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"What of the reports of the Rebel fleet massing near Sullust?"
"It is of no concern."
―Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine[src]

Sullust was a planet located in the Sullust system of the Outer Rim Territories that was home to the Sullustan species.

Description

Sullust was a barren, obsidian world of lava streams and turquoise lakes. Native fauna such as ash angels foraged during the day and returned to nest at night, while rockrenders prowled the planet's underground.[11] Because the planet's atmosphere was highly toxic, native Sullustans lived in technologically advanced subterranean cities that were highly regarded for their beauty.[7] They commuted to work by lifts and shuttles that carried them to the factories on the planet's surface, alternating between day and night shifts.[12] The SoroSuub Corporation employed roughly half the population of Sullust.[16]

History

During the Republic

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The Battle of Sullust during the Clone Wars.

In its earliest days, Sullust was a proud and influential member of the Galactic Republic, and was host to the Sullust Sector Spacefarers Academy that young Wilhuff Tarkin attended. In the years following the Invasion of Naboo, the rogue Jedi Count Dooku spread political turmoil on worlds such as Kashyyyk, Onderon, and Sullust.[2] Sullust subsequently seceded.[15] During the Clone Wars, it hosted a battle between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems.[3]

Imperial reorganization

The planet eventually came under the jurisdiction of the nascent Galactic Empire following the proclamation of the New Order, and was reduced to vassal status and a source of fuel for the Imperial Military, becoming an essential mining and manufacturing center for the Empire.[12] By 18 BBY, the Empire already had an established presence on Sullust.[19] For years, Sullust remained relatively peaceful as workers accepted the stability offered under the Empire's reign. However, the Cobalt Laborers' Reformation Front steadily began to increase in numbers, sending letters to the Imperial governor demanding better working conditions and increased local autonomy. In response, the Empire detained roughly eighty percent of those in the organization and those it deemed most radical.[12]

During the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire, the Alliance to Restore the Republic listed Sullust as a safe world. Sullust was included in a map of the galaxy with a legend listing the various Alliance safe worlds, starfighter hubs at level five or higher, rebel operations sectors and regional headquarters, and shadow planets with deep space caches. The map would be incorporated into The Rebel Files.[20]

Imperial occupation

Shortly after the Disaster of 0 BBY, an enclave of Alderaanian refugees took up shelter on Sullust, hoping to escape Imperial reprisals against the remaining population of Alderaan.[11]

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TIE fighters in flight over Sullust

After the Battle of Hoth in 3 ABY, the Imperial Security Bureau began to suspect the Cobalt Laborers' Reformation Front of harboring rebel sympathizers and material for a possible resistance movement. The group claimed to have no connection to the local Sullustan resistance on the planet, but that did not stop the Empire from locking down the city of Pinyumb following a pipe bomb explosion in a nearby manufacturing facility.[12]

Weeks later and shortly following the Battle of Hoth, the Rebel Alliance initiated Operation Ringbreaker, which sought to force Imperial redeployments from the shipbuilding world of Kuat by assaulting worlds such as Obumubo, Naator, Xagobah and the asteroid mines of the Kuliquo belt, thus allowing for the Alliance to assault its ultimate goal. When the Alliance Sixty-First Mobile Infantry jumped out of hyperspace a mere half million kilometers from the planet in an effort to rapidly deploy drop ships to assault the Inyusu Tor mineral processing facility, the attack ultimately went awry the following day when the Imperial Vixus Squadron ambushed their troop transports, stranding the company on the planet. The next three days would result in the bloody Siege of Inyusu Tor, initially being in the Empire's favor as the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Herald arrived in the system and the Imperial Army utilized overwhelming force to surround the rebels on the mountainside facility. However, after receiving aid from the local resistance as well as finally convincing the Cobalt Front to rise up in Pinyumb, the Imperials were overwhelmed, while subsequent uprisings across the planet ultimately liberated it from Imperial rule.[12]

In the following days, an interim government was installed in Pinyumb, while heavy losses sustained by the Sixty-First ultimately canceled Operation Ringbreaker, allowing the company to act as a temporary police force for the Sullustan people. Subsequent pirate broadcasts and intercepted Imperial signals indicated further insurrections across the planet, delaying the inevitable Imperial counterattack.[12]

Regrouping over Sullust

"Sullust is an opportunity for us—we have contacts with its underground. Our armada will gather there. The commando team will go first, to bring down the battle station's shields. Then the fleet will travel down the Sanctuary Pipeline to Endor."
―Admiral Gial Ackbar, explaining the plan to destroy the Death Star II on Zastiga[src]

By 4 ABY, the Rebel Alliance used the planet as the staging area for its fleet prior to the Battle of Endor.[17]

The New Republic

By 28 ABY, Sullust was represented in the New Republic Senate by the Populist senator Anib Ney.[18]

After The Rebel Files were rediscovered on Durkteel[20] in 34 ABY[21] and handed to the Resistance, Major Caluan Ematt and General Leia Organa wrote annotations.[20]

Behind the scenes

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Star Wars Battlefront team member on Iceland, which served as a template for Sullust

Sullust first appeared in the Nintendo 64 game Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, but its first canonical appearance was in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The planet's subsurface was depicted in the Princess Leia comic. Its surface as depicted in Star Wars Battlefront was based on Iceland.[22] Doug Chiang said DICE proposed the look, and Lucasfilm agreed:

"[We wanted] to come up with something that could really complement what the other planets are. We knew in Battlefront that we were going to have a snow planet, a desert planet, and a forest planet. [sic] What else could we put in there to make it texturally more interesting? Iceland turned out to be a great candidate — the Icelandic lava flows. And that feel was very unique."
―StarWars World Building: Doug Chiang on Creating Sullust for Star Wars Battlefront – Exclusive Interview on StarWars.com (backup link)[src]

DICE's Audio Director Ben Minto recorded various sounds in Iceland, including bubbling mud pools, shrimp and cod grunts; or huge steel guy-wires from the Longwave radio mast Hellissandur.[23]

In the 2018 reference book Star Wars: The Rebel Files, Sullust is mispelled as "Sollust" on page 146.[20]

Appearances

Non-canon appearances

Sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Princess Leia, Part II
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tarkin
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Nightsisters"
  4. ↑ In Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "The Unknown", a Separatist data display says "Sullust" - 12 planetoids". Sullust is pictured with a single moon orbiting it.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game
  6. ↑ Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior novelization
  8. ↑ StarWars-DatabankII Sullust in the Databank (backup link)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Star Wars Battlefront
  10. ↑ Star Wars Battlefront II
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 Princess Leia, Part III
  12. ↑ 12.00 12.01 12.02 12.03 12.04 12.05 12.06 12.07 12.08 12.09 12.10 12.11 12.12 12.13 12.14 Battlefront: Twilight Company
  13. ↑ Adventures in Wild Space: The Escape
  14. ↑ StarWars Nien Nunb in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 The Planets of Star Wars Battlefront, published by ea.com on starwars.ea.com (November 5, 2015) (backup link not verified!)
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Bloodline
  19. ↑ Ahsoka
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 Star Wars: The Rebel Files
  21. ↑ Since The Rebel Files were buried on the same day as the Battle of Endor, which according to Star Wars: Galactic Atlas takes place in 4 ABY, and because Star Wars: The Rebel Files establishes that The Rebel Files were rediscovered 30 years after the battle, it can be determined that The Rebel Files were uncovered in 34 ABY.
  22. ↑ Star Wars Battlefront: 7 Things You Need to Know About Fighter Squadron Mode, published by YouTube on OutsideXbox (August 7, 2015) (backup link not verified!)
  23. ↑ Creating the Sounds of Star Wars Battlefront | starwarsea.com
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