Osarian-Rhommamool conflict

The Osarian-Rhommamool conflict was a prolonged series of tensions between the double planets of Osarian and Rhommamool. The roots of the conflict lay in the fact that Osarian was a wealthy and luxurious world, while Rhommamool was dry and barely habitable. Over the years, the Osarians populated with Rhommamool with convicted criminals used as de facto slave labor for the worlds mines, with the profits largely going to support the lifestyle of those on Osarian. Although the worlds shared a single government, it was based on Osarian and dominated by Osarians.

The situation largely stayed under control due to the fact that neither planet had extensive space forces. However, every twenty years their orbits would bring the worlds within a million kilometers of each other, close enough for each planet's ground-based nuclear missiles to hit each other if launched. At those times of closest contact, the conflict would falre up. Until the close encounter of 25 ABY, the worlds managed to hold off attacking one another.

In the time leading up to 25 ABY, a firebrand by the name of Nom Anor had risen to prominence on Rhommamool, combining their hatred of the Osarians with a broader appeal against technology, the New Republic, and the Jedi Knights. He formed an independent senate and a group of religious fanatics, the Red Knights of Life, to push his agenda.

Anor's call for action against Osarian led the New Republic to dispatch a Mon Calamari Star Defender, the Mediator, to keep the peace, while Jedi Knight Wurth Skidder arrived to take vigilante action against whichever side showed agression. The Osarian leader, Shunta Osarian Dhargg, hired Captain Grappa and his Osarian First-Force to help defend the world.

Despite an arrival of Leia Organa Solo to negotiate, the situation was impossible to resolve due to the fact that Anor fully intended to use it to cause as much destrucion and chaos as possible. Following her departure, whipping his followers into a holy rage, Anor initated a nuclear strike against the Osarian capital, Osa-Prime, beginning a full-scale war between the planets. Using a nuclear-armed shuttle to both fake his death and cripple the Mediator, Anor left Rhommamool behind as the nuclear volley continued.