Myrkr/Legends

Myrkr was a largely forested world, located fairly close to the galaxy's major population centers. It was the Neti homeworld, although the Neti established a colony on Ryyk some time prior to 4,000 BBY, apparently abandoning Myrkr.

Myrkr was settled by humans circa 300 BBY. During the Clone Wars, many pirates, criminals and bounty hunters hid on Myrkr because the ysalamiri were avoided by the Jedi and it was a perfect place for a base of operations. Despite its relatively central location, Myrkr was generally ignored by galactic society during the time of the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire.

Myrkr was home to the ysalamiri, creatures which created bubbles which pushed back the Force. This ability evolved to protect them from pack animals called vornskrs, the only known animals to hunt exclusively by sensing the Force.

In 9 ABY, Myrkr was located between Imperial and New Republic territory. During that time, Talon Karrde's organization had a base on Myrkr. In the early phases of Grand Admiral Thrawn's campaign, Imperial forces moved on the world in order to secure supplies of ysalamiri.

The Yuuzhan Vong conquered the planet and used the native vornskrs to create the voxyn, which were cloned in the worldship Baanu Rass in the Myrkr system. A Jedi team infiltrated this worldship to kill the voxyn queen. During this mission, Anakin Solo was killed. After the mission, Baanu Rass was destroyed, and the Domain Lah worldship went into orbit over Myrkr.

Behind the scenes

 * On numerous occasions, the New Jedi Order series of books misspelled Myrkr as "Myrkyr."


 * It is possible that Myrkr comes from the Old Norse word "myrkr" which means "dark."

Appearances

 * Ghost
 * Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
 * Moment of Doubt
 * Heir to the Empire
 * Dark Force Rising
 * Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial
 * Edge of Victory I: Conquest
 * Mission to Myrkr
 * Star by Star
 * Dark Journey
 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Dark Nest I: The Joiner King