Planet - S
Source List & Abbreviations
Saarn
An isolated world hidden in a corner of the galaxy, Saarn was used by
the Rebel Alliance for military training purposes, and was later used as
a remote surveillance outpost after the New Republic moved to Coruscant.
Five years after the Battle of Endor, one of Grand Admiral Thrawn's Star
Destroyers, the Stormhawk, executed a hit-and-fade attack on Saarn,
wiping out the New Republic personnel and setting up a listening post to
protect the movements of Thrawn's fleet. [SWAJ]
Sacorria
Located in the Sacorrian system, one of the Outlier systems of the
Corellian sector, Sacorria is a pleasant but secretive world with strict
regulations. It is the site of the Dorthus Tal prison and its main city
has a cobblestone square in town. Sacorria is ruled by the Triad-- a
secretive council of dictators consisting of one human, one Drall, and
one Selonian. Almost nothing is known about the three rulers, not even
their names, though the Selonians on Sacorria are known to be
descendants of a dishonored Selonian den. In years past the Triad was
merely the puppet of the Corellian Diktat, but it now freely runs the
planet and has passed more and more restrictive laws. Women are not
allowed to marry without their fathers' consent, and a recent law made
it illegal to marry an off-worlder. Sacorria's moon is Sarcophagus,
which serves as a vast graveyard for the planet's inhabitants. Fourteen
years after the Battle of Endor, Lando Calrissian visited Sacorria to
see Tendra Risant, a member of a wealthy and influential family, for a
possible marriage proposal. Meanwhile, the Sacorrian Triad set into
motion a master plan to force the New Republic to acknowledge the
Corellian sector as an independent state. The Triad organized rebellions
on each of the five planets in the Corellian system and gained control
of Centerpoint Station, which allowed them to set up interdiction and
jamming fields over the system and to destroy distant stars at will. The
Triad's plans, and their fleet of more than eighty Sacorrian ships, were
defeated by the New Republic and a Bakuran task force. [AAC, AAS, SAC]
Saheelindeel
Located in the remote Tion Hegemony, Saheelindeel is a backwater world
inhabited by intelligent, green- furred primates. The high festival on
Saheelindeel is a time for tribal hunting rituals and harvest
ceremonies, and has recently begun to incorporate farm machinery
exhibits, shock-ball matches, and airshows in an attempt to become more
technologically sophisticated. The Saheelindeeli, led by a matriarch,
have an affinity for grandiose actions. Han Solo and Chewbacca briefly
worked on Saheelindeel after leaving the Corporate Sector. Following the
Battle of Yavin, the Empire established a listening post near
Saheelindeel, which was attacked by the Alliance to divert attention
from their fleet's movements into the Greater Plooriod Cluster. [HSLL,
FP]
Salliche
An agricultural planet in the Core Worlds region. Salliche is home to
the Salliche Ag Corporation, which administers eighteen farming planets
throughout the Core Worlds including the Yulant, Ruan, and Broest
systems. The Empire has placed Moff Gegren Throsen in charge of
Salliche, who disbanded the legislature and appointed his own men to
oversee the massive corporate bureaucracy. The citizens of Salliche are
loyal to the House Harbright, whose members have served the Republic for
three centuries. After the rise of the Empire, Lady Selnia Harbright
made the decision to aid the Rebel Alliance.
Many years ago, a band of armored raiders killed many on Salliche and
robbed the Vaults of Narner, until they were stopped by the Jedi Knight
Soonis. About 250 years ago, a group of idealists left Salliche to
colonize the planet Varonat. They were fed up with Salliche's corrupt
bureaucracy and intended to establish a true participatory democracy.
Independent operative Dirk Harkness was originally from Salliche, where
he graduated from technical school before signing onto a starship as an
apprentice mechanic. [SWAJ]
Sand Crab Nebula
Han Solo once spoke of an imaginary Imperial fleet, supposedly located
in the Sand Crab Nebula. [AAS]
Sanjin
A planet near the Core Worlds. While at Sanjin, the Nikto agent
Ma'w'shiye betrayed the Alliance, deserted his Rebel squadron, and stole
the group's spacecraft. [SWAJ]
Sappire
One of the Empire's peripheral holdings, Sappire is marked by constant
unrest towards Imperial rule. [SWAJ]
Sarahwiee
A frozen world of glaciers, mountains, and ice-covered oceans in the
Bseto system, Sarahwiee is home to a top-secret Imperial research
facility. The outpost, situated in a mountain range in the southern
hemisphere, holds 1000 personnel and is only accessible by air. When
Emperor Palpatine first established the facility on the
previously-uninhabited world, he had all references to it wiped from the
Imperial archives for security. After the Battle of Endor, certain
Imperial fleet captains equipped and supplied the base until the defeat
of Grand Admiral Thrawn, at which point free-traders were needed to
handle the cargo shipments. After Thrawn's defeat but before the rise of
the resurrected Emperor, a New Republic commando team, led by Lieutenant
Page and including Luke Skywalker, was sent to Sarahwiee to destroy the
facility and erase its computer records. It was here that Skywalker met
the young Garos IV freedom fighter named Alex Winger. [SWAJ]
Sarcophagus
Sarcophagus is the moon of Sacorria, located in one of the Outlier
systems in the Corellian sector. It is a vast graveyard, visited only by
those who are burying their dead. [AAC]
Sarka
Grand Admiral Thrawn attacked a convoy from Sarka, which was defended by
a New Republic Bulk Cruiser converted to a starfighter carrier. There
was also a reception for a Sarkan delegation held in the Imperial Palace
following the birth of Leia Organa Solo's twins. [DFR, TLC]
Sedesia
A high-gravity planet located in the Mid-Rim, Sedesia is an arid, cold
world of tundra, forests, and mountains. The planet's severe axial tilt
causes extreme seasonal changes and unpredictable weather, and all
planetary travel is restricted to ground vehicles due to the violent
windstorms. Sedesians cross the planet's surface on six-legged reptilian
mounts called striders, and sometimes on unique, single-wheeled machines
called wheelbikes. Sedesia has been colonized for several hundred years,
and its 1.5 million settlers are primarily stubborn breedtash ranchers
known for their independence and sympathy towards the Rebellion. The
planet's capital and largest city is Besia Osurne, home to 250,000
people and containing the popular Trail's End tavern near the stoc
kyards. The Empire, testing a pathogen-based loyalty enhancement
project, infected the entire population of Sedesia with a deadly plague
called the Gray Death through aerial spraying. Imperial forces set up
medical facilities, ostensibly to protect the citizens from the plague,
but in reality forcing them to become dependent on the Empire for their
continued survival. [SWAJ]
Sedri
Covered by warm shallow seas, Sedri (in the system of the same name) is
home to both the aquatic Sedrians and a communal intelligence of tiny
polyps known as Golden Sun. Golden Sun is attuned to the Force and
provides power, healing, and other necessities to the Sedrians, who
worship Golden Sun as the center of their society. Golden Sun's use of
the Force also creates massive gravity readings, causing problems for
hyperspace navigation near the system. The peaceful Sedrians have
constructed underwater cities (the largest is Fitsay) and have appointed
a High Priest to safeguard the cave in which Golden Sun lives. The
Empire came to Sedri to research a possible artificial gravity well
generator and constructed an Imperial garrison. A group of Rebels
infiltrated the garrison, studied the Imperial's aquatic equipment, and
discussed strategy and techniques with the Sedrians. This information
resulted in the formation of the Rebel Sea Commandos, who later saw
action on Calamari fighting the Emperor's World Devastators. The
SedriMotors corporation, based on Sedri, has recently produced the
Amphibion combat speeder for New Republic use. [GG4, DESB]
Selab
A planet in the Hapes cluster and home to the trees of wisdom. Believed
by many to be only a myth, the trees bear fruit that can greatly
increase the intelligence of those who have reached old age. [COPL]
Selaggis
The location of a colony that was obliterated by Warlord Zsinj's Super
Star Destroyer Iron Fist. Han Solo saw the destroyed colony while on a
five-month hunt to locate and destroy the Iron Fist. [COPL]
Selonia
One of the five inhabited worlds in the Corellian system, Selonia has a
clean blue sky and a surface composed of hundreds of islands separated
by innumerable seas, inlets, and bays. Terrain on the many islands
includes meadows, woodlands, and rolling hills. The small land areas are
evenly distributed around the planet-- no point on land is more than 150
kilometers from the water, and no water is more than 200 kilometers from
land. Famous sights on the world include the Cloudland Peaks. Beneath
the surface of Selonia is a powerful planetary repulsor, which was used
in ancient times to transport the planet into its current orbit from an
unknown location. Selonia is the homeworld of the alien species known as
Selonians, who have thick tails, sleek fur, and long faces filled with
needle-sharp teeth. Selonians are hive animals, who live together in
genetically-related dens. Each den is made up of one fertile female (the
queen, who gives birth to all members of a den), a few fertile males,
and several hundred sterile females. All sterile females with the same
father are said to be in the same "sept," and members of a sept are
genetically identical. It is the sterile females who interact with other
species and perform all the important functions of Selonian life; the
fertile Selonians are treated merely as breeding stock. Selonians make
poor liars and have a deep psychological need to reach a consensus among
each other, even if the resulting agreement does not always make sense.
Selonians are often comfortable inhabiting underground tunnels and
warrens.
Many years ago, a Selonian den tried to cheat other members of their
same den. For this dishonor, the perpetrators were exiled from Selonia
and Corellia, and eventually settled on Sacorria. Fourteen years after
the Battle of Endor, two Selonian factions-- the Republicists and the
Absolutists-- struggled for control of the planetary repulsor. The
Republicists intended to turn it over to the New Republic in exchange
for Selonian sovereignty, while the Absolutists planned to use it as a
weapon for the creation of Selonian independence. The Hunchuzuc Den,
allied with the Republicists and the Chanzari Den, proposed to use Han
Solo as a bargaining chip to open negotiations with the New Republic.
The Overden, the ruling power on Selonia and allied with the Absolutists
, won the Hunchuzuc over to their side when they claimed to control the
Selonian repulsor. Kleyvits, representing the Overden, held Leia Organa
Solo captive and tried to force her to recognize Selonia's independence
from the New Republic. When it was revealed that the dishonored
Saccorian Selonians were actually operating the repulsor, the Overden
suddenly lost all power in favor of the Hunchuzuc Den. During the
crisis, a Bakuran attack force led a diversionary assault on Selonia and
one of its ships was destroyed by Selonia's repulsor. [AAC, AAS, SAC]
Semag system
Following the Battle of Hoth, Grand Admiral Thrawn made several attempts
to locate and trap the renegade Admiral Zaarin in the area near the
Semag system. [TSC]
Senex sector
Adjacent to the Juvex sector and near the Ninth Quadrant, the Senex
sector is ruled by an elite group of ancient, aristocratic Houses. The
sector contains the Senex system and the planet Karfeddion, and
apparently Veron and Mussubir Three as well. Yetoom and Belsavis are
located on its edge. The Ancient Houses and their Lords are very
independent, desiring to rule their planets as they see fit and scorning
any interference from outside governments. They were largely left alone
under Palpatine's rule, and neither the post-Endor Empire nor the New
Republic have been very successful in influencing them. The Senex Lords
have long been accused of mistreating their workers and violating the
Rights of Sentience. The oldest of the Houses is House Vandron, headed
by Lady Theala Vandron, which operates slave farms on Karfeddion. The
House Elegin is headed by Drost Elegin, and the House Garonnin gets a
large portion of its revenue from strip-mining asteroids. The sleek
Mekuun ships called Tikiars are often favored by the aristocrats of the
Ancient Houses.
The Senex system once held an Imperial training area. Before the Battle
of Yavin, a new Alliance recruit accidentally hypered into the area in
his X-wing, and destroyed most of the training facilities before
realizing his danger and hypering out. Eight years after the Battle of
Endor, Stinna Draesinge Sha, a pupil of Nasdra Magrody's, was
assassinated in the Senex sector in House Vandron territory. Later that
year, many of the Senex Lords met with Roganda Ismaren on Belsavis with
the intent of forming a military alliance. [COTJ, FP]
Sepan system
Located in the sector of the same name, the Sepan system contains the
planets Ripoblus, Dimok, Gerbaud 2, and Sepan 8. Following the Battle of
Hoth, a long, destructive war between the peoples of Ripoblus and Dimok
was forcibly ended by the intervention of Imperial forces under the
command of Admiral Harkov. At one point, the leaders of the two sides
attempted a rendezvous near Sepan 8 to organize a united attack against
Imperial forces. [TSC]
Serenity Following the Battle of Hoth, Grand Admiral Thrawn leaked word
that a convoy carrying missile boats would be passing near the planet
Serenity. This was intended as bait to trap the renegade Admiral Zaarin
and his traitorous forces. [TSC]
Sern sector
The Sern sector is located near the Core Worlds, and contains the planet
Ghorman. [FP]
Sesswenna sector
Contains the planet Eriadu. Grand Moff Tarkin developed the Tarkin
Doctrine of rule by fear while he was a governor in charge of the
Sesswenna sector and the Outer Rim Territories. [MTS, DSTC]
Setor
The former homeworld of Wetyin's Colony. The colony left Setor after
suffering persecution and exile, and the Fernandin Scouting Operation
was given a permit by the Empire to find the group a new homeworld. Some
of the worlds considered included Betshish and Yavin 4. [GG2]
Planet - S (pt. 3)