Kalevala

"Sadly, Deputy Minister Jerec perished this morning, in a Death Watch bombing on Kalevala."

- Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine

Kalevala was a planet located in the Mandalore system, which was positioned in the Mandalore sector of the galaxy's Outer Rim Territories. It was the homeworld of Duchess Satine Kryze, leader of the New Mandalorians, and Senator Tal Merrik, who represented Kalevala at the start of the Clone Wars.

A bombing took place on Kalevala while Duchess Satine was on Coruscant, arguing against a proposed Republic intervention on Mandalore to fight Death Watch. Jerec, Deputy Minister of the New Mandalorians, was among those killed in the attack.

Behind the scenes
"Obi-Wan Kenobi was reunited with an old friend: the Duchess Satine of Kalevala."

- News reel narrator

Kalevala was first mentioned in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, a three-volume Star Wars Legends reference book edited by Bob Vitas that was released on December 9, 2008. It became canon when it was mentioned in the opening news reel of "Voyage of Temptation," the thirteenth episode of the canon animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars' second season.

There are two known pronunciations of Kalevala. In "Voyage of Temptation," the world's name was pronounced "Kale-vah-lah," while in the subsequent episode, "Duchess of Mandalore," it was instead pronounced "Kah-lay-vah-lah."

Kalevala shares its name with the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.