I love "What's the Story?", the new Hyperspace feature. Everyone with a creative spirit is bound to love it! My imagination was just asking for an excuse to get to work! I'll use this blog to post my entries after the current submissions close. So, I sent my Knoll entry, which was pretty weak and I didn't keep, I sent my Mos Eisly goofy-looking spaceman entry, which was better but still somewhat weak and finally, I sent my Magaloof entry, with which I was satisfied. So, unlike the previous ones, I kept it. Here it is:

Magaloof was a small-time speeder thief that operated on Coruscant. He could lose himself easily in the trillions that lived on the city-planet, some of which left their vehicles insufficiently guarded. A native of Coruscant, Magaloof began his career at the age of 2, when he stole a child's hover-bassinette at the Coruscant Museum of Decorative Arts. His parents and he continued this practice, utilizing their species', the Traugans, short stature, short lifespan and high-pitched voice to pass the tiny creature as a baby. No one would suspect the ugly little poppet was a teenager thief, the one that emptied their pockets. As Magaloof grew up, pick pocketing started to seem too menial for him. Perhaps out of nostalgia about his first theft, he started stealing speeders. He was joyriding in his newly-stolen airspeeder in the Coruscant skylines prior to the outbreak of the Clone Wars when he almost crashed with a Jedi Knight dangling from a droid. That must have been the last peculiar thing Magaloof ever saw. When the Enhanced Security Act was passed Magaloof faced too many obstacles in his work and was suddenly low on credits. He moved to Mastoura, the Traugan homeworld, one of Illodia's twenty colonies, the capital world of Illodia Sector. Smuggling prospered on both worlds, since Mastoura was a small, out-of-they-way type of planet yet close to the capital, the hub of the Sector. Business didn't go so well there either, as Ilodia was annexed by the Empire shortly after the proclamation of the New Order and as it tried to eliminate its ruling oligarchy, chaos enveloped the Sector's criminal scene. As clone soldiers flooded Ilodia and Mastoura, many smugglers were arrested. Magaloof spent the last days of his life in the confined space of a Concealer-class prison ship since the Imperials didn't even bother to get him to a penal colony. He ended up target practice for the stormtroopers and guards of the ship at the age of 12 ().

I'm having some trouble with the Pabawan's character, but the story is progressing and it'll be ready soon. I'll post it here when I finish it and the next one's up.

First in a long line of UPDATEs: Here it is:

A police constable from Teth, Janu was married to Makorila Ikouna and had a son named Palob. When the Clone Wars began, Teth, until then independent, joined the Republic under the leadership of Gorad Jlaj and all members of the Tethan police were sent to the battlefields and Star Destroyers as Republic officers. Janu and his partner Wan Paba were sent to Mirgoshir to foil with Jedi General Myon Billsckal and his clone army the Separatist attempt to recapture the planet that came to be known as the Third Battle of Mirgoshir. The pair, feeling a kinship for the loyal clones, asked if they could wear the armor and fight alongside them. Janu Godalhi and Wan Paba were the first non-clones to ever don the clone trooper armor in the ranks of the Great Army of the Republic. They won this and many other battles. After almost three years of service, the pair was returned to Teth and their old posts. After the death of Count Dooku, Gorad Jlaj was mysteriously assassinated and regional governor Sarn Shild was given control of the planet immediately. The Republic awarded those who had fought for it and Janu was sent to Coruscant for a security workshop, which by Tethan standards meant he was sent for a vacation. The police constable visited as many museums, theaters and restaurants as he could. Trying to pass himself as an upper-class Coruscanti, he dressed with ridiculously eccentric costumes. He was visiting the Museum of Galactic Religions when the Empire was declared. Janu supported the new government as he did the Republic. He was proud to serve Moff Sarn Shild and the New Order. This brought an end to his relationship with Wan Paba though, who opposed the Empire and fled Teth. Janu was lucky to have been killed in a firefight with smugglers in Shloshan Central Starport before his son Palob developed his rebellious ideas and abandoned his work as a HoloNet Content Manager to join the Rebel Alliance. That would have grieved his father more than anything...

Second in a long line of UPDATEs: Swilla Corey:

The Mos Eisley police officer's salary was enough to cover just basic needs during the last decades of the Old Republic, so most of them, including Swilla's parents, earned money from illegal activities. After several failures to offer Jabba the standard daily sum from fines and bribes though, the Coreys ended up dead. Swilla, five years old at the time, was orphaned with only the man who was responsible for her orphanhood himself, Jabba, willing to adopt her; he tasked his palace servants to raise the girl to be one of them. When Swilla became a teenager, she escaped, taking old Arikola with her, the Nikto servant who had been like a father for her all these years. They fled to Mos Eisley were they panhandled in the streets. But Merocke Thurf, the bartender who replaced Wuher in Chalmun's Cantina when he was on a leave, had found an interesting use for the desperate girl. He was secretly a thief and taught Swilla the secrets of his trade. He would send Swilla to pick pocket in the streets of Mos Eisley and take 70% of her earnings for hiding the two in his house. Until at some point, Swilla had enough money to buy an apartment for herself and the Nikto. Thurf wasn't so fond of this idea and demanded that she stays to work for him or he'd take them to Jabba. Arikola smashed a bottle of megavegiton ale on his head instead and they fled. They found an apartment in Dune Street where Arikola could pass the last years of his life in peace, while Swilla continued doing what she had learned from Thurf. She later began stalking her prey in the dark alcoves and alleyways of Tatooine instead of pick pocketing in crowded spaces. She visited Chalmun's Cantina frequently, sometimes just for seeing Thurf's reaction when he was there. He hated seeing her, but if he complained to Chalmun about her, he would lose his arms since she was a good customer. By the time the second Death Star was destroyed, Swilla was earning extra money by teaching her trade to initiates.

Now I'm off to write the Walker entry.

Third in a long line of UPDATEs: All-Terrain Armored Artillery Transport:

As the Clone Wars grew in scale, the two opposing armies added more and more equipment and vehicles to their arsenal hoping to increase their chances of winning the war. As the numbers of the clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic grew by the millions, new weapons were produced for them to use, new vehicles for them to pilot and so on. The All Terrain Armored Artillery Transport was one of the vehicles that Rothana Heavy Engineering produced to support the clone troopers in the countless battlefields of the galaxy.

Developed during the last months of the Clone Wars, the A.T.-A.A.T. was carried in the hangars of most Victory-class Star Destroyers and saw extensive use in the Outer Rim Sieges.

The vehicle uses treads for propulsion instead of articulated legs or repulsorlifts and even though this reduces its speed and makes it look primitive compared to repulsorlift vehicles, it protects it from electromagnetic attacks and shield discharges. The treads allow the A.T.-A.A.T. to traverse even the roughest terrains, giving it its A.T. designation.

The vehicle carries a massive laser cannon in its midsection and two others on its sides. It is the only vehicle in the Great Army of the Republic that carries slugthrower turrets, four of them protecting its rear fire arc, weapons considered primitive at the time of the Clone Wars, but that have been quite successful in piercing the armor of enemy fortifications. This is mainly because of the size of the "slugs", the bullets of the A.T.-A.A.T.'s slugthrower cannons, which bring to mind grenades instead of bullets.

The A.T.-A.A.T. is protected by emerite armor extremely resistant to blaster fire but weak against the specialized tanksmasher rockets of Separatist tri-droids and hailfire droids. It can carry up to fourteen clone troopers and requires a crew of one pilot and five gunners.

Fourth in a long line of UPDATEs: My computer broke down while I was working on the "She's gonna blow!" X-Wing pilot. It's fixed now but too late to submit it. Here's (roughly) what I was going to submit: Blesh Shownnoa:

Hailing from the planet Jangelle in the Kathol Sector, Blesh made his dreams come true by joining the Imperial Academy at a young age. He was accepted, he graduated with high honors, and within a year he was serving as a lieutenant in the Imperial Army. His family was wealthy and had supported the Empire since its formation, so Blesh climbed up the Imperial ranks at an accelerated speed.

One day though, he was sick of it all. Having seen the Empire fighting peace and justice instead of fighting for it, Blesh left the Imperial Army and joined the Rebel Alliance. After contacting the right people and passing the right tests, Blesh returned to the Star Destroyer in which he served as the leader of the X-Wing squadron that ambushed it in a remote nebula. The mission was successful; the Empire had lost a model Imperial officer and a Star Destroyer while the Rebel Alliance had won a fighter pilot.

Blesh ran escort missions for the Alliance and provided valuable information he had access to as an Imperial. He was one of the survivors of the Imperial raid at the Rebel base on Gaulus before he participated in the Battle of Yavin, where he flew an Y-Wing as Yellow 3. Without enough experience in battle, he wasn't fast enough to evade the Death Star's turbolasers and his starfighter was almost destroyed. Blesh had to leave the battle and he crash-landed in the Yavin 4 jungles. He survived in the wilderness for a week before he was rescued. If it wasn't for the majestic sight of the Death Star exploding above Yavin, he wouldn't have found the power to survive.

His injuries healed, Blesh flew again for the Alliance. He was part of the force that destroyed a fleet of Imperial Torpredo spheres and he defended the Rebel base on Thila from Imperial T.I.E. fighters. During the Battle of Hoth, he helped with the evacuation of Echo Base.

Blesh participated in all the major conflicts of the Alliance and, like Wedge Antilles, he proved to be a survivor. Until the last, most massive and most important conflict, the Battle of Endor. There, flying as Red 9, he was partnered with Volsch, a Klatooinian and a newcomer to the Rebel Alliance but a veteran starfighter pilot, who flew as Red 10. Their task was to destroy the Star Destroyer communications towers. It was their success that took the life of Blesh. When he hit a tower, his X-Wing wasn't quick enough to get away before the globe exploded and the Rebel pilot was killed just after he realized it was going to blow.

Fifth in a long line of UPDATEs: Viscount Tish Deha Fuhdacke F'Arcantoui:

Viscount Tish Deha Fuhdacke F'Arcantoui was rumored to be the richest man on Coruscant. Nobody knew for sure how much money F'Arcantoui really had. He was the most successful member of the most successful aristocratic family on Coruscant.

The F'Arcantouis weren't natives of Coruscant. Two hundred years before the Viscount's birth, the entire family had moved from Kuat to Coruscant in order to make new profits. Soon, they dominated the aristocracy of the planet.

The outbreak of the Clone Wars meant even more profit for the F'Arcantouis. Kuat Drive Yards, the manufacturers who supplied the Republic with its war machines, produced vast amounts of wealth for the family. The Viscount enjoyed the life of the aristocracy on Coruscant while he profited from soldiers slaughtering each other safely away from him. When the war was brought to Coruscant, Tish fortified himself in his mansion, following that same pattern.

Viscount Tish Deha Fuhdake was a more artistic spirit than his relatives. Though himself, as a F'Arcantoui, a businessman, he enjoyed art more than anything else --except perhaps rimble-wine--. Whenever Chancellor Palpatine, his most important "rival" for the "title" of greatest patron of the arts in the galaxy, was enjoying a performance at one of Coruscant's theaters, the Viscount always sat in the box adjacent to his.

One of his visits to the opera, in a box adjacent to that of the Chancellor's, in the Galaxies Opera House, led to a misunderstanding between the rich aristocrat and the Chair of the Coruscant Ministry of Ingress, Tannon Praji. Even though they had left Kuat, the F'Arcantouis had taken their customs with them. Dressed similarly to a Kuati telbun, the breeder class in Kuati society, Tannon Praji was deeply insulted when the Viscount asked him to whom did he belong. Tish apologized when he learned the truth, and the two enjoyed the Mon Calamari ballet performance in peace. In fact, this incident sparked the beginning of their long friendship.

Sixth in a long line of UPDATEs: Kalyn Farnmir:

The Outlander Club attracted clientele from diverse groups of people. In the lower levels of Coruscant where the Hutts had an influence and crime thrived, it was only natural that many of them would be bounty hunters and mercenaries. Kalyn Farnmir, a human female born during space travel with a mother from Ganthel and a father from Coruscant, worked for Ulda the Hutt as a mercenary, enforcing his law in the Turloo District which he controlled.

But, unbeknownst to Ulda, she was also a bounty hunter working for the Ragnar Bounty Hunter Syndicate. The head of the Syndicate, Lady Ty Severindas, had personally selected Kalyn to spy on Ulda. After she was accepted by the Hutt to work as one of his enforcers, she sabotaged his criminal operation from the inside and would contact the Syndicate with any information she acquired.

But Ulda was a smart Hutt with a sharp eye. One day, Cian Shee, a fellow member of the Syndicate and Kalyn's contact with the headquarters, met her at the Outlander Club and warned her that a band of Ulda's thugs awaited her outside, disguised. Kalyn fled from the back door and returned to the Syndicate's base of operations on the planet Ragnar VIII. Ty, using all the information Kalyn had acquired, initiated the attack plan on Ulda's headquarters. Dozens of disguised bounty hunters clustered the former speeder factory that housed the Hutt's criminal activities, and stormed it in the deepest hour of the night. By dawn, the battle was over, the bodies safely disposed of in trash compactors, and the Ragnar Bounty Hunter Syndicate had expanded its arm of control into the Core.

Kalyn was now right under the Lady in the Syndicate's hierarchy and could enjoy her drink at the Outlander Club between missions knowing that she was excepted from the Syndicate rule of experienced hunters always taking a rookie with them at missions and that riches from the sector she had helped the Syndicate control had flooded her Galactic Banking Network account.

Seventh in a long line of UPDATEs: Arikola:

Born far from Rodia's lush jungles, on barren, heat-scorched Tatooine, Arikola dreamt as a youth of returning to the planet of his ancestors to become a renowned actor like his distant relative Mothra of the Tulpassa clan. He ended up inheriting his father's speeder-shop in Mos Taike instead. He was disappointed at first, but when he was contacted to work as a podracer mechanic in the Mos Espa Boonta Eve Race, he was so excited he cut himself with his vibrocutter.

Arikola was partnered with fellow Rodian Kikin of the Artsona clan, a Rodian mechanic who had absolutely no idea how he had ended up on Tattoine. Arikola was excited to finally meet a real clansman from Rodia and felt honored to follow the Rodian custom of Andigraff according to which two Rodians that work together should always wear the same outfit.

Arikola was so busy asking Kikin -actually an amnesiac- how he ended up on Tattooine that he forgot his hydrospanner inside one of the engines of Ynoto Mas's podracer which exploded the moment its engines were started. Xexto's and Kimin Eraikkon's pods were also damaged, but the race began nonetheless. The Rodian mechanic remembered about the hydrospanner and was about to leave for Mos Taike in secret but he didn't know that the spectators loved the show he had accidentally offered them. He was invited to work as a mechanic in the Boonta Eve every year since then, but he caused no other accidents, mainly because Kikin learned his lesson and always kept an eye on him.

In the race that bought Anakin Skywalker his freedom, Arikola and Kikin celebrated the young slave's victory as they celebrated any victory, using it as an excuse to go for a pint of Rodian ale in Derlag's Cantina.

Eighth in a long line of UPDATEs (and the worst one to date): Kondos:

Kondos, son of Toopis, was a soldier, a pirate, a pilot, a blurrg herder, and in general whatever Terak ordered him to be. Since the days he was a member of the biggest army-for-hire on his homeplanet of Sanyassa IV and fought the great warlords' wars, Kondos would be the one who did most of the dirty work. When Terak, the army's commander, after seeing the rare sight of a spacecraft landed in the sole landing platform of the planet, decided they left the planet to become pirates, they hijacked the huge freighter and Kondos was the one he ordered to pilot it. Piloting a huge starfreighter proved to be a very difficult task, and they crash-landed on the Dragon's Pelt savanna of the Forest Moon of Endor after roughly one standard week of attempts to control the craft.

A century after that, Kondos was still around as the odd-job man since the Sanyassans were long-lived species. A battle between the Marauders and the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village ensued and the fact that Kondos was a dwarf aided him greatly in close quarters combat with the Ewoks, but they lost. He fled to the Hanging Moss Village instead of the castle along with the other survivors, and asked from Daurghstra the shaman to hide him. The people of Hanging Moss were the only Ewok allies the Marauders had, but to the Ewoks of Hanging Moss, allies existed to be exploited.

Torturing both him and the Nightsister Charal, now trapped in her raven form after the Force-sensitive crystal that powered her shapeshifting abilities was destroyed, he forced them to tell him the location of the secret passages to the castle that bypassed the flesh-eating grubbots' pool that surrounded it. Charal had sealed her mind, and Daurghstra crushed her under his foot. Her condensed from the transformation cells exploded violently, and Kondos, terrified, forgot his pride and opened his mouth at last. The night the Rebels celebrated their greatest victory, the Great Marauder Castle Massacre ensued...

Ninth in a long line of UPDATEs: Narglatch XJ-2:

In a vast galaxy inhabited by quadrillions of beings, only twenty seven individuals owned a Narglatch XJ-2. One of them actually modified and drove his. Bail Organa, the Senator of Alderaan, had often been accused of defiling a work of art. His only answer was that speeders are to be driven.

On Corulag, 105 years before the Battle of Yavin, a young Falocoppodran visionary called Rekcut reached his goal of creating the safest vehicle in the galaxy with the Rekcut speeder.

The Amac and Co. Fine Airspeeder Manufacturers produced it as the Narglatch XJ --named after a beast from Amac's homeworld--, the company's limited production deluxe vehicle of the year, a million pieces, priced at 150.000.000 credits. No one could have guessed what followed.

Soon, every rich person in the galaxy owned a Narglatch as the ultimate status symbol in the galaxy. They wanted more, and Amac, knowing he couldn't mass-produce the state-of-the-art vehicle, asked from Rekcut to redesign it for mass production. He refused to betray his goal and abandoned the speeder-making business to spend the fortune he had made.

The rich and influential in need for status didn't give up, though. They tasked the mechanics in their private vehicle workshops to create speeders based on the original Reckut. Custom Narglatchs flooded the galaxy. None reached the original's quality and safety, though, and most originals ended up in vehicle museums. Only Viscount Tish Deha Fuhdacke was rumored to be rich enough to buy one.

Bail Organa acquired his XJ-2, the first custom speeder model built based on the original Rekcut and the one closest in quality to the original, from his close friend Eruloge Cags, as a wedding gift. Speeder collectors were disgusted by Bail's use of the magnificent vehicle that was valued almost as much as the original XJ.

Tenth in a long line of UPDATEs: Ballurf:

Fourteen years before the Battle of Endor, a Teek found a new-born wokling next to the filled with spear wounds bodies of his parents. Tracks from their cart led to the Dulok village. The wicked creatures had abandoned the baby for the boar wolves to finish the job.

The boy was brought up as a Teek, living in the cavity of a Shtek tree and stealing from nearby villages. He didn't have a name, since Teeks don't need names due to their extremely small numbers. His adoptive father never told him what happened to his parents, and the young boy never hated the Duloks beyond his disgust for their odor.

When he tried to steal one of Logray's magic wands, though, the Teek-raised Ewok unleashed the powers of the prism pebble within and almost killed himself and Logray. In the wand's pebble --actually a silicon-based life form with Force-using and image-recording abilities-- was recorded the image of a bush and so it tried to rearrange its environment according to that image. If the environment didn't present enough similarities with the recorded image, the pebble's tiny brain attempted to re-arrange it, making Ewok shaman wands so dangerous. Logray woke up and used the Force to destroy the wand before further damage was done.

The boy, having caused much trouble for the villagers and not even able to speak Ewokese, would have been choked to death by Logray if not for his abilities. He had entered and left the village unnoticed countless times and stolen many things. Instead, Logray named him Yiyult-Ballurf-Fa'chta, "Empty cup to be filled", --Ballurf, Empty, for short-- in Ewokese, gave him his hood, and tasked the respected elder T'Polta to teach the child the Ewok ways.

By the time of the Battle of Endor, Ballurf had mastered Ewokese, had learned to play many musical instruments, and had defeated his first gurrack as the scull on his head testified. He still felt empty, though. He still felt as much Teek as he did Ewok and missed his adoptive father greatly.

Eleventh in a long line of UPDATEs: Gorej Nllok:

The Ongree are strangely silent for a species with mouths (even though inverted). Their colony worlds in the Skustell Cluster closed their borders during the Mandalorian Wars, after the Republic sent no help against the Mandalorians, and even though they can be encountered all around the galaxy, they tend to be reclusive and lonely.
Gorej Nllok was no exception, wandering the streets of Coruscant thoughtful and aloof, talking rarely. In truth, Gorej was distant for other reasons except the unknown reasons all Ongree are. Gorej felt responsible for the death of her own brother. When they were children on their homeplanet of Pandrassa, a gravel storm destroyed the village of Astu, along with the Nlloks' dwelling and business. Gorej and her parents were away when the storm hit the village, and it was she who had not allowed her younger brother to come along.

Leaving Ongree space and society like so many others of the curious species, Gorej settled on Coruscant. Her uneventful life was disturbed when her mother visited her with stunning news; her brother was alive. He had lost his memory from the injuries he had received while escaping their house during the storm, and was sold as a slave offworld. He was now a slaver, by the name of Tarr, benefiting like so many others by the fact Skustell was untouched by Republic laws and unseen by Republic eyes. Gorej refused to return home and see this man, proclaiming that her brother was dead.

After discovering the true identity of the company she worked for, Core Constructions, a front for Black Sun, the idealistic Ongree returned to the Skustell Cluster where she found her family actively engaged in her brother's slaving activities. Gorej felt betrayed and her sense of justice proved to be stronger than her blood ties; she hired a team of assassins to murder her brother. From then on she would actively hunt slavers, determined to end their activity in the Skustell Cluster.

Twelfth in a long line of UPDATEs: Car Oicunn:

Car Oicunn was born on Teltra Station, in the isolationist M2-2766 system, a planetless system with hundreds of space stations, each one a nation. The system had closed its borders after an incident with pirates, and traders were the only outsiders allowed to enter it. Car was a descendant of traders from the Bestine System. As a child he dreamt of leaving the system to become a soldier in Republic space, an idea his parents laughed at. When he was 17, Oicunn stowed away in a trade ship headed for the Core.

After making some money doing various jobs, he left for Carida and its military academy. Upon graduation, the ambitious young man started looking for an army worthy of his services, eventually joining the Terkat militia. He had reached the rank of Yeoman when HoloNet News reported that Chancellor Palpatine announced the creation of the Grand Army of the Republic. The Clone Wars began and Tarket remained neutral. Oicunn would have resigned immediately, but his professionalism decreed that he finished his term as Yeoman first. He resigned after the Outer Rim Sieges had begun, going straight to the nearest recruitment center. Wishing to join the Republic Navy but having no previous experience in a battlefield, Oicunn was not made a captain but started out as a cadet instead.

Serving in the Venator-class Star Destroyer Excelsior of the Open Circle Fleet, he saw some action in battles such as that of Hanofar, Boz Pity, Belderone, Nelvaan, and Coruscant. Then, he suddenly found himself serving in the Imperial Fleet and aboard the flagship of its Supreme Commander. Car Oicunn served his fleet with passion, whether it was called Open Circle or Imperial. It never crossed his mind that the terrifying Sith Lord he served under the Empire was the brave Jedi he served under the Republic.

Oicunn's professionalism helped him climb through the ranks despite his modest beginnings and earned him his place in Vader's later flagships.

Thirteenth in a long line of UPDATEs: Domina Baldikarr:

Hailing from the planet Byblos, Domina Baldikarr was taken by the Jedi as a baby and raised in the Kamparas Academy under the tutelage of Master Yaddle. Her low midichlorian count and infatuation with starlanes seemed to have secured her a place in Exploration Corps and not in the Jedi Order. When the time came for the Council to decide her future, Yaddle vouched for her. Mace Windu also seemed very confident about the girl's future and Domina was apprenticed to Alta Ranga. She created her lightsaber to be similar to Master Windu's to honor him for her faith in her.

After she was Knighted, Domina chose to stay in the Jedi Temple and work with Astaal Vilbum and Jocasta Nu in the Jedi Archives. She was responsible for the coordination and complement of the galaxy holomaps and also created the maps for Jedi briefings. When she left Coruscant for missions, she would always test the lanes she had developed in the Temple and return with new additions for the Archives, which had come to contain some of the fastest -- Jedi-exclusive -- routes in the galaxy in part thanks to Domina.

After the outbreak of the Clone Wars, many of her hyperlanes were used by the Republic, giving the Grand Army an advantage over the Confederacy in many battles. Domina rarely acted as a general in the battlefield, staying on Coruscant to document the Jedi movements with Masters Vilbum and Nu. She gained the informal title "Protector of Kamparas", previously held by Sharad Hett, for valiantly defending its Jedi Academy from an attack by Separatist air battle droids. Utilizing a hyperlane of her own creation, she was on Kamparas merely hours after hearing about the attack.

When Darth Vader and the 501st stormed the Jedi Temple, she had a chance to become the "Protector of Coruscant" too, but the Jedi Order was extinguished after the incident. She nonetheless saved the lives of younglings such as Kendalina and Kam Solusar before managing to flee the Temple.

Fourteenth in a long line of UPDATEs: Morax:

A planet in the Tingel Arm of the Outer Rim, Morax is home to the Morai, a reptilian species that build their cities either underground or close to the water because they prefer dark and humid environments. A variety of minerals are exported from Morax, but it is gold that supports its economy.

Gold, a mineral considered valuable due to its rarity and flashiness, makes up most of Morax's core and crust. When the planet was first discovered, the Mining Guild contacted the Morai, and soon, a treaty was signed: the Guild would have the exclusive exploitation rights of Moraxian gold and the strong-muscled Morai would have certain and safe -- by their standards -- employment for centuries.

The Clone Wars shattered all that. The Mining Guild refused to take sides and the Confederacy deployed its armies "to protect them from Republic corruption". Torn between its neutrality and the profits from thousands of worlds, the Guild finally decided to remain neutral. It withdrew to the Core Worlds, abandoning millions of planets to the Separatists. Morax was one of them.

Only in the very last days of the war, when the Separatists were driven to the Outer Rim by the Republic did Dooku take an interest in Morax, though. Morai High Legate Hogue asked for Republic assistance, but the Senate replied that not a single clone trooper could be spared. They instead sent a few ARC-170 and Cord-class starfighters to help the Morai in their defense. The burly aliens defended their homeworld valiantly from Separatist forces but the conflict was short-lived. The fate of the world was sealed by a surprise Separatist attack from underwater on its cliffside capital, Horux.

Just days afterwards, the Republic won the war and all Separatist droids were deactivated. The Morai celebrated as a Star Destroyer appeared in orbit a few weeks after their liberation, but they were shocked to find out it brought another occupation force. An Empire that needed strong Morai hands for its ambitious projects...

Fifteenth in a long line of UPDATEs: Silya Shessaun:

The Thesme sector is sparsely-populated and unimportant, and its voice in the Galactic Senate was often not heard when the booming voices of influential Senators spoke.

That voice around the time of the Clone Wars was Senator Silya Shessaun, always a measured and pragmatic voice. A native of industrial Thesme, the sector's capital, Silya was the first from the planet's worker class to ever join the Galactic Senate and with her she carried the humbleness of her early days.

Senator Shessaun never believed in Chancellor Palpatine's virtuous motives, having joined the Senate at the time of Military Creation Act vote just prior to the start of the Clone Wars, a conflict she warned her colleagues was inevitable if they went along with "bellicose amendments to the Constitution".

Such ideas brought her close with Senators like Padmé Amidala, Bail Organa and Doman Beruss. Along with them and others, Shessaun signed the Petition of 2,000 in an effort to halt Palpatine's growing powers, but, always keeping a low profile, she was not in the Chancellor's office to present the Delegation to him. When she was informed of his reaction, she counselled caution: Rebellion should be avoided. She maintained that the battle had to be won in the Senate floor.

Shessaun was bombarded with ill news when she learned of the formation of the Galactic Empire, Amidala's death at the hands of the Jedi, and the arrest of more than sixty of her colleagues by the new Imperial Security Bureau. She travelled to Naboo for Padmé funeral, convinced that it was the new Emperor and not the Jedi that had killed her and finally understanding that Palpatine could only fall through rebellion. From Naboo, Silya contacted Mon Mothma and declared her allegiance to the underground resistance she and like-minded Senators had organized.

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