Skull Queen's fortress

"A toast ... To the courageous Jedi who recovered the Lost Stars of Nallastia, and who has proposed that they be returned to their hiding place. He is not only an adventurer, but a preservationist as well. Three cheers! ... Indeed, let no one deny that Obi-Wan Kenobi is the champion of ancient prophecy!" "You give me too much credit. It's not as if I found the power gems on my own." "Ah, and he is modest too ... In every way, he will make a perfect husband for the Skull Queen!""

- The Skull Queen, Quenelle, simultaneously toasts and proposes marriage to Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi

The jungle-moon Nallastia was home to the fortress of its Skull Queen, Quenelle. The Skull Queen welcomed several Jedi to her fortress during their mission to Fondor in 23 BBY.

The Skull Queen's fortress was a massive ten-story compound carved from the black volcanic rock of Mount Octan.

During a standard Nallastian night, the phenomena known as planet light (reflected light from the planet Fondor, as it reflected its system's sun, rising over the jungle) bathed the satellite-mountain and the staggered rows of fortress battlements and ancient megaliths in a blueish glow.

Three massive megaliths, each of which were eight meters tall, stood in triangular formation in the midst of a field guarded by 50 Nallastian warriors clad in reptilian skins and animal-bone armor, bearing primitive energy-projectile launchers (although a few held contemporary blaster weapons): the plot of land between the stones was littered with bones, both human and alien. The stone triangulation—called the Trinity Stones—was the basis for the energy-field (a lunar gravity vortex) that served as the inescapable deathbed for offenders of Nallastian law: they had to wait but 90 standard minutes to be crushed by the stones, which were magnetically drawn to one another. Once the megaliths met, they repelled back to their original positions.

It was on a high platform extending out toward the Trinity Stones from the fortress that Quenelle's daughter, Princess Calvaria, condemned the parents of Klay Firewell for trespassing with, what she mistakenly believed to be, an untoward (poaching) interest in Nallastia's sacred wildlife. Calvaria's quick and immature misjudgment was condemned by her mother, who thereafter worked with the Jedi to locate the Lost Stars of Nallastia, their only hope for breaking the Trinity Stones' inexorable and deadly union. Deactivation of the force field could only happen, it was written, if the three ancient power gems were placed atop the Trinity Stones. Their auras were able to not only disrupt magnetic defense shields but also shatter force fields.

It was within the Skull Queen's fortress dining room that both Quenelle and Calvaria declared their intentions to marry Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Adventures 2: The Cavern of Screaming Skulls
 * Star Wars Adventures 3: The Hostage Princess