Vulpter/Legends

Vulpter was the third and primary planet of the Vulpter system in the Deep Core, and the homeworld of both the Vulptereen and the garbage chasers. Vulpter was on the opposite end of the Carbonite Run from Empress Teta, with the destroyed Goluud system in between.

Description
Vulpter was once a lush, temperate world of forests and grasslands. However, overindustrialization by the native Vulptereen during the time of the Galactic Republic transformed the planet into a smog-shrouded world of barren wastelands and dingy industrial centers. Worse, Vulpter became exploited by the Trade Federation, which used the planet as a dumping ground for waste products. The Federation cared little for the planet's ecosystem, seeing Vulpter simply as a factory world in which the Vulptereen were forced to toil as miners for underground storage facilities. Anything deemed too large or toxic to store was launched into orbit, a practice that, over time, formed a ring of debris around the planet, choking out some of the natural sunlight.

By this time, one in five cities on Vulpter remained inhabitable, and the planet's animal life was by now extinct. Residents suffered from diseases brought about by the now-toxic air and water supplies. The Vulptereen, however, remained onworld, clinging tenaciously to their devastated homeworld.

History
Both the Trade Federation and Arakyd Industries, a subsidary of the Techno Union, set up operations on Vulpter during the last centuries of the Republic, with the latter taking the planet as its headquarters. The Vulptereen designed products for the droid and Podracer markets.

The planet was seen as so insignificant that it was often left off Trade Federation starcharts, and this situation did not improve during the time of the Galactic Empire. Further, the Empire blockaded Vulpter following the Declaration of a New Order, not considering it worthy even of foodstuffs. Fortunately for the planet's inhabitants, the Alliance to Restore the Republic used the world as a safe haven during the Galactic Civil War, and the New Republic embarked upon a restoration project following the fall of the Empire. The Vulptereen aided greatly in the restoration, using technologies that proved successful on worlds such as Duro.