Nar Kreeta system

"Master Katarn has informed me that he is continuing his investigation of Rosh Penin's disappearance near Nar Kreeta and can assist you on this mission."

- Jedi Praxeum protocol droid

The Nar Kreeta system was a star system within the Hutt Space region of the galaxy. It contained the planet Nar Kreeta, a Hutt colony and major trade world, and was crossed by the Pabol Kreeta and Pabol Sleheyron hyperlanes. During the Disciples of Ragnos crisis, the local Hutt crimelord based on the planet Nar Kreeta kidnapped members of the Mining Guild sent to negotiate a treaty with him, prompting a New Jedi Order rescue mission successfully undertaken by Jedi Jaden Korr and Jedi Master Kyle Katarn. The system was one of many that fell to the Yuuzhan Vong, with the main planet of Nar Kreeta being Vongformed by the extragalactic invaders, until its reconstruction by the Hutts after the Yuuzhan Vong campaign.

Description
The Nar Kreeta system was a star system located on an edge of Hutt Space, a galactic location between the Mid and Outer Rim Territories historically dominated by the Hutt species.

The system was notable for its main planet, Nar Kreeta, which was a Hutt colony and a major trade world. It was also crossed by at least two trade routes: the Pabol Kreeta, which linked Nar Kreeta to Nar Bo Sholla, within the system of the same name and the Pabol Sleheyron, which had the worlds Formos and Randon as endpoints.

Although Hutts were the original settlers of Nar Kreeta and the Hutt Space as a whole, other species could also be occasionally found in the system, like Chiss, Gran, Humans, Rodians, Trandoshans and Weequays. Because of this, languages as varied as Huttese, Galactic Basic Standard, Gran, Rodese, Dosh and Sriluurian were spoken in the system. In the planet of Nar Kreeta, Aurebesh and a Huttese script could be seen in certain locations, in the form of signs and posters. By 25 ABY, the system boasted a population of anything from one to 10 billion individuals.

History
"We have received word from a mining guild on Nar Kreeta that a number of elders are held captive by the local Hutt crimelord. These elders went to negotiate a treaty with the Hutt, but never returned. The crimelord claims no one ever came to see him."

- Jedi Praxeum records

The territory surrounding the Nar Kreeta system had come under the control of the Hutt Empire as early as the year 22,000 BBY and was considered well-explored by 8,000 BBY.

During the early years of the New Republic, the Mining Guild had control of the planet Nar Kreeta, although Hutt crime lords dominated the underworld. The Mining Guild's relations with the Hutts were poor. Upon trying to negotiate a treaty with a local Hutt crimelord, sixteen elders that were sent to make terms with the crimelord went missing. The Guild suspected a Hutt connection but the suspect denied anyone had come to see him.



The New Jedi Order, who at the time had Jedi Master Kyle Katarn already in the area investigating the disappearance of his pupil Rosh Penin amidst the Disciples of Ragnos crisis, picked up the distress signal from the Guild and dispatched Jedi Jaden Korr to learn the truth. At the time, the Hutts maintained a wary coexistence with the New Republic.

Korr covertly entered the Hutt's stronghold and soon uncovered the fate of the missing Human elders. The elders were prisoners intended to be used as quarry in labyrinthine pit matches against a rancor, sponsored by the Hutt. The object of the betting was to wager on the last remaining Human to be killed. It became apparent to the Jedi that the building was in fact a rancor betting parlor.

After fighting his way through the gambling parlors and bars, Korr freed the prisoners from their holding areas and led them through the labyrinth, warding off the rancor as it approached. After rescuing all sixteen of the captives, Jaden escaped the complex with the elders in Katarn's light courier, the Raven's Claw.

Over the course of his investigation in the Nar Kreeta system, Kyle Katarn eventually found that his student Rosh Penin was captured by the Disciples of Ragnos and they had been in the region, although he could not know for certain where exactly they took the Jedi next.

Sometime around 25 and 26 ABY during the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Nar Kreeta system, like great portions of Hutt Space, fell to the extragalactic invaders' empire, who heavily Vongformed the planet Nar Kreeta. After the invasion, which did not last more than a decade for some territories, the Hutts focused on reconstructing the planets affected by the Yuuzhan Vong campaign.

Nar Kreeta


Nar Kreeta was a Hutt colony and major trade world at the nexus of the Pabol Kreeta and in the Pabol Sleheyron. The planet possessed a rocky and montainous landscape prior to its Vongforming, where some inhabited settlements were built underground. During the early years of the New Republic, the Mining Guild controlled the planet, although Hutt crime lords dominated the underworld. It was terraformed by the Yuuzhan Vong upon their invasion in Hutt Space, although, after they were defeated, the Hutts concentrated efforts on reconstructing the worlds devastated by the invaders.

Behind the scenes
The Nar Kreeta system was first mentioned in The Essential Atlas, a third-generation Essential Guide written by Jason Fry and Daniel Wallace, and published in August 2009. The book placed the system in Hutt Space, at coordinates S-10. The Nar Kreeta system was later included in the Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion, a web-exclusive series of articles intended to serve as dynamic supplement for The Essential Atlas.

Fry has stated that "planets not assigned a system in [a] published source can be assumed to reside in [the] system of [the] same name." This article assumes the same applies for Nar Kreeta, a planet first introduced in the 2003 Raven Software video game Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, the last installment of the Dark Forces saga.