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First appearance: Children of the Jedi |
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Belsavis, also known as Plawal, was a planet in the Ninth Quadrant, a region of the Bozhnee sector. Ice-covered, its average temperature was in the -50s. It was located on the edge of the Senex sector, at one end of the Belsavis Run.At one point in history, the planet became one of the many worlds that belonged to the Rakata | RakataSentient Species |
Infinite Empire | Infinite EmpireOrganizationGalaxy-Wide Organizations |
. During that time, the Rakata made use of the world as a prison colony, where they placed many dangerous prisoners that remained trapped for the millennia. It entered an ice age around 5000 BBY. Its inhabitants dwelt in three volcanic jungle rifts. Later, during the Great Galactic War | Great Galactic WarEventGreat Galactic War (3681BBY - 3653BBY) |
, the Republic used Belsavis' prison, The Tomb, to confine dangerous Sith Lords and war criminals. By the beginning of the Galactic War, the resurgent Sith Empire discovered Belsavis' location from the imprisoned crime lord, Ivory, through use of a Rakata transmitter, and sought to perform a mass prison break, including freeing the imprisoned Dread Masters | Dread MastersOrganizationDread Empire |
and discovering Rakata secrets. At the same time, the Sith Emperor dispatched Executor Krannus to destroy Belsavis, which would have sent shockwaves into hyperspace that would have destroyed adjacent systems, fulfilling the Emperor's intended galactic genocide. It was only through the intervention of the Hero of Tython | Hero of TythonCharacterMajor Characters |
that Belsavis was saved.Read more... |
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Full unit name: Belsavis Last updated: 29.07.2024 15:56:22
