Mustafar

Mustafar, world of fire, is famous as the site where Darth Vader—formerly the Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker—suffered the injuries that transformed him into an armored cyborg.

Located on the Rimma offshoot known as the Iostre Spur, Mustafar once orbited the gas giant Jestefad and had a surface wild and green. The Jedi Order established a training center there circa 3500 BBY, in the thick of what was then the Wild Space. Master Chu-Dun Gaut served among the academy’s luminaries, and his mastery of the Force ran so deep he could alter the molecular structure of matter.

An attack by the Sith in 3996 BBY transformed Mustafar. The gas giant Lefrani, tugged out of its orbit by a dark side weapon, entered into a gravitation death spiral with Jestefad, with Mustafar caught in the middle. Immense tidal stresses roiled the world’s molten core, inundating the crust with lava and flame. All surface life fled, leaving Mustafar to the lava fleas, jawenko beasts, and insectile humanoids that lived underground. The Mustafarians who now ruled the hellish orb separated by breed: the spindly northern Mustafarians gravitated toward the upper pole, while the squat southern strain remained near the equatorial magma seams.

The Techno Union claimed Mustafar in 300 BBY, recognizing an opportunity to collect rare ores in liquid form without constructing deep-bore mines. Processing plants sprang up near the lava rivers, with droids and native Mustafarians scooping minerals from the top of the molten with buckets. During the Clone Wars, Darth Sidious hired the bounty hunter Cad Bane to kidnap Force-sensitive children and take them to a secret facility on Mustafar, where Sidious hoped to surgically alter the children to create a corps of Force-using spies.

Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano discovered the plan and the facility was destroyed, but Sidious didn’t forget the molten world. In 19 BBY he relocated the Separatist Council to Mustafar for their ostensible safety, only to unleash Darth Vader on their hiding place. Vader left no survivors, then clashed with Obi-Wan Kenobi in a lightsaber duel that left Vader crippled and near death.

Now a possession of the Empire, Mustafar became one of many resource-rich worlds deeded to the Mining Guild. It saw renewed conflict after the Battle of Yavin, when a Force manifestation drew adventurers to the world to fight a localized dark side disturbance.

Grid Location: L-19
Region: Outer Rim Territories
Terrain: Mountains, volcanoes, caves
Diameter: 4,200 km
Length of Day: 36 standard hours
Length of Year: 412 standard days
Population: 20,000
Sentient Species: Mustafarians
Species Mix: Mustafarians (95%), Skakoans (3%), other (2%)
Languages: Mustafarian
Government: Corporate
Major Exports: Processed ores
Major Imports: Foodstuffs, water, technology
System/Star: Mustafar/Priate

Planets in the System:

Planets	Type	Moons
Schada	Scorched rock	0
Jestefad	Gas giant	0
Mustafar	Wasteland	0
Lefrani	Gas giant	0
Rietta	Gas giant	2