Mkbuto Islands

Mkbuto Islands, also known as Mkbuto Seatree Preserve, Mkubto region and Mkubto island chain, is an area of the planet Dac. It is currently an ecosystem including needlefish and tumblebaskers amid a seatree fronds.

Strangely for a region in Dac, the native Mon Calamari have never wanted to build there any floating city. In fact, many Dac inhabitants consider that it is a sacred grounds. Mon Calamaris believe that their spacies came of age on this chain, and that most of the island sank beneath the waves many centuries ago due to a seaquake. It is unclear why the other intelligent species of Dac, the Quarren, consider Mkbuto a sacred place. It is also unclear what is the exact effect of this status: It seems to forbid any city to be built there, but probably individual homes do not fall under this same rule of thumb.

As Mkbuto could provide important clues about Dac prehistory, it has been analysed from some years by archaeologists, looking for artifacts or even building foundations.

At one particular moment, archaeologists discovered a planetary repulsor chamber like those on Corellia, beneath the sand of one Mkbuto Island (the greatest island). This discovery, which would later reveal to be a poor fake, began attracting the attention of the media, including Kaminoan reporter Haum Do. It was soon obvious that a security increase was needed, and a Colonel Guarran was chosen to protect the excavation site. It is believed that Mon Calamari bounty hunter Bringe was an assassin looking for Guarran.

Admiral Ackbar researched the tectonic plate activity on Mkbuto from a floating habitat some time after the First Battle of Dac. Later, Ackbar used this place as his home while writing his memoirs.

Appearancess

 * Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds