Dhen-Moh genocides

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"He may be mythologized, but he's earned his reputation. I could tell tales of how he slaughtered children, the Dhen-Moh genocides—"
―Everi Chalis, to Hazram Namir, on Darth Vader[4]

The Dhen-Moh genocides were ordered by the Galactic Empire on the astronomical object Dhen-Moh. The Sith Lord Darth Vader killed many there with his lightsaber, an act that was marked on his reputation afterward. Various figures compared the atrocity on Dhen-Moh with some of the Empire's other major genocides.

The genocides

Between 19 BBY and 3 ABY,[1] the Galactic Empire ordered genocides on the astronomical object Dhen-Moh.[3] The Sith Lord Darth Vader notably took part in the mass murder, massacring many with his lightsaber.[2]

Aftermath

"Chemical weapons may have killed many Geonosians but Darth Vader's lightsaber proved just as effective on Dhen-Moh. The motivation behind all these appalling events was the Imperial principle that mass violence was the simplest solution to almost any problem."
―Beaumont Kin, The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire[2]
The historian Beaumont Kin compared the genocides on Dhen-Moh with the extermination of the Geonosians.

The historian Beaumont Kin compared the genocides on Dhen-Moh with the extermination of the Geonosians.

Everi Chalis, an Imperial governor who had defected to the Rebel Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry, cited his participation to the rebel First Sergeant Hazram Namir[4] in 3 ABY.[1] In 4 ABY,[5] Yrica Quell, an Imperial pilot who had defected to the New Republic, the Alliance's successor, compared the Dhen-Moh genocides—alongside the atrocities involving[3] the planets[2] Alderaan and Lasan—to the Empire's enactment of Operation: Cinder, another genocide ordered by the Empire, in her mind during a conversation. Quell considered the difference between the former genocides and Operation: Cinder as that between ruthlessness and cruelty.[3]

In[2] his[6] 35 ABY[7] book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, the historian Beaumont Kin commented that Darth Vader using his lightsaber on Dhen-Moh was just as effective of a mass killing as the Empire's use of chemical weapons to exterminate the Geonosian species[2] around 9 BBY.[8] The historian added that the Empire's motivation behind these atrocities was that mass violence was a simple solution to any problem.[2]

Behind the scenes

The Dhen-Moh genocides were first mentioned in the 2015 novel Battlefront: Twilight Company, written by Alexander Freed.[4]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Star Wars: Timelines dates the main events of Battlefront: Twilight Company to 3 ABY. Darth Vader's participation in Dhen-Moh was mentioned during the novel's main events. Star Wars: Timelines sets the events where Vader received his name to 19 BBY, therefore meaning the genocides must have thereby occurred between 19 BBY and 3 ABY.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Alphabet Squadron
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Battlefront: Twilight Company
  5. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Alphabet Squadron to 4 ABY.
  6. ↑ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
  7. ↑ Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire states that thirty years have passed since the end of the Galactic Civil War and months have passed since the Battle of Exegol. As Star Wars: Timelines dates the end of the war to 5 ABY and the Battle of Exegol to 35 ABY, the in-universe The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire must have been published in 35 ABY.
  8. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines
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