Plett's Well

Plett's Well
Another name for the Plawal rift valley on Belsavis. The Mluki called the rift valleys "wells," and so the one that the Jedi Master Plett lived in became known as Plett's Well. (COJ)

Plett- a Ho'Din Jedi Master from the planet Moltok, he was also a scientist and a botanist. He took up residence on Belsavis about 70 years before Han Solo and Princess went to Belsavis to search for Plett's Well. The Mluki natives said that his ruins indicate that he had been there at least 30 years before that. Plett was rumored to be able to communicate with the animals, and legends say he controlled the weather on Belsavis. His mission to Belsavis had been an important one, to hide a group of Jedi children in the Plawal rift valley to save them from the Jedi purge. (COJ, NEGC)

The Horrors of Plett's Well
Eight years after the battle of Endor, a vacation-ambassadorial trip to Ithor led Han, Leia, Chewbacca, Luke and two of Luke's new Jedi students to the Outer Rim to investigate a gear in Palpatine's Jedi-extermination plan that went haywire.

The Eye of Palpatine was designed in complete secrecy to follow its artificial intelligence's timetable and collect stormtroopers from many different systems, and then transport them to the world of Belsavis to wipe out a Jedi stronghold there. The ship was a hive of weapons encased in a large asteroid. However, fifteen years ago, during Palpatine's rampant bid for power, two Jedi discovered the ship and decided they must stop it while they could. The ship was left floating inactive in an asteroid field for thirty long years.

The Time of Meeting on the planet Ithor was, and is today, the most fantastic homecoming in the universe. The nomadic herd ships of the Ithorians would return home to their peacefully untouched jungle home and link in orbit to create a grand spectacle. At the center of it was Han, Leia, Luke, and his students. As usual they were accompanied by Chewbacca, and the two familiar droids. After a frightening and unusual disturbance of a drugged, insane, unkempt man rushing towards Han mumbling threats. They set off in search of knowledge of a place known as Plett's Well, or pletwell, to find the mumbling man's (Solo's ex-smuggling buddy Drub McKumb) object of delusion. They investigated Belsavis while Luke and his students decided on searching Pzob, a rugged planet inhabited by warring Gammorrean tribes, the Klaggs and Gakfedds.

En route to Pzob, Luke's ship passed through an asteroid field, and unexpectedly woke an unseen enemy in the field. Something blasted at his ship and nearly killed the entire group, when they landed on Pzob. They became stuck in the middle of tribal wars when all the life forms in the area were abducted by an awoken ship. Something had disturbed the Eye of Palpatine, and it's intelligence, known as the Will, sent it to pick up troopers at the first stop, Pzob. It abducted Luke and students Cray Mingla, the latter being a brilliant AI engineer, and Nichos, her fiancee. The ship continued to pick up other species from many different planets, including races of jawas, sandpeople, Kitonaks, Affytechans, Talz, and other unknown creatures.

Meanwhile, Han and Leia had their hands full deciphering lore of Plett's well on Belsavis. Their adventures led them trough crypts filled with crazed trapped smugglers and to a new threat, Irek Ismaren, a young egotistical Jedi definitely tinkering with the Dark Side, and son to one of the Emperor's concubines. Leia later discovered Irek stretched out with his mind to summon the Eye of Palpatine to Belsavis, thinking it was a ship able to be programmed instead of one with a set agenda. Captured by the young Dark Jedi and his Imperial family and friends to be held hostage Organa had little hope.

Luke, onboard Eye of Palpatine had set his plans into motion to find where the opposing faction of Gamorreans were holding his student Cray. She was to be executed, but was saved by Luke with the help of Callista, the spirit of the Jedi woman who died to stop the Eye of Palpatine 30 years ago. Luke and Callista began to communicate through computer terminals and quickly became friends and later became more. Luke knew the ship must be destroyed, but wrestled with his love for Callista, offering her a droid made with her memories. She refused his offer, knowing she could not regain the life she once had through mechanical eyes.

Eventually, all the creatures onboard were rounded up safely, stacked aboard transport craft and left, with Luke among them. Cray and Nichos stunned Luke and placed him aboard the transports in order to prevent him from killing himself while they attempted to destroy Eye of Palpatine. The Eye of Palpatine dissipated in a blaze of glory with Luke screaming for his lost students and lost love.

Han rescued Leia from the Jedi adolescent, Irek, and met Luke in Belsavis' medical center. A lifepod ejected from Eye of Palpatine was rescued and opened to reveal a very different looking Cray. In fact, it was not Cray at all, but Callista. She explained how Cray willed her body to Callista so she could be with Nichos in the afterlife. She lost her ability to touch the Force, but she still had Luke, and they left for Yavin IV together.