Kuat

Kuat is a true wonder—a green garden oasis girdled by artificial silver rings. Home of Kuat Drive Yards (KDY), the world has made starships since the dawn of the Republic, including the Acclamator-class assault ship and the Imperial Star Destroyer. Kuat’s orbital stacks, always alight with the flashes of zero-g arcwelders, provide a home for hundreds of millions of workers who require everything from cantinas and sporting arenas to medcenters and morgues.

Grid Location: M-10
Region: Core Worlds
Terrain: Plains, forests
Diameter: 10,000 km
Length of Day: 20 standard hours
Length of Year: 322 local days
Population: 3.6 billion
Sentient Species: Humans
Species Mix: Humans (80%), other (20%)
Languages: Basic, Kuat
Government: Aristocracy
Major Exports: Starships, luxury goods, alcohol, art, food
Major Imports: Electronics, machinery, raw materials
System/Star: Kuat/Kuat

Planets in the System:

Planets	Type	Moons
Ristell	Searing rock	0
Goravas	Volcanic rock	2
Daver Kuat	Terrestrial	2
Kuat	Terrestrial	3
Gortis	Barren rock	2
Raspan	Gas giant	22

Detailed History

Settled by human colonists in a sleeper-ship expedition in 27,500 BBY, Kuat became the birthplace of a new aristocracy as wealthy families placed hereditary claims on the burgeoning starshipwright industry. By 26,000 BBY Kuat had built its own colonization arcs and spread its humans to Axum, Tepasi, and Humbarine. In 25,000 BBY Kuat signed on as one of the founding sponsors of the Galactic Republic Charter.

Rule of the planet fell to the Ten, a consortium of the richest merchant families. The Ten terraformed Kuat’s surface into terraced parkland and built the orbital rings that would give the system fame. Kuat society stratified into four castes: the elite aristocracy, the wealthy middle class, the native-born working class, and the lowly offworld laborers. These divisions led to peculiar breeding quirks including the elduhm—a physically perfect male specimen offered by a merchant family to father the offspring of a female aristocrat, yet possessing none of the rights of the mother.

Kuat remained a loyal Republic world throughout the Clone Wars, producing troopships and other war material for the clone army. It made a smooth transition to Imperial rule, experiencing little discord until the corporation was ordered to scuttle the shipyards in response to a Rebel incursion around the Battle of Endor.

This restoration of vulnerability made the shipyards a tempting target for other parties. Crime lord Tyber Zann nearly captured the full flagship Eclipse, while Warlord Zsinj succeeded in nabbing the Super Star Destroyer Razor’s Kiss. These holes in Kuat security proved sufficient for the New Republic to capture the Kuat system in 8 ABY. Despite the loss of the senior KDY design staff (who fled to Byss aboard the Enforcer during the takeover), the New Republic soon had the Kuat yards running.

During the Yuuzhan Vong War business boomed at KDY as the yards hummed with wartime orders. The company suffered a blow to its image when the public learned that Kuat Senator Viqi Shesh—responsible for landing the lucrative government contracts—had been living a double life as an enemy collaborator.