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Bendeluum was an Outer Rim Territories world situated in the Anoat sector. Originally settled by the Galactic Republic, it eventually became a minor competitor to the nearby megaworld Gerrenthum and had a thriving criminal underworld that influenced every aspect of its commerce. Many of Bendeluum's crime syndicates originated with the Nothoiin species.
Description[]
Bendeluum was a terrestrial world[2] located in the Bendeluum system, a part of the Anoat sector. It was situated in the Greater Javin region within the Western Reaches portion of the Outer Rim Territories. The world lay on the super-hyperroute known as the Corellian Trade Spine, which connected it to the Zhanox system as well as the Indellian system of the neighboring Yarith sector. Bendeluum was located inside the Ivax Nebula.[1]
History[]
After the Galactic Republic's victory in a war against the nearby civilization of the Mugaari species[2] at some point between approximately 1000 BBY and 600 BBY,[4] the former established the Javin sector in the former Mugaari Space. There, launching from newly colonized worlds such as Bendeluum, Republic merchants unsuccessfully attempted to discover shortcut trade routes through the region's Twin Nebulae—the Ivax and Kiax Nebulae—that would better connect the civilizations of the alien Lutrillians and Nothoiins to the wider galaxy.[2]
Such hyperlanes were ultimately established through the efforts of the entrepreneur Lord Ecclessis Figg, and as a result, several worlds along the Corellian Trade Spine, including Bendeluum, were transformed from being sleepy Outer Rim outposts to having multiple busy spaceports.[2] Around 400 BBY,[3] the portion of the sector containing Bendeluum was re-designated as the Anoat sector.[2]
Inhabitants[]
Bendeluum was a minor competitor to[1]—and in many respects a less-active version of—the nearby megaworld Gerrenthum. The former world's trading markets, which were slightly less profitable than those of Gerrenthum, gave rise to[2] a thriving criminal underworld.[1] Although the criminal activity on Bendeluum did not endanger the lives of visitors to the world, the local crime syndicates—many of which[2] were constituted by Nothoiin clans[1]—influenced every aspect of commerce there.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
Bendeluum was introduced in Wizards of the Coast's Star Wars Roleplaying Game supplement "Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin," which was published on Wizards.com on March 25, 2004.[2] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the world in grid square K-18.[1]
Sources[]
"Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin" (original article link) on Wizards.com (content now obsolete; backup link) (First mentioned)- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III ("Trade Spine")
- The Essential Atlas
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 The Essential Atlas
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 "Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin" (original article link) on Wizards.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin," which is set during the Rebellion and New Republic eras (0 BBY–25 ABY; see
"Star Wars Eras" — Keeper of the Holocron's Blog — Leland Chee's StarWars.com Blog (backup link)), dates the splitting-off of the Anoat sector—which included Bendeluum—from the Javin sector to the last year of Ecclessis Figg's life. Since the supplement dates Figg's death to "nearly four centuries" prior to its setting, the establishment of the Anoat sector can be placed in approximately 400 BBY.
- ↑ "Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin," which is set during the Rebellion and New Republic eras (0 BBY–25 ABY; see "Star Wars Eras" — Keeper of the Holocron's Blog — Leland Chee's StarWars.com Blog (backup link)), places the Galactic Republic–Mugaari war within the millennium before its events but "centuries" before the death of Ecclessis Figg, which the text dates to "nearly four centuries" prior to its setting. This establishes an approximate time frame of 1000 BBY–600 BBY for the war.
