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Mataou was a desert world located in the Anoat sector of the Outer Rim Territories. It was home to the ro hypa, a snake-like creature whose venom was collected by a colony of Human snake handlers for its medicinal properties. Mataou was orbited by a drydock and a fuel station.
Description[]
Mataou was a terrestrial world[3] located in the Mataou 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 Ione system as well as the Anantapar system of the neighboring Yarith sector. It was also linked to the Ison system by the hyperlane known as the Ison Corridor. Mataou was located inside the Ivax Nebula.[1]
Mataou's year lasted 440 local days, each of which was twenty standard hours long. The world's gravity was 110% of standard, and it had a breathable Type I atmosphere. A hot world of ferocious deserts, Mataou was home to the ro hypa, a highly venomous, snake-like creature. The ro hypa eventually spread throughout the Greater Javin.[3]
History[]
After the Galactic Republic's victory in a war against the nearby civilization of the Mugaari species[3] at some point between approximately 1000 BBY and 600 BBY,[4] the former established the Javin sector in the former Mugaari Space.[3] Around 400 BBY,[2] the portion of the sector containing Mataou was re-designated as the Anoat sector.[3]
Inhabitants[]
Mataou was home to a desert colony of snake handlers, numbering five thousand Humans, which collected ro hypa venom for its medicinal properties, exporting it offworld and importing foodstuffs. The colony had no overarching government and had access to space-level technology.[3] Mataou's snake handlers had a legendary reputation,[1] and they boasted of being the toughest people in the galaxy.[3]
Locations[]
Mataou featured a Standard Class starport. The world was used as a refueling point by starships traveling along the Ison Corridor, and to that end, a fuel station and a drydock orbited the world safely above its dangerous surface.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
Mataou 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.[3] 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[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 The Essential Atlas
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "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 Mataou—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.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 "Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin" (original article link) on Wizards.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ "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.
