Duro
Astrographical
Region	Core Worlds
Sector	Duro sector (temporarily Corellian sector; Outlier systems)
System	Duro system
Suns	1: Duro
Orbital position	2
Moons	None natural 20 orbital cities
Grid coordinates	M-11
Rotation period	33 standard hours
Orbital period	420 local days
Physical
Class	Terrestrial
Diameter	12,765 km
Climate	Temperate
Gravity	Standard
Primary terrain	Jungle Historic: Polluted wasteland
Points of interest	Rrudobar Tayana district Gateway Settlement 32 Pri-Andylan shipyards Duro Starshipwright Shipyards Rangeland Tiercan Dam Valley of Royalty Imperial Reprogramming Institute Vyrdat Stardock
Societal
Native species	Duros (53%) Fefze beetle
Immigrated species	Humans (36%) Fefze Rodian
Primary language(s)	Durese Galactic Basic Standard
Government	Corporate
Population	18.5 billion 53% Duros 36% Humans 11% Other Historic: 12,000 (surface), 1.6 billion (space cities)
Major cities	Bburru Station (capital)[1] Ranadaast (former capital) Jivv Space City Urrdorf City Jyvus Space City Orr-Om Tayana New Tayana Rrudobar
Major imports	Foodstuffs, Ore, Labor
Major exports	Starships, Technology
Affiliation	Infinite Empire Duros High House Herglic Trade Empire Galactic Republic Mandalorians Revan's Sith Empire Corellian Empire Confederacy of Independent Systems Galactic Empire Duros resistance Alliance to Restore the Republic Alliance of Free Planets New Republic Yuuzhan Vong Empire Galactic Alliance Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire

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Duro (also known as Duros) was the heavily polluted and depopulated homeworld of the Duros species. Located on the Corellian Trade Spine in the Core, the planet itself was mostly abandoned, mainly housing food processing plants. Most of the population lived in one of the twenty orbiting cities. Duro was also home to a large number of orbital shipyards.

HistoryEdit

Pre-RepublicEdit

Duro was surveyed by the Columi in 100,000 BBY, but the Columi were not impressed and passed it off as a primitive failure, little knowing that the inhabitants of the world, the Duros, would become a space-faring species in the years to come. Under the Infinite Empire, Duro was a slave world, and helped create the Star Forge 30,000 BBY. Following a plague that struck the Rakata, the Duros rebelled in 25,200 BBY. The Duros then formed a hereditary monarchy. It was based at Ranadaast, a city named after Queen Rana Mas Trehalt, which fell into disrepair and was infested by criminals when the monarchy fell into decline. Several years after the fall of the monarchy, Duro became a member world of the Herglic Trade Empire, the most powerful government in the Core Worlds region at the time.

Old RepublicEdit

Duros were interested in exploration and ventured off their homeworld to explore the galaxy at an early age. Hyperspace cannons linked Duro with Coruscant, Corellia, and other Core Worlds. Having reverse-engineered the hyperdrive independently of the Corellians, Duro entered a Golden Age as a Core Founder 25,053 BBY under Queen Rana Mas Trehalt at the formation of the Galactic Republic. The monarchy was eventually abolished in favor of a collection of ruling corporations. The Duros High House became the government/legislature, and the Chief Representative Officer became the planet's head of state. At the same time, the Herglic Trade Empire fell with the formation of the new galactic government.

The Duros colonized Neimoidia during their earliest wave of expansion, though the Neimoidians were considered a separate culture by 15,000 BBY. The Duros discovered Sneeve in the Kymoodon Era, Adner in 5,000 BBY, and Koboth (prior to 219 BBY). The following years the Duros abandoned the planet for space cities, and left food production and mining on the planet to automated systems; however overdevelopment caused mass extinctions and pollution on the world^[2].

3,962 BBY, the planet itself was laid to near-total waste during the Mandalorian Wars, when the Mandalorian invasion fleet advancing on the Colonies and Core regions destroyed much of the world using thousands of Basilisk war droids. Years of misery and rebuilding were ahead of the Duros people, merely the latest phase in the long series of Sith Wars. During the New Sith Wars, the Duros colony on Harpori was wiped out by Kaox Krul 1,002 BBY.

Rise of the EmpireEdit

Circa 220 BBY, during Duro's Industrial Age, the mining city of Tayana reached its height. In 200 BBY, the Tiercam Dam was built.

During the Clone Wars, the Confederacy of Independent Systems launched Operation Durge's Lance in 21 BBY, a coordinated and major campaign that led to the capture of Duro. During the battle, General Grievous ordered an orbital bombardment of the surface. This resulted in the pollutants from the numerous factories which covered Duro's surface to be released radioactively, and the surface being rendered the uninhabitable wasteland that it would remain until being Vongformed years later. The swift success of the campaign sent shockwaves throughout the Galactic Republic, and even neutral Corellia began to tighten its defenses.

Galactic EmpireEdit

The Galactic Empire collected what was left of Duro's natural resources, and forced many Duros to move off the planet. In an attempt to stir up conflict between Duro and Corellia, the Empire declared Duro to be part of the Corellian sector. With the Trade Federation nationalized, the disgraced Neimoidians began to reintegrate themselves into mainstream Duros culture.

The space city Pellezara station, located near the planet in the Duro system, served as a maintenance stop over for freighters en route to Duro.^[3]

In 1 BBY, the Rebels tried to free the planet but they were defeated at the Battle of Vnas.

New RepublicEdit

As of 5 ABY, the prisoner Triclops was being held on Duro, courtesy of Grand Moff Bertroff Hissa. Triclops escaped and saved his son Ken from Hissa. Although the New Republic managed to save Duros archaeologists from the Valley of Royalty, the Valley itself was flooded with toxic waste when the Tiercam Dam burst. The New Republic eventually liberated the planet, and put the system back in the Duro Sector. Ecosystem purification teams cleaned up the planet's atmosphere as best they could. 11 ABY, in Operation Shadow Hand, Duro was retaken by the Empire, but eventually freed.

13 ABY, CorDuro Shipping took control of the Pri-Andylan shipyards. 25 ABY, Jedi Tresina Lobi and Thrynni Vae discovered CorDuro Shipping's ties to the Peace Brigade, resulting in the Brigade murdering Thrynni.

Yuuzhan Vong EmpireEdit

26 ABY, the New Republic attempted to make Duro habitable and settle refugees there, though their efforts were sabotaged by the Yuuzhan Vong agent Nom Anor. The Yuuzhan Vong conquered Duro and destroyed nineteen of its twenty floating cities. During their occupation, they managed to reverse centuries of pollution in just two years with their biotechnology. It was later raided by the New Republic, and again by the Galactic Alliance.

Legacy eraEdit

After the war's end, Duro returned to its lush forested past being restored by the Yuuzhan Vong terraforming. During the Second Galactic Civil War Thrackan Sal-Solo had planned to conquer it to gain access to its baradium and cortosis.

After the Battle of Caamas and the end of the Sith–Imperial War, a Duros Admiral named Gar Stazi led the remnants of the Galactic Alliance Core Fleet against the newly established Galactic Empire. Duro itself was subjugated by the Empire and was subject to a pervasive Imperial presence. An Imperial Naval Academy was established in the planet; in it the most talented Duros taught Imperial pilots and capital ship crewmen.^[4]

FaunaEdit

Eventually, due to millennia of pollution, the only remaining creature on Duro was the nonnative Fefze beetle, an aggressive mutation of the insectoid Fefze, a species recruited to work on Duro during the last decades of the Galactic Republic. Extinct creatures included the cannibal arachnids. When the Yuuzhan Vong arrived on Duro, they introduced many of their own creatures and creations onto the planet.

Behind the scenesEdit

The PC game Star Wars: Rebellion spells this planet "Duros."

Duro is the Spanish, Portuguese and Italian word for the adjective "hard" (be it a resistant object, or a severe person). Plural form of the adjective is "Duros" in both Spanish and Portuguese and "Duri" in Italian.

Several real-world companies include the name "Duro"[1]. Also, a real-world transport vehicle is called the "Duro III".

AppearancesEdit

SourcesEdit

• Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back
• Star Wars Screen Entertainment
• Star Wars: Rebellion: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
•  Star Wars: Power of the Jedi (Pack: Ellorrs Madak)
•  "University of Sanbra Guide to Intelligent Life: The Duros"—Star Wars Gamer 2
• Living Force Campaign Guide
• "Who's Who in the New Jedi Order"—Star Wars Insider 57
• The New Jedi Order Sourcebook
• Coruscant and the Core Worlds
• The New Essential Chronology
• The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
• The Official Star Wars Fact File 14 (German Edition - DUR1-4, Duros)
• The Official Star Wars Fact File 138 (Waste Disposal)
• Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous
• Starships of the Galaxy, Saga Edition
• Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide
• The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide
• The Clone Wars Campaign Guide
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji
• Legacy Era Campaign Guide
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
• Rebellion Era Campaign Guide
• The Essential Atlas
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia
• The Forgotten War: The Nagai and the Tofs on Hyperspace (article) (content now obsolete; backup links 1 2 on Archive.org)
• Galaxy of Intrigue
• The Written Word
• The Unknown Regions
• The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force
•  Duros in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
• "Rogues Gallery: Who's Who: The Bounty Hunters!"—Star Wars Insider 132
• The Essential Guide to Warfare

Notes and referencesEdit