketcy's oceans. The planet's name comes from the Corellian for "tailed one."

Yavin

Yavin, in the system of the same name, is an orange gas giant nearly 200,000 kilometers in diameter with a strong magnetic field. The planet occupies the outermost position in the system and has dozens of moons, three of which (designated four, eight, and thirteen) can support humanoid life. Refracted light from the system's star causes the planet to seemingly glow with an inner light. Yavin's atmosphere, almost 65,000 kilometers deep, is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, and the windstorms at this level often exceed 600 km/hour. Throughout this upper atmosphere live several varieties of floating gasbag creatures, which breed once every century. Most are non-predatory and feed on drifting algae, but two species (the floater shark and floater squid) prey on their fellow animals. Yavin's metallic core is surrounded by a thick layer of frozen liquids under tremendous pressure. Many species of nearly two-dimensional "crawlers" live in this frozen layer, at pressures that would crush most other lifeforms. The pressures are so great that carbon and metallic hydrogen are compressed together to form quantum crystals called Corusca gems. The gems, found only at Yavin's core, glow with an inner light and are the hardest substance known in the galaxy. Due to their uniqueness and rarity they are extremely valuable. The Damarind Corporation, an enormous galaxywide consortium of jewel merchants, had an exclusive contract with the Empire to harvest Corusca stones from Yavin. Damarind Fishing Station, in orbit above the gas giant, retrieved gems for several years until eventually going bankrupt due to economic difficulties.

Immediately following the Battle of Yavin, an Imperial Salvage Station was temporarily set up in the planet's orbit to analyze the debris from the destroyed Death Star.

Yavin 4

The fourth moon of the planet Yavin houses the temples and ruined buildings of the now-vanished Massassi race, and once served as the primary base for the Rebel Alliance. A hot jungle world, Yavin 4 has four main continents separated by six oceans, and contains one landlocked sea. (A scouting report for Wetyin's Colony tentatively named the four continents Koos, Starloft, Swivven, and Wetyin.) Volcanic mountain ranges and wide rivers can be found amid the thick jungles and towering, purple-barked Massassi trees. The moon has both a wet and dry season, and violent, unpredictable storms whip across its surface every few months. Beautiful rainbow storms sometimes occur when the sun rises past the limb of the gas giant Yavin and its light refracts against prismatic ice crystals high in the atmosphere. Yavin 4's flora includes sense-enhancing blueleaf shrub, climbing fern, feather fern, colorful nebula orchids, blistering touch-not shrub, and explosive grenade fungi. Indigenous life in Yavin 4's jungles includes semi-intelligent simians called woolamanders, stubborn Yavinian runyips, mucous salamanders, purple jumping spiders, lizard crabs, swimming crabs, whisper birds, reptile birds, stinger lizards, crystal snakes, armored eels, stump lizards, crawlfish, ravenous stintaril rodents, a six-legged, tusked beast with tentacled eyes, tree ticks, spiderlike anglers, piranha beetles, and flying, two-headed reptiles created during the time of the Sith Lord Exar Kun. Several of the ancient Massassi ruins have been given names, including the Great Temple, the Palace of the Woolamander, and the Temple of the Blueleaf Cluster, and almost all of the ruins are connected via an extensive network of underground tunnels. The pyramidal Great Temple lies next to a broad, branching river. The top of the Temple houses an observation deck, and below that is the vast grand audience chamber. Below the chamber are housing levels, and the ground level contains the Communications Center, common rooms, and the Alliance's former War Room. The Temple's hangars are located underground.

Over four thousand years ago the Sith magician Naga Sadow, under a death sentence from the current Sith Lord, fled to Yavin 4 with his followers where he could practice his Dark Side alchemy in peace. Sadow hid his starship and his alchemic equipment beneath the Sith Temple of Fire. Sadow's alchemy helped create many monsters, including a warrior species called the Massassi designed to guard Sadow's Yavin 4 legacy. The Massassi, the mutated descendants of the ancient Sith, gradually devolved into a primitive but dangerous people, using the Dark Side to augment their archaic weapons. When the Dark Jedi Exar Kun arrived on Yavin 4, he enslaved the Massassi and forced them to construct new temples as focal points for Sith power. One temple dedicated to Kun s greatness was built deep in the jungle in the center of a still lake, and featured glittering Corusca gems and a towering obsidian statue of the dark lord. During the Sith War, Kun brought twenty Jedi knights to Yavin 4, where he infected them with the evil spirits of the ancient Sith. Ordering them to go out and slay their Jedi masters, a terrible Jedi holocaust descended on the galaxy. Soon, however, a united group of thousands of Jedi, led to the jungle moon by the repentant Ulic Qel- Droma, arrived to stop Kun. The Dark Lord ordered the Massassi Night Beast into an isolation chamber as a surprise for his enemies, and began putting his final plans into effect. Knowing he could not defeat the Jedi fleet, Kun sacrificed thousands of Massassi lives to trap his own spirit within the walls of the temples. The Jedi attackers mistakenly ignited the moon's jungles, devastating its surface and causing the deaths of the remaining Massassi, but the Great Sith War had finally ended. Before his defeat, Exar Kun had trapped the children of the Massassi within a strange golden globe, and several desperate Massassi traveled to Yavin 8 to seek assistance from the Melodie people. Four hundred years ago, the Jedi master Ikrit discovered the golden sphere containing the Massassi children located beneath the Palace of the Woolamander, and stayed beneath it to await someone who could break its curse. Centuries later, the Rebel Alliance constructed its primary base within the abandoned temples after they evacuated their installation on Dantooine. Under the command of General Jan Dodonna, Alliance engineers cleared out the ancient structures and made them fit for habitation once more, and also installed a turbolift and erected high lookout towers. Dodonna sealed off the nearby Temple of the Blueleaf Cluster when an eerie power crystal, containing what appeared to be trapped spirits, was found inside its main audience chamber. The Sullustan naturalist Dr'uun Unnh took time out from his Alliance duties to begin the first modern-day studies of the jungle moon, cataloguing many of its plant and animal species. Not long after, the first Imperial Death Star discovered the secret base and moved into firing position as the Rebels counterattacked with snubfighters. The battle station was completely destroyed by Luke Skywalker (in what is now referred to as the Battle of Yavin) as it attempted to shatter Yavin 4 with its superlaser. During the fighting, an Imperial pilot named Qorl crashed his damaged TIE in the moon's jungles and fruitlessly awaited rescue, while another crashing TIE killed Dr'uun Unnh.

In the aftermath of the battle, the Empire blockaded the moon and periodically attacked the Rebel base with TIE fighters. During one such attack, a TIE bomber crashed in the jungle and awakened the Massassi Night Beast, which had lain dormant for thousands of years in its suspended animation capsule. According to the capsule's records, the Massassi left the creature behind to guard their temples while they fled the system to escape a war. The Night Beast (which could use the Force to shield itself from energy weapons) laid waste to much of the Rebel base until calmed by Luke Skywalker. The creature then took an Alliance ship and left the moon, intending to search for its former masters among the stars. The Alliance eventually evacuated Yavin 4, and much of their food supply was destroyed in the process, which necessitated negotiations with Overlord Ghorin of the Greater Plooriod Cluster. Soon after the Alliance's evacuation, the Empire gave a permit to the Fernandin Scouting Expedition to investigate Yavin 4 as a possible homeworld for the displaced Wetyin's Colony.

Yavin 4 was re-claimed by the descendants of the Rebel Alliance after the rise of Emperor Xindell drove them from Coruscant.  Remembering the world's tremendous value as a symbol of freedom, the New Republic made Yavin IV their capital and re-inforced their old base there significantly. Yavin IV now has several major cities, and the home of the New Republic Senate has become a major world in the Outer Rim.  It has become the sector capital of Xengara, and the Empire has not attempted to re-take Yavin in almost 30 years.  During all those years only few of Imperial spies managed to infiltrate the Yavin...and most of them never made it back to their masters due to invisiable but highly professionaly organised security network. Art Farliner hails from Yavin IV.

Yavin 8

The eighth moon of the planet Yavin is covered with vast brown and green tundra plains, located between two polar ice caps and split by an equatorial range of purple mountains. The moon has almost no large bodies of water, though large reservoirs of groundwater lie beneath the permafrost of the mottled tundra-- resulting in the formation of small marshes and swamps during the summer months. The intelligent amphibious humanoids known as the Melodies inhabit the caverns and lakes in the warmer equatorial region near Yavin 8's mountains. Unlike most amphibians, the Melodies begin life on land, then move into water as adults-- their legs are replaced by tails and their lungs by gills. This transformation into adult form, called the Changing Ceremony, happens around a Melodie's twentieth year and takes place in a shallow pool coated with a unique, air-supplying algae. The Melodies are unable to leave their pools during the transformation (which can take weeks), and are thus particularly vulnerable to Yavin 8's many land-based predators. The young Melodies perform most of the necessary functions of their primitive society, since the elders can no longer leave the streams and lakes. Animal life on Yavin 8 is abundant, including silver-backed fish, and also many species of herbivorous burrowers and their carnivorous counterparts (such as the loper and moss-hopper). Seventeen species of grazers, including the wolbak, dysart, dontopod, and songbuk, inhabit the moon's tundra and mountain ranges. Yavin 8's predators include snakelike reels, color- changing ursods, rodent-like raiths, flying avrils, serpentine ropedancers, and arachnid purellas. Plant life on the world is primarily made up of lichens, mosses, algae, and stunted trees and bushes, and includes the edible trico plant. About 54 million Melodies inhabit the moon.

Around four thousand years ago, members of Yavin 4's Massassi species journeyed to Yavin 8 to seek help for their children, who had been magically trapped in a golden globe by the Dark Jedi Exar Kun. When the Melodie elders were unable to help them, the Massassi carved the story of their plight in the rocks of the Sistra mountain in the hopes that someone would eventually be able to break the curse.

Yavin 13

The thirteenth moon of the planet Yavin is a desert world home to two intelligent species of primitive aliens- - the Gerbs and the Slith. The surface of Yavin 13 is covered with rocky mesas, forests of tall cacti, and shifting walls of blowing sand. A vast ocean makes up most of the southern hemisphere, which sends patches of fog and infrequent storms across the arid desert. The nomadic Slith are intelligent serpents, travelling the desert plains at night and hunting small animals with their venomous fangs. The Slith communities of eight to fourteen individuals are ruled by an alpha male (though females do all the hunting), and members communicate with each other by rubbing their scales along the ground. The rabbitlike Gerbs have metallic claws to aid in burrowing, and enormous, sensitive ears. They live in underground warrens of approximately ten families and tend their nearby farms with primitive hand tools. The Gerbs and Slith have traditionally had little to do with one another. Plant life on Yavin 13 includes the saldi bush and korin flower. Animal life includes a vast array of insect species, twilight lizards, solar-collecting burning snakes, and over 60 species of scorpionlike tripions. Around 43 million Gerbs and Slith inhabit the moon.

Another remarkiable location in Yavin system is New Republic Research and Developement main base. Construction of this highly secure deep space complex started during the reign of first Emperor Xindell, soon after Art Farliner was assigned as Director of R&D. Holowed out asteroid was taken as base for station, but now little reminds of its previous form, since asteroids surface is covered by laborotory modules and automated defensive stations. Although large, station houses wery limited ammount of personal and scientists, relaying on its powerfull computer systems for many of usual tasks, as well as research necesities. Only 200 people are required to fill the stations needs. Station houses state of the art self-suply system, that allows it to operate without any contacts with outier world for at least 3 months. For security reasons all suplies to it are delivere by Councillor farliner flagship, ACC Adventurer, after picking them up on Yavin IV. To vist the station personal aprooval from Councilllor or CIC is required. All these precautions have resulted in nearly impenetratiable security for the station. Some of key stuf of station include Professor Rjurik, leader of E-wing starfighter project, Dr Martin Craft, briliant starship shielding expert and Dr Laura Alloan, one of best experts of life support systems for starfighters in whole galaxy.

Yelsain

A backwater world, Yelsain was the home planet of Gallandro the gunman. An ancient feud existed between Yelsain and Goelitz (a planet a few systems away) and Yelsain was occasionally attacked by Goelitz revolutionaries. As a youth Gallandro enlisted in the Yelsain militia, and their forces eventually defeated Goelitz after many devastating battles.

Zelos

Zelos is a small world in the middle of the Phosphura Belt Nebula, and is principally known for the Zirtran's Anchor installation.

Governor General bin Saud is a close ally to Governor General al Faisal, but where the latter fights with silence, the former kills with kindness. bin Saud loves to throw huge receptions, all the while his agents pick the brains of all his guests. He has a huge spy network, and very little goes on in the Trax sector that he doesn’t report to the Grand Moff.

Zirtran's Anchor

A trading station drifting near the Phosphura Belt Nebula, Zirtran's Anchor is a hodgepodge of vessels and freighters welded together and connected by interlocking pressure tunnels. Owned and operated by tribal nests of Geelan-- short furry aliens who love bartering and hoarding valuables-- the station continues to grow over time as more ships are added to its bulk. The Anchor is a haven for smugglers and other free- traders, and the Empire only maintains a token customs presence. A Golan battle station was recently purchased by the Geelan to protect the Anchor from outside threats, while the private security firm Defensus Solar keeps internal order. The station is divided into four primary regions: Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Epsilon. The Hub in Sector Alpha is the heart of the Anchor, and it is where most arriving ships must dock. Chabak's is a popular tavern along the Hub's main Spine Passage. Sector Delta contains the Death Mark frigate, a haven for bounty hunters, and the Rusted Cutlass II, the headquarters of the Phosphura Belt Pirates. Most of the Anchor's expansion happens in Sector Epsilon, where the mysterious Kalai aliens have recently attached a ship. The Kalai never appear outside their ship, though some visitors occasionally see "lethagoes"-- the tall, thin offspring of Kalai and humans.

Zirtran's Anchor is named for the Zirtran brothers, the original owners of the huge barge that forms the heart of the station. The Geelan purchased the barge and began its expansion, positioning their new station in the Besberra system. One day the Anchor suddenly and inexplicably vanished, later reappearing near the Phosphura Belt Nebula. Investigators found that all lifeforms had completely disappeared, and the station's droids had no memory of the strange event. Though many theories have been proposed, to date no one has solved this eerie mystery.