Nal Hutta/Legends

"What a vile world this is." "The Hutts know it as 'Glorious Jewel'."

- Malik Carr and Nom Anor

Nal Hutta (translating as Glorious Jewel in Huttese) was the capital of Hutt Space and was located in the Y'Toub system. It was formerly a Galactic Republic world known as Evocar and was the original home world of the Evocii, whom were ousted by the Hutts in 25,000 BBY, who migrated to the Y'Toub system from their original home world of Varl, along with their servants the t'landa Til. The planet was controlled by the ancient ruling Hutt families, who also ruled its moon Nar Shaddaa from Nal Hutta.

Geography
Nal Hutta was a very large planet, though it had no natural heavy metals, and this caused its density to be less than on most worlds. The planet's oceans were inhabited by the Vippits. A day on Nal Hutta lasted 87 standard hours, and a year lasted 413 local days. There was also a massive, radioactive gas cloud, containing the planet Ganath, near Nal Hutta.

Nal Hutta had once been a jungle world though the Hutts transformed it into a polluted and burdened world. Much of the surface was covered by flat, marshy bogs, stagnant, muddy puddles and patches of sickly marsh grass inhabited by insects and spiders. The atmosphere was also polluted by strip-mining operations in the Nal Hutta's industrial centers, and a greasy rain drizzled down on the surface. Raw materials were constantly strip-mined from the planet's surface and shipped to the Nar Shaddaa for processing and export.

Hutt Empire
The Hutts had owned a small province on Evocar two centries before they ousted the Evocii in 25,200 BBY. In 25,100 BBY, the defeated Xim the Despot died in the dungeons of Kossak the Hutt's palace on Evocar (Tionese historians claimed that Xim was treacherously killed at the Third Battle of Vontor).

Old Republic
After the Hutts had escaped the destruction of their home world Varl in 25,000 BBY, they migrated across space and came to Evocar. Having decided that Evocar was a suitable home, they traded their technology with the Evocii in exchange for pieces of land on Evocar. The Hutts continued doing this until the Evocii realized that their home world had almost been bought out from under them. Hutt palaces, amusement parks and other constructions were built all over Evocar, and the Evocii could do nothing about it. The Hutts destroyed the planet's lush mountainous rainforests, terraforming the planet into what they considered paradise: stinking (to Humans) bogs, scum-covered puddles, and patches of sickly marsh grass full of insects and spiders.



They appealed to the Galactic Republic, though the Republic sadly ruled in favor of the Hutts in 25,000 BBY. The Evocii were eventually evicted from Evocar by the Hutts, and relocated to the planet's fith moon, which would later be known as Nar Shaddaa, The Smuggler's Moon. On Nar Shaddaa, the Evocii began mutating due to the various technologies practiced on the moon. The Evocii were believed, incorrectly, to have died off from prolonged exposure to Nar Shaddaa's polluted atmosphere. Their descendants remained hidden in the lower levels of the Smuggler's Moon. Meanwhile, Evocar was renamed Nal Hutta by the Hutts.

Nal Hutta became the capital of Hutt Space and was controlled by the ancient ruling Hutt families, who also ruled its moon Nar Shaddaa. In 25,000 BBY, Nal Hutta and Nar Shaddaa began to prosper since they were located on popular trade routes. However,in 24,000 BBY when the trade routes shifted, Nal Hutta and its moon became havens for smugglers, pirates, and other criminals.

Galactic Empire
During the Galactic Civil War, the Galactic Empire established nominal control over Nal Hutta, but for the most part the Hutt ruling families were left to control day to day affairs, with the Empire stepping in only when searching for Rebel sympathizers or other criminals.

Yuuzhan Vong Empire
During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Nal Hutta was conquered in an Orbital bombardment by the extragalactic aliens in retaliation for the Hutt's treachery in 26 ABY. The Y'Toub system was surrounded by several of the Yuuzhan Vong's most deadly warships. Several organic creations were sent to Nal Hutta and its moon Nar Shaddaa for multiple purposes. Different types of bacteria killed most of the inhabitants, before processing their remains into the soil of Nal Hutta. Then all the technology on the planet was broken down and also absorbed into the soil. Thus turning Nal Hutta into a lifeless barren plane world but the Hutt's still remained fore two years during the Yuuzhan Vong's rule. Then the Yuuzhan Vong Vongformed the lifeless barren surface of Nal Hutta (into an unknown result) to suit themselves, resulting in the second complete change of the planet's terrain. This process was ongoing, and the Yuuzhan Vong reached out from the Y'Toub system, swallowing all of Hutt Space.

As a result, a Hutt resistance movement was formed, and the New Republic raided the world in 28 ABY. The Hutts abandoned the desecrated Nal Hutta as their base of operations at the close of the Vong war in 28 ABY, moving instead to the desert planet of Tatooine, a world on which the Hutts had historically had a heavy presence.

Legacy
In 30 ABY the Yuuzhan Vong abandoned the vongformed planet and moon leaving the Hutts to abandon Tatooine and reclaim Nal Hutta. In 39 ABY it would not openly ally itself with the Corellian Alliance and remained independent. However, Nal Hutta did join the Confederation during the Confederation-Galactic Alliance War, although the Hutts themselves were relatively neutral.

Behind the scenes

 * The PC game Star Wars: Rebellion mistakenly places Nal Hutta in the Kanchen Sector, which is actually located in the Expansion Region.

Appearances



 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
 * Star Wars Republic: Outlander
 * Star Wars Republic: Emissaries to Malastare
 * The Cestus Deception
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Star Wars: Empire at War
 * Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
 * The Paradise Snare
 * The Hutt Gambit
 * Routine
 * Out of the Cradle
 * A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale webstrip
 * Rebel Dawn
 * Star Wars: Rebellion
 * Star Wars Galaxies
 * When the Domino Falls
 * Hutt and Seek
 * Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction
 * Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction




 * Dark Empire
 * Darksaber
 * Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse
 * Balance Point
 * Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
 * Star by Star
 * Dark Journey
 * Destiny's Way
 * Force Heretic III: Reunion
 * Tempest