Brigia

Brigia
Astrographical information
Region	Outer Rim Territories Tion Cluster
Sector	Tion Hegemony
System	Brigia system
Grid square	T-6
Trade routes	Pakuuni Drift Tion Trade Route
Physical information
Class	Terrestrial
Societal information
Native species	Brigians
Other species	Humans
Primary language(s)	Galactic Basic Standard Previously: Brigian language
Affiliation	Back Spiral Kingdom of Cron Xer's Empire Xim's Empire Honorable Union of Desevro & Tion Galactic Republic Confederacy of Independent Systems Galactic Empire Tion Hegemony Yuuzhan Vong empire

"We are a poor planet."

―Hissal

Brigia was a planet in the Tion Hegemony of the Outer Rim, and the Brigian homeworld.

Description

Brigia was a blue planet that was inhabited by tall, purple-skinned humanoids: the Brigians.

It was a poor and retrogressive world, economically dominated by the Pakuuni. However, the planet's rulers refused any external assistance.

History

Early history

One of the member-worlds of the Kingdom of Cron, it was absorbed into Xim's Empire. After the empire collapsed, it would continue to thrive as a world of the Honorable Union of Desevro & Tion, eventually being part of the Tion Hegemony when the Tion Cluster joined the Republic.

In the Republic's final years, the Tion Cluster worlds joined the CIS and were later members of the Galactic Empire.

About two years before the Battle of Yavin, a small group of colonists left Brigia and founded New Brigia, a chromite-mining operation located just within the borders of the Koornacht Cluster.

Han Solo and Chewbacca were hired by the University of Rudrig to deliver the necessary teaching supplies to Brigia, but the Brigian government attempted to intervene.

Galactic Civil War

Early in the Galactic Civil War, Brigia was once home to the main Rebel base after Chrellis. The planet was abandoned by the Rebellion when they correctly suspected that the Empire was going to attack it. This was based on information gathered about Operation Strike Fear.

The evacuation was done with the assistance of Red Squadron and Gold Squadron. All equipment and personnel were loaded aboard all available transports, like the frigate Fugazi and corvette Sonnel etc. Important persons boarded the shuttle group Arroyo while the wounded from the evacuation operation were transferred to frigate Redemption.

Yuuzhan Vong War

During the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Yuuzhan Vong invaded Brigia. The native Brigians resisted at first, though they were eventually forced to go underground and begin a guerrilla war. The desperate Brigians pleaded with the Corporate Sector Authority for help, though the business-minded organization ignored them. In the end, the surviving Brigians were enslaved and inserted with Yorik-Kul implants.

The planet was Vongformed, but much of the ecological changes seemed to retreat within the next decade, leading scientists to fear the bioweapon Alpha Red had somehow been introduced from neighboring planet Caluula. Scientists monitored the planet carefully since then.

Behind the scenes

Brigia first appeared in the 1980 novel Han Solo and the Lost Legacy. The 1993 LucasArts video game Star Wars: X-Wing features a battle during Operation Strike Fear above a planet called Briggia. "Brigia" and "Briggia" received separate entries in 1998's Star Wars Encyclopedia and 2008's The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia but were considered to be the same planet in 2009's The Essential Atlas.

Appearances

• Han Solo and the Lost Legacy (First appearance)
• Star Wars: X-Wing (as Briggia)
• Before the Storm (Mentioned only)
• The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial

Sources

• A Guide to the Star Wars Universe
• X-Wing: The Official Strategy Guide (as Briggia)
• A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
• X-Wing Collector's CD-ROM: The Official Strategy Guide (as Briggia)
• Star Wars Encyclopedia
• The Essential Chronology (as Briggia)
• The New Essential Guide to Characters (as Briggia)
• The New Essential Chronology (as Briggia)
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
• Essential Atlas Extra: The History of Xim and the Tion Cluster on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
• Xim Week: The Despotica (Part II: The Pirate Prince) on Hyperspace (article) (content obsolete and backup link not available)
• The Essential Guide to Warfare
• The Essential Reader's Companion
• Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook
• Star Wars: Imperial Handbook: A Commander's Guide

Notes and references

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