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"If we can get the Ansionians to commit to pulling out of the Republic, no one will really care. But because of their alliances, their withdrawal should be enough to sway their already vacillating partners in both the Malarian Alliance and the Keitumite Treaty to follow."
―Presidente Shu Mai[6]

The Keitum system was a part of the Mid Rim's Ariarch sector and contained the planet Keitum. By the time of the Separatist Crisis, it was affiliated via the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty to seven other star systems. That alliance was part of a larger network of forty systems linked by various alliances and treaties to each other, centered on the inconspicuous planet Ansion.

In 22 BBY, when members of the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty were considering seceding from the Galactic Republic, the Confederacy of the Independent Systems sought to facilitate the secession of the entire network of systems affiliated with Ansion. The Separatist plans were foiled by a Jedi mission to Ansion, which resulted in the planet and its partner systems remaining loyal to the Republic. Following the subsequent Clone Wars, the Keitum system successively fell within the borders of the Galactic Empire, the New Republic, and the Imperial Remnant.

Description[]

The Keitum system was a part of the Ariarch sector[1] in the New Territories portion of[2] the Mid Rim.[1] It was situated at the endpoint of the hyperlane known as the Rago Run,[5] which linked it to the Ansion system in the Churba sector.[1] The system contained the planet Keitum.[3][4]

History[]

A web of alliances[]

"The Malarian Alliance. On the face of it, one of hundreds of such casual alliances. Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty. Never invoked, but still in force. Now, observe this."
―Presidente Shu Mai, before displaying the network of star systems politically connected to Ansion[6]
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The Confederacy of Independent Systems intended to use the connections of the planet Ansion (pictured) to the Keitum system and others for political gain.

The Keitum system was situated in space explored at some point between 3000 BBY and 1000 BBY.[2] By 22 BBY,[7] it was both a member of the Galactic Republic and a signatory of[2] the never-invoked[6] Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty, the latter of which placed it in a web of mutual affiliations with seven other systems: the Dorin and Mondress systems of the Expansion Region; the Eeropha system in the Colonies; and the Ansion, Glom Tho, Lonnaw, and Malari systems in the Mid Rim. In addition, Keitum, its partner systems, and the Malarian Alliance—also affiliated with the planet Ansion—all had treaties of their own with other worlds, which led to the seemingly insignificant Ansion lying at the center of a network of approximately forty politically connected star systems. During the Separatist Crisis,[2] signatory systems of both the Malarian Alliance and the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty were individually considering leaving the Republic.[6]

The Confederacy of Independent Systems intended to facilitate the secession of Ansion from the Republic, which was predicted by the Separatists to cause a cascade of secession by all the systems linked to the planet via its treaties as well.[2] Presidente[8] Shu Mai of the Commerce Guild explained the Separatist plan to the Corellian industrialist Tam Uliss and his Twi'lek companion during a meeting with Ansion's Senator Mousul in a private chamber on Coruscant,[6] a Core Worlds planet that served as the capital of the Republic,[2] in 22 BBY.[7] Mai also singled out the member systems of the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty for the group in a holographic projection of the galaxy.[6] However, a mission to Ansion undertaken at the time by members of the Jedi Order on behalf of the Republic ultimately resulted in that world[2] and its partners remaining loyal to the galactic government,[6] foiling the Separatist plans.[2]

Clone Wars and beyond[]

During the first campaigns of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY, the Republic's Seventh Sector Army was tasked with defending the Keitum system's vicinity against the military forces of the Confederacy.[1] Shortly after the acquisition of the planet Ukio by the Commerce Guild during that conflict, the Keitum system was featured on a galactic map displayed on a viewscreen at a facility run by Passel Argente, the Magistrate[9] of the Corporate Alliance.[10]

At some point following the establishment of the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY, the newly appointed Imperial Moff of the Mid Rim's Churnis sector declared all existing treaties and alliances involving Ansion to be null and void,[2] and by 17 BBY, the Keitum system was situated within the territory controlled by the Empire. Between 12 ABY and 17 ABY, the Keitum system fell within the borders of the New Republic,[1] but control over the system had been passed to the Imperial Remnant by 40 ABY.[2]

Inhabitants[]

Keitum was the origin point of the social group known as the Keitumites,[3] and the Keitum system's population around 25 ABY numbered between one hundred and five hundred million.[2]

Behind the scenes[]

The Approaching Storm, a 2002 novel by Alan Dean Foster, featured a holographic representation of the several unnamed star systems connected to the planet Ansion via the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty.[6] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas, authored by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry, subsequently identified one of those systems as the Keitum system and placed it in grid square J-6.[2]

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Notes and references[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 The Essential Guide to Warfare
  2. ↑ 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 2.15 2.16 The Essential Atlas
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. II, p. 206 ("Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty")
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 TwitterLogo Jason Fry (@jasoncfry) on Twitter (screenshot)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Essential Atlas places the Keitum system at the endpoint of a hyperlane that Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen identifies as the Rago Run.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 The Approaching Storm
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Essential Reader's Companion dates the events of The Approaching Storm, during which the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty is in effect, to 22 BBY.
  8. ↑ Databank title Mai, Shu in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
  9. ↑ The Clone Wars: Act on Instinct
  10. ↑ Databank title Argente, Passel in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
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