Varl

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Varl was the original home world of the Hutts, t'landa Til and possibly the Rybets. According to Hutt legend, it was devastated in a cataclysm that vaporized its atmosphere and obliterated all other planets, as well as its moons within its star system.

Contents 1 History 1.1 The Cataclysm 1.1.1 Speculation 2 Appearances 3 Sources 4 Notes and references

[edit] History

[edit] The Cataclysm

According to Hutt legend, the planet Varl orbited around two suns, Evona and Ardos. Evona and Ardos were venerated as gods by the Hutts. Evona was consumed by a black hole, and in fury, Ardos expelled its gaseous external layers and destroyed the other planets of the star system in 15,000 BBY.

Somehow, Varl survived, though its atmosphere was vaporized, its biosphere was annihilated, and it was left as wasteland. The Hutts fled Varl before the cataclysm, and soon resettled at their colony on Evocar which they promptly renamed Nal Hutta. They believed that by surviving the cataclysm they had been elevated to the status of 'near-gods'. The planet they left behind was reinhabited by the descendants of abandoned servants of the Hutts, with only a few squalid manufacturing centers built in airdomes.

[edit] Speculation

The tale was generally dismissed as more Huttese hyperbole, and the most commonly accepted alternate theory was that the Hutts destroyed their world themselves in some ancient civil war.

Interestingly, there were signs indicating that the cratered wasteland of the planet Varl was once a pleasant green world, and besides many asteroids, no other world orbited the white dwarf, Ardos. Presumably, the asteroids were the remains of Varl's moons, as researchers at the Baobab Archives claimed to have found Hutt artifacts "on the moons of Varl."

[edit] Appearances

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars novel (Mentioned only)
• The Paradise Snare (Mentioned only)
• Rebel Dawn (Mentioned only)
• Zorba the Hutt's Revenge (First mentioned)
• X-wing: The Krytos Trap (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars: Empire at War (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption (Mentioned only)
• Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse (Mentioned only)

[edit] Sources

• Galaxy Guide 5: Return of the Jedi
• The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook
• Dark Empire Sourcebook
• The Essential Guide to Characters
• The Essential Guide to Alien Species
• The Essential Guide to Alien Species
• Galactic Phrase Book and Travel Guide
• Tempest Feud
• The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
•  Hutt in the Databank
• The Essential Atlas

[edit] Notes and references