- "I worked for a short time with Vulca Minerals when they were still dealing with Guiteica. After Vulca got a little too pushy about yttrium mining, the Order just about killed the Team Commander on the spot."
- ―Lieutenant Ayla Shar, in a Task Force on Alliance Security SecuriDex datafile on the m'Yalfor'ac Order
Yttrium was a rare[2] mineral.[1] It was among the several different ores and minerals that, by the time of the Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, were being extracted from the crust of the rocky[2] Hutt Space[3] planet Nar Kreeta.[2]
Extensive subterranean deposits of yttrium were also located on Guiteica, a planet[1] in Wild Space's Kadok Regions.[4] At some point by 2 ABY,[5] when the Vulca Minerals company attempted to aggressively negotiate with Guiteica's native Bitthævrian species the rights to mine yttrium, the m'Yalfor'ac Order, the dominant Bitthævrian continental army, nearly killed the company's Team Commander. Since that incident, all of Guiteica's exports were managed by the company Kadok Resources.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
Yttrium was first introduced to the Star Wars franchise in Alliance Intelligence Reports, a 1995 sourcebook for West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.[1] In the real world, yttrium is a chemical element and rare-earth metal that is primarily extracted from rare-earth ores and has a wide range of industrial applications.[6]
Sources[]
- Alliance Intelligence Reports (First mentioned)
- Lords of Nal Hutta
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Alliance Intelligence Reports
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lords of Nal Hutta
- ↑ The Essential Atlas
- ↑
Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link) — Based on corresponding data for Tertiary Kadok system
- ↑ Alliance Intelligence Reports represents a collection of in-universe reports from "one year before the Battle of Hoth," which corresponds to 2 ABY, according to The New Essential Chronology.
- ↑
Yttrium | Chemical Element, Uses in Electronics, & Medicine by The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica on Encyclopædia Britannica (March 4, 2024) (backup link archived on February 20, 2025)
