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Colla IV, or simply Colla, was an Inner Rim Territories home to the sentient insectoid Colicoids, a violent warrior species. The Colicoids ran the Colicoid Creation Nest, a manufacturing company that was contracted by the Trade Federation to create army droids for them. The natives subsequently created the droideka heavy duty combat droid in their own image, and went on to make other droids and starships that would be used by the Separatist Alliance against the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars.
Description[]
Colla IV[4] known more simply as Colla,[1] was a terrestrial planet[3] in Inner Rim Territories, situated at the coordinates N-9 on the Standard Galactic Grid.[1] The toothspike raptor was a creature native to the world.[2]
History[]
The Galactic Republic initially sent representatives, including Jedi Knights, to Colla IV. However, the native Colicoids were extremely hostile to outsiders, and the Republic quickly stopped its efforts in order to end the protests against the excesses of Colicoids. Eventually, the Trade Federation corporation, looking for weapons manufacturers to create them a droid army, successfully negotiated with the resident Colicoid Creation Nest, a manufacturing company ran by Colicoids, and awarded them a contract to create army droids.[5]
The Droideka was created on Colla IV
The Colicoids subsequently designed the the heavy duty destroying machine known as the droideka in their own image, naming the model as a mix between droid and their language meaning for "flesh flies." The Trade Federation paid them in fifty transports worth of exotic meats, most still living creatures. With a satisfactory arrangement for them, the Colicoids subsequently manufactured and sold the droidekas. The droideka designs were autonomous, which went against the Trade Federation's desires in the contract for them to be controlled by a central computer. Nevertheless the Colicoids did not expect the corporation to give much protest to that.[5]
The Trade Federation became a key part of the Separatist Alliance, which was founded following the Raxus Address[2] in 24 BBY.[6] On top of the droidekas,[3] the Colicoid Creation Nest produced additional droids and vehicles for the Separatists,[3][5][7] including the Droideka Sharpshooter,[5] Pistoeka sabotage droids[3] and the Trident-class assault ships. The Colicoids designed the Droch-class boarding ships with a hull based loosely off of the toothspike raptor.[2] They additionally manufactured the droid tri-fighter in cooperation with Phlac-Arphocc Automata Industries, the starfighter's three-armed design mimicking the skull features of one of its Colla IV's most ferocious predators.[4] These droids and vehicles saw use by the Separatists against the Republic in the Clone Wars[3][4][5][7] of 22 BBY to 19 BBY.[8]
Inhabitants[]
Colla IV was home to the Colicoids, a sentient insectoid species known for having completely unfeeling and murderous ways.[3] With a meat-included diet, the two-meter warrior creatures, covered in a dese chitinous shell, were violent even among themselves, but especially showed hostility towards outsiders.[5]
Behind the scenes[]
Colla IV was first mentioned in Star Wars: Episode I The Visual Dictionary, a Star Wars Legends reference book written by David West Reynolds[9] that was released on May 26, 1999.[10] It became canon when it was mentioned in Star Wars Journeys: The Phantom Menace, an iOS mobile game[11] that was released on April 22, 2014.[12]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars Journeys: The Phantom Menace (First mentioned)
- Star Wars Journeys: Beginnings (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
- Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 52 (Guide to the Galaxy: The History of Neimoidia)- Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 56 (Databank A-Z: Tractor Beams–Tri-Fighters) (Indirect mention only)
- Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
- Rise of the Separatists
- Collapse of the Republic
- The High Republic Free Digital Sampler (Picture only) (Based on correspondence between the galactic map and maps in other sources)
- "The First Order" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- "The Battle of Endor and the Fall of the Empire" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- "Scarif and Other Planets in the Outer Rim" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- "Battle Droids and Other Droids of War" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- "Exegol, the Unknown Regions and Wild Space" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Star Wars Galaxy Map
- SWCA 2022: 7 Things We Learned from the Lucasfilm Publishing Behind the Page Panel on StarWars.com (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Star Wars Galaxy Map
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Rise of the Separatists
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5
"Battle Droids and Other Droids of War" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- ↑ Rise of the Separatists states that the Raxus Address took place two years before the First Battle of Geonosis, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 22 BBY. Therefore, the Raxus Address must have occurred in 24 BBY.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles
- ↑ Star Wars: Timelines
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode I The Visual Dictionary
- ↑ The Visual Dictionary of Star Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace on Amazon.com (backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars Journeys: The Phantom Menace
- ↑ Disney Interactive support on Disney.com (backup link)
