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Coachelle Prime was a Mid Rim planet situated in the Terr'skiar sector. It was situated on the Ootmian Pabol hyperlane between the Terr'skiar and Ota systems before that route's Coachelle-Ota segment was severed by a supernova. A minor trade world, Coachelle Prime was the homeworld of the sentient, lagomorphic Lepi species, members of which lived in vast underground warrens. The Lepi smuggler Jaxxon was born on Coachelle Prime and eventually stole away from his homeworld aboard a freighter.
Description[]
Coachelle Prime,[2] also known simply as Coachelle,[1] was a terrestrial planet[2] located in the Coachelle system, a part of the Terr'skiar sector in the Kashyyyk Region. It constituted a part of the Slice portion of the Mid Rim.[1]
The hyperlane known as the Ootmian Pabol connected Coachelle Prime to the Terr'skiar system and originally also linked it to the Ota system of the neighboring Mytaranor sector; however, the destruction of the Kyyr system by a supernova[1] in 4000 BBY[3] and the resultant formation of the Thornhedge Pulsar and the Thornhedge Nebula severed the Coachelle-Ota segment of the hyperspace route. Afterward, Coachelle Prime became shrouded in streamers of gas and dust from the nebula.[1] The planet shared its name with Coachelle Automata, a droid manufacturing company that designed the LEP servant droid.[4]
History[]
Jaxxon was born on Coachelle Prime.
The Lepi, a sentient species native to Coachelle Prime,[2] were known off-world[5] by 3637 BBY.[6] In response to overpopulation on Coachelle Prime, the Lepi invented the hyperdrive and went on to colonize all the other worlds in their star system.[2]
At one point, the Lepi future smuggler Jaxxon was born on Coachelle Prime and was raised in a quiet community. Although he had a rambunctious nature, Jaxxon's mother hoped he would eventually settle down and[2] marry a girl from a nice burrow.[7] Jaxxon, however, longed to travel off-world, and, when he was twelve years old, he stole away from his homeworld aboard a freighter, traveling to the Outer Rim Territories[2] at some point by 21 BBY.[8]
Inhabitants[]
Main article: Coachelle Prime was the homeworld of the Lepi, a species of sentient,[2] humanoid-shaped,[9] carnivorous[10] lagomorphs who spoke the Lepese language. A spacefaring species, the Lepi had many starships left poorly guarded in the Coachelle system, including on Coachelle Prime.[2] Their homeworld eventually came to serve as minor trade world.[1]
Locations[]
The Lepi inhabited extensive warrens that they had built underneath their homeworld's surface. Coachelle Prime featured several juvenile remand centers where the Lepi Jaxxon spent many of his formative years.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
Coachelle Prime was introduced in the article "The Starhoppers of Aduba-3," which was authored by Pablo Hidalgo with Cory J. Herndon and Michael Mikaelian for use with Wizards of the Coast's Star Wars Roleplaying Game and published in the fourth issue of the Star Wars Gamer magazine[2] in June 19, 2001.[11] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas introduced a shortened name for the planet and placed it in grid square P-10.[1]
The name of Coachelle Prime was chosen as a reference to a line in the cartoon short "Bully for Bugs" by the character Bugs Bunny (pictured).
In 2006, Hidalgo confirmed that, given the character Jaxxon had originally been created as an homage to the Looney Tunes cartoon short character Bugs Bunny, the name of Coachelle Prime had also been chosen in reference to that franchise. The Star Wars Gamer article contains the phrase "[…] having colonized all five worlds of the Coachelle system and the asteroid belt therein […]," which references Bugs Bunny's line from the 1953 short "Bully for Bugs:"[12] "Pardon me, sir, but could you direct me to the shortest route to the Coachella Valley and the Big Carrot Festival… therein?"[13]
Sources[]
"The Starhoppers of Aduba-3" — Star Wars Gamer 4 (First mentioned)- Ultimate Alien Anthology
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- The Essential Atlas (First identified as Coachelle)
Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
Jaxxon in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
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 1.12 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 2.14 "The Starhoppers of Aduba-3" — Star Wars Gamer 4
- ↑ Lords of Nal Hutta
- ↑ Scavenger's Guide to Droids
- ↑
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Starfighter — Emote: Lepi Hop from the Cartel Market
- ↑ According to Forums: Dear Story Team, What Year Are We Currently In? on The Old Republic's official website (backup link), Star Wars: The Old Republic: Rise of the Hutt Cartel takes place from early to mid 3638 BBY, and further Game Updates that were released in 2013 take place in the latter half of that year. The post also states that Game Updates released in 2014 can be placed in early and mid 3637 BBY, Shadow of Revan takes place near the end of that year, and that the events of Game Updates 3.1 through 3.3 can be placed in early and mid 3636 BBY. Therefore, the events of Game Update 2.6 and the 2014 update to the Digital Expansion Galactic Starfighter can be placed in 3637 BBY.
- ↑ Star Wars (1977) 10
- ↑ The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 62 (21 BBY 17–18, Defense of Kamino) dates "ARC Troopers" to 21 BBY, while The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 7 (KAT2, King Katuunko) dates "Pursuit of Peace" to 21 BBY. Since Star Wars: The Clone Wars Chronological Episode Order on StarWars.com (backup link) places "Hostage Crisis" between those two episodes, it can be concluded that "Hostage Crisis" also takes place in 21 BBY. Therefore the events of The Clone Wars: Invitation Only, which lead into those of "Hostage Crisis" and feature a bounty posting poster for Jaxxon on Keyorin, must be set in that same year as well.
- ↑ Ultimate Alien Anthology
- ↑ The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. II, p. 250 ("Lepi")
- ↑
The Wild Side of Star Wars Gamer on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑
"Tales of the Big Green Bunny: Behind the Scenes of Gamer #4 — The Coachella Valley, and the Giant Carrot Festival" — Fragments from the Mind's Eye — Pablo Hidalgo's StarWars.com Blog (backup link)
- ↑ "Bully for Bugs"
