Planetary Database

Section:K

K Seven Forty-nine system - The K749 system, located in the Outer Rim near the Moonflower Nebula, contains the planet Pzob. [COTJ]

Kabal - Kabal is the homeworld of Lady Lapema Phonstom, one of Lando Calrissian's candidates for marriage. [AAC]

Ka'Dedus - An ultraviolet supergiant star orbited by Af'El, home planet of the Defel. [GG4]

Kaelta - A purple star orbited by Toola, homeworld of the Whipids. [GG4]

Kail - A planet in the Corporate Sector. Torm, an associate of Han Solo, had family on Kail who controlled several large tracts of land known as the Kail Ranges. Torm's father and brother disappeared after a dispute with the Corporate Sector Authority over land-use rights and stock prices. [HSSE]

Kalarba - A terrestrial planet in the remote Kalarba system, Kalarba is orbited by the moons Hosk and Indobok. Sites on the planet include Kalarba City, the Great Sea, and the Three Peaks of Tharen-- a revered symbol of the spirit. Before their service to Captain Antilles, R2-D2 and C-3PO worked for the Pitareeze family on Kalarba. Meg and Jarth Pitareeze operated Kalarba Safari and booked tours of the planet's ancient ancestral lands, while Baron Pitareeze ran a spaceship factory where they manufactured the MT-5 hyperdrive unit. Animal life on the planet includes the flying Vynock. [D]

Kalior V - Kalior V is the location of the Imperial aquaria, whose maintenance is entrusted to a group of Sedrians known as the Shalik family. [GG4]

Kalist VI - The site of an Imperial labor colony for political prisoners. Alliance gunner Dak Ralter was born in this colony, and lived there for 17 years until escaping with the help of a downed Rebel pilot. [MTS]

Kalla - Kalla, in the Corporate Sector, is the site of a Corporate Sector Authority university intended for the education of Authority members' children. Consequently, major fields of study include technical education, commerce, and administration with very little emphasis on the humanities. Rekkon was an instructor at the Kalla university prior to his adventures with Han Solo. [HSSE]

Kamar - A dry, hot planet orbiting a white star, Kamar is the homeworld of the insect-like Kamarians. Kamar's native flora includes miser-plants, barrel-scrub, and sting-brush, while its fauna includes digworms, stingworms, bloodsniffers, nightswifts, and howlrunners. The Badlands are the most arid and harsh areas of the planet, while the sophisticated nations of Kamar have developed nuclear explosives and fluidic control systems. Han Solo inadvertently started a new religion among the Kamarian Badlanders based on the holofeature "Varn, World of Water" during a visit to the planet. [HSR]

Kamparas - The Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth attended a Jedi training center on Kamparas for two years, from 2/15/90 until 8/33/88, Pre-Empire date. [DFR]

Kanchen sector - The Kanchen sector contains the planet Xa Fel. The heart of the sector fell to Imperial forces after a thirty- hour battle with New Republic warships over the planet. [TLC]

Karfeddion - Located in the Senex sector, Karfeddion is the site of several slave farms run by the House Vandron. Breeding farms are designed to produce Ossan and Bilanaka slaves, tailored for agricultural work. During an economic depression on Karfeddion, Lady Theala Vandron was summoned to the High Court of Coruscant to defend the slave farms on her homeworld. [COTJ]

Kashyyyk - A jungle planet covered with kilometers-high wroshyr trees, Kashyyyk is the homeworld of the fierce but loyal Wookiees. Various ecosystems exist along each layer of the trees, with each level growing progressively more deadly the farther one travels to the planet's surface (dangerous webweavers, for instance, set traps in the lower levels). The Wookiees inhabit the highest levels in huge cities that are naturally supported by the thick tree branches, since wroshyr branches grow together when they meet. One such city, Rwookrrorro, is over a kilometer wide and built on a flat platform of meter-thick spongy material. It features two- to three-story buildings and a landing platform made from the stump of a wide limb. The most prestigious homes are built on the trees themselves, and nursery rings for young Wookiees are built in the tops of the very highest wroshyrs. The kshyy vines that grow among the trees cannot be cut with blasters and are strong enough to support liftcars. Wookiees have easily incorporated modern technology into their society and can accommodate visiting starships, though they sometimes prefer to use archaic items like their traditional quarrel-firing bowcaster. Colored searchlights in the cities help attract native birds called kroyies, a prize food. Customs of the Wookiee people include the "life debt," where wookiees feel they must repay the person who has saved their life, and the "honor family," or those people to whom a wookiee feels a particular bond of friendship. Wookiee adolescents undergo a dangerous rite of passage into adulthood by harvesting silky strands from the heart of the carnivorous syren plant. The Wookiee species was treated as slave labor by the Empire and many were forced to toil on various Imperial construction projects. Many Wookiees still resent humans for the actions of the Empire. Leia Organa Solo hid on Kashyyyk until discovered by a team of Noghri commandos, who made an unsuccessful attempt to capture her. [HTTE, SWS, HSLL, YJK]

Kauron? - The possible homeworld of the alien Kauronians. The bounty hunter Greedo observed a Kauronian bounty hunter during Greedo's first visit to the Mos Eisley Cantina. [TFTC]

Kessel - Kessel is a potato-shaped planet with one large moon located somewhat near Fwillsving and Honoghr. It is home to the city of Kessendra, is the only source of the telepathy-inducing glitterstim spice, and was the former site of a brutal Imperial prison and spice mining operation. Kessel's surface is covered with crumbled salt flats and atmosphere-producing factories, which make the air breathable when filtering breath masks are used. Kessel is too small to hold this artificial atmosphere, however, so much of it trails off behind the planet in the wake of its orbit. Beneath the surface of the planet live energy spiders, which spin glitterstim webs as a method of catching their prey (primarily the luminous "bogey"). Following the failure of the Emperor's attempt to destroy the Jedi enclave on Belsavis, several designers of the "Eye of Palpatine" were reassigned to punitive duty at Kessel. The Kessel system is adjacent to a cluster of black holes known as the Maw, which makes navigating to the planet difficult and helped glamorize the smugglers' "Kessel Run." While Kessel was under control by the Empire it was a common smuggling destination for those dealing in spice, and Han Solo once boasted he had made the Kessel Run in "less than 12 parsecs" by flying dangerously close to the Maw. Solo's life was also saved on one Kessel run by his old associate Badure. During the chaos surrounding the Battle of Endor, a Rybet prison official named Moruth Doole (who had secretly been supplying glitterstim to smugglers) staged a prison revolt and took control of the planet. Several years later, after Doole's operation was dismantled, the administration of the mines was taken over by Lando Calrissian. Kessel's moon, which once held an Imperial garrison and Doole's ragtag defensive fleet (which was decimated in a battle with Admiral Daala's Star Destroyers), was utterly destroyed by a Death Star prototype from Maw Installation. [SW, JS, COTF, TLC, HSLL, COTJ]

Kestic Station - A free-trader outpost near the Bestine system, Kestic station was a frequent stopover for smugglers and outlaw miners. Alliance pilot Zev Senesca lived on Kestic Station with his parents, who supplied the Rebellion with arms until their illegal transactions were revealed by an Imperial informant. The station was subsequently destroyed by the Star Destroyer Merciless. [MTS]

Ketaris - A major trade center as successful as Svivren, Ketaris was the target of an attack by Grand Admiral Thrawn which became stalled at one point. There was hope from Alliance pilots that Wing Commander Varth could escape the Qat Chrystac battle and hook up with a unit at Ketaris. During Thrawn's attack on Coruscant, Admiral Ackbar was on an inspection tour of the Ketaris region. [TLC]

Khomm - The planet Khomm has remained unchanged for a thousand years, due to the fact that its alien inhabitants determined that their society had reached perfection. Their bureaucratic culture was frozen at this "perfect" level, and their population is now made up entirely of clones of previous generations. Dorsk 81 (the eighty-first clone of Dorsk) surprisingly showed unexpected Force aptitude and became one of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy students. [DA]

Khuiumin - The Khuiumin system was the primary base for the infamous Eyttyrmin Batiiv pirates, until they were systematically destroyed by the Imperial Victory-class Star Destroyers Crusader and Bombard. The last survivors retreated to the surface of Khuiumin, only to have their stronghold wiped out by the Crusader's concussion missiles. [SWS]

Kiffex - The site of a colony, where the twin con-artists Brea and Senni Tonnika were raised and where they perfected their deceptive money-making skills. [MTS]

Kimanan - Kimanan is home to the animals known as furballs-- tiny, tubby, clownish marsupials which are considered premium pets. They are sold at Sabodor's pet shop on Etti IV. [HSSE]

Kimm systems - In addition to its trafficking in Senex sector slaves, the stock light freighter "Smelly Saint" runs counterfeit agri-droids from the Kimm systems. [COTJ]

Kinyen - The home planet of the highly social, three-eyed aliens known as Gran. Ree-Yees, one of Jabba the Hutt's courtiers, was exiled from Kinyen after committing the highly unusual (for Gran) crime of murder. [MTS]

Kirdo III - A hot, arid world in the Outer Rim marked by red, cracked plains of dried mud and the white sands of the Kurdan desert. Kirdo III is also the homeworld of the patient, resilient Kitonaks, who live among the dunes where windstorms can reach speeds of 400 km/hr. To withstand the milder storms Kitonaks stand still, angling their bodies into the onrushing wind. This is similar to their method of feeding on the small, burrowing chooba by mimicking the sulfaro plant, the choobas' main feeding site. The vanilla-smelling Kitonaks stand still for hours until a chooba climbs close enough to be swallowed, which is enough food to feed a Kitonak for a month. The Kitonaks roam Kirdo III in nomadic tribes of around 100 individuals, following the migrating chooba. Kitonaks have no natural predators and fear only quicksand and caves, both of which hold mysterious and deadly dangers. Once each decade a great rainstorm covers Kirdo III, flooding the dry riverbeds and ushering in the Kitonak mating ritual known as the "Great Celebration of Life." Kitonaks are skilled at playing beautiful music on chidinkalus, the hollowed-out reeds of chidinka plants, which sometimes results in their capture by slavers and subsequent employment as professional jizz wailers. One of the band members in Jabba the Hutt's palace was a Kitonak. The Imperial battlemoon "Eye of Palpatine" apparently stopped at Kirdo III to pick up a contingent of stormtroopers, but brought in a group of Kitonaks instead. [GG4, ROTJ, COTJ]

Kirrek - One of seven planets in the Teta system, Kirrek had three of its cities destroyed when it resisted the Tetan political coup headed by Satal Keto and Aleema. [DLOS]

Klatooine - The home planet of the alien species known as Klatooinians. It is a Klatooinian custom to sell their disrespectful youths into indentured service, and Jabba the Hutt picked up the contract of a Klatooinian manservant named Barada. Barada then became the head of Jabba's repulsorpool. [MTS]

Komnor system - When a warlord evicted all Hutts from the Komnor system, Jabba hired the bounty hunter Dyyz Nataz to eliminate the offending ruler. [TFTC]

Koros Major - One of seven planets in the Teta system, Koros Major was the last planet to resist the system's brutal subjugation by the Krath. The Krath leaders, headed by Satal Keto and Aleema, dispatched hundreds of ground troops to the planet and clashed with a joint Republic/Jedi space force in Koros Major's orbit. The Republic ships were badly damaged in the battle and were forced to retreat. [DLOS]

Korriban - A hidden world, Korriban holds the mummified remains of many Sith lords within great temples located in a deep valley. The temples' exterior is guarded by human skeletons, activated through a combination of machinery and Sith magic. Within the temples was an immense crystal, which held the trapped spirits of Jedi Masters who had dared oppose the Sith. Exar Kun visited Korriban to learn Sith secrets and was tormented by the spirit of Freedon Nadd. Nadd destroyed the crystal and unleashed guardian creatures on Kun, who eventually surrendered to the Dark Side of the Force. [DLOS]

Kothlis - Kothlis is a colony world of the alien species called Bothans. Councilor Borsk Fey'lya grew up on this colony world, instead of the Bothan homeworld of Bothawui. [DFR]

Ku'Bakai system - The Ku'Bakai system is named for its blue giant star, whose unpredictable solar flares have left the first four planets of the system scorched and lifeless. The fifth planet, Kubindi, is the homeworld of the Kubaz. The sixth, eighth, and eleventh planets house insect farms for the Kubaz to use in preparing their unique cuisine. [MTS]

Kubindi - Kubindi, the fifth planet in the Ku'Bakai system, is the homeworld of the insect-loving Kubaz. Due to the unpredictable solar flares of Ku'Bakai, Kubindi suffers baths of intense radiation and constantly-changing weather patterns. The adaptability of insects have made them particularly successful lifeforms on Kubindi, and be found in many varieties including the bantha-sized sun-beetle. Insects are considered a true delicacy on Kubindi, and the civilized, cultured Kubaz have organized their society around insect trading circles. Kubaz families farm designer insect hives and trade with others; the largest trading families make most planetary governmental decisions. Kubindi is isolated and seldom sees galactic traffic. As a result, many Kubaz are attempting to develop their own starship technology. Garindan, the Mos Eisley spy known as "Long Snoot," was a Kubaz. Several years after the Battle of Endor, the Kubaz negotiated with the Barabel to purchase Verpine body parts to use in their cuisine. [GG4, MTS, COPL]

Kwenn Station - The space station where Jabba the Hutt acquired his pet Kowakian Lizard-Monkey, Salacious Crumb. [MTS]