Planet - O (pt.2)
Source List & Abbreviations
Orooturoo
Princess Nampi, an immense worm-like alien who attempted to steal
Jabba's cargo, was a native of Orooturoo. [JTH]
Orron III
Orron III is a fertile agricultural planet at a strategic location
within the Corporate Sector. The green and blue world has almost no
axial tilt, resulting in a year-round growing season. The Corporate
Sector Authority tends the endless fields with robot agricultural
machines, and has constructed a city-sized Authority Data Center on the
planet. The only space traffic allowed on the world are Authority ships
and massive agricultural drone barges, and the region is defended by the
Shannador's Revenge-- a two kilometer-long Invincible Class dreadnaught.
The spaceport is extremely large, built to accommodate the arriving and
departing robo-barges. Han Solo and others tried to infiltrate the
Authority Data Center on Orron III to learn the location of several
missing persons. Prior to the Battle of Yavin, an Imperial convoy bound
for the Death Star construction site stopped at a comm sat near Orron
III, and was destroyed by Alliance starfighters. The Imperials also had
a base in the system. [HSSE, FP]
Orto
A small, cold planet circling its red dwarf sun in an elliptical orbit,
Orto is home to the trunked alien species known as Ortolans. Orto has a
thin atmosphere and a short growing season, with arable lands
concentrated near the equator. Beneath the northern polar ice cap
geologists have discovered an enormous crater, leading to a theory that
Orto was once struck by a planetary body which resulted in its somewhat
inhospitable climate and the extinction of many of its lifeforms. The
music- and food-loving Ortolans do not have a highly industrialized
society, although they have been quite efficient in food production
processes. Orto has been taken over by the Empire, and the Ortolans have
been forced to mine heavy metals and radioactive fuels for Orto's new
Imperial processing centers. One of the band members in Jabba the Hutt's
palace was an Ortolan. [GG4, ROTJ]
Orus sector
Grand Admiral Thrawn gave the false impression his clone traffic was
running through the Orus sector, leading Talon Karrde to visit Chazwa in
an attempt to find the traffic's origin point. Planets in the Orus
sector include Chazwa, Poderis, and Joiol. [TLC]
Oseon system
Adjacent to the Rafa system and composed of nothing but thousands of
asteroids, the Oseon system is famous for its wealthy inhabitants and
its booming tourist trade. Seven wide bands of asteroids orbit their
sun, and many of these bodies have been turned into luxury resorts or
private estates. Many tourists come to see the famous Flamewind of
Oseon, a yearly phenomenon caused by an increase in stellar flares. The
flares interact with asteroid vapor, creating brilliant bands of ionized
gas thousands of kilometers long that fill the system with fluorescing
colors. The Flamewind lasts an average of three weeks, and the strong
radiation prevents all communications and in-system space traffic with
the exception of message torpedoes. Carrying personal weapons in the
Oseon is a capital offense. [LCFW]
Oseon 2745
An asteroid in the Oseon system which is closer to the sun than most,
and consequently is uncomfortably hot in spite of its air-conditioning
and life support systems. Oseon 2745 is primarily a mining colony,
unlike most of the pleasure-resort asteroids in the rest of the system.
[LCMH]
Oseon 5792
Located in the Fifth Belt of Oseon asteroids, 5792 was the private
estate of Bohhuah Mutdah, an immensely fat retired industrialist who was
the wealthiest individual in the Oseon system. The asteroid was disk-
shaped, fifteen kilometers in diameter and less than three kilometers
thick. One side of the disk was covered with lakes, trees, gardens, and
a palace, all kept under transparent domes with artificial gravity. The
other side housed a well-defended spaceport containing a wide collection
of spacecraft. The asteroid was destroyed by Renatasian raiders during
Lando Calrissian's smuggling mission in the Oseon. [LCFW]
Oseon 6845
The asteroid Oseon 6845, like most places in the Oseon system, caters to
wealthy and powerful Oseoni. It is the largest asteroid in the system--
700 kilometers in diameter-- and has a surface honeycombed with
nightclubs and resorts, including the Hotel Drofo. The Esplanade, a
tree-lined walkway with a three-meter deep gravity field, is located at
the center of a small city on the asteroid's equator. The stores
fronting the Esplanade are said to be among the most expensive
properties in the galaxy. A spaceport is located on the northern pole of
6845, and the asteroid has been artificially accelerated to give it a
25-hour rotational cycle. [LCFW]
Oslumpex V
Vinda and D'rag, Starshipwrights and Aerospace Engineers Incorporated,
have their operation on Oslumpex V. Han Solo's ship was placed on the
Red List because he owed 2500 credits to this company. [HSR]
Ossel II
A high-gravity world of steaming bogs and swamps, Ossel II is the
homeworld of the dim-witted alien species known as the Ossan. The Ossan
have an extremely primitive society and have developed spears and clubs
to defend themselves against the cucul, a predator that resembles a
floating log. Most intergalactic visitors to Ossel II come to purchase
syp wood, which the Ossan provide in exchange for being allowed to serve
a tour of duty on the trade ships. Some Ossan are used as agricultural
slaves on Karfeddion for benefit of the House Vandron. [GG4, COTJ]
Ossus
Ossus, located in the Adega system (one of the six remaining Auril
systems in the Auril sector), orbits the twin Adegan suns in a
figure-eight trajectory. It was an important Jedi stronghold and
learning center in ancient times, and there is some speculation that the
Order of Jedi Knights began on this planet. Ossus was once covered with
many cities and ground defenses, and the Knossa spaceport was located
near a range of rocky mountains. Points of interest on the Jedi world
once included the Great Jedi Library and the peaceful Gardens of Talla.
The steep canyon walls are still covered with elaborate murals, and the
planet's atmosphere is charged with occasional electrical storms.
Although Ossus' golden age is long past, some of the ancient buildings
that still stand include the library and a Jedi meditation chamber.
Nearly 4000 years ago during the Great Sith War, the fallen Jedi Exar
Kun visited Ossus to recruit twenty Jedi knights into the Sith cause.
Before he departed, Kun killed Master Odan-Urr and stole a Sith holocron
from the Jedi Library. Later, an Ossan Jedi fleet was dispatched to the
nearby Cron Cluster to defend the besieged station Kemplex Nine. The
fleet was destroyed when the Cluster went nova, and the resulting
shockwave threatened to devastate Ossus. An evacuation of the planet was
immediately ordered, and as many ancient relics as possible were loaded
onto transports. At the same time, however, Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma
appeared with their armies to loot the world of its valuables before the
shockwave arrived. Kun battled the Neti Jedi master Ood Bnar, who turned
into a unyielding tree to protect a trove of the earliest known
lightsabers. Meanwhile, Ulic confronted and killed his brother Cay, and
was seized with horror and regret over what he had done. The Jedi (with
the notable exception of Ood Bnar) left the planet just ahead of the
shockwave, which scorched and nearly wiped clean Ossus¹ surface. Some
Jedi survived, however, after hiding their families in Ossus' great
caverns, and their descendants grew into the Ysanna, a tribe of
warrior-shamans who use the Force to guide their primitive weapons. A
10,000 year-old lightsaber, given to Leia Organa Solo by Vima-Da-Boda,
surfaced 800 years ago in an archaeological dig on Ossus. Six years
after the Battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker visited an arid, sandy portion
of the planet and discovered the Ysanna tribe. Skywalker and Kam Solusar
also fought the forces of Darkside Executor Sedriss and unearthed the
vault of lightsabers long hidden beneath the roots of Master Ood, who
bravely sacrificed his own life to end Sedriss'. At the time of
Skywalker's departure, the New Republic was planning to send in
excavation teams to explore Ossus' ruins. Soon after, several of the
Emperor's warriors came to Ossus and captured three Ysanna leaders,
whose bodies were to be used as raw material to create new clones for
Palpatine. Skywalker and his Jedi trainees followed the darkside
kidnappers and defeated them on Vjun, but were unable to free the
captured Ysanna from their carbonite imprisonment. While on an
undercover mission to Borgo Prime thirteen years later, Skywalker and
Tenel Ka claimed that they needed Corusca gems to open a sealed treasure
vault located on Ossus. [DE, FNU, DLOS, DE2, YJK, EE, TSW]
Otranto
When the Church of the First Frequency was purged from Otranto by
Imperial Grand Inquisitor Torbin, several surviving church members
attempted to assassinate Torbin aboard a luxury liner. He was rescued by
the Tynnan Odumin, but was killed the following month on Weerden. [CSSB]
Ottega system
Located in the Lesser Plooriod Cluster, the Ottega (also Ottegan)
system's fourth planet is Ithor. Consequently, it is sometimes referred
to as the Ithor system. The system also contains the planet Ottega,
where the smuggler Toob Ancher was permanently disfigured when a bounty
hunter's faulty thermal detonator exploded in his face. The smuggler
Mako Spince was crippled by NaQoit bandits while making a run to the
Ottega system. In the time following the Battle of Hoth, the remnants of
the traitorous Admiral Harkov's fleet were discovered in the Ottega
system by loyal Imperial forces. The late Harkov's former flagship, the
Victory-class Star Destroyer Protector, was trapped in realspace by the
Interdictor cruiser Harpax. Lord Vader planned for Admiral Zaarin's sh
ips to arrive and finish off the Protector, but Zaarin pulled a
double-cross-- he attacked Vader's forces and then flew to Coruscant,
where he planned to kidnap the Emperor and complete his coup d'etat. Six
years after the Battle of Endor, the New Republic troopship Pelagia was
rendezvousing with an X-wing group based in the Ottegan system when it,
and its 100,000 ground troops, were wiped out by the Emperor's Galaxy
Gun. [DE, SWS, EE, SWAJ, TSC]
Ottethan system
Neema, daughter of the Jedi Vima-Da-Boda, was executed in the Ottethan
system for attempting to use the dark side of the Force against her
husband, an Ottegan warlord. The Ottethan system was the ruling system
of his twelve-system empire, located on the far perimeter of the galaxy.
She was fed to the rancors that run wild in the Ottethan forests. [DE]