Haruun Kal/Legends

"Haruun Kal, though, we're a whole different place, y'know? It's like the laws of physics are different. Not opposite, not up is down or black is white. Nothing that simple. Just different. So when you come here, you expect things to work a certain way. But they don't. Because things are different here. You understand?"

- Nick Rostu

Haruun Kal (Above the Clouds in Basic, also known as Haruun Kul or Al'Har I) was the homeworld of the famed Jedi Master Mace Windu. Its capital was Pelek Baw. It was on the Gevarno Loop.

Overview
The only inhabited world in the Al'Har system, Haruun Kal appeared to be an oceanic world from space. However, this "ocean" was in fact a sea of toxic gases brought to the surface by volcanic activity, and broken by mountains and plateaus. Only the landmasses that reached into the atmosphere could support life, and thus it was high in these mountains and plateaus where native life evolved.

Native Humans of the world, known as Korunnai (Uplanders) were all Force-sensitive. There were many theories explaining this remarkable phenomenon. The most popular, held by the Jedi Council, explained that during the Great Sith War a starship transporting Jedi Knights crashed on the planet, and that the marooned survivors were the ancestors of the Korunnai.

The planet had a rotation rate of 25.5 standard hours, and a year length of 383 local days. Its diameter was 10,120 kilometers, and had .98 standard gravity.

History
The planet was first colonized by sapients 17,522 BBY. It was goverened by the Representative Council.

During the reign of the Republic, war between the native Koruun tribes and immigrants, whom the natives named Balawai, meaning "Downfolk", divided the population of Haruun Kal. These Summertime Wars lasted from 51 BBY until 22 BBY. Mace Windu brought an end to this war when he returned to his homeworld during the Clone Wars, in which the Korunnai were allied with the Republic and the Balawai with the Separatists. However, in the process of bringing an end to both the long local conflict and breaking the Separatist hold on the planet, he watched his former Padawan, Depa Billaba, who had been on the planet supposedly leading missions for the Republic, fall to the dark side.

Fauna
The fauna on Haruun Kal included akk dogs, fever wasps (cause of Wasp Fever), and grassers.

Appearances

 * Children of the Force
 * Star Wars Republic: Emissaries to Malastare
 * Shatterpoint
 * Equipment
 * Omega Squad: Targets
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novelization