Vanqor
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1: Uziel |
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R-5[1] |
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Vanqor was the largest planet in the Uziel system. It was located 6 parsecs away from Florrum.
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[edit] History
- "I haven't felt you this tense since we fell into that nest of gundarks."
- ―Obi-Wan Kenobi to Anakin Skywalker[src]
Vanqor had two red moons that orbited in tandem. It was a planet full of deserts, canyons, and highlands. It was primarily populated by Humans as well as wild beasts known as gundarks. A few years prior to the Clone Wars, Vanqor's inhabitants began a conquest that led to them controlling the entire Uziel system, except for the planet Typha-Dor.
Despite the lack of resources, it was able to create a massive amount of power for itself through cunning use of the resources it had and skillful conquest of those with resources, in contrast to planets like Typha-Dor and others that had large amounts of resources but no drive to succeed.
In 26 BBY, while investigating the planet, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi fought off a nest of gundarks. Around this time, Jenna Zan Arbor also hid on the world while experimenting with her new drug, the Zone of Self-Containment.
Vanqor was defeated by strategic maneuvering of the Typha-Dor fleet that allowed it to surrounded the much larger Vanqor fleet, partially with its own fleet and partially with Typha-Dor's two moons. The Vanqor capitulated without a fight rather than face the destruction of most of their military. A ceasefire was worked out with mediation from the two Jedi.
Early in the Clone Wars, Kenobi and Skywalker returned to the planet accidentally while pursuing the Separatist leader, Count Dooku. They crash-landed on a desolate plain, and were attacked by a female gundark while tracking Dooku through a cave. Though nearly suffocating from a poisonous gas, the duo were saved by Ahsoka Tano and a detachment of clone troopers. Dooku slipped away from them by hitching a ride with a Weequay pirate gang who had landed to scavenge his crashed solar sailer.
[edit] Appearances
- Jedi Quest: The Moment of Truth (First appearance)
- Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (Indirect mention only)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Dooku Captured"
