Krant

"The lush forests of Krant are beautiful from the cockpit of an X-wing. They stretch on for miles. But it's quite a different thing to be tramping through them on foot. That's why I'm a pilot, lads."

- Wedge Antilles

Krant was a wilderness planet in the Bothan sector.

Geography
Krant was characterised by temperate forests and cliffs. The trees of Krant were a spectacular multi-colored variety, which glowed in the diffuse sunsets and shed their enormous leaves in two seasonal cycles. The predators of Krant were few and far between, leaving a large ecological niche in which herbivores and insects thrive. The Krantian songbirds filled the night sky with their calls and melodies, making for a bucolic, if noisy, setting for the newly-arrived colonists.



Its two major cities, Peche and Thennes, were agricultural in nature. Le'Roche, another city, was on an island.

Krant had two moons and numerous orbiting asteroids. One of the main moons, Aereen, was mineral-rich. One of the asteroids, Hanoon, was terraformed.

History
Humans and Bothans colonized the world shortly before the Clone Wars, as well as a Wookiee colony which the Confederacy General Sev'Rance Tann destroyed. The surviving Wookiees helped Echuu Shen-Jon destroy Tann's fortress in 22 BBY. Shen-Jon felt he gave into the dark side when he killed Tann, and exiled himself to Krant.



Krant became a major rendezvous point for Bothan spies and Rebels during the Galactic Civil War. It was scouted several times by the Galactic Empire as a possible base, endangering the Rebel operations there. The Empire took over the Alliance's Ghost Base, which was liberated by Echuu Shen-Jon, Leia Organa&mdash;whose ship, the Cretacian, had crashed on the planet previously&mdash;, and Utric Sandov.

There were also two abandoned Sith temples and ancient Jedi ruins on the planet.

Behind the scenes
Krant appears only in the game Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. The game Databank claims Krant is found 'in the center of Both system', a system of the Mid Rim. However all seven planets of that system are known (Yeltha, Taboth, Bothawui, Golm, Ganash, Hoppawui and Jentawui) and none of them is called Krant (unless we take it as Krant being an alternate name for Golm).

To make matters more complex, a mission briefing of the game, states that Krant is in the Outer Rim but this is discarded as a mistake since it contradicts the both previous sources; Both Sector is in the Mid Rim.

The Essential Atlas established that Krant belongs to the Krant system, located in the Bothan Sector.

Anakin Skywalker and Palpatine can be seen by a Sith Temple on Krant, an Easter Egg for the game, but this was not at the time Anakin was falling to the dark side, reducing this to a non-canonical easter egg.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
 * Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
 * Republic Commando: True Colors