Ator

For other uses, see Ator (disambiguation).

Ator was a Core Worlds planet located just inside the Horizon boundary of the Deep Core that featured urban terrain. Around 4200 BBY, pilgrims from Ator colonized the Outer Rim Territories world Arkanis, which eventually became the capital of the small Arkanis Regency empire. Millennia later, the moisture farmer Cliegg Lars left his family's homestead on the planet Tatooine and settled on Ator. There, Cliegg married Aika and had a son, Owen, but after Aika's unexpected death, Cliegg returned to Tatooine with Owen.

Description[]

Ator was a terrestrial planet^[2] located in the Ator system. It lay in the Arrowhead region, a part of the Slice portion of the Core Worlds. Ator was situated just inside the Horizon—a mathematically set boundary at which making hyperspace jumps using outdated astrocartographic data fell below the safe margin of error of starship navicomputers due to space travel dangers inherent to the Deep Core—but was still classified as part of the Core Worlds instead of the Deep Core due to the Ator system being an established part of the Core culturally and historically.^[1] Ator featured urban terrain^[2] of which bright lights were a part.^[4]

History[]

Atorese pilgrims settled the world Arkanis, a part of the Outer Rim Territories' Arkanis sector, around 4200 BBY, with the sector's planets Vasch and Tatooine being first colonized around the same time. Eventually, contact between Arkanis and the Core was lost, and other colonies established by people from Ator withered and died. Arkanis survived, however, as the capital of a small empire known as the Arkanis Regency, with Atorese colonists also founding the Regency Worlds agriworld New Ator around 80 BBY.^[1]

Owen-OP — The future Tatooine moisture farmer Owen Lars was born on Ator.

When Cliegg Lars, the Human son of a family of Tatooine moisture farmers^[2] who was born in 82 BBY,^[5] became old enough, he, having grown disenchanted with the hard life of moisture farming and enticed by the allure of Core Worlds cities, left Tatooine for Ator. There, he met and married Aika, with whom he had a Human son, Owen,^[2] who was born in 52 BBY. Cliegg and Aika struggled to raise their child in the confines of their living quarters, and Cliegg eventually realized that the stability of life at his family's homestead on Tatooine would prove to be a significantly more beneficial environment for both Aika and Owen.^[5]

Cliegg began to consider leaving Ator with his family for Tatooine, but tragedy struck when Aika died unexpectedly. With nothing to keep him in the Core Worlds anymore, Cliegg took Owen and returned to his family's farm on Tatooine,^[5] also taking a Thornen Pyramid Puzzle with him.^[6] Eventually, Owen himself became a moisture farmer.^[5] He remembered little of Ator,^[4] but as late as the Galactic Civil War, the Thornen Pyramid Puzzle from the planet was nevertheless kept in his and his wife Beru's bedroom at the Lars homestead.^[6]

Locations[]

Ator was the site of a centuries-old skyscraper. It had a cramped^[3] and claustrophobic^[2] attic apartment where Cliegg Lars and his family lived.^[3]