Planet X

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"This world is alive. Every part of it. From stones to skies. Be wary. As I said—it will defend itself."

―Marchion Ro^[2]

Planet X was the informal name given to a planet^[3] located in Wild Space.^[1] So-named by the prospector Radicaz "Sunshine" Dobbs,^[3] the world sat on the edge of the Galactic Frontier.^[4] After her experience on the planet, Guide of the Open Hand Marda Ro preferred to think of the planet as a nameless place.^[3]

Description[]

Planet X was home to creatures known as the Under-Dwellers, who longed to escape Planet X,^[3] and the Nameless, who preyed on Force-sensitives.^[2] Another being that lived on world was known as the protector.^[3] Furthermore, every part of the planet was in some way alive, including its geology and atmosphere, and it was known to defend itself. The planet had a dangerous and tempestuous atmospheric layer^[2] known as the Veil, which attempted to hold back foreign matter from landing on world.^[3] One way in which an individual could pass through the Veil was after many lives were lost or sacrificed in it,^[2] with those other targets distracting its defenses for the others to pass through.^[3] The Ro family thus thought of passage through the Veil as requiring a great sacrifice in order to reach the treasures below.^[2]

The surface of Planet X had healing properties, but the world's influence got into the heads of whomever arrived; the world's influence instilled a sense of rapture, joy, and euphoria in those who touched down, making them not want to leave and forget their own identities if not fought against. Dobbs theorized it was a defense mechanism to make those who arrived on planet not want to leave or an ability from the Force. Individuals could also feel the flow of the Force, even if they were not Force-sensitive, on world. Ultimately, visitors could even unlock Force-sensitivity due to time spent on Planet X, although those powers could just as easily leave the person should they leave the world.^[3]

Unlike underground passages on other worlds, a kelp-like vegetation covered the rock walls of a cave system, past which the Under-Dwellers lived. During the Path of the Open Hand's mission to Planet X, that kelp-like plant life and a number of small bug creatures attacked an Under-Dweller that attempted to get out. The protector itself also intervened to hold back the Under-Dweller and then attacked the Path, who were attempting to leave the world with Nameless eggs. The Veil itself, too, seemed to expand out to try and stop their escape.^[3]

History[]

Discovery by Dobbs[]

Around 400 BBY, rumors persisted of the planet's existence.^[4] Around 382 BBY,^[5] Radicaz "Sunshine" Dobbs traveled to the planet with hyperspace prospectors Spence Leffbruk and Dass Leffbruk. While flying through the atmosphere of the planet, Spence and Dass' ship was damaged. Dobbs agreed to help them off the planet for half the reward of discovering the planet. Instead, Sunshine abandoned them on the planet Gloam.^[6] Sometime later Graf clan scion Sky Graf and Dass Leffbruk sought to find the planet, and intended to traveled there with Jedi Padawan Rooper Nitani. The three were forced to abandon their attempt when Nitani was called to Dalna by her Jedi Master Silandra Sho.^[7]

Path mission[]

Around the same time, Guide Marda Ro accompanied other members of the Path of the Open Hand to find more of the Nameless to use against the Jedi Order. One member of the team was a Force-sensitive named Calar, whose skill in tracking would help the Path locate the eggs. His abilities, while rationalized by fellow team member Bokana Koss, disturbed Ro and played a part in her disillusionment with the Mother's leadership over the cult. During the push through the Veil, Calar experienced a Force vision of grave consequences their mission would unleash upon the galaxy, begged his fellow Path members to turn back, and ultimately tried to destroy the ship himself to protect the greater galaxy and the Force, but he was killed by Dobbs before he could succeed.^[3]

After landing on world, Bokana Koss and Shea Ganandra developed powers in the Force, which concerned Marda, who was already disturbed by Calar's inclusion. While Koss was able to guide the Path to the eggs, he then experienced a vision that revealed their actions would allow the Under-Dwellers to spread out into the greater galaxy as a blight, the consuming power foretold by Calar. Koss was able to snap out of his vision when an Under-Dweller attacked, with that Under-Dweller then defeated by a being called the protector. The protector and the Veil both tried to prevent the Path's escape from Planet X with the eggs but failed. However, the Path was then put down by the Jedi and their allies in the Night of Sorrow, but Marda survived.^[3]

Nihil mission[]

Knowledge of Planet X and how to get through the Veil were spread down through the Ro family line^[2] started by Marda.^[8] Sometime between 231 BBY and 230 BBY,^[9] Eye of the Nihil Marchion Ro^[2]—a descendant of Marda's^[8] who had been raised to fulfill his family's revenge.^[10]—and a group of Nihil devotees called the She'ar visited the planet to retrieve members of the Nameless. After sacrificing members of the group to the planet's atmospheric veil, Ro was able to pass through it safely and landed on the planet in the Cloudship Ikoru. Then Ro activated an ancient control rod to summon the Nameless, but in doing so caused all of the planet's creatures to attack him and his group. However, Ro managed to secure several of the creatures and departed the planet with them in the Ikoru.^[2]