- "I was fascinated by the Tognath's breathing apparatus—a corrugated metal contraption, which processes oxygen on foreign planets."
- ―An entry of an artist's journal
Yar Togna was an Outer Rim Territories planet that was home to the sentient Tognath species. A high-gravity world with a dense, oxygen-poor atmosphere, it featured a massive volcanic mountain range that ejected large quantities of sulfur and ash into the planet's air. The airborne particles were consumed by the large, floating creatures known as float-jellies, which thereby prevented Yar Togna's climate from becoming frigid.
The Tognath were an evolutionary ancient insecto-mammalian species that had sub-par hearing and sense of balance, which the Tognath frequently augmented by cybernetic technology, especially when traveling off-world. On Yar Togna, most Tognath worked as miners, procuring and selling crystals that were important to the manufacture of sensor arrays. On the backs of the float-jellies, Tognath farmed mosses, molds, and mushrooms that served as valuable export goods to the wider galaxy.
At some point by 10 BBY, the Galactic Empire conquered and occupied Yar Togna due to its strategic crystal deposits. The Empire enslaved the populace of the planet, leading to a mass exodus of Tognath refugees which included the eggmates Benthic and Edrio. As a result, most Tognath subsequently became part of anti-Imperial resistance groups.
Description[]
The Tognath of Yar Togna (the Tognath Benthic and Edrio pictured) utilized the planet's float-jelly creatures in agriculture.
Yar Togna was a planet[3] located in the regions known as the Outer Rim Territories[1] and the Trailing Sectors.[2] It was situated in grid square P-18 of the Standard Galactic Grid and was linked via a hyperspace route to the celestial bodies Idaflor and Pastoria.[1]
Yar Togna was a high-gravity world on which intense fault-line pressure created unique crystalline elements that were important to the manufacture of sensor arrays. At some point, continental subduction on the planet led to the creation of a very large volcanic mountain range with lava channels and mountain springs situated in its proximity. Yar Togna's surface also featured flatlands, and its flora included the nursery tree.[3]
For millions of years, Yar Togna's principal chain of volcanoes ejected large quantities of sulfur and ash into the planet's unusually dense, high-pressured,[3] and oxygen-poor[4] atmosphere, leading to it becoming foul-smelling and saturated in toxic fumes. The density of the atmosphere caused particulates to remain airborne, which would have inevitably resulted in the planet entering a state of deep freeze if not for the existence of float-jellies—massive floating gasbag-like herd creatures that ate ash erupting from Yar Togna's volcanoes. Secretions on the float-jellies' backs constituted a rich soil in which farmers of the planet's native Tognath species grew mosses, molds, and mushrooms.[3]
History[]
Count Denetrius Vidian convinced the Galactic Empire to nationalize Yar Togna's mining industry.
The Tognath eggmates Benthic and Edrio were born on Yar Togna[5] around 32 BBY.[7] At some point by 11 BBY,[8] the industrial efficiency expert[9] Count Denetrius Vidian convinced the authorities of the Galactic Empire that the nationalization of the planet's crystal-mining industry would increase its output.[3] Subsequently, the Empire conquered and occupied Yar Togna[5] by 10 BBY,[10] enslaving the planet's population.[3] As a result, Benthic and Edrio were forced to flee their homeworld as refugees[5] among a mass exodus of its inhabitants.[11]
Even the Tognath who escaped Yar Togna felt as if they had been imprisoned due to their separation from the planet's nursery trees that played an essential role in the species' reproductive cycle. Nearly all Tognath held a grudge against the Empire over its treatment of them and their homeworld, and most members of the species eventually became part of anti-Imperial resistance groups.[3]
At some point, Yar Togna was mentioned in an entry of an artist's journal dedicated to the Tognath. The entry was included in a section of the work describing sentient species that originated in dry habitats. The journal was restored, expanded, and displayed at the Graf Archive[6] at some point no earlier than 34 ABY.[12]
Inhabitants[]
Main article: Sentients of Yar Togna[]
- "These striking-looking beings are an unusual species, thanks to their insectile and mammalian characteristics."
- ―An artist's journal entry on the Tognath
The Tognath frequently augmented their senses with the help of cybernetic technology.
Yar Togna was the homeworld of the Tognath, an unusual bipedal insecto-mammalian species. Evolutionarily ancient, they had many genetic[3] markers indicating a distant relationship to the Kel Dor and the Gand,[5] a pair of sentient species native to the[6] Outer Rim[1] planet Gand and the[6] Expansion Region[1] world Dorin, respectively,[6] although it was not known whether the genetic relationship was caused by evolution or experimentation.[3]
Tognath had undeveloped nervous systems.[3] Especially when having to adapt to life off Yar Togna,[4] they frequently augmented their otherwise sub-par hearing and sense of balance[3] with cybernetic enhancers fitting into recesses on their scalps,[5] and Tognath often[3] used artificial lenses with their compound eyes in order to better process the spectrum, as well.[5]
Tognath traveling offworld required the use of pressure suits and respirators[3] that processed oxygen[6] in order to replicate the conditions of their homeworld's atmosphere. As Tognath vocal chords had evolved for Yar Togna's unusually dense air, most other species found their deep voices too faint to hear without technological aid.[3] Tognath spoke the language of the same name.[5]
Tognath way of life[]
- "They have both an endo and exoskeleton, which gives them their unique appearance."
- ―An artist's journal entry on the Tognath
Tognath began life as larvae hatched from egg clutches. Six months after their birth, the young Tognaths' parents took them to one of Yar Togna's nursery trees. There, the young would spin a cocoon inside which they would undergo a metamorphosis. In order to resist the high gravity and atmospheric pressure of their homeworld, the Tognath offspring developed both an endoskeleton and an exoskeleton. Finally, several months after spinning the cocoon, the youngling would emerge as a child-sized Tognath.[3]
Tognath lived in stilted homes near Yar Togna's principal mountain range, where they had access to springwater. Most of the planet's residents worked as magma skimmers or miners, procuring crystals that, prior to Yar Togna's nationalization by the Galactic Empire, were being sold to corporations such as Fabritech and Idellian Arrays. Other Tognath farmed their homeworld's more rural flatlands or worked as float farmers, using the float-jelly creatures to produce mushrooms, molds, and mosses that were prized as delicacies across the galaxy. Under the reign of the Empire, the Tognath on Yar Togna were enslaved.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
Yar Togna was introduced as part of the backstory for Edrio "Two Tubes," a character created and developed for the 2016 film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.[13] It was mentioned in a description of Edrio that was featured in a Rogue One costume exhibit at San Diego Comic-Con in July of that year[14] and that was also posted on the official Star Wars Facebook page on July 21, 2016.[13] The planet was subsequently mentioned in the July 27, 2016 installment of The Star Wars Show YouTube video series, in which the host Andi Gutierrez mispronounced its name as "Yar Tonga."[14]
Sources[]
The Star Wars Show: Action Movie Kid, Missing Yoda Statue, Star Wars at SDCC, and More on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com) (First mentioned)- Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
- Star Wars: Geektionary: The Galaxy from A - Z
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 55 (Weapons & Uniforms: Saw Gerrera's Partisans)
- Dawn of Rebellion
- Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide
- Star Wars: Alien Archive
- Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
- "Chewbacca and Other Aliens of the Rebellion and the Resistance" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Star Wars: Character Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Edition
- Star Wars Galaxy Map
- SWCA 2022: 7 Things We Learned from the Lucasfilm Publishing Behind the Page Panel on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Star Wars Day-at-a-Time Calendar 2023
- Star Wars: Dawn of Rebellion: The Visual Guide
- Edrio Two Tubes in the Databank (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Star Wars Galaxy Map
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars Galaxy Map places Yar Togna in the area of space Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the Trailing Sectors.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 Dawn of Rebellion
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2
Star Wars Helmet Collection 55 (Weapons & Uniforms: Saw Gerrera's Partisans)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Star Wars: Alien Archive
- ↑ Star Wars: Dawn of Rebellion: The Visual Guide
- ↑ A New Dawn, which depicts the death of Denetrius Vidian, is set in 11 BBY per Star Wars: Timelines, therefore Vidian's actions concerning Yar Togna, as mentioned in Dawn of Rebellion, must have occurred at some point by that date.
- ↑ A New Dawn
- ↑ Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide establishes that the conquest of Yar Togna had occurred by the time of the events of Solo: A Star Wars Story featuring the Cloud-Riders. The former work also places those events nine years after the formation of the Galactic Empire. Since Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the Empire's foundation to 19 BBY, the conquest of Yar Togna must have therefore taken place at some point by 10 BBY.
- ↑ Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide
- ↑ Star Wars: Alien Archive, which is presented as a restored in-universe journal, mentions Poe Dameron's mutiny against Amilyn Holdo, which is depicted in Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi. The Star Wars Book places the events of The Last Jedi in the same year as the events of Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 34 ABY, meaning the document must have been published at some point no earlier than that year.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1
Star Wars on Facebook: From the Lucasfilm Pavilion at San Diego Comic-Con (2913), meet Rogue One's Edrio Two Tubes (screenshot)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 The Star Wars Show: Action Movie Kid, Missing Yoda Statue, Star Wars at SDCC, and More on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
