Kessel around 5 BBYKessel, originally known as Xo's Eye while under Xim's empire, was a planet located in the Kessel sector, in the Outer Rim Territories, near Hutt Space and the dangerous celestial bodies of the Maw. It was a prison world, and was home to the galaxy's largest glitterstim spice mining operation.Under Imperial rule, slave labor was in extensive use. Some time between 5 BBY and 3 ABY an unknown cataclysm occurred on Kessel, which radically changed the appearance of the planet - before the catastrophe it resembled an ordinary sphere, and after it became nothing more than a huge asteroid.
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