Peragus II

"You know the planet with the exposed core you saw flying in?"

- Atton Rand

Peragus II was a planet in the Peragus system of the Outer Rim Territories, and a major source of low-grade engine fuel. The planet was barren and devoid of life, except in the Peragus Mining Facility. First attempts at siphoning fuel off the planet, millennia before the Jedi Civil War, resulted in the near-destruction of Peragus II and in the creation of the signature hole that exposed its core. This also created the asteroid field about the planet.

Following the events of 3,951 BBY, the Peragus Mining Facility&mdash;a new station constructed in the asteroid field by a group of mercenaries and tradesmen &mdash;was destroyed due to the Sith Lord Darth Sion's pursuit of the Jedi Exile, as well as a stray blast from Sion's ship, Harbinger, which detonated the Peragus asteroid field. The destruction of the asteroid field, created as a result of the original mining attempts on the planet, resulted in further mining projects being virtually abandoned.

Description
Peragus II was a planet located in the Peragus system in the Outer Rim Territories. Except for designated stations such as the Peragus Mining Facility, located in the asteroid field around the planet, the world was devoid of life. The mining facility was inhabited by a number of miners. Both the planet and the facility were almost destroyed by attempts at siphoning fuel off the planet. A rocky world, Peragus II was devoid of any sort of tourist attractions, excluding the mining facility; however, fuel was found on the planet, something that enticed many of the miners in places such as the Peragus Mining Facility.

Peragus II was devoid of any sort of native species, and the planet was also devoid of any sort of Human settlements other than the Peragus Mining Facility. The planet was surrounded by an asteroid field, which was caused by the original explosive attempt at siphoning fuel off the planet; anyone wishing to visit places such as the Peragus Mining Facility needed the asteroid drift charts.

History
The first fuel mining colony, established on Peragus II millennia before the Jedi Civil War, proved to be short lived when an accidental blaster shot triggered an explosion of flammable substances in Peragus II's crust and mantle&mdash;so powerful that it turned a large chunk of the planet into an asteroid field. This exposed the planet's core, and the debris would become the Peragus asteroid field.

No more attempts were made to colonize the planet, and the newly-constructed Peragus Mining Facility, made by a group of mercenaries and tradesmen, instead extracted fuel from one of the asteroids, delving deeply into it. To prevent a repeat of the disaster, blasters were forbidden in the Facility; mining droids used underpowered lasers, and miners relied on safer weapons, such as sonic detonators and ion charges, for self-defense. To allow freighters to safely dock with the Facility, astrogation charts were constantly updated to reflect asteroid drifts and transmitted to navicomputers on inbound ships.

As of 3,951 BBY, Peragus was the only exporter of fuel in its sector. After the Jedi Civil War, a war during which the Jedi Knights of the galaxy were hunted, the planet Telos IV relied on this resource to keep Citadel Station in orbit. The station belonged to the Galactic Republic, the main galactic government of the time, and was the main base of operations for the Telos Restoration Project. After Telos IV was ravaged during the Jedi Civil War, an effort to restore the surface of the planet to its former beauty was undertaken. Therefore, keeping Citadel Station in orbit was considered important, with the most humanitarian elements of the Galactic Senate putting their careers at stake in the restoration project. Any interruption of the work on the Peragus Mining Facility was likely to have greater repercussions throughout the Republic. If the fuel supply was somehow compromised, Citadel Station would risk falling onto the planet's surface, dooming the restoration efforts. As several other planets were relying on the successful outcome of the restoration of Telos IV to see if the same techniques could be applied to their own worlds, the success of the Citadel Station was of paramount importance to the Republic.

Skirmish at Peragus II
"I am your rescuer, as you are mine."

- Kreia to the Jedi Exile inside the Peragus Mining Facility

In 3,951 BBY, the Republic Hammerhead-class cruiser Harbinger was transporting the Jedi Exile to Telos IV when it picked up a distress call from the Ebon Hawk. Diverting to investigate, the crew found that the light freighter had been attacked. After taking the Ebon Hawk on board, the Sith&mdash;who had been hiding aboard the light freighter&mdash;assaulted the Harbinger. The Jedi Exile was put onboard the Ebon Hawk by Kreia, a Sith Lord posing as a Jedi, after she was incapacitated by a HK-50 Jedi Hunter droid who was attempting to collect the bounty placed on any remaining Jedi in the galaxy. Badly damaged by the Sith attack during its escape from the battle, the Ebon Hawk eventually reached the Peragus system. Kreia and the Jedi Exile, along with the droid, T3-M4, were taken aboard the station. Both Humans were unconscious. T3-M4 was deactivated by the same HK-50 Jedi Hunter droid who had incapacitated the Exile on the Harbinger, after the latter had stowed away onboard the Ebon Hawk. The HK-50 was discovered by the mining facility's crew; after introducing himself as the Exile's protocol droid, the droid was assigned appropriate responsibilities on the station.



The assassin droid told the administrator that the Exile was a Jedi. The administrator tried to have the Exile picked up by the Republic to stop miners, such as Coorta, from demanding that the Exile be taken to Nar Shaddaa, where they could collect the bounty that crime lord G0-T0 had placed on Jedi. To ensure he could collect the bounty for himself, HK-50 started sabotaging the facility by triggering explosions and causing accidents, as well as reprogramming mining droids to attack the miners. With the malfunctions not corrected, HK-50 triggered a lockdown to seal off the hangar and to stop Coorta and his allies fleeing the facility with the Exile.

Upon awakening, the Exile pieced together what had happened from the holorecords of the miners. When the Sith arrived aboard the Harbinger, the Exile and Kreia, with the help of a Human criminal called Atton Rand, destroyed HK-50. Making for the Ebon Hawk&mdash;which had been readied by the droid&mdash;they crossed the docking bridge of the Harbinger and were chased by Sith assassins. To allow the others to escape, Kreia dueled the Sith Lord Darth Sion, who had arrived in an attempt to capture the Exile. When the Ebon Hawk, with all members aboard, fled the facility, the Harbinger pursued. Eventually, a shot from one of the ships caused the asteroid field to explode, destroying the Peragus asteroid field and the entire facility.

Aftermath


The Exile was repeatedly blamed for the destruction of the planet, first by Lieutenant Dol Grenn of Telos and later by Jedi Master Atris. However, when the Telosian government completed its inspection of what was left of the Peragus Facility, logs recovered from the wreckage indicated that the miners perished as a result of sabotage, which began while the Exile and her companions were either incapacitated or incarcerated.

To save Citadel Station and the Telosian Restoration Project, the Exile, on behalf of Grenn and the Telosian Council, persuaded Vogga the Hutt to start providing Telos with fuel from Sleheyron. This was something the crime lord G0-T0 strongly opposed, believing that deals with the Hutts would bankrupt the Republic, but in the end it proved to be the only way to secure the successful completion of the project and the future of Telos.

Locations
There were few tourist attractions on the surface of Peragus II. One of two points of interest on the planet was the Peragus Mining Facility, designed to ship low grade fuel throughout the galaxy. In addition, this Mining Facility was the sole supplier of shipping-grade engine fuel to the Kwymar Sector. The Facility was installed in the Peragus asteroid field, as the second attempt to siphon Peragian fuel, after the disastrous first attempt. The Mining Facility was surrounded by these asteroids, meaning the asteroid drift charts were required to safely dock at the Facility.

A second point of interest was the Peragus asteroid field, a fuel-rich asteroid field created after the first attempts at creating a Mining Facility on the planet. Uninhabitable, the asteroids were situated around the Mining Facility, the drift charts being used to allow anyone wishing to dock at the Facility the ability to do so without having their ship damaged or destroyed by the asteroids. When the Peragus asteroid field was destroyed after the Jedi Exile fled the Facility, this meant that a number of areas, such as the area being restored by the Telosian Restoration Project, lost a large source of fuel.

The Mining Facility contained a hangar, medical bay, and holding cells, amongst other areas used for siphoning the fuel that the Facility had been designed to siphon. The Facility meant that Peragus II was an important planet to the Telosian Restoration Project especially, and the Galactic Republic. The Mining Facility's head was the Administration Officer, the last Administrator being killed by the toxic fumes in the dormitory after HK-50 initiated the emergency lockdown. The asteroid field, however, contained little other than rocks.

Inhabitants
Devoid of a native species, the only inhabitants of the planet Peragus II resided in the residential Peragus Mining Facility, and the inhabitants consisted of multiple species. The residents were mostly Humans such as the administration, maintenance, medical, dock, and security officers, although there were some other species residing in the Facility, such as Sullustans. The inhabitants of the Mining Facility, with the exception of the Jedi Exile, Atton Rand, and Kreia, were all killed after HK-50 triggered the emergency lockdown or by the rampant mining droids.

Behind the scenes
Peragus II first appeared in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, published by LucasArts and released on December 6th 2004. Peragus II, and the Peragus Mining Facility, was featured in the first non-training level of the game. Although the player had the ability to explore the Mining Facility, the planet was unable to be explored further by the player. The planet also made an appearance in the Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide.

In Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, the player has the ability to change the plot in relation to Peragus II. The character has the option to have the Ebon Hawk fire upon the asteroids themselves, when chased by Darth Sion. Choosing this action destroys the asteroids and planet by the player's hand, rather than allowing the Harbinger to destroy it.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords