Ansion/Legends

Ansion, a planet in the Mid Rim, covered with grassy plains speckled with small cities and villages populated by the native Alwari. The plains are home to a spiky tumbleweed that impales its prey. The skies can become as dark as night when a flock of native birds flies overhead. Another being of the planet is a crocodilelike creature that will capture prey that falls into its watery habitat by fitting together with others of its kind like a jigsaw puzzle.

Ansion becomes the site of a border dispute between the city-dwellers and the Alwari, which is resolved by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi along with Anakin Skywalker, Luminara Unduli, and Barriss Offee just before the events of Attack of the Clones. The dispute is chronicled in Alan Dean Foster's The Approaching Storm. It is important to the Republic as other worlds could fall out of its control if it had not intervened.