Current Function:
Taanab serves as the largest food exporter to all of NIF space and beyond.
NIF-Developed History:
The pirates once again threatened Taanab. The farmers requested aid, and NIF came to answer it. The pirate organization was infiltrated by Imperial agents, and a staged convoy was sent as bait. Meanwhile, the navy performed a raid on the nearby system Charmath, for the dual purpose of weakening it's defences and prevent an NR intrusion on Taanab. The pirate leaders and their major ships were easily taken out, and the last reistance destroyed. The NR fleet at Charmath proved much stronger, but the NIF was successful in battle and took off with a captured Star Destroyer, the Eliminator. Taanab's farmer communities readily accepted NIF protection and hegemony.
Official Star Wars History:
Points of interest on the agricultural planet Taanab include the Pandath spaceport and the Banthal Company orbital docking array, where the largest cargo ships are typically found. Four thousand years ago, the freighter Kestrel Nova was captured from space pirates near Taanab and was used by Ulic Qel-Droma to travel to the Tetan system. Millennia later, the planet found itself plagued by annual raids of bandits from Norulac. One year, Lando Calrissian happened to be at the Pandath spaceport when the pirates arrived for their latest assault. Calrissian, on a bet, agreed to attack the raiders, and hid his ship in the ice ring surrounding Taanab's moon while he waited for the pirates to make their run on the docking array. When his target was in position, Calrissian ejected his cargo-- hundreds of Conner nets-- into the center of the attacking fleet. As the pirates struggled to untangle themselves, the cocky gambler hit them with tractored ice blocks from the moon's ring and caused even further damage. Finally, Calrissian led the Taanab defense fleet in their clean-up operation, and single-handedly accounted for nineteen kills. Though the Taanab portmaster offered him a permanent job, Calrissian declined, preferring instead to investigate his newly-won deed to a Clendoran brewery. Later, just prior to the Battle of Endor, Calrissian was promoted to Alliance general partly on the notoriety of this incident. Over five years later, Joruus C'baoth coordinated an Imperial attack on Taanab, where he used the Bellicose's turbolasers to destroy a New Republic ship over the direct orders of Captain Aban.
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Planetary Information:
Name: Taanab
System: Yellow Star
Type: Temperate
Gravity: Standard
Atmosphere: Breatheable
Population: 48 Billions
Species: Human
Terrain: Grassland
Diameter: 12,456 Km
Day Length: 25.5 st.hrs
Year Length: 378 st.days
Moons: 1
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