Sump/Legends

Sump was the humid, impoverished homeworld of the Nuknog, located in a seldom visited part of the Outer Rim Territories.

Around 1,000 BBY the native Nuknog were persuaded by a mining consortium to sell their homeworld in exchange for employment, free food and housing. The Nuknog spent the next several centuries in a state of indentured servitude, slaving in the substandard mines and factories, working on substandard equipment in unsafe conditions.

Sump became more polluted and dilapidated as the centuries passed. Mining towns sprung up, then fell rapidly into decay and filth. Dust and contaminants filled the air. All over the planet, forests died and left behind toxic swamps, incapable of supporting any but the most mutated and aggressive life-forms.

These aggressive lifeforms furthered the problem when they separated into two separate gangs, the Oero’s and the Trug-og’s. These two gangs reached a boiling point around 53 BBY when the Oero’s captured several Trug-og’s mines leading to a vicious war. The war was pretty low-key but as it progressed, it grew in both size and strength. Recruits from neighbors systems and planets came in to support the gang which had mines that were valuable to those species. Soon, the war was so large that the Jedi Council had to send in two Jedi to resolve this seemingly unending conflict.

Tylus D’Hert – legendary for his fall to the dark side later in life – was sent with his master, Giuseppe Malenchini to Sump to resolve this conflict. Upon arriving, the two Jedi were received by the leaders of the Oero’s gang. This was unintentional, as the Jedi had originally intended to land in neutral territory for a completely unbiased setting to negotiate peace. One of the Oero’s leaders was another Jedi by the name of Antonius Famm, a native of Sump and a friend of Tylus D’hert. Giuseppe questioned the young Jedi’s presence, for the padawan was supposed to be with his master on Kashyyyk to track down the presence of a possible Sith Lord.

Famm denied answering Giuseppe question and outsmarted his questioner by secretively ordering a full out attack on Trug-ogs. D’hert and Giuseppe immediately sensed the attack and ran to the front lines in order to negotiate a peaceful ending to the conflict. Famm took the opportunity to put his final step into action. He walked behind the Oero’s and slowly began to pick them off one by one while a companion of his who was sided with the Trug-ogs took out the Trug-ogs one by one. D’hert realized Famm’s actions right as each gang had been destroyed entirely. Before the duo could capture Famm though, Famm had already started to run.

As the two Jedi were about to catch up to Famm, he jumped suddenly and landed atop an abandoned building torn apart by battle. As Master Giuseppe and Padawan Tylus jumped up in pursuit, they saw Famm sliding into the cockpit of his starship – the Selppin – and starting up the engines. Giuseppe knew that there wasn’t much time left, so he threw his lightsaber towards the spacecraft as it began to levitate off the roof. The lightsaber cut the main power source apart, sending the Selppin crashing back down. Tylus rushed up and cuffed Famm behind his back, preparing him for transport back to the Jedi Temple. After revealing to the warring gangs that the rogue Jedi had been the only reason for conflict, the two gangs put down their arms and learned to work together to rebuild their war-torn planet of Sump. The two Jedi along with the captive Famm returned to the Jedi Temple in their freighter.

Eventually, the Jedi and Galactic Senate dissolved the mining consortium, but the damage to Sump was irreparable. The landscape was blotted with abandoned factories, empty mines, filthy urban sprawl, and waste dumps.

Few Nuknog had the means to leave their homeworld, but those who did jumped at the chance, sometimes selling themselves into slavery just to afford passage on a passing freighter. Bacon.