Nal Hutta/Legends

"What a vile world this is." "The Hutts know it as 'Glorious Jewel'."

- Malik Carr and Nom Anor

Nal Hutta (translating as Glorious Jewel in Huttese) was the capital of Hutt Space and was located in the Y'Toub system. It was formerly a Galactic Republic world known as Evocar and was the original home world of the Evocii, who were ousted by the Hutts in 25,000 BBY, who migrated to the Y'Toub system from their original home world of Varl, along with their servants the t'landa Til. The planet was controlled by the ancient ruling Hutt families, who also ruled its moon Nar Shaddaa from Nal Hutta.

Geography
Nal Hutta was a very large planet, but it had no natural heavy metals so its density was less than that of most worlds. The planet's oceans were inhabited by the Vippits. A day on Nal Hutta lasted 87 standard hours, and a year lasted 413 local days. There was also a massive, radioactive gas cloud, containing the planet Ganath, near Nal Hutta.

Nal Hutta was once a jungle world though the Hutts transformed it into a polluted and burdened world. Much of the surface was covered by flat, marshy bogs, stagnant, muddy puddles and patches of sickly marsh grass inhabited by insects and spiders. The atmosphere was also polluted by strip-mining operations in Nal Hutta's industrial centers, and a greasy rain drizzled down on the surface. Raw materials were constantly strip-mined from the planet's surface and shipped to Nar Shaddaa for processing and export. Except from the capital city, Bilbousa, the Guarja Shipyards were also located on the planet.

Hutt Empire
The Hutts had owned a small province on Evocar as soon as the Hutt Empire was formed, two centuries before they ousted the Evocii, in 25,200 BBY. This may have been the beginning of organized crime in the Galaxy. This province was soon transformed into a polluted waste land, but the native Evocii owned the rest of the world for two more centuries. In 25,100 BBY, the defeated Xim the Despot died in the dungeons of Kossak the Hutt's palace on Evocar (Tionese historians claimed that Xim was treacherously killed at the Third Battle of Vontor).

Old Republic
After the Hutts had escaped the destruction of their home world Varl in 25,000 BBY, they migrated across space and came to Evocar. Having decided that Evocar was a suitable home, they traded their technology with the Evocii in exchange for pieces of land on Evocar. The Hutts continued doing this until the Evocii realized that their home world had almost been bought out from under them. Hutt palaces, amusement parks and other constructions were built all over Evocar, and the Evocii could do nothing about it. The Hutts destroyed the planet's lush mountainous rainforests, terraforming the planet into what they considered paradise: stinking (to Humans) bogs, scum-covered puddles, and patches of sickly marsh grass full of insects and spiders.



They appealed to the Galactic Republic, though the Republic sadly ruled in favor of the Hutts in 25,000 BBY. The Evocii were eventually evicted from Evocar by the Hutts, and relocated to the planet's fifth moon, which would later be known as Nar Shaddaa, The Smuggler's Moon. The Hutts then destroyed the remaining Evocii agriculture and the original terrain and then terraformed (the destroyed) remaining patches of land as well.

When the Evocii were evicted to Nar Shaddaa they were enslaved to build the cities of the moon enforced by the Hutts beginning in 25,000 BBY. Although Nar Shaddaa was only starting to be built it quickly began to prosper along with Nal Hutta itself under the new Galactic Republic. Five centuries later the entire moon was urbanized and the Evocii were freed of their labor by the Hutts since their work was complete. Since that year Nar Shaddaa rivaled Coruscant as a center of instastelar trade and Nal Hutta prospered even more by its side.

However,in 24,000 BBY when the trade routes shifted, Nal Hutta and its moon became havens for smugglers, pirates, and other criminals. During the same year, without the treatment of the Republic the Evocii were out casted into the planet's moon's under city and began to mutate into savages due to various technologies practiced on the moon. However the Hutts did side with the Honorable Union of Desevro & Tion during the same year when the the trade lanes shifted. Thus Nal Hutta presumably became an enemy Fortress World of the Republic during the Tionese War.

In 23,900 BBY The Republic turned the Hutt allies against the Honorable Union of Desevro & Tion in order to defeat them. The Union was indeed defeated and the Tionese war came to a close. Thus Nal Hutta along with its moon lost even its alternate government and both became completely independent and truly began to fall into ruin and disrepair.

During the Dark Wars, Nal Hutta was enslaving refugees after buying them from the Exchange from the Refugee Sector on Nar Shaddaa in 3,951 BBY.

Galactic Empire
During the Galactic Civil War, the Galactic Empire established nominal control over Nal Hutta, but for the most part the Hutt ruling families were left to control day to day affairs, with the Empire stepping in only when searching for Rebel sympathizers or other criminals.

Yuuzhan Vong Empire
During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Nal Hutta was conquered in an orbital bombardment by the extragalactic aliens in retaliation for the Hutts' treachery in 26 ABY. The Y'Toub system was surrounded by several of the Yuuzhan Vong's most deadly warships. Several organic creations were sent to Nal Hutta and its moon Nar Shaddaa for multiple purposes. Different types of bacteria killed most of the inhabitants, before processing their remains into the soil of Nal Hutta. All of the technology on the planet was broken down and also absorbed into the soil, thus turning Nal Hutta into a lifeless barren world. However, the Hutts still remained for two years during the Yuuzhan Vong's rule. The Yuuzhan Vong Vongformed the lifeless barren surface of Nal Hutta (into an unknown result) to suit themselves, resulting in the second complete change of the planet's terrain. This process was ongoing, and the Yuuzhan Vong reached out from the Y'Toub system, swallowing all of Hutt Space.

As a result, a Hutt resistance movement was formed, and the New Republic raided the world in 28 ABY. The Hutts abandoned the desecrated Nal Hutta as their base of operations at the close of the Vong war in 28 ABY, moving instead to the desert planet of Tatooine, a world on which the Hutts had historically had a heavy presence.

Legacy
In 29 ABY, the Yuuzhan Vong abandoned the vongformed planet and moon, prompting the Hutts to abandon Tatooine and reclaim Nal Hutta. In 29 ABY, there were also criminals that were fortunate enough to have survived the Yuuzhan Vong War who took shelter on the now Vongformed planet as well as Nar Shaddaa. Like its moon in 39 ABY, it would not openly ally itself with the Corellian Alliance and remained independent. However, Nal Hutta did join the Confederation during the Second Galactic Civil War, although the Hutts themselves were relatively neutral. Later in the war the Hutts finally joined their fellow criminals, and were absorbed into the Confederation as well.

Behind the scenes
The PC game Star Wars: Rebellion mistakenly places Nal Hutta in the Kanchen Sector, which is actually located in the Expansion Region.