Jabiim/Legends

Jabiim was the site of two Battles of Jabiim.

Description
It is a world deluged by torrential rains, experiencing less than five days per standard year without precipitation. Its muddy surface is constantly shifting from the weight of the rains. Jabiim was also rich in ore, although by the time of the Battle of Yavin, the valuable ores were dwindling. Jabiim was a world that the Galactic Republic ignored until it was too late.

The world has a very unstable electric field, and electric storms are quite common. Due to this, repulsor craft of any type are unusuable on the planet.

History
Around 3,000 BBY, Jabiim was colonized by Human settlers and would later become a member of the Galactic Republic. In tyhe intervening years, it suffered from an outbreak of brainrot plague and a Trandoshan invasion. Around a generation prior to the Clone Wars, Lythian pirates attacked the world and killed many. Despite paying its due taxes to Coruscant and requesting aide, Jabiim recieved no help from the Republic in any of these cases.

This made the planetary government the Jabiim Congress side with Count Dooku's growing Confederacy of Independent Systems. Republic agents on Jabiim informed the Galactic Senate that the Congress had been undermined by Separatist influences. In fact, Alto Stratus had orchestrated a coup, killing most of the Loyalist members of Congress. Although he spoke eloquently about the "oppression" of the Republic, many believed these words had been purchased with weapons, supplies, and credits by the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Negotiations spearheaded by the Alderaanian Diplomatic Corps were rebuffed as Jabiim geared towards war. Rather than lose Jabiim and its valuable mines, the Republic decided to retake the world by force. The Republic positioned their strike force on nearby Handooine.

The Jabiim campaign during the Clone Wars was a disaster for the Republic – despite a nominal victory, the Republic was forced to abandon Jabiim, leaving the Jabiimi Loyalists to their fate. Jabiim would never forget the Republic's treachery. Not long after the end of the Clone Wars, the Galactic Empire launched a full scale invasion of Jabiim. Decades later, after the Battle of Yavin, Jabiim's ore supplies dwindled because of Imperial over-mining. Emperor Palpatine was not willing to pull the last of his troopers off Jabiim, despite the repeated harassment of the local Jabiimi rebels, which had persisted for 19 years. The Rebel Alliance dispatched a task force lead by Luke Skywalker to support the Jabiimi. Though as Luke set foot on the planet, he realized that he had stepped into his father's shadow. As a Jedi Knight, Anakin Skywalker had served on Jabiim, and the locals did not forget or forgive.

Later the Empire launched a second invasion of Jabiim. With superior technology, the Imperials won the battle and crushed the rebellion. However, the Empire also made a deal with a group of wealthy Jabiimi: in exchange for their own freedom, they would give the rest of the planet's population to the Imperials as slaves.

What would complicate things further, was the fact that Darth Vader himself was present in orbit above the planet. Haunted by the memories of his former life, he ordered a full-scale decimation of the planet, destroying all life on its surface with the excuse that the Alliance would thus be deprived of a potential ally.

In the ensuing chaos, the rebel groups managed to escape and kill their Jabiimi captors, with the Jabiim faction fleeing towards the nearest mines, now their only means of escaping the planetary bombardment.

Days later, the last mine-turned-fortress would fall to an Imperial ground force and the survivors led to an awaiting slave-transport – an Acclamator I-class Assault Ship modified for the transportation of enslaved populations.

Appearances

 * HoloNet News - Star Wars Insider 68
 * Star Wars Republic: The Battle of Jabiim
 * The Cestus Deception
 * Star Wars Republic 61: Dead Ends
 * Jedi Trial
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novelization
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Empire at War
 * Star Wars Empire: In the Shadows of Their Fathers
 * Star Wars Empire: The Wrong Side of the War
 * Star Wars Rebellion 0: Crossroads