- "I worked Tangenine, mostly. Infrastructure there was hit hard by the Separatists and the syndicates stepped in, extorting folks in return for food, transport, basics. Imperial military tried their best, but the gangs and blackmailers still ran things below the surface."
- ―Brand
Tangenine was a planet located in the Core Worlds. It was home to the norango bush farmers Remba and Kelven and their children Lauren Mel Coelho and Julien. One of the world's syndicates, the Malandro syndicate, charged protection fees from Remba and Kelven until Remba refused to pay them, leading to the murder of the couple and their workers. The syndicates later gained prominence when the Separatist Alliance dealt damage to Tangenine's infrastructure during the Clone Wars.
After the war came to a close in 19 BBY, the Galactic Empire sought to bring order to Tangenine and used bounty hunters to root out the syndicates. Coelho resurfaced as a bounty hunter under the name Brand and pursued rewards primarily on the Malandro syndicate. The Empire's corruption grew as the control of the syndicates waned, and eventually, Brand took an off-world job on the Rebel Alliance Captain Micha Evon.
Description[]
- "I needed a break. So for my next job, I picked a target that would get me off Tangenine, out of the Core Worlds. Away from the cities and crime and bureaucrats."
- ―Brand, on leaving Tangenine
Tangenine was a planet[3] that was located in the Core Worlds[1] and shared its name with that region's Tangenine sector.[4] It had a Type I atmosphere,[2] breathable to humans and Falleen, and norango bushes were grown there.[3]
History[]
Corruption and war[]
- "A few years later, the Empire showed up and tried to bring their version of order to Tangenine. They just didn't realize how deeply embedded Malandro was."
- ―Micha Evon speaks about Tangenine
Bounty hunter Brand was born at Tangenine as Lauren Mel Coelho.
During the reign of the Galactic Republic, the Malandro syndicate operated at Tangenine. The syndicate charged protection fees from Remba and Kelven, two lovers who ran a norango farm and had two children, Lauren Mel Coelho and Julien. When Remba eventually refused to pay the Malandro's protection fees, the Falleen Malandro gangster Annaz and her henchmen were sent to her farm. Remba and Kelven sent their children to live with their grandmother before Annaz then killed the two farmers and their workers. After a few years passed, Coelho and Julien's grandmother died from a fever. Julien also fell ill, and consequently, in order to pay for the cure, Coelho took a job from the Malandro syndicate—stealing a speeder. However, she was caught and imprisoned, and Julien died before she got out of prison.[3]
During the Clone Wars between the Republic and the Separatist Alliance, the latter damaged Tangenine's infrastructure. As a result, syndicates gained more prominence, further extorting the people of Tangenine for commodities such as food and transportation.[1] After the Clone Wars ended with the Separatists' defeat in 19 BBY, the Republic transitioned into the Galactic Empire.[5] The Empire attempted to bring order to Tangenine but found that the syndicates were deeply embedded, and the government subsequently turned to bounty hunters to help quell the issue.[1]
A new Brand[]
- "I don't know when things went wrong. But when law came back to Tangenine, the Empire changed from what it was to… whatever it is we've got now. I brought a man in for stealing power converters and saw him jailed for life. I tracked down a gang leader, a spice dealer—the lowest of the low—and saw him pardoned because he bribed the magistrate."
- ―Brand recounts her frustration with the Empire's rule over Tangenine
At some point no earlier than 17 BBY,[6] Coelho resurfaced as a bounty hunter under the name Brand and took jobs almost exclusively on the Malandro syndicate, eventually finding and torturing Annaz at the Falleen's desk.[3] The syndicates ultimately lost much of their control over Tangenine, allowing the Empire's rule to become more corrupt. Brand became displeased when a thief she apprehended was given a life sentence in prison while a gang leader she had also successfully tracked down was freed after bribing a magistrate. As a result, she decided to take a break from her work at Tangenine and pursued an off-world bounty on Micha Evon, a captain in the Rebel Alliance who led the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry.[1]
On Dagobah, the Force ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi told Luke Skywalker that the fate of planets like Tangenine relied on Skywalker and Darth Vader's final confrontation.
Evon eventually found out about Brand's identity as a bounty hunter and dug up information on her earlier life at Tangenine, using it to convince her to join the 61st when she tried to kill him[3] between 2 BBY and 0 BBY.[7] In 3 ABY,[6] Brand spoke about Tangenine and her time there to her squadmate Roach while on the Mid Rim planet Coyerti.[1] In 4 ABY,[5] the aspiring Jedi Luke Skywalker conversed with the Force ghost of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi on[8] the swamp planet[9] Dagobah. Kenobi advised Skywalker that the fate of Tangenine and many other planets depended on the outcome of the latter's final confrontation with the Sith Lord Darth Vader.[8]
Inhabitants[]
Inhabitants of Tangenine included humans and Falleen.[3]
Locations[]
Tangenine had cities[1] and at least one farm and school.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
Tangenine was first mentioned in the novel Battlefront: Twilight Company, written by Alexander Freed[1] and published on November 3, 2015.[10] The planet then first appeared in flashbacks in the tie-in short story "Inbrief," written by Janine K. Spendlove and released as part of the 161st issue of the Star Wars Insider magazine[3] seven days later.[11]
Appearances[]
"Inbrief" — Star Wars Insider 161 (First appearance) (In flashback(s))- "Inbrief" — Star Wars 2016 Del Rey Sampler (In flashback(s))
- "Inbrief" — Battlefront: Twilight Company (Paperback edition) (In flashback(s))
- "Inbrief" — Star Wars Insider Special Edition 2019 (In flashback(s))
- The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem (Mentioned only)
- Battlefront: Twilight Company (First mentioned, simultaneous with audiobook)
- Battlefront: Twilight Company audiobook (Mentioned only)
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 Battlefront: Twilight Company
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Inbrief" establishes that Tangenine had a breathable atmosphere that
Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 43 (Secrets of Spaceflight: Types of Atmosphere) classifies as Type I.
- ↑ 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 "Inbrief" — Star Wars Insider 161
- ↑ Thrawn
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars: Timelines
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Star Wars: Timelines dates the main events of Battlefront: Twilight Company to 3 ABY. The novel also establishes that Brand began operating as a bounty hunter almost twenty years before the novel's events, meaning that she became a hunter at some point no earlier than 17 BBY.
- ↑ In Battlefront: Twilight Company, the rebel trooper Hazram Namir refers to Brand as a bounty hunter during the battle on Vir Aphshire, which occurs concurrently with the Battle of Yavin. As "Inbrief" establishes that Brand's bounty hunter past was not known by other rebels until the battle of Allst Prime, that battle must have taken place before the Battle of Yavin, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to the time period that Star Wars: Galactic Atlas refers to as 0 BBY. Since the Rebel Alliance participates in the battle of Allst Prime, the battle must take place after the Declaration of the Rebel Alliance, which Timelines places in 2 BBY. Therefore, the battle of Allst Prime, and thus the main events of "Inbrief," must take place between 2 BBY and 0 BBY.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem
- ↑
Dagobah in the Databank (backup link)
- ↑
Battlefront: Twilight Company (Star Wars) on Penguin Random House's official website (backup link) (Hardcover)
- ↑
Star Wars Insider Issue #161 on Titan Magazines' official website (content now obsolete; backup link)
