Raxus Prime
[Star Wars Galaxies RPG] - Planetary Information: Raxus Prime
| Raxus Prime | |
|---|---|
| Grid Location: | S-5 |
| Terrain: | Junkyards, toxic pools |
| Diameter: | 9,330 km |
| Length of Day: | 22 standard hours |
| Length of Year: | 388 local days |
| Population: | 1.3 million |
| Sentient Species: | Humans, Jawas |
| Species Mix: | Jawa (63%), humans (37%) |
| Languages: | Basic, Jawa trade tongue |
| Government: | Corporate bureaucracy, Jawa tribal chiefs |
| Major Exports: | Recycled metals, textiles, and chemicals |
| Major Imports: | Food, water, high technology, information |
| System/Star: | Raxus/Raxus |
Planets in the Raxus System
| Planet | Type | Moons |
|---|---|---|
| Raxus Prime | Terrestrial | 0 |
| Raxus II | Ice ball | 0 |
Description
As a symbol of industrial rot, Raxus Prime has been called "the most toxic planet in the galaxy." Such barbs are especially painful in light of the world’s discarded honorifics, including "Circle of the Tion" and "Nikato’s Shining Gem."
In the pre-Republic centuries that saw the foundation of the Tionese empire, Raxus Prime became one of three capitals governing the Kingdom of Cron. The Tionese warlord Xer VIII gave Raxus his favored attention, deciding the world to his concubines and their retainers. Suitable accommodations could be achieved only through the lavish application of royal wealth, and Raxus’s warm lagoons soon saw their scalders paved with colorful tiles and their shorelines crowned with white-marble palaces. Xer’s successor, Xim the Despot, honored his father’s legacy, and Raxus continued as the Circle of the Tion despite the region’s diminishment after the Republic-Tionese wars (24,000 BBY).
The pocket realm known as Nikato’s Bootheel sprang up around Raxus Prime in 14,300 BBY following the defeat of the Duros Red Credit Brigade in the Third Alaskan Conflict. The Machinists of Nikato made Raxus even more beautiful, adorning its contoured structures with elaborate clockwork mechanisms that reflected the sweep of the galaxy’s rotation.
It was precisely this that doomed Raxus Prime. Recognized as a hub of precision manufacturing, Raxus attracted more and more industrial contracts until its surface bristled with hardened discharge stacks. Its new importance made it a battleground of the Great Sith Wars, when Ulic Qel-Droma used the Dark Reaper superweapon to massacre Republic troops.
During the Republic’s dark age, circa 1100 BBY, Raxus Prime churned out crude weapons as the galactic economy collapsed. Within a century, the skies of Raxus had grown black with haze and its waterways choked with sludge. Whole continents became little more than junkyards, with half-buried starship hulls rusting amid steaming refuse heaps and putrid outgrowths of gray fungus. The Commerce Guild and Corporate Alliance continued to maintain operations on Raxus, given the money available in scavenging and the lack of environmental laws.
In 24 BBY, Count Dooku announced the creation of the Confederacy of Independent Systems on Raxus Prime. The world became a Clone Wars flashpoint when Dooku’s troops excavated components of the Dark Reaper two years later, and in the early days of the Empire it was the domain of an artificial intelligence known as Ironhand. The Empire eliminated the Core and constructed a shipyard above Raxus Prime with an eye toward containing the rebellious Mon Calamari. In 25 ABY, Han Solo battled a squad of Mandalorian supercommandos in the Raxus scrapyards after accidentally crashing his ship.
Like Solo, most people don’t visit Raxus Prime unless they’re forced into it. Sienar Fleet Systems employs some offworlders in recycling operations, but the planet’s infamy is mostly secondhand, passed around from one to another as a cautionary tale of ecological ruin.
History
As a symbol of industrial rot, Raxus Prime has been called "the most toxic planet in the galaxy." Such barbs are especially painful in light of the world’s discarded honorifics, including "Circle of the Tion" and "Nikato’s Shining Gem."
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