Felucia
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Region Outer Rim Territories
Sector Thanium Worlds
System Felucia system
Suns 1: Felix
Moons 8
Grid coordinates R-6
Trade routes Perlemian Trade Route
Rotation period 34 standard hours
Orbital period 231 local days
Class Terrestrial
Atmosphere Type I (breathable) and Type II (Shu Mai's Compound)
Climate Hot and humid
Gravity 75%
Primary terrain Jungles, fungus forests
Surface water
Native species Felucians, Jungle Felucians
Immigrated species Humans, Ithorians, Twi'leks, Gossams
Primary language(s) Felucianese, Gossam, Galactic Basic Standard
Government Corporate administration (Immigrant communities), Independent townships (Fugitive activists), Shamanistic tribes (Native communities), Military administration (Imperial occupation)
Population 8.5 million immigrants, unknown number of natives
Demonym Felucian
Major cities Kway Teow (Capital), Har Gau, Jiaozi, Niango
Major imports High-tech goods, fuel, foodstuff.
Major exports Slaves, biotoxins, exotic botanicals, medicine, nysillin spice.


Felucia was the fourth planet orbiting its star, Felix, located in the Felucian system, within the Thanium Worlds sector, of the Outer Rim Territories, in turn Felucia was orbited by eight moons, two being prominent. The term Felucian was used to describe people and products from the planet.

Felucia was a largely unsettled terrestrial jungle planet located near the junction of the Perlemian Trade Route and Shaltin Tunnels. The world featured a hot and humid atmosphere and significant water resources beneath a surface irradiated by ultraviolet light of the star Felix. Native plant, fungal, and animal life evolved to dominate the environment in a deep symbiotic relationship, causing significant Force energy to permeate the ecosystem.

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One native species of sentient Felucians developed Force-based tribal societies in subterranean caverns while another socialized in farming communities based around nysillin crop; both were largely undisturbed by the greater galaxy until 27,000 BBY, when the planet was discovered by Gossam Couriver hyperspace explorers/colonists from Castell. After aggressive resistance from the native wildlife indicated that the world would not support large-scale colonies, the new arrivals established hard-fought, scattered resort settlements on the surface.

Although Felucia changed political loyalties throughout the millennia, the world and its meager settlements of mixed-species immigrant laborers were entirely controlled by the Gossam-dominated Commerce Guild by 700 BBY. These small settlements eventually developed into commercially administered cities like Kway Teow, Har Gau, Jiaozi, and Niango, pushing the native jungle-dwelling Felucians to retreat into the wilderness.

When the Commerce Guild allied with the anti-Galactic Republic Separatist Movement to create the Confederacy of Independent Systems in 22 BBY, Felucia joined as a Confederate fortress world. Its tactical significance made it a primary target in the Republic's Outer Rim Sieges, resulting in a bloody months-long battle at the end of the Clone Wars.

The battle ended with the near-poisoning of the Felucian water supply. The years of violence traumatized the native ecosystem, pushing its natural energies and Force-sensitive inhabitants towards the dark side.

Although the Empire later maintained a presence on the planet through the Galactic Civil War, Felucia became heavily trafficked by crime syndicates like the Jabba Desilijic Tiure's chapter of the Hutt Cartel and the rival Zann Consortium.


Culture

Felucia is a multi-cultural world in many ways. The two native species of Felucians developed very differently. Common Felucians socialize in farming communities based around the nysillin crop while jungle Felucians live in Force-based tribal societies in subterranean caverns.

Independent communities of escaped workers, fugitive labor organizers, and Felucian nysillin farmers maintained tenuous communities in the dangerous wilds, but the Commerce Guild retained economic and political control of their world.

Although the Empire maintained a presence on the planet through the Galactic Civil War, Felucia became heavily trafficked by crime syndicates like the Jabba the Hutt's chapter of the Hutt Cartel and the rival Zann Consortium.

The Imperial forces maintained a presence in Kway Teow primarily to gather Gossam slaves for export and to research biological agents takes from diverse and abundant plant life. However, the Consortium continued to offer freedom for the locals against the Empire.


Locations

While primarily covered in fungal forests and other vegetation, Felucia is also home to several cities, both tamed and untamed.

Kway Teow

Kway Teow was the capital city Felucia during the Clone Wars, which was maintained by the Empire.

Kway Teow Opera House
The Kway Teow Opera House was established by Moff Crellon in an attempt to bring culture from the Core Worlds to the Outer Rim. The performances aren't quite the quality of the opera houses of Coruscant, however they are entertaining, often without intent.

Har Gau

Har Gau was a city situated on Felucia, established by the Gossam settlers there. It was home to the many water stations that a toxin was spreading to during the last days of the Clone Wars.

Jiaozi

Jiaozi was a city situated on Felucia. It was home to the many water stations that a toxin was spreading to during the last days of the Clone Wars. The Zamm Consortium's take-over of a Jiaozi facility allowed them to gain a racketeering organization on Felucia.

Niango

Niango was a city situated on the planet Felucia. It was home to the many water stations that a toxin was spreading to during the last days of the Clone Wars.

The Nigkoe Detention Facility

The Nigkoe Detention Facility was originally a Separatist detention center on Felucia. However, it's currently used by the Hutt Cartel to house slaves and prisoners.

The Vanishing Place

The Vanishing Place was a prison established by the Galactic Empire on Felucia shortly after the end of the Clone Wars.

Ancient Abyss

The Ancient Abyss was a sacred sarlacc pit on the planet Felucia, the largest known sarlacc specimen in the galaxy. At the time of the Galactic Civil War, a Felucian city existed between the teeth and gums that stretched four kilometers around its maw. The tendrils of the sarlacc were so large that they were capable of dragging large beasts such as rancors into the creature's mouth.

Rancor Graveyard

Felucia was home to an ancient rancor graveyard, a site primarily where the innumerable remains of rancors were gathered together in one location—although the skeletons of other creatures were also present.

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Flora & Fauna

Felucia had a diversity of bizarre plants (such as spike, spore, and enormous pitcher plants), fungi, and animals which were almost rubber-like and translucent. When the sun shone, the environment glittered like multicolored glass. Most of Felucia was entirely covered by a humid, fetid landscape of huge fungal forests, and its wildlife included native gelagrubs, immigrated acklays, and a prodigious sarlacc.

Felucia had strong ties to the Living Force, and as such the world's flora and fauna, including Jungle Felucians, could be influenced by a presence of a strong Force-user, both light and dark. Most plants and animals of Felucia had adapted special defenses to protect them from each other, which made them particularly hostile to off-worlders.

Felucia was known to radiate a sort of life force that the native Jungle Felucians were capable of feeling.

nysillin

Native flora
Nysillin[6]
Fauna
Gelagrub[7]

Yerdua Poison-Spitter

Immigrated species
Gossams[1]
Rancor
Sarlacc


Timeline

Felucia was largely undisturbed by the greater galaxy until 27,000 BBY, when the planet was discovered by Gossam Couriver hyperspace explorers/colonists from Castell. They knew the planet as Galuch and retained colonial control over it until around 25,126 BBY, when Xim the Despot absorbed the world into his empire as it expanded throughout the Tion Cluster.

History

Originally known as Galuch, the planet was colonized by the Gossam Courivers in 27,000 BBY, early in their interstellar history. Felucia was a hard planet to colonize because of its dense forests and creatures. When the Gossams tried to colonize it, many aggressive plants and animals tried to defend the planet, but the Gossams finally gained a few footholds on it. Felucia was one of their earliest colonies, though it was one of the least populated since its vast fungus jungles proved too wild to support large Gossam colonies. As such, the planet became little more that an exotic retreat world for the wealthy Gossam along with their lowly servants and laborers. Circa 25,126 BBY, the planet was absorbed into Xim's empire as he expanded his borders from the Kingdom of Cron.

Sometime before 700 BBY, the planet began to be controlled entirely by the Commerce Guild, and resistance to the Guild was found in scattered townships in the wilderness. These townships were home to escaped workers, criminals, and enemies of the Guild. As colonies spread, the native Jungle Felucian species went underground or lived in small villages in the thickest forests. Many, if not all, of the Jungle Felucians were Force-sensitive, and had a communal relationship with the planet's ecosystem.

Around 53 BBY, Felucia became a member of the Republic. A little over two months after, Senator Palpatine took up his post on Coruscant, and Felucia was given a seat in the Galactic Senate. The move was viewed by some as a way for the Trade Federation to secure greater support in the Senate. Indeed, some senators, chief amongst them the delegate from Sullust, openly viewed Murkhana as a mere "client world" of the Trade Federation.

Clone Wars Era

When the Guild allied with the anti-Galactic Republic Separatist Movement to create the Confederacy of Independent Systems in 22 BBY, Felucia joined the rebel movement in the Clone Wars as a Confederate fortress world. Separatist General Grievous set up a blockade of the planet early in the war, which was unsuccessfully challenged by the Grand Army of the Republic around the beginning of the conflict. The Republic made a more successful second attempt around a year later. By 19 BBY, the Commerce Guild had once again established its dominance of Felucia and Guild Presidente Shu Mai chose it as her new headquarters and base of military operations. Its tactical significance made it a primary target in the Republic's Outer Rim Sieges, resulting in a bloody months-long battle at the end of the Clone Wars.

The battle ended with the near-poisoning of the Felucian water supply and the mass murder of the Republic's Jedi commanders with the issuance of Order 66. The years of violence traumatized the native ecosystem, pushing its natural energies and Force-sensitive inhabitants towards the dark side. During the Great Jedi Purge, Jedi Master Shaak Ti and her apprentice Maris Brood went into hiding in the Felucia jungles, working to bring the shamanistic Felucian tribes away from the dark side. Master Ti was killed by an assassin in 3 BBY, throwing the surviving Felucian shaman and Maris Brood deep into the grip of the dark side. The natural Force power of the natives eventually caught the attention of the Galactic Empire, which prepared to exterminate the tribes in order to preempt any threat their power posed. Brood led hordes of dark-sided Felucians against Imperial invaders, but was herself killed during the fight. Although the Empire later maintained a presence on the planet through the Galactic Civil War, Felucia became heavily trafficked by crime syndicates like the Jabba Desilijic Tiure's chapter of the Hutt Cartel and the rival Zann Consortium.

Imperial Era

After the Clone Wars, the damage to the ecosystem combined with the pain and suffering felt on the planet caused many of the force-sensitive Jungle Felucians to teeter dangerously close to the dark side of the Force. This made Felucia an even more dangerous place, in many years to come.

During the Great Jedi Purge, Jedi Master Shaak Ti and her apprentice Maris Brood went into hiding in the Felucia jungles, working to bring the shamanistic Felucian tribes away from the dark side. Master Ti was killed by an assassin in 3 BBY, throwing the surviving Felucian shaman and Maris Brood deep into the grip of the dark side. The natural Force power of the natives eventually caught the attention of the Galactic Empire, which prepared to exterminate the tribes in order to preempt any threat their power posed. Brood led hordes of dark-sided Felucians against Imperial invaders, but was herself killed during the fight. Although the Empire later maintained a presence on the planet through the Galactic Civil War, Felucia became heavily trafficked by crime syndicates like the Jabba Desilijic Tiure's chapter of the Hutt Cartel and the rival Zann Consortium.

Sometime before the Galactic Civil War, the Empire conquered the planet, after the world’s capture, they destroyed any local resistance. In the aftermath of Felucia's fall, the Empire began to occupy the world. The Imperial forces maintained a presence in Kway Teow primarily to gather Gossam slaves for export and to research biological agents takes from diverse and abundant plant life. However, the Consortium continued to offer freedom for the locals against the Empire.

During the late days of the Great Jedi Purge, Darth Vader sent his secret apprentice Starkiller to Felucia to deal with Force-sensitives there. Master Shaak Ti had exiled herself to this planet, where she was training the grief-stricken Padawan, Maris Brood, and Jungle Felucians for a confrontation with the Dark Lord. Starkiller fought his way through a small army of Jungle Felucian warriors and engaged Shaak Ti in a lightsaber duel. Despite Master Ti summoning more Jungle Felucians and even calling on the assistance of a Sarlacc, Starkiller defeated her in combat, and after informing Marek about how he could be "so much more" if he turned to the light, she then purposely fell into the pit and conceded her defeat. Marek attempted to save her as she began her plummet, but her body exploded in blue light as she died, causing him to turn back and shield his eyes, this had further plundered Felucia to the Dark Side. Not realizing that Ti was dead, Senator Bail Organa came to convince the Jedi to join his rebellion. Maris, who had been driven insane by the dark side, kidnapped the senator to use to bargain with Darth Vader. However, one year later, a reformed Starkiller redeemed himself by rescuing the Senator. After dueling Maris, he allowed her to live, something that Organa condemned, likening her to Darth Vader. The Empire began operations on the planet to eliminate the native Force-sensitives and established a prison facility, from which agents of Bail Organa rescued Admiral Gilder Varth.


Future

Eventually, the New Republic liberated Felucia from the Empire's rule and ended their reign on the planet.

The Ithorians later colonized the planet, along with Borao, after the devastation of Ithor, under the protection of the Galactic Alliance.

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