Varl/Legends

Varl was the original home world of the Hutts, t'landa Til and possibly the Rybets. According to Hutt legend, it was devastated in a cataclysm that vaporized its atmosphere and obliterated all other planets within its star system.

History
Roughly 1,000,000 years ago the Hutts evolved on Varl; then a forested, oceanic planet.

The Cataclysm


According to Hutt legend, the planet Varl orbited around two suns, Evona and Ardos. Evona and Ardos were venerated as gods by the Hutts. Evona was consumed by a black hole, and in fury, Ardos expelled its gaseous external layers and destroyed the other planets of the star system in 25,000 BBY.

Somehow, Varl survived, though its atmosphere was vaporized, its biosphere annihilated, and left as wasteland. The Hutts fled Varl before the cataclysm, and soon resettled at their colony on Evocar which they promptly renamed Nal Hutta. They believed that by surviving the cataclysm they had been elevated to the status of 'near-gods'. The planet they left behind was reinhabited by the descendants of abandoned servants of the Hutts, with only a few squallid manufacturing centers built in airdomes.

Speculation
The tale has generally been dismissed as more Huttese hyperbole, and the most commonly accepted alternate theory is that the Hutts destroyed their world themselves, in some ancient civil war. Interestingly, there are signs indicating that the cratered wasteland of planet Varl was once a pleasant green world, and besides many asteroids, no other world orbits the white dwarf, Ardos. Presumably, the asteroids are the remains of Varl's moons, as researchers at the Baobab Archives claimed to have found Hutt artifacts "on the moons of Varl".

Appearances

 * The Paradise Snare
 * Rebel Dawn
 * X-wing: The Krytos Trap
 * Zorba the Hutt's Revenge
 * Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse