Raxus Prime/Legends

"This is where all droids go to die."

- PROXY

Raxus Prime was a waste-covered planet in the Raxus system. It was packed with toxic debris and had a poisonous surface.

Description
"You don't realize how important a datapad is until you're stranded on Raxus Prime with nothing but your boots and a blaster."

- Han Solo

Raxus Prime was a highly industrial planet covered with immense factories, sealed living habitats, streams of superheated run-off water, rough-hewn quarry pits, vast debris fields and toxic lakes. Most of the planet's residents lived in sealed environments near industrial facilities where they worked. Tunnels connected living areas with work bays, storage hangars and infrastructure units.

History


"On that planet, many ancient secrets, there are."

- Yoda

Raxus Prime was used as a galactic junkyard for thousands of years. Because of this, a large portion of the planet's mass was actually alien metals. Old machinery, especially starships, often found their way to the planet.

Jedi Knight Ulic Qel-Droma unleashed the Dark Reaper upon Republic troops here in 3,996 BBY, during the Great Sith War. In a mysterious and unexplained turn of fate, the machine was apparently disabled by Ulic before it could begin its devastation. Despite its toxic environment, the planet was home to many ancient secrets, among which was the location of the Force Harvester, which was the power source for the long-dismantled Dark Reaper.

Aach Een and his parents moved there from Iridonia. Sometime prior to the Clone Wars, the Meeknu clan was transplanted there from Tatooine to work the machinery.



Raxus Prime was the birthplace of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and served as Count Dooku's personal fortress from 24 BBY until 22 BBY. Dooku learned about the Harvester on Raxus Prime during his visit to Qel-Droma's tomb on Rhen Var shortly after the Clone Wars begun.

Dooku held Boba Fett prisoner there for a period following the death of his father in the Battle of Geonosis. Republic forces attacked the planet in 22 BBY, but Dooku was able to escape with the Force Harvester and later used the device to wreak havoc for a short time afterwards.

Following the Clone Wars, Darth Vader's secret apprentice, codenamed Starkiller, visited the world in search of the reclusive Jedi Knight Kazdan Paratus. Paratus, who went into exile after escaping Order 66, had constructed a Jedi Temple on Raxus Prime complete with a robotic Jedi Council. After an intense duel, Starkiller defeated the deranged Jedi.



In 2 BBY, with Paratus out of the way, the Empire had conquered Raxus Prime, using its metals to construct new Star Destroyers. In his attempt to disrupt Imperial activities, Starkiller used an ore cannon to destroy an orbiting construction facility. However, one of the Star Destroyers survived, and descended to the surface. Starkiller attempted to flee, but there was little time, and Rahm Kota convinced him he had to neutralize it. Using the Force, Starkiller dragged the ship from the sky, and slammed it into the ground, destroying the ore cannon and many surrounding structures and junk formations.

Meanwhile, the Core, a super intelligent computer that functioned as a planet-wide intelligence of Raxus Prime, possessed Starkiller's holodroid, PROXY. The Core learned about the wider galaxy, and believing that Emperor Palpatine was insufficient to bring order to chaos, decided that it was best suited for the job. It used PROXY and other droids to fight Starkiller in an attempt to escape Raxus Prime, but was defeated and destroyed by the Dark Jedi, who melted the Core's mainframe into slag, freeing PROXY in the process.

In 25 ABY, Boba Fett returned to the planet to cull the weaklings from his new force of Mandalorian Protector Supercommandos by pitting them against Han Solo, who was trapped there for a short period of time.

Behind the scenes
In a Doctor Who comic there is a planet called Raxus.

Starkiller's Raxus Prime gear includes a backplate identical to Darth Vader's chestplate.

While exploring this planet in The Force Unleashed a YT-1300 light freighter, similar to the Millennium Falcon, can be seen in the wreckage. A Lucrehulk-class battleship can also be seen in the wreckage.

Additionally, a Low Altitude Assault Transport, a Nantex-class territorial defense starfighter, an AT-TE(all terrain tacical enforcer), and a Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor can also be seen in the wreckage.

A X-Wing Fighter can be seen using force grip to pull it out of the lava near the start of the level in The Force Unleashed This X-wing also appears to have some modifications to it's engines and blasters strikingly similar to alternative appearance parts in Star Wars Galaxies.

Also, before the battle by the wreckage of a CR90 Corellian Corvette, the rear remains of a YKL-37R Nova Courier can be seen.

At the beginning of the level in The Force Unleashed, you can also see an oversized image of a Tsemu-6 Wheelbike. Additionally between the two halves of the Rodian base is a masively scaled up front portion of an AT-TE acting as the outer surface for a "structure" that Starkiller must pass through.

In the wreckage of The Force Unleashed an N-1 starfighter can be seen above a tunnel.

The wreckage of a Trade Federation core ship can be seen near the salvage camp were you destroy the shield generator

Appearances

 * Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive
 * Boba Fett: Crossfire
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars game
 * Star Wars Republic 49: Sacrifice
 * Boba Fett: Maze of Deception
 * Legacy of the Jedi
 * CIS Shadowfeed Dispatch 14:2:14 Edition
 * MedStar I: Battle Surgeons
 * Boba Fett: A New Threat
 * Boba Fett: Pursuit
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * The Force Unleashed video game
 * The Force Unleashed novel
 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed comic
 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed comic