Malastare

Malastare is a high-gravity world that harbors a hodgepodge of environments, from forests to wastelands to steaming pools of methane. Imported fauna thrives here (including prowling packs of nexus and mutated skettos), while the belligerent Dugs are Malastare’s sole intelligent native species. The planet is famous as a center of Podracing, having hosted the prestigious Phoebos Memorial Classic before the sport’s dissolution (but home to countless illegal races since then).

Grid Location: N-16
Region: Mid Rim
Terrain: Deserts, jungles, methane lakes
Diameter: 18,880 km
Length of Day: 26 standard hours
Length of Year: 201 standard days
Population: 2 billion
Sentient Species: Dugs, Gran
Species Mix: Gran (51%), Dugs (44%), humans (4%), other (1%)
Languages: Dug, Gran, Basic
Government: Elected council
Major Exports: Shipping licenses, repulsorlift vehicles
Major Imports: Technology
System/Star: Malastare/Striar

Planets in the System:

Planets	Type	Moons
Saba Recse	Searing rock	1
Iacca	Volcanic rock	1
Malastare	Terrestrial	2
Cogalle	Toxic waterworld	2
Hespery	Ice ball	6
Binsgang	Gas giant	16
Melambo	Gas giant	42
Allmitot	Gas giant	32

Detailed History

Malastare became a Republic world in 8000 BBY, as scouts plumbed the southern galactic quadrant searching for analogues to the Perlemian Trade Route. A short but fruitful rule, the Dustig Trace, connected Kath and Demos by way of Malastare, and the Dustig Pocket became a small alcove of civilization in the thicket of Wild Space. The Dustig Trace’s absorption into the Hydian Way in 3069 BBY further bolstered Malastare’s status as a trading hub.

Gran colonists soon gravitated toward Malastare and within half a millennium had usurped the native Dug to become the planet’s dominant species. The two fought several wars, with the Gran inevitably won, making the Dug little more than a slave species. Repercussions continued, however, and the Republic’s passage of the Gran Protectorate Act circa 1000 BBY forcibly relocated all nonemployed Dugs to the planet’s undeveloped western continent. Some Dugs took their frustrations offworld, fighting a series of inconclusive wars against the Zehethbra.

During the Clone Wars, Malastare’s Gran Senators Aks Moe and Ask Aak served as advisers to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. Their loyalty counted for little after the establishment of the Empire, when Malastare found itself under the jurisdiction of a human planetary governor answering to Eriadu’s Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. The Yuuzhan Vong conquered the planet during their advance on the Core, but spared its infrastructure in order to establish an orbital rendezvous for their battleships.