Muun/Legends

"I've always hated your kind."

- Reija Momen to Pors Tonith

Muuns were a thin, tall humanoid species from the mineral-rich planet of Muunilinst, which was also the headquarters of the InterGalactic Banking Clan.

Physiology and culture
Muuns were tall and gaunt with elongated and thin bodies and heads. They also had hairless pasty-white/pale pink skin, though this may be because the vast majority of the species did not like traveling and usually stayed indoors. Members of the species also had three hearts.

The species were famous across the Galaxy for their financial acumen, mathematical genius, and greed. Muun children could calculate complex formulas as quickly as most adults of other species. Muuns typically looked at other species as hot-tempered and immature and felt little guilt in exploiting them. They possessed a drive to compete with other races and even among themselves.

They also had a fundamental respect for fairness, however, and regarded a contract as almost a sacred trust; they were known to always follow the letter of the law, though often not the spirit.

Their society followed a strict caste hierarchy. Higher castes were financiers, lawyers, engineers, and diplomats. Common Muuns rarely left the surface. Upward mobility was limited to the most gifted of common children: they were tested rigorously, and if found worthy, were allowed to enter the higher castes.

History


The Muuns, all throughout the Galactic Republic era, had a knack for funding potentially profitable enterprises throughout its sector, regardless of ethics or loyalty. Muunilinst provided much of the funding for the nearby Human colony world of Sartinaynian, which, ironically, broke away from the Republic because of anti-alien sentiments. The banking clans of Muunilinst were uninterested in these prejudices. They funded colonies, trade guilds, and corporations all along the Braxant Run.

Eventually, both Muunilinst and Sartinaynian came to be member worlds in the Republic, and Muunilinst became one of the greatest financial powers in the Galaxy. When the Republic established the Galactic Credit Standard, the Muun-dominated InterGalactic Banking Clan was its guarantor and distributor. The corruption of the Banking Clan was largely unchecked as the Republic fell into decline, and with the looming threat of the breakdown of law and order, they invested in thousands of Hailfire droids to discourage customers from defaulting on their loans.



Consistent with its reputation for playing both sides, Muunilinst simultaneously backed the currency of the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars. Alliances with the Confederacy, however, led to Separatist forces building droid factories and munitions depots on Muunilinst, over the objections of the native Muuns. Desperate, they turned to the Republic for aid. This led to a series of ruinous battles.

During the Battle of Muunilinst in 22 BBY, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Voolvif Monn retook the planet for the Republic, but at great cost. The battle devastated the Muun cities, sparing none, and led the Galaxy to the brink of financial ruin. Because the Muun were a species commonly associated with the Confederacy of Independent Systems, they were either deported from or prevented from entering Coruscant.

Muunilinst later became the financial center of the Galactic Empire. Emperor Palpatine harbored no fondness for non-Humans (despite, or possibly because of, himself once being the apprentice of the Muun Sith Lord Darth Plagueis), but the mineral riches of Muunilinst were too important for the stability of Imperial credit. Muuns' lending and business operations were hampered by harsh Imperial decrees and the presence of Imperial monitors stationed throughout the world's financial institutions. Muunilinst was no more loyal to the Empire than it was to the Republic or Confederacy, but found it expedient not to undermine Imperial power, reasoning that, no matter the outcome of the Galactic Civil War, the victor would be forced to keep doing business with the Muuns and the IGBC. It remained part of the Imperial Remnant during the New Republic years, protected by two Golan III battle platforms. Amazingly, but again consistent with their reputation, even while a part of the Imperial Remnant, Muunilinst still became the guarantor of the New Republic credit. This infuriated the Moffs, but they were powerless to move against the IGBC without destabilizing the Imperial credit.

During the Yuuzhan Vong War, the alien intruders attacked the Imperial Remnant. In a coordinated strike, the Yuuzhan Vong decimated the forces protecting Muunilinst. The planet itself was bombarded from orbit, reducing it to a wasteland from which the Yuuzhan Vong plucked any survivors for use as slave labor.

Behind the scenes


Though the Muuns first officially appeared in Attack of the Clones, two previous Expanded Universe works contain characters who could easily be retconned as Muuns. The first contains two unnamed characters seen during the animated segment of The Star Wars Holiday Special. The second is Lord Graemon, an Imperial-allied banker who is described as a "a lean man wearing the traditional Muunilinsti banker's shawl and pendant" in The Hand of Thrawn Duology.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement
 * Darth Plagueis novel
 * Tag & Bink: Revenge of the Clone Menace
 * The Eyes of Revolution


 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Boba Fett: Maze of Deception
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * "Chapter 4"
 * "Chapter 9"
 * "Chapter 11"
 * "Chapter 20"
 * CIS Shadowfeed Dispatch 14:2:14 Edition
 * CIS Shadowfeed Dispatch 14:3:10 Edition
 * Jedi Trial
 * Reversal of Fortune
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * The Star Wars Holiday Special
 * Specter of the Past
 * Vision of the Future