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- "Recently disclosed documents and testimony from a captured Thalassian slaver on Gyndine have implicated four Outer Rim Senators as profiting from slaving ventures in their sectors. Senator Tikkes (Mon Calamari), Senator Bufus Ritsomas (Till Chorios), Senator Danry Ledwellow (Er'kit) [sic] and Senator Wuja Wojaine (Pydyr) were all implicated."
- ―HoloNet News report
Er'Kit was an Outer Rim Territories planet located in the Noonian sector. It was the homeworld of the sentient Er'Kit species and in 22 BBY was represented in the Senate of the Galactic Republic by Senator Danry Ledwellow. Remaining a part of the Republic during the subsequent Clone Wars, Er'Kit also was a member of the Republic's successor, the Galactic Empire, with the future Imperial Navy officers Treuten and Kosh Teradoc hailing from the planet. After the Battle of Endor, Er'Kit was a member of various Imperial splinter factions, including the Imperial Remnant.
Description[]
Er'Kit was a terrestrial[3] planet[4] located in the Er'Kit system, a part of the Noonian sector[1] in the New Territories portion of[2] the Outer Rim Territories.[1] It was situated on the Braxant Run hyperlane, which connected it to the Borgo Prime and Storinal systems.[2] Another hyperspace route also linked it to the Hewett system.[6] From space, Er'Kit appeared brown, tan, and gray.[8]
History[]
Er'Kit was the homeworld of the species of the same name.
The area of space including Er'Kit was explored between 3000 BBY and 1000 BBY, and by the time of the final phase of the New Sith Wars between the Galactic Republic and the forces of the Sith tradition of Force-users, the planet was a part of the territories unaligned with or contested by the two factions.[2] At least one member of[9] Er'Kit's native species of the same name[4] resided offworld[9] by 32 BBY.[10] By the date 13:4:4, Senator Danry Ledwellow represented Er'Kit in the Republic's Senate. Ledwellow was implicated in participating in an Outer Rim enslavement ring that saw the senator profit from the activities of Thalassian enslavers in the Noonian sector, a fact that was noted by an issue of the CoCo District Edition of the HoloNet News.[7]
During the Clone Wars, Er'Kit was situated within Republic-controlled space,[2] and the Republic's Ninth Sector Army was tasked with engaging the military forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems in the planet's vicinity during the first campaigns of that conflict in 22 BBY.[6] By 20 BBY, however, the planet remained undecided on its affiliation to either the Republic or the Confederacy.[11] Er'Kit fell within the borders of the Republic's successor, the Galactic Empire, by 17 BBY,[6] and at some point by the time of the Empire's reign, the brothers and future Imperial Navy officers Treuten and Kosh Teradoc were born a year apart into a hardscrabble family on the planet.[3]
Treuten Teradoc (pictured) and his brother Kosh were born on Er'Kit.
Er'Kit lay within the territory of the Empire's Oversector Outer in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Endor of 4 ABY, but advances by the military of the New Republic against Imperial splinter factions in the wake of that engagement resulted in the oversector's boundaries having receded from the planet two years later. Er'Kit was nevertheless situated within Imperial Space between 7 ABY and 8 ABY and, by 10 ABY, was specifically located within the borders of the Imperial-controlled territory consolidated during Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn's campaign against the New Republic in the preceding year.[2]
The planet fell within the borders of the reorganized Imperial Remnant between 12 ABY and 13 ABY, but, once again, an offensive by the New Republic left it outside the boundaries of the former government by 17 ABY.[6] The extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong conquered the Er'Kit system between 25 ABY and 26 ABY as part of their invasion of the galaxy, and the system remained under the invaders' control by 27 ABY.[2]
Inhabitants[]
Er'Kit was the homeworld of[4] the sentient[9] Er'Kit species.[4] By the time of the reign of the Galactic Empire, the planet was also home to a family that included[3] the Human[5] brothers Treuten and Kosh Teradoc.[3] The population of the Er'Kit system around 25 ABY numbered between one and ten million.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
Er'Kit was first mentioned in the 2000 reference book Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I by Kristin Lund.[12] The first visual depiction of the planet was on a map of the Star Wars galaxy included with the fifth issue of the Star Wars Gamer magazine, published by Wizards of the Coast[13] on July 24, 2001.[14]
HoloNet News Vol. 531 #50[7] and HoloNet News Vol. 531 #51, two issues of the representation of the in-universe HoloNet News[15] that were written by Pablo Hidalgo and Paul Ens[16] and respectively published by April 4[17] and April 11 of 2002,[18] both capitalized the planet's name as "Er'kit."[7][15] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the Er'Kit system, and therefore Er'Kit itself, in grid square M-6.[2]
Appearances[]
Senators Implicated in Slave Ring — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #50 (content now obsolete; backup link) (Mentioned only) (as Er'kit)- Senator Tikkes Jumps Bail — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #51 (content now obsolete; backup link) (Mentioned only) (as Er'kit)
Sources[]
- Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I (First mentioned)
- Galaxy map poster — Star Wars Gamer 5 (First pictured)
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 1 (Galaxy map poster)
- Galaxy map poster — Star Wars Insider 65
- "Making the Map" — Star Wars Insider 65
- Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 139 (WOR1, Worlds of the Clone Wars)
- Star Wars: Complete Locations, 2005 edition
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I ("Er'Kit") (Indirect mention only)
- The Essential Atlas
- Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
- The Essential Guide to Warfare
- Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook
- The Imperial Warlords: Despoilers of an Empire, Part 2 on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook
- Star Wars: Force and Destiny Core Rulebook
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link) — Based on corresponding data for Er'Kit system
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 The Essential Atlas — Based on corresponding data for Er'Kit system
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 The Imperial Warlords: Despoilers of an Empire, Part 2 on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 239 ("Er'Kit")
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Imperial Warlords: Despoilers of an Empire, Part 2 on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link) establishes that Treuten and Kosh Teradoc were born on Er'Kit, with that article and X-Wing: Mercy Kill respectively further establishing them as Humans.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 The Essential Guide to Warfare — Based on corresponding data for Er'Kit system
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Senators Implicated in Slave Ring — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #50 (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ The Official Star Wars Fact File 1 (Galaxy map poster)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Mandrell, Ody in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ The New Essential Chronology dates the events of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, which include the appearance of Ody Mandrell on Tatooine, to 32 BBY.
- ↑ The Official Star Wars Fact File 139 (WOR1, Worlds of the Clone Wars)
- ↑ Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I
- ↑ Galaxy map poster — Star Wars Gamer 5
- ↑ Gamer #5. A Domain of Evil it is. on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Senator Tikkes Jumps Bail — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #51 (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Credits — HoloNet News Vol. 531 (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread on the Jedi Council Forums (Literature board; posted by Mavrick889 on April 4, 2002 at 3:16 PM; accessed September 20, 2020) (backup link)
- ↑ The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread on the Jedi Council Forums (Literature board; posted by MattPeriolat on April 11, 2002 at 6:19 PM; accessed September 20, 2020) (backup link)
