Karlatt

Karlatt was the homeworld of the Morses, a species with a spatial level of technology. It was the first planet in the Karlatt system. It had a temperate climate and moderate precipitation. Its local days laster 19 hours, and 520 local days made a local year.

The planet was ruled by plutocratic families. Its western continent was covered in plains and home to most commerce and industry; it eastern continent, covered in mountains, had numerous luxurious, prawling estates inhabited by the plutocrats. In the far east was an inhospitable and mysterious peninsula.

The Morses were forced to adapt when they became subjects of the xenophobic Galactic Empire. They developed two principal exports: ambassadors and commercial representatives, many of whom went to Coruscant to work for the government. They imported a "little bit of everything."

The planetary capital was called Grand Nord (or alternately, Kamaib, a name in an ancient Morse dialect). Located on an isthmus between the planet's two continents, it was a metal jungle with an Imperial-clas spaceport that boasted countless hotels, casinos aplenty, omnipresent surveillance droids, and innumerable security cameras. The public was always kept tranquil by the Empire. The city is known for the Park of the Fumes, a gigantic thermal establishment in open air. The city was home to the Planetary Council. Numerous worlds had ambassadors dwelling in Kamaib.

Long ago, the planet was ruled by the Machinist Theocracy. The Machinists had terraformed two other planets in the system, Yasla and Ymura. A sect of the Machinists known as the Koroli Masters were responsible for the AI Project. When the project was condemned, the Machinists fled to Temple Maudit in a desolate, sterile peninsula of Karlatt's eastern continent.

The freed Morses then outlawed droids. According to law, any droids brought to the planet would be interdicted by enforcers known as the Pomak.

A group of Rebel agents discovered archives that were 7,000 years old. The Archives told of how the AI had been created by scientists such as Relaur Kroford, but had become deviant and indestructible. Relaur Kroford, the archives said, had been a native of the planet Karlatt.

The Alliance forged the group passports as ambassadors and commercial accredations, since Karlatt was known for its diplomatic and merchant activity. At the planetary capital, Grand Nord, the agents applied a pre-arranged code on a standard communicator. As a result, a metallic voice told them to go to the Park of the Fumes to meet their local Rebel contact, Madame Kanta.

The agents went to the home of the plutocrat Maxeil Kroford. He revealed that the only individual who knew the secrets passed from the Koroli Masters generation-to-generation was his brother's son, Linder Kroford, who was imprisoned in the psychiatric penitentiary on Serob 6. The Rebels were then attacked by cyborgs disgused as Maxeil's servants, but managed to escape in Maxeil's family starship, the Drogon.

The AI then ordered droids to attack every city on Karlatt. The revolt, similar to a recent one in the Elektra system, devastated Karlatt.

The agents later returned to the planet with Jimmor Ison, and infiltrated Temple Maudit in the far-eastern peninsula. Ison there sacrificed herself to destroy the AI with a computer virus.

Appearances

 * Backstab 30