Hetzal Prime

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Hetzal Prime, also known simply as Hetzal, was a planet located in the Hetzal system of the Outer Rim Territories. The planet and its system were within the territory of the Galactic Republic during the High Republic Era, containing a total population of forty billion. It was also said that every crop in the galaxy could grow somewhere on the worlds of Hetzal. During that time, Hetzal Prime and the rest of its system were threatened by anomalies from hyperspace. The Jedi Master Avar Kriss, who was in charge of the combined Galactic Republic and Jedi Order effort to save the system,^[1] later became known as the "Hero of Hetzal."^[4]

Description[]

Hetzal was the main world of the Hetzal system in the Outer Rim Territories and was orbited by two inhabited moons, the Fruited and the Rooted. The entire system was committed to agricultural production, exporting food all over the Outer Rim and in some parts of the Inner Rim. During the High Republic Era, the planet attempted to grow bacta, a new substance supposed to revolutionize medicine, in plants.^[1]

Home to billions inhabitants, Hetzal Prime was filled with rivers, lakes, and golden fields of cropland that grew honeyfruit, kingberries, ice melons, and more. As the whole System believed in using every bit of available space to grow crops buildings and structures on the planet were roofed with cropland and fruit vines additionally rivers and lakes were used to grow algae and waterweeds. Because every crop of the galaxy could grow somewhere on Hetzal and the 3 suns gave the planet uniquely long growing seasons, there was always something in Season ready to be harvested by harvester droids.^[1]

History[]

Hetzal Prime was the homeworld of the famous gill-singer Illoria Daze. It was protected by the Hetzal's security division.^[1]

In 232 BBY, the Great Hyperspace Disaster occurred,^[5] in which the debris of the starship Legacy Run was suddenly launched out of hyperspace and in trajectory with the populated primeworld and moons. The Hetzalian government, under Minister Zeffren Ecka, was forced to issue a system-wide evacuation order and to request assistance from Coruscant, the capital of the Galactic Republic.^[1]

Several ships from the Republic and the Jedi Order lent assistance in the evacuation and in destroying a number of pieces of the Legacy Run's debris, saving many lives. However despite the best efforts of the rescue party a small hyperspace fragment hit Hetzal Prime's surface. The fragment, which impacted the sea, destroyed thousands of square kilometres of algae farms and sent huge amounts of water vapor into the atmosphere and a huge tsunami toward the coast, killing hundreds in the process.^[1]

After the Destruction of Starlight Beacon, in 230 BBY, and the activation of the Stormwall, the marauder group known as the Nihil had set up a presence on Hetzal, and declared it as the capital on the group.

Locations[]

Aguirre City was the capital city of Hetzal Prime. During the Great Disaster, the Hetzalian government was based in the Ministerial Residence, within Aguirre City.^[1]