Dxun

"The only advice I'll give you when you're in the jungle, shoot anything that moves. Then shoot the things that don't move, just to be sure."

- Kex

Dxun was the largest moon of the planet Onderon.

Description
"Blasted jungle's taking over everything!"

- Zuka

Despite being temperate and habitable, the jungles of Dxun posed major challenges for everyone struggling to survive there. Due to its constant rains and wet climate, mechanical devices did not last long and required continuous maintenance. Moreover, the jungles were inhabited by many dangerous predators, such as cannoks, bomas, maalraas, and zakkegs, forcing the moon's inhabitants to be armed at all times.



Though considered a moon of Onderon, Dxun and Onderon were almost sister planets. They were so close to one another that it was only a short shuttle ride between them, and they even shared a bit of the same atmosphere. Every year, during Dxun's summer season, the atmospheres of Onderon and Dxun would connect, allowing the vicious Dxun beasts to set foot on Onderon and settle there, thus laying the foundations for the Beast Wars.

Early history
Dxun may have been a world of the Infinite Empire, as banners bearing the insignia of the empire could be observed on the moon's surface, including at the Mandalorian headquarters during the time of Mandalore Ordo. At the end of the Beast Wars, Jedi Master Arca Jeth decided to relocate the sarcophagus of Freedon Nadd, the former Dark Lord of the Sith and king of Onderon, from Onderon to Dxun, in an attempt to prevent future Sith from drawing on its power. The plan worked for the most part, though two of history's most pivotal Sith Lords, Exar Kun and Darth Bane, would later manage to enter the tomb of Freedon Nadd on Dxun.

At the end of the Great Sith War in 3,996 BBY, Mandalore the Indomitable, leader of the Mandalorians, was eaten alive by the vicious beasts of Dxun.

Mandalorian Wars
"We claimed this moon decades ago when we reforged ourselves after Exar Kun's defeat. Some of us call it home."

- A Mandalorian Neo-Crusader, circa 3,951 BBY

After assuming the leadership of the Mandalorians, Mandalore the Ultimate made Dxun his stronghold, from which he planned his attack on the Galactic Republic.

In 3,963 BBY, the Mandalorian Wars expanded into a galaxy-wide conflict when the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders began their invasion of the Republic. From their headquarters on Dxun, Mandalore's forces attacked and took nearby Onderon in mere hours. A battle with the Republic forces took place on the moon, but it was little more that a rear-guard holding action by the Republic.

Years later, after the Jedi Revan and Malak had entered the war and pushed the Mandalorian forces back to their original Dxun staging-grounds, a far more bloody battle was fought. The Republic attempted to capture the Mandalorian headquarters on Dxun. Republic forces managed to defeat the Mandalorians, but the victory came at a heavy cost. The Mandalorian outposts were entrenched and well defended by hidden mines, traps, anti-air turrets, and the ferocious inhabitants of the jungle itself. During the bloody battle, the Republic lost ten soldiers for every Mandalorian killed. The Jedi Exile who was in command of the battle, was forced to sacrifice dozens of her soldiers, sending them on a suicidal charge to disable the minefield that was the last obstacle keeping them away from the Mandalorian fortress.

After the battle, the Republic military did not bother to demolish many structures that the Mandalorians had built, neither did they uncover the many, hidden weapons caches providently left in case the Mandalorians were someday to return.

Onderon Civil War


In 3,956 BBY, Canderous Ordo took the title of Mandalore and gathered a handful of Mandalorians, most of whom were mercenaries at the time, on the Dxun moon, in the rebuilt headquarters of the old Mandalore. There they regrouped, concealing their presence from both the Republic and the native Onderonians, silencing all scouts who came anywhere near their encampment. Canderous hoped that, one day, the Mandalorians of Dxun would regain their former glory.

During the Onderon Civil War, the Mandalorians fought with the Jedi Exile, despite—or perhaps because of—the fact that the General had been in no small part responsible for their prior defeat in the Battle of Malachor V. Canderous provided the Exile with a shuttle to make trips to the city of Iziz on Onderon and, during the Second Battle of Onderon, helped the Exile's companions reach the Tomb of Freedon Nadd and eliminate General Vaklu's Sith allies, who, inside the tomb, were conducting a ritual to keep Onderon beasts storming the royal palace in control of their Sith beastmasters.

New Sith Wars


Millennia later, in 1,000 BBY, the Sith Lord Darth Bane, fleeing the Seventh Battle of Ruusan, crash-landed on Dxun. It was here, in Freedon Nadd's tomb, that Bane acquired orbalisk armor and formally decided to begin building a new Sith Order.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Freedon Nadd Uprising
 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Flashpoint
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 9: Flashpoint Interlude: Homecoming
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Bane of the Sith
 * Empire's End