Zono Sector
Sector 76 - 2
Contains Honoghr.
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Honoghr System
Contains the planet Honoghr.
Honoghr
A planet with three moons in the Honoghr system (near Fwillsving and Kessel), and the homeworld of the Noghri. Honoghr is a
devastated world; almost all of its plant and animal life has been destroyed. From space it appears to be uniformly brown, broken only by the occasional blue lake and the green area known as the Clean Lands. The main city of Nystao is located in the center of the Clean Lands-- it is home to the Common Room of Honoghr within the Grand Dukha and is the only city with adequate spacecraft repair facilities. The Noghri people are divided into clans (including the clans Kihm'bar, Bakh'tor, Eikh'mir, and Hakh'khar) that have had a long history of bloody rivalry. Each clan is ruled by a dynast, and female maitrakhs lead family or subclan units. In the center of each village is a cylindrical building called a dukha, constructed of polished wood encircled by a metal band and containing the clan High Seat and a genealogical chart carved into one wall. The ancient Noghri laws of discovery and judgement involve a period of public shaming in the main city by order of the clan dynasts. The village of clan Kihm'bar is at the edge of the Clean Lands and is ruled by Dynast Ir'khaim. Animal life on Honoghr includes the carnivorous stava.During the Clone Wars, a battle between two starships resulted in one of them crashing on Honoghr's surface, setting off catastrophic earthquakes and releasing toxic chemicals into the atmosphere. Darth Vader came to offer Imperial assistance, and teams of deadly Noghri commandos joined the Empire in return for Emperor's help in restoring their world. Noghri clans and their respective dukhas were relocated to the Clean Lands, and Imperial decontamination droids set to work apparently renewing the soil. In actuality, the Empire had seeded Honoghr with a hybrid form of kholm-grass that inhibited all other plant growth, keeping the planet lifeless for generations and forcing the Noghri to remain in the Emperor's debt. Before Vader's death, he named Grand Admiral Thrawn his designated heir and ruler of the Noghri commandos. The Noghri renounced their service to Thrawn after Leia Organa Solo showed them the extent of the Empire's treachery, and they began to grow new crops along the banks of a hidden river running between two jagged cliffs. After Thrawn's defeat, the New Republic was planning to relocate the Noghri people to a new world.
Womrik
Womrik was a temporary base for Garm Bel Iblis' private army during their hit-and-fade attacks against the Empire.
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Pii System
The Pii system is located in the Arkanis sector, on the border of the Mid-Rim and Outer Rim. There is little of value in the region of space but it can be easily reached, and lies just seven days from the Perlemian Trade Route. The system's seven planets orbit a red giant, and the inner two worlds are scorched balls of rock. An asteroid belt is next, followed by the lush green worlds of Pii 3 and 4. Next is a barren fifth planet, another asteroid field, and a gas giant, while the seventh world is an ice-covered ball. Pii 3 and 4 are the only profitable worlds in the area, and are known for the valuable crimson greel wood harvested and exported from their forests. The entrepreneur Meysen Kayson bought the rights to both planets in the last days of the Old Republic, intending to open a nature preserve. When he discovered the fast-growing greel trees and their deep, luxurious wood, he founded the Greel Wood Logging Corporation. Efforts to transplant the greel tree to other environments have proven unsuccessful, and for now the Pii system is the exclusive source. Kayson secretly diverts most of its profits from his logging company to the Alliance, while allowing the planets to be used as Rebel training grounds and safeworlds. Pii 4 has harsher geography and more rainfall than its sister world, which is covered with gentle rolling plains. Pii 3 was once home to seventh Duro Relocation Colony, which has since been abandoned. Many lifeforms inhabit the planets, including the larkin nerf and zronta grazer on Pii 3 and the greel screamer and timber render predators of Pii 4. Following the Battle of Yavin, a Habassan convoy was attacked by Imperial gunboats near Pii 2, but was rescued by Alliance starfighters.
Bryx
The planet Bryx, led by Governor Carigan, was conquered by the Empire in the days before the rise of the Rebel Alliance.
Carigan defended his world with hundreds of ground-based guns and submersible fighter carriers, and Imperial forces
triumphed only after a long and bloody battle in which thousands of troops were killed. Carigan's effective planetary defensive
tactics have since been termed the "Carigan Defense."
Fwillsving
A planet somewhat near Honoghr and Kessel. Luke Skywalker considered visiting Fwillsving when he needed replacement fuel
cells for his X-wing.
Marngar III
Site of an Imperial University. The Imperial spy Benald Orlan was an honors student at this university, where he attended the
Thene campus.
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