Brentaal

Brentaal occupies what is arguably the most valuable piece of real estate in the galaxy. Sitting squarely at the intersection of the Perlemian Trade Route and the Hydian Way, this world dominates shipping throughout the Core and steeps its merchant houses in unspeakable wealth.

Planets	Type	Moons
Sollace	Searing rock	0
Temool	Searing rock	1
Gastol	Gas giant	3
Brentaal	Terrestrial	2
Gumbus	Gas giant	16
Cavas	Gas giant	2
Javal	Ice ball	2

History

Brentaal (often called Brentaal IV due to its orbital position around the star Brenta) is a rugged environment with a narrow livable and sandwiched between two thick ice caps. Equatorial land is a checkerboard of mesas and wide-open steppes, with settlements packed into the shelter of deep crevasses. Given that Brentaal houses sixty-five billion inhabitants, denizens of the canyon cities are right to complain of overcrowding.

Society

Daily life on Brentaal is dominated by the Brentaal Houses, powerful families whose interest in galactic commerce dates back to the Republic's early centuries. During those boom years, Brentaal acted as a chokepoint for Perlemian Trade Route traffic entering the Bormea sector. Around 370 BBY a native of Brentaal, Feca Kalima, connected the Dustig Trace, the Sprizen End Run, and dozens of other extant one-stop routes to blaze the Hydian Way. This new hyperspace superhighway connected the galaxy's northern and southern quadrants and led straight through Brentaal. As the only planet at the furrow of two mega-routes, Brentaal cemented its status as a commerce kingpin—and ensured its future as a military target.

Economy

The Brotherhood of Darkness attacked Brentaal during the New Sith Wars circa 1000 BBY, while Brentaal firebrand Shogar Tok spurred his people into secession from the Republic during the Clone Wars in 21 BBY. The Jedi quickly squelched that uprising, but Brentaal found itself under attack from the X-wings of Rogue Squadron after the Battle of Endor. Brentaal fell to the New Republic in that conflict, handing Mon Mothma a strategic treasure that led to the eventual capture of Coruscant.

The Yuuzhan Vong captured Brentaal during their Coreward push in order to lock up supply lines, and the world suffered the loss of entire cities when it decided to fight back.

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