Noori was a terrestrial planet in the Noori system at galactic grid coordinates O-10. It was located in an area of the Expansion Region overlapping with the Slice, a part of space between Corellian Run and Perlemian Trade Route. The Galactic Republic began scouting the region during the Great Manifest Period, resulting in widespread colonization in the following millennia. Noori was the homeworld of the Noorians, a humanoid species with striped gold-and-green eyes. Tahl, a Jedi Master who lived during the last decades of the Republic, hailed from the planet.

Contents 1 Description 2 History 3 Inhabitants 4 Behind the scenes 5 Appearances 6 Sources 7 Notes and references

DescriptionEdit

Noori was a terrestrial planet^[3] in the Expansion Region's Noori system.^[1] The area overlapped with the Slice,^[2] a wedge of space between the hyperlanes of Perlemian Trade Route and Corellian Run.^[6] The planet, which could be found at the galactic grid coordinates of O-10,^[1] was capable of supporting life.^[3]

HistoryEdit

The part of the galaxy that contained Noori^[2] was charted by scouts of the expanding Galactic Republic during the Great Manifest Period. Beginning in 20,000 BBY, the period marked the start of the Slice's extensive colonization.^[7] By the last millennium of the Republic, virtually all of the inhabitable planets in the Slice had been populated for thousands of years.^[6] Toward the end of the New Sith Wars, between 1,004 BBY and 1,000 BBY, the surroundings of Noori were unaligned space, with neither the Sith nor the Jedi and the Republic having a firm hold of the area.^[8] By 137 ABY, Noori was within the territory of Dark Lord Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire.^[9]

InhabitantsEdit

Noori was the homeworld of the Noorians,^[4] a humanoid species distinguishable from Humans by their striped gold-and-green eyes. Jedi Master Tahl,^[5] born in 92 BBY,^[10] was a native of the planet, though she left it early in life to be trained at the Jedi Temple of the Republic capital of Coruscant.^[3]

Behind the scenesEdit

Noori was first mentioned in The Defenders of the Dead, the fifth installment in the Jedi Apprentice series. Published in 1999, the young reader novel was written by Jude Watson and contains the only in-universe reference to Noori thus far. The planet has since been mentioned in the "Tahl" entry of the 2008 reference book The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.^[11] Noori was given a system placement in the appendix of The Essential Atlas (2009), which also provided the galactic region and grid coordinates of the planet. The same information was included in the Online Appendix of the Atlas Online Companion at StarWars.com.

AppearancesEdit

• Jedi Apprentice: The Defenders of the Dead (First mentioned)

SourcesEdit

• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III ("Tahl, Master")
• The Essential Atlas (Appendix) (Indirect mention only)
•  Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link on Archive.org) (Online Appendix) (Indirect mention only)

Notes and referencesEdit