10 Talk

Jabiim

Jabiim

Astrographical
Region	Outer Rim Territories^[1]
Sector	Phelleem sector
System	Jabiim system^[1]
Suns	1: Jabiim^[1]
Grid coordinates	S-7
Physical
Class	Terrestrial
Diameter	10,700 km^[1]
Climate	Constant rain^[2] Temperate^[1]
Primary terrain	Modern: Desert^[1] Seas^[1] Rivers^[1] Historic: Muddy plains^[2]
Points of interest	Shelter Base Monsoon Mesa Cobalt Station Razor Coast Jobreth Plains Hyber Canyon High Rock Canyon
Societal
Native species	Jabiimi^[1]
Primary language(s)	Galactic Basic Standard
Government	Democracy
Population	100 million^[1]
Major cities	Choal (capital)
Affiliation	Xim's empire Jabiim Congress Galactic Republic^[2] Jabiimi Nationalists Confederacy of Independent Systems^[2] Galactic Empire Five Worlds Confederation

[Source]

"Your planet—your home—is being drowned in blood! For three thousand years we were loyal to the Republic…the Republic has ignored our cries for help—until they learned that beneath all the mud—our planet has a heart of ore!"

―Alto Stratus^[src]

Jabiim (pronounced /dʒə'bi:m/) was a small, muddy, Outer Rim world. It was most notably the site of two fierce Battles of Jabiim.

1 Description
2 History
3 Appearances
4 Sources
5 Notes and references
- 5.1 In other languages

DescriptionEdit

Jabiim was a world deluged by torrential rains, experiencing less than five days per standard year without precipitation. Its muddy surface constantly shifted from the weight of the rains. Jabiim was also rich in ore, although by the time of the Battle of Yavin, the valuable ores were dwindling. During the Clone Wars, Jabiim was a world that the Galactic Republic ignored until it was too late.

The world had a very unstable electric field, and electric storms were quite common. Due to this, repulsor craft of any type were largely unusable on the planet.

HistoryEdit

Early HistoryEdit

Originally known as Gwynhes Minor, the planet was absorbed into Xim's empire as he expanded his borders from the Kingdom of Cron. Jabiim would later join the Galactic Republic in 2,979 BBY, millennia following the fall of Xim's Empire. The planet had paid its dues to Coruscant, but was undefended when tragedy befell the planet. The planet suffered from an outbreak of brainrot plague, which slammed the population of Jabiim. And prior to the Clone Wars, Trandoshan bandits attacked and conquered Jabiim's lands. After the bandits moved on, Lythian pirates attacked the world, seizing small communities and killing many. Despite paying its due taxes to Coruscant and requesting aid, Jabiim received no help from the Republic in any of these cases.

Clone WarsEdit

Main article: Battle of Jabiim (Clone Wars)

Because of the lack of assistance from the Senate, the Jabiim Congress sided with Count Dooku's growing Confederacy of Independent Systems. Republic agents on Jabiim informed the Galactic Senate that the Congress had been undermined by Separatist influences. In fact, Alto Stratus had orchestrated a coup, killing most of the Loyalist members of Congress. Although he spoke eloquently about the "oppression" of the Republic, many believed these words had been purchased with weapons, supplies, and credits by the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Negotiations spearheaded by the Alderaanian Diplomatic Corps were rebuffed as Jabiim geared towards war. Jabiim was a planet that was rich in valuable ores. None of these ores could fall to the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Rather than lose Jabiim and its valuable mines, the Republic decided to retake the world by force. The Republic positioned their strike force on nearby Handooine. General Obi-Wan Kenobi was chosen to lead the attack.

The Jabiim campaign during the Clone Wars was a disaster for the Republic – despite a nominal victory. The Republic was forced to abandon Jabiim, leaving the Jabiimi Loyalists to their fate. Jabiim would never forget the Republic's treachery.

Galactic Civil WarEdit

Main article: Second Battle of Jabiim (Galactic Civil War)

Decades later, after the Battle of Yavin, Jabiim's ore supplies dwindled because of Imperial over-mining. Emperor Palpatine was not willing to pull the last of his troopers off Jabiim, despite the repeated harassment of the local Jabiimi rebels, which had persisted for 19 years. The Rebel Alliance dispatched a task force lead by Luke Skywalker to support the Jabiimi. Though as Luke set foot on the planet, he realized that he had stepped into his father's shadow. As a Padawan, Anakin Skywalker had served on Jabiim, and the locals did not forget or forgive.

Later the Empire launched a second invasion of Jabiim. With superior technology, the Imperials won the battle and crushed the rebellion. However, the Empire also made a deal with a group of wealthy Jabiimi: in exchange for their own freedom, they would give the rest of the planet's population to the Imperials as slaves.

What would complicate things further, was the fact that Darth Vader himself was present in orbit above the planet. Haunted by the memories of his former life, he ordered a full-scale decimation of the planet, destroying all life on its surface with the excuse that the Alliance would thus be deprived of a potential ally.

In the ensuing chaos, the rebel groups managed to escape and kill their Jabiimi captors, with the Jabiim faction fleeing towards the nearest mines, now their only means of escaping the planetary bombardment.

Days later, the last mine-turned-fortress would fall to an Imperial ground force and the survivors led to an awaiting slave-transport.

During the Second Galactic Civil War in 40 ABY, it was believed by the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances that Jabiim would join with the Corellians.