This article is about the explorer that discovered Naboo. You may be looking for Kwilaan (city), a city on Naboo or Kwilaan Starport, a major starport within Naboo's largest city, Keren.
After surviving many hazards,[4] Kwilaan[1] and the Beneficient Tazia reached Naboo[4] and crashed on the planet. The explorer led the settlers in the Gallo Mountains on the main continent, where they founded the farming community of Dee'ja Peak.[5] Within weeks of their arrival, the colonists encountered the native Gungans, a species of land-dwelling amphibians.[4] While no records of previous Republican visits to Naboo existed, the Gungans remained indifferent to the sudden appearance of Kwilaan's expedition, as if they had met Humans before.[2]
Many centuries after Kwilaan set foot on Naboo, his memory was still vivid—at least on the occasion of the Festival of Light. On this holiday, the descendents of the early colonists celebrated their planet joining the Galactic Republic. Through fireworks and holographic displays, the Naboo would evoke the story of their origins, and Kwilaan himself featured in his own tableau.[5] Additionally, the Kwilaan Starport in the city of Keren was named after him,[1] and a tapestry in his image hung in the Banquet Hall of the Naboo Royal Palace in Theed.[5]
If the modern holographic representations of Kwilaan were accurate, the explorer was a slender, light-skinned man, and he sported a short white beard when he discovered Naboo.[5]