Felucia (Galush)
Felucia
Felucia's forests have an almost hallucinogenic quality. The larger-than-life flora is goofily translucent and saturated with every rainbow hue in the visible spectrum. The planet's wild fungus growth and hives of flesh-ravaging bacteria have never been tamed in tens of millennia of on-again, off-again colonization.
- Grid Location: R-6
- Region: Outer Rim Territories
- Terrain: Jungles
- Diameter: 9,100 km
- Length of Day: 34 standard hours
- Length of Year: 231 local days
- Population: 8.5 million
- Sentient Species: Felucians
- Species Mix: Gossams (90%), other (10%), unknown number of Felucians
- Languages: Basic, Felucian, Gossam
- Government: Corporate
- Major Exports: Exotic botanicals
- Major Imports: Foodstuffs, high technology, fuel
- System/Star: Felucia/Felix
Planets in the System:
| Planets | Type | Moons |
|---|---|---|
| Coccia | Scorched rock | 1 |
| Brembo | Volcanic rock | 0 |
| Albata Ing | Terrestrial | 1 |
| Felucia | Terrestrial | 2 |
| Farasu | Gas giant | 9 |
| Yamine | Gas giant | 32 |
| Tsutai | Gas giant | 13 |
| Imci | Ice ball | 3 |
"Felucia's forests have an almost hallucinogenic quality. The larger-than-life flora is goofily translucent and saturated with every rainbow hue in the visible spectrum..."
Detailed History
Felucia's riotous plant life eschews green trees for house-sized pitchers, phosphorescent lichens, explosive spore shooters, toxic puffballs, and carnivorous blossoms that hunt prey with sticky, honey-dripping tendrils. Its greenhouse atmosphere smells of sweet nectar and rot. Felucia's animals are even odder, often composed of a see-through, boneless musculature that makes them resemble dollops of gelatin. Slugs (including the giant gelagrub) leave slick trails behind them that sparkle beneath the mushroom-cap canopy, tube worms thrash about in the hot lagoons, and small, prism-bodied avians hunt for airborne seeds.
One intelligent species arose from the jungles, but the Force-attuned Felucians largely kept to themselves. The planet received visitors as far back as 27,000 BBY in the form of the Gossam Couriers, a group of early explorers using the long-forgotten tumble-drive. Claimed as Gossam land, Felucia played host to a number of Gossam colonies over the millennia, most often finding success as an exotic resort. Many settlements vanished, overtaken by the Felucians, but new generations simply tried again. By the time of the Clone Wars, Felucia had achieved its highest level of permanent settlement, with cities such as Kway Teow and Niango sheltering millions of colonists.
The Commerce Guild established its headquarters on Felucia, making it a target during the Clone Wars and the rise of the Empire. Felucia was a member—alongside Mygeeto and Saleucami—of what Supreme Chancellor Palpatine called a "triad of evil," Republic forces chased Shu Mai, leader of the Commerce Guild, from Felucia, prompting her to trigger a fail-safe that poisoned the planet's water supply.