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Orn Kios was an Outer Rim Territories planet situated in the Yarith sector. It was home to a populace known as the Ornki that practiced fishing and lived in lightweight structures built atop giant lily pads. During the early stages of the settlement of the Greater Javin region which eventually included the Yarith sector, Galactic Republic merchants launched from worlds such as Orn Kios in search of new local trade routes. To the Ornki's resentment, Orn Kios eventually became a tourist attraction.
Description[]
Orn Kios was a planet[2] located in the Orn Kios system, a part of the Yarith sector. It was situated in the Greater Javin region within the Western Reaches portion of the Outer Rim Territories. The world lay on the Corellian Trade Spine super-hyperroute, which connected it to the Darlyn Boda and Ozu systems of the neighboring Anoat sector.[1] The surface of Orn Kios featured water, and its lifeforms included fish as well as colossal lily pads.[2]
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 Orn Kios, 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]
Around 400 BBY,[3] the portion of the sector containing Orn Kios was re-designated as the Anoat sector, and generations after that, the Anoat itself was further split into two parts, with Orn Kios becoming a part of the new Yarith sector.[2] At some point by 43 ABY,[5] Orn Kios became a tourism destination, a fact that disgusted the planet's native Ornki inhabitants.[1]
Inhabitants[]
The inhabitants of Orn Kios, known as the Ornki,[1] resided in settlements that consisted of lightweight wood-and-canvas structures built on the planet's lily pads. The Ornki supported themselves through fishing[2] and resented their homeworld becoming a tourist attraction.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
Orn Kios 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 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 "Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin" (original article link) on Wizards.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "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 from the Javin sector to the last year of Ecclessis Figg's life and also places the creation of the Yarith sector—which included Orn Kios—from the Anoat sector "generations" after his death. 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.
- ↑ The section of The Essential Atlas describing Orn Kios ends with a mention of Luke and Ben Skywalker's journey across the galaxy, the beginning of which is depicted in Fate of the Jedi: Outcast. The events of that novel are dated to 43 ABY by The Essential Reader's Companion.
