Oranessan was a clouded, stormy world, that was located near to the termini of a number of different hyperspace routes.[1] The world was also polluted and ravished.[2]
During the New Sith Wars, Oranessan fell under the control of the Daimanate, a Sith state that was ruled by the Sith LordDaiman. The Sith Lord used Oranessan as a transport center, from which support vessels were dispatched to the Daimanite frontiers. However, due to it's distance from the Daimanite borders, the planet was only lightly defended.[1]
The Jedi planned to carry out a raid on Oranessan, but when the Order received word that baradiummining operations had commenced on the Daimanite world Chelloa, they instead planned to make a strike against the Sith on Chelloa, with the Oranessan operation constituting the first stage of the attack. The mission became known as Operation: Influx[1] and was put into action in 1,032 BBY by a team of Jedi under the command of Jedi MasterVannar Treece. The Jedi inserted on Oranessan in a captured Daimanite personal shuttle, and while posing as pilots, Treece and the Jedi Kerra Holt and Dorvin Eltrom commandeered a Daimanite Heavy-Lift Starcrosser from the Sith transport landing zone. The Jedi planned to use the transport to take them to Chelloa, but discovered that the transport's navigation computer was missing its activation cylinder. Holt stole a replacement cylinder from a nearby hangar, and after fitting the device, the Jedi departed Oranessan.[2]