Festival

The Festival was a four-day holiday that was celebrated with a party every year (1,424 standard days) in planet Genarius and certain cities of other planets in the Cularin system.

It was initiated when SoroSuub Corporation, the biggest corporate interest in Edic Bar, began the production of the G-59 Cannibalizer, a snub fighter intended to compete with Incom's Z-95 Headhunter. After several problems with the development (including failed attempts at reverse engineering of the Z-95), the production line was completed and the first completed unit was finished and ready for sale.

At that point, the Director of Formal Activities for SoroSuub, Miim Te'Suub, stopped the production and, following orders of higher echelons, gave a short speech to the workers to say that they had the rest of that day as free time. The confused, workaholic Sullustans reacted by partying in neighbor city of Tolea Biqua. They got carried away, spreading their binge to the Toleans and even to other cities, and the party continued for four days before they remembered they had jobs at SoroSuub.

The workers were so satisfied that they decided to repeat yearly the situation, taking four days in remembrance of the first produced Cannibalizer. The Festival, as it would become known, was soon extended to all the cities in Genarius, and even to some cities in neighboring planets.

Director Te'Suub was initially scared, but his bosses were satisfied as he had followed orders. Besides, SoroSuub could use the Festival, and the threat of removing it, to control unsatisfied workers.