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- "You heard of the Tion Hegemony? It's an independent sector located along key hyperspace shipping lanes. Wealthy, powerful and stubborn."
- ―Whisper
The Tion Hegemony, formally known as the Ancient and Honorable Union of the Tion Hegemony, was an ancient kingdom that spanned during millennia over a large part of the Tion Cluster, in the Outer Rim Territories. It was reorganized as sector, also known as the Caluula sector, by the Galactic Empire during the Imperial Period.
Astrography[]
The original Tion Hegemony encompassed a large part of the Greater Tion, covering the area of the modern Tion Hegemony as well as the surrounding Allied Tion, Indrexu and Keldrath sectors.[2] It was located on the edge of one of the galaxy's spiral arms.[23]
The modern Tion Hegemony and its surrounding sectors
The modern Tion Hegemony — during and following the Imperial Period — comprised the northern and eastern parts of the Tion Cluster. The sector included into two quite different regions: the Livien Worlds and the Back Spiral. The first region was a cluster of ancient, averagely-wealthy systems at the head of the Desevran Trace, linking the Hegemony to the Perlemian Trade Route. It included Folende, Livien itself, and the sector capital of Desevro. The region was known as the Livien Worlds for its connection to the ancient Livien League. The second region, known as the Back Spiral, was a string of systems beyond the Indrexu Spiral nebula along the Tion Trade Route. These worlds were mostly poor and had little to do economically or culturally with the Livien Worlds. The Back Spiral and the Livien Worlds were actually separated by the Indrexu Spiral and even lacked a hyperlane to connect them directly.[2] The entire Tion Hegemony contained a total of twenty-seven star systems,[24] including 175 inhabited planets.[5]
History[]
Ancient history[]
- "In the past, the Tion Hegemony has been aggressive about expanding its sphere of influence. But things have changed."
- ―Velnine
The Tion Hegemony area was one of the most ancient inhabited region of the galaxy. It had been settled by Humans before the creation of the Galactic Republic and Hegemony inhabitants had long considered the region as the birthplace of humanity.[4]
The history of the Tion Cluster
The region that would later become the Tion Hegemony had been the heart of Xim the Despot's empire tens of thousands of years before the Battle of Yavin.[4] Two capital planets of Xim's empire — Argai, Xim's homeworld, and Desevro, former capital of the powerful Livien League — were located in the region.[2] The Treasure Vaults of Xim the Despot were also built in the Tion Hegemony.[16]
Old Republic era[]
- "Are you familiar with the Tion Hegemony? An independent sector, they claim to be neutral in the war between the Empire and Republic."
- ―Velnine
The Tion Hegemony state was formed centuries after the fall of Xim's empire. It emerged some time after the numerous feuding states that rose from the ashes of Xim's empire — the Honorable Union of Desevro and Tion, the Jaminere Marches, the Indrexu Confederation and the Keldrath Alignment — collapsed after the conquest of the Tion Cluster by the Galactic Republic following the Tionese War.[2] The Hegemony was established as a monarchy dominated by a nobility[22] led by the House of Tion royal family. The House of Tion administered the region for centuries[26] despite intense rivalry with the Thirty-seven Families from Deservo.[9]
In spite of its rich history, the importance of the Tion Hegemony declined in the larger Galactic Republic over the next centuries. Nevertheless, its inhabitants remained proud of their glorious past.[4]
At some point during the Old Republic era, the The Hegemony regained independence. During the Cold War and subsequent Galactic War, both the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire negotiated with the House of Tion to obtain the support of the rich Tion Hegemony in the conflict.[22][25] Both factions also attempted to influence the Livien civil war.[8][27] In 3639 BBY,[28] an outbreak of the Rakghoul plague spread across several worlds in the Tion Hegemony.[22][25] The infection killed large numbers of civilians and transformed many people into rakghouls,[9] which caused the Tion Hegemony to descend into chaos. As four worlds were completely overrun by the rakghouls, the Tion royal family quarantined all worlds in the sector. When the plague was reported on a fifth planet, Kaon, the royal family reluctantly accepted help from the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire. Republic and Imperial operatives were deployed on Kaon by SIS Chief Rannos and Darth Nurin, respectively, in order to fight the rakghouls and help as much survivors as possible. On Kaon, the operatives discovered that the outbreak had been caused by an exiled Tionese scientist, Doctor Sannus Lorrick, who was seeking to take revenge on the Tion royal family. Lorrick was later killed during an assault on his secret lab on Ord Mantell.[22][25]
Around that same time, an individual was sent to look for valuable artifacts on Orma and discovered a relic from the height of the Tion Hegemony.[29]
Rise of the Galactic Empire[]
In the final years of the Republic, all the bellicose and disparate factions of the Tion Cluster had joined in only two states: the Tion Hegemony and the Kingdom of Cron.[2] However, the Tion had already lost all of its former glory at that time and was only known as a sad backwater of exhausted, corrupt[4] and poorly administered worlds.[16] As industry, mineral resources, and cultures declined, the Hegemony subsisted as an agricultural breadbasket for some of the most prosperous Tionese worlds.[23]
The Felucia theater of the Outer Rim Sieges.
During the Clone Wars, both the Tion Hegemony and the Kingdom of Cron joined the Separatists.[2] In fact, the Separatist cause could be said to have somehow originated in the Tion Hegemony, as Count Dooku broadcasted his famous secessionist address from the grim planet of Raxus Prime.[30] Moreover, the Separatist Parliament was established on Raxus Secundus, in the same star system.[31] The Tion Cluster remained under Separatist control until the end of the war[3] and the Hegemony was the scene of numerous battles.[11][12][13]
In retaliation for the allegiance of the two Tionese states to the Separatists, the Galactic Empire took control of the Greater Tion after the Clone Wars and divided the region into new sectors. The Tion Hegemony itself was split in four sectors. Its rimward territories became the Indrexu and Keldrath sectors while the heart of the Hegemony was divided in two: the Allied Tion sector and the modern Tion Hegemony. Additionally, the shrunken Tion Hegemony was allowed a nominal independence that was seen as another humiliation.[2] In any case, the Empire did not consider the Hegemony to be worth enough to ensure direct control of the sector. As a result, the Tion Hegemony became a haven for criminals.[32]
Galactic Civil War[]
- "The Tion Hegemony's survey-updating program is running something like a hundred and eighty years behind schedule and getting worse."
- ―Han Solo
During the early Galactic Civil War, the Tion Hegemony became hotbeds of Rebellion. Rebel Alliance presence in the Hegemony was discovered by the Empire shortly after the Battle of Turkana, resulting in a major offensive dubbed Operation Strike Fear.[15]
In 1 BBY, the long lost treasure hoards of Xim were discovered on the planet Dellalt, in the Tion Hegemony, by Han Solo and Chewbacca.[16]
Later history[]
- "If they're looking at occupying the rest of the Tion Hegemony, they'd have concentrated their efforts at Lianna. For one thing, it's closer to the Perlemian, which they pretty much control anyway, from Coruscant to the Cron Drift. They've got something else in mind. Maybe using Caluula as a staging area for an attack on Mon Calamari."
- ―Han Solo, about the Yuuzhan Vong
The Hegemony joined the New Republic shortly prior 24 ABY and was represented in the New Republic Senate by Thuv Shinev.[5]
During the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Yuuzhan Vong were not interested in invading the Tion Hegemony[21] and only raided the borders of the Tion Cluster.[2] Near the end of the war, the invaders captured Caluula in the Tion Hegemony in order to use the planet as a staging area for an attack on the Galactic Alliance stronghold of Dac.[21]
Behind the scenes[]
A galaxy map depicting the various destinations of the Star Tours travel agency is seen in the queue of the Star Tours attraction at Disneyland Paris and Tokyo Disneyland. The map erroneously suggests Dagobah is in the Tion Hegemony, which is contradicted by many Legends sources.[33]
