New Plympto
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| New Plympto | |
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| Astrographical | |
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| System | |
| Suns |
1 |
| Moons |
1: Karsten Moon |
| Rotation period |
18 standard hours[1] |
| Orbital period |
244 local days[1] |
| Physical | |
| Climate |
Temperate to tropical[1] |
| Gravity |
Standard[1] |
| Primary terrain |
Formerly
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| Government |
Imperial Governor[1] |
| Population |
14 million |
| Major cities |
Phemiss (capital) |
| Major imports |
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New Plympto was a temperate terrestrial world in the Core Worlds region populated by Nosaurians. It was discovered by Corellians in 10,019 BBY - although the Jedi Order apparently had contact with it since at least 25,000 BBY, using the native population as potential recruits. The planet was also the home world of podracer pilot Clegg Holdfast. Its capital was the city of Phemiss.
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[edit] History
Prior to the Clone Wars, New Plympto was welcomed into the Galactic Republic as a source of rikknit eggs, the Nosaurians' chief export. However, they were denied representation in the Galactic Senate and eventually grew alienated. Soon enough, the market for rikknit eggs evaporated and New Plympto was, for all intents and purposes, abandoned by commercial interests.
With the outbreak of the Clone Wars, the Confederacy of Independent Systems recruited New Plympto to their cause with the promise of reviving the rikknit egg market and rebuilding the planet's economy. Jedi Master Dass Jennir led a battalion of clone troopers on New Plympto against the Nosaurian rebels but Jennir sought refuge with the Nosaurians after his clone troops received Order 66. The Hajial Chase, an old stretch of forest 400 km from Phemiss and surrounding woodlands served as shelter to renegade Nosuarians.
Following the Clone Wars, New Plympto begrudgingly became an Imperial world. Any resistance that may have existed was quickly and easily quashed by the Nosaurians' new Imperial masters until the defeat of the Empire and the rise of the New Republic. An Imperial governor ruled the planet from a facility on Karsten Moon, where corporate scientists conducted experiments to synthesize the drug called ji rikknit from a few captive rikknit species, though their best result was an inferior nacrotic with harmful side effects.
Before the Yuuzhan Vong took control of the planet, it had a population of about fifteen million living on its surface. When the Vong attacked, a resistance movement under Numa Rar was formed. The Vong grew tired of the fierce resistance on the planet and used a biological weapon on New Plympto, killing seven million on the surface. The planet was rendered uninhabitable. Thus it is very possible that it became one of the hundred worlds to be terraformed during the Ossus Project.
[edit] Appearances
- Star Wars Republic: Into the Unknown (First appearance)
- Star Wars Dark Times 1: The Path to Nowhere, Part 1
- Star Wars Dark Times 2: The Path to Nowhere, Part 2
- Star Wars Dark Times 3: The Path to Nowhere, Part 3 (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars Dark Times 4: The Path to Nowhere, Part 4
- Star Wars Dark Times: Blue Harvest, Part 1 (Appears in flashback(s))
- Edge of Victory II: Rebirth (Mentioned only)
- Star by Star (Mentioned only)
- The Unifying Force (Mentioned only)
[edit] Sources
- Coruscant and the Core Worlds
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 7 (PLA4, Core Worlds Overview)
- The New Essential Chronology
- The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
- Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
- The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide
Clegg Holdfast in the Databank (First mentioned)
