Jelucan

"People of Jelucan, today represents both an ending and a beginning. On this day ends your isolation from the greater galaxy. Instead, Jelucan begins a new and glorious future by assuming its rightful place within the Empire!"

- Grand Moff Tarkin

Jelucan was a planet in the Outer Rim Territories. It was the homeworld of Thane Kyrell and Ciena Ree, two star-crossed lovers who fought on opposite sides of the Galactic Civil War.

Description
Jelucan was a cold and rocky mountainous planet in the Outer Rim Territories. It was inhabited by humans and the non-sentient muunyak species, which were commonly used to carry supplies across the rugged terrain.

History
Jelucan was settled relatively late in galactic history, approximately 500 standard years before the arrival of the Galactic Empire on the planet. The initial settlers were exiles from another world who refused to break allegiance to their king and arrived in near total poverty, but managed to survive. About 350 years later, a second-wave of settlers arrived, who established mining operations on the planet and considered the ways of the initial settlers to be backward. The second-wave of settlers used the profits from their mining operations to become wealthy aristocrats, while the first wave settlers remained largely destitute.

During the Clone Wars, Jelucan was part of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Eight years after the end of the Clone Wars, the Galactic Empire arrived on the planet, holding a giant ceremony on the desolate world which was attended by Grand Moff Tarkin himself. After the ceremony, multiple Imperial ships returned to their Star Destroyers in orbit, however a few headed to newly built Imperial facilities on the southern plateaus.

Five years later, Imperial-introduced ridgecrawlers began to replace the native muunyak species as the common mode of transport. The planet had also became heavily polluted due to the excessive mining by the Empire. The people of Jelucan also began wearing the same attire, making it nearly impossible to tell the difference between first and second wavers.

Appearances

 * Lost Stars
 * Bloodline