Chuzalla

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Chuzalla was an Outer Rim Territories planet located in the Tammuz sector. It had a significant population of dangerous criminals and was the site of the spaceport city Zallakesh. In 15 BBY, the Tammuz-an Prince Coby, accompanied by the Human Jann Tosh and the droids C-3PO and R2-D2, were forced to transfer to a connecting flight in Zallakesh while traveling between the worlds Tammuz-an and Raithal.

During the quartet's stop there, Captain Stroon and first mate Slarm of the cruiser of the traveling sideshow Starhunter's Intergalactic Menagerie, who at the time were visiting Chuzalla on a supply run, stole Coby's rare and valuable pet Ingey. The cruiser subsequently departed for the planet Dandelo; however, Coby and his droid companions followed the starship in a vessel of their own.

Description

Chuzalla was a terrestrial planet^[3] located in the Chuzalla system, a part of the Tammuz sector^[1] in the Slice portion of^[2] the Outer Rim Territories.^[1] From space, Chuzalla's surface appeared blue in color and had areas that made for significant deviations from a spherical planetary shape. Another blue-colored celestial body apppeared relatively large when viewed from Chuzalla's orbit. The atmosphere on Chuzalla featured clouds, and the sky there could exhibit blue and pink tones.^[4]

History

In 15 BBY,^[5] the Tammuz-an Prince Coby, accompanied by the Human Jann Tosh, the protocol droid C-3PO, and astromech droid R2-D2, traveled aboard a starship from^[4] the planet^[6] Tammuz-an to^[4] the Galactic Empire's Imperial Army Academy on the Colonies^[7] world^[8] Raithal, into which the prince had been accepted. However, en route their vessel suffered a malfunction in a vital computer chip, forcing them^[3] to transfer to a connecting flight from^[4] the city^[9] Zallakesh.^[4]

At the same time,^[4] the cruiser of the traveling sideshow known as the Starhunter's Intergalactic Menagerie^[10] was visiting Zallakesh on a supply run. When the Menagerie's^[4] Captain Stroon and his first mate and assistant, Slarm,^[11] noticed Coby's rare and valuable pet Tessellated Arboreal binjinphant Ingey, they stole it, and, when Coby demanded that they release the animal, they instead lifted off in their cruiser, preparing to depart for their hidden base on^[4] the planet Dandelo.^[12]

Coby and his droid companions in turn gave chase in a Blackhawk Destroyer starship purchased at the local Honest Tobar's Used Spacecraft shop, although the trio's out-of-control flight over Zallakesh eventually left them nearly out of fuel before they had fully caught up with Stroon's cruiser. Ultimately, however, they used their craft's magnetic landing gear to attach it to the cruiser, after which the two connected vessels jumped to the Dandelo system.^[4] Tosh was thereby left alone and confused on Chuzalla's surface, although he^[3] eventually also followed R2-D2's distress signal to Dandelo.^[4]

Inhabitants

Chuzalla had a significant population of dangerous criminals.^[3] Its city^[9] Zallakesh was inhabited by Humans and members of other species.^[4] Although the settlement was lawless,^[9] it nevertheless employed prison ships.^[4]

Locations

Chuzalla was the site of the spaceport^[3] city^[9] Zallakesh. It contained the starship store Honest Tobar's Used Spacecraft.^[4]

Behind the scenes

The celestial body on which the city Zallakesh was located first appeared in "Coby and the Starhunters,"^[4] the ninth episode of the animated series Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO, which aired on November 2, 1985.^[13] On November 24, 2009, the StarWars.com Online Companion to the August 18, 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry introduced the Chuzalla system as the site of Zallakesh,^[9] placing it, and thereby the corresponding celestial body, in grid square T-14.^[1] Finally, the July 5, 2013 StarWars.com article "The Droids Re-Animated, Part 2" by Rich Handley and Abel G. Peña identified Zallakesh's location as the planet Chuzalla.^[3]

In "Coby and the Starhunters," an animation sequence used to depict a spaceport on^[4] Tammuz-an^[3] is later re-used for depicting a scene on Zallakesh.^[4] In addition, John Bradley Snyder's article "A Star Wars CELibration," published in^[13] the October 1995^[14] twenty-seventh issue of the Star Wars Insider magazine includes a brief summary of the episode's plot which erroneously claims that Coby's pet Ingey is stolen at the academy to which the prince is traveling,^[13] as opposed to in Zallakesh.^[4]

Appearances

• Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO — "Coby and the Starhunters" (First appearance)

Sources

• The Droids Re-Animated: Part 2 on StarWars.com (original link is obsolete) (First identified as Chuzalla)

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