The Ktilacs were a species that originated at the Inner Rim planet Ktil. They ruled sixty-three star systems in the Ktilac Regions, an area of space that they co-inhabited with the Murachaun and Tocoyans, and the three species had a common culture and quasi-religion. The Ktilacs' homeworld was a part of the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire, and the isolationist Ktilac Regions nevertheless held the status of an Allied Region under the New Republic and the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.

Society and culture[]

The Ktilacs were a sentient species native to the Inner Rim planet Ktil, in the group of star systems known as the Ktilac Regions. Together with the Tocoyan species of the desert planet Tocoya and^[1] the reptilian Murachaun of the grassy world Nahsu Minor,^[2] the Ktilacs developed a common culture and quasi-religion wherein each of the three species of the Ktilac Regions was viewed as complementary to the other two. Under that belief system, the rest of the galaxy was considered to be unholy. As such, any Ktilacs encountered outside of the Ktilac Regions were exiled apostates. Around 25 ABY, the population of Ktil numbered between ten and one hundred million.^[1]

Ktilacs in the galaxy[]

The Ktilacs, the Murachaun, and the Tocoyans each ruled sixty-three star systems in the Ktilac Regions that were closed to outsiders. Space surrounding Ktil was explored between 20,000 BBY and 15,000 BBY.^[1] By 17,000 BBY, the Ktilacs' home planet had become a part of the Galactic Republic, lying along hyperlanes controlled by the Core Worlds planet Alsakan and its allies in their political struggle against the galactic capital world Coruscant.^[3] Ktil was situated in the territories either unaligned with or contested by the Republic and the Brotherhood of Darkness during the final years of the New Sith Wars, by which time the extent of the former had been greatly reduced.^[1]

Ktil had once again become a member of the Republic by the time the first campaigns of the Clone Wars took place in 22 BBY. By 17 BBY, however, the Ktilac homeworld had been incorporated into the territory controlled by the Galactic Empire, and the planet was a part of the New Republic twenty-nine years later,^[3] with the Ktilac Regions remaining an Allied Region under both that government and its successor, the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. As part of their invasion of the galaxy, at some point between 26 ABY and 27 ABY, the extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong attacked and conquered the Ktil system, but it was no longer under the control of the invaders in 27 ABY.^[1]

Behind the scenes[]

The Ktilacs' name was introduced as part of a mention of the Ktilac Regions in Alliance Intelligence Reports, a 1995 sourcebook for West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.^[4] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas first described the Ktilacs as a species.^[1]

Sources[]

• Alliance Intelligence Reports (First mentioned) (In Ktilac Regions' name)
• The Essential Atlas (First described)
• Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link) (In Ktilac Regions' name)

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