Abbaji (Spar sector)

Abbaji was a planet within the Zuma sector on the Outer Rim Territories. It was mostly composed of rainforests, including the Irugian Rain Forest, the only place in the galaxy where the renowned firethorn trees could be found.

History
Abbaji was a planet in the Abbaji system of the Spar sector, which was part of the Zuma sector, in the remote Outer Rim of the galaxy. The famous hundred meter-tall firethorn trees only grew in a single grove of the Irugian Rain Forest on the planet. Prince Xizor, head of the Black Sun criminal organization, was given a six-hundred years-old dwarf firethorn tree as a peace offering by a business rival, a gift considered by Xizor to be one of his most prized possessions.

The planet's surface was mostly composed of rainforests while its atmosphere was breathable. Its galactic coordinates were H-16. During galactic history, the planet fell under the domain of the Galactic Republic and would eventually&mdash;several years after the Galactic Republic's fall&mdash; be within Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire's territory as of 137 ABY.

Behind the scenes
Abbaji was first mentioned in the 1996 novel Shadows of the Empire written by Steve Perry. It was then mentioned in the 1998 Star Wars Encyclopedia and soon after in the Star Wars Gamer 9 article Endor and the Moddell Sector. It has been most recently referenced in the new Star Wars Encyclopedia, published in 2008. In 2006, a new Abbaji was introduced to the Star Wars universe, with the Essential Atlas placing it and Kalee in the same system, according to Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous. However, the first planet known as Abbaji had been first mentioned in Shadows of the Empire near Endor and so due to this mistake, the latter Abbaji, the one near Kalee, was unofficially retconned as Abbaji (minor) by the writter Jason Fry.

Appearances

 * Shadows of the Empire