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Palace of the Woolamander

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"There are supposedly an extraordinary amount of woolamanders that live there. It seems that when the temple was first found, instead of finding the builders of the structure, the locals found a den thriving with the creatures. Stories go on to say that the place is rich in resources, thus allowing these creatures to breed at alarming rates."
―a commoner, to a spacer[7]

The Palace of the Woolamander, or Woolamander Palace, was an ancient Massassi temple, southeast of the Great Temple, in the Val'Arnos Jungle of Yavin 4.

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"The Woolamander Palace can be found on Yavin IV. I do not know the history of the place. We have received several reports that affiliates of the Alliance still operate from its ruins from time to time. It can be found in the central area of Yavin IV."
―Colonel Darkstone speaking about the Palace of the Woolamander[5]

The Palace of the Woolamander was built by Massassi slaves controlled by the Dark Lord Exar Kun's who needed more Sith structures to augment his power,[4] in 3997 BBY.[1] He also kept the Golden Globe—a globular device which imprisoned the souls of the children of the Massassi—in a sealed chamber.[8]

During the last centuries of the Galactic Republic, the Kushiban Jedi Master Ikrit came to the Palace and discovered the Golden Globe. Knowing that he was unable to free the trapped souls, he placed himself in a Force trance to wait the arrival of those who would break the curse.[8]

Woolamander statue

An ancient statue of a Woolamander

By the time of the Galactic Civil War, it had been reduced to a crumbling ruin and was discovered by the Sullustan naturalist Dr'uun Unnh. He gave the temple its name because he found a pack of woolamanders in the temple during his exploration. These creatures raised a loud, howling alarm when he entered and chased him away by pelting the Sullustan. Due to this and the fact that it was crumbling and falling apart, D'ruun Unnh deemed that the palace held little interest.[9]

In 1 ABY,[10] a year after the Battle of Yavin, there were reported sightings of various members of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, or at the very least affiliates of the group, operating from within the ruins of the palace from time to time, acting as one of the few Rebel bases on the moon since the Rebels were driven out by the Empire, which acted as the reason why it was singled out as one of three possible locations of a prisoner transfer log that Colonel Darkstone dispatched an Imperial unit to retrieve in an attempt to rescue Doctor Bledsoe, the others being the Mokk Stronghold on Dantooine and the Droid Engineer cave on Lok.[5]

In 5 ABY, Yavin IV was made the temporary headquarters of the New Republic. The palace became the temporary home for the Senate Planetary Intelligence Network, a secret New Republic organization led by Mon Mothma.[6]

In 22 ABY, Jedi trainees Anakin Solo and Tahiri Veila discovered the Palace of the Woolamander during a trek of the jungle surrounding the Jedi Praxeum. They discovered the Golden Globe and Ikrit though they were also unable to break it at first.[8] Later, during a trip to nearby Yavin 8, the two Jedi discovered ancient carvings within a deep cave indicating its origins.[11] However, before they could do this, the pair had to undergo a test in the deserts of Tatooine. Having survived, Anakin and Tahiri returned to the Palace of the Woolamander and broke the curse, freeing countless trapped Massassi.[12]

During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Jedi students took shelter in a cave beneath the Palace of the Woolamander during the Peace Brigade attack on the Jedi Praxeum.[13]

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Palace of the Woolamander concept art

Concept art for Star Wars Galaxies.

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Notes and references[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Essential Chronology
  2. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided — Point of Interest: "Woolamander Palace" on Yavin 4
  3. ↑ Galaxy Guide 2: Yavin and Bespin, Second Edition
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Power of the Jedi Sourcebook
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided — Corellian Corvette Pre-Quest: "Colonel Darkstone"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Glove of Darth Vader
  7. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided — Herald NPC: "a commoner" on Yavin 4
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Junior Jedi Knights: The Golden Globe
  9. ↑ The Illustrated Star Wars Universe
  10. ↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  11. ↑ Junior Jedi Knights: Lyric's World
  12. ↑ Junior Jedi Knights: Promises
  13. ↑ The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 6 ("Palace of the Woolamander")

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