Kammia

"The Imperial Colonization Board regrets to announce that the Kammia colony, Drynn system, has succumbed to a mysterious virus. At this time, there are no reports of survivors."

- Imperial Holovision news release

Kammia, or the Kammia colony, was a planet in the extremely remote Drynn system, among the sparsely populated Shiritoku Spur of Wild Space. Kammia was a Human colony world of the Galactic Empire, notable for its rich soil. In the time frame immediately following the Battle of Yavin, Emperor Palpatine ceded a number of colony worlds, including Kammia, to the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium in exchange for the aliens' species-enslaving entechment technology. The Empire released a news report claiming that a mysterious virus had wiped out the Kammia colony to hide the truth.

Description
Kammia was a particularly remote planet located in the Drynn system of the Shiritoku Spur, an area of space on the edge of the Outer Rim Territories, &mdash;though it was formally part of Wild Space&mdash;that also included the planet Bakura. Kammia had excellent soil, rich for agricultural purposes.

Sacrificed to the Ssi-ruuk
One of the Galactic Empire's frontier Human colonies on the periphery of known space, Kammia was dedicated to producing agricultural foodstuffs due to the planet's rich soil. The Imperial Human colonists introduced Chandrilan grain to the planet's soil in their agricultural efforts.

Following the Battle of Yavin, the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium, representing a species of alien invaders from the Unknown Regions, began to attack Imperial colony worlds along the edge of the Outer Rim in an effort to assimilate the Human colonists inhabiting them. Through a process known as "entechment," the alien invaders harnessed their captive Humans' life forces as a source of energy.

News of the invasions soon reached Emperor Palpatine. Craving the aliens' entechment technology for his own purposes, the Emperor agreed to cede Imperial citizens to the aliens in return for access to the technology. One of the colony worlds sacrificed to the aliens was Kammia.

Imperial cover-up
As had been done with the first invasions, the Empire easily hid the truth of the Kammia colony's fate through the control of media outlets. The Empire created and distributed false cover stories for each of the lost colony worlds, ranging from industrial accident to Rebel attack.

On 37:4:21, in the year 2 ABY, the Imperial Holovision released a news report explaining that a mysterious disease had wiped out the Kammia colony with no survivors. According to the Imperial Colonization Board, the release explained, belief was that the colonists' Chandrilan grains had interacted with components in the planet's soil to produce a non-indigenous plant that led to the evolution of a contagious "mystery virus," which quickly spread to the colony.

The ICB expressed its condolences to the families of those lost colonists, and the Emperor pledged that the Imperial Survey Corps would refine their soil-screening process to avoid further tragedies, the report explained.

In the years following, rumor spread through the region of aliens attacking starships in the Shiritoku, and cantina tales suggested that the destruction of colonies such as Kammia were related. These rumors proved true when, in 4 ABY, the aliens invaded the planet Bakura.

Behind the scenes
The colony world Kammia was first introduced into Star Wars canon in Kathy Tyers' February 1996 The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook, which identified Kammia as one of the first Imperial planets to succumb to Ssi'ruuvi attack.

The 2004 Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds later mentioned Kammia briefly in its description of the planet Bakura, establishing both planets to be in the Shiritoku Spur region of Wild Space.