Kromus

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Kromus was the fourth planet in the Kro'eval system. It had a rich biosphere, and by the time of the Clone Wars, it had a sentient population of 1.3 billion.

History

During the Clone Wars, Kromus was on the border of Separatist-occupied space and became the site of a research facility where the Starkiller superweapon was constructed. This was built in the heart of a city of two million inhabitants. The CIS had a superlaser experiment on this planet.

However, in Galactic Republic records, information on Kromus was swapped with the files on the fifth planet in the system, Kromol, and the Republic believed that the Starkiller was being built on an uninhabited world.

The Republic only discovered the mistake when they dispatched a fleet led by Jedi General Darrus Jeht to destroy the Starkiller. Believing that there was no other way to prevent the superweapon from escaping, Jeht ordered the command cruiser Maelstrom to bombard the planet and destroy the secret weapon. The blast of the destruction wiped out the city in a matter of seconds, and set off a planetary cataclysm that rapidly destroyed all life on the planet.

Kromus' atmosphere was scoured away, and the crust was wracked with massive tectonic activity. More than a billion sentients were killed.

Behind the scenes

Due to the information being swapped, it is not entirely clear which are the correct names for the fourth and fifth planets in the Kro'eval system: the fourth planet is normally referred to as "Kromus", and that is the name used here, but Darrus Jeht subsequently thinks of it as "Kromal", which suggests that might be the correct name.

Appearances

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Dark Soul on Wizards.com (backup link) (original site is defunct)
Dark Hope on Wizards.com (backup link) (original site is defunct) (Mentioned only)
Living Force: Dark Shadows on Wizards.com (backup link) (original site is defunct) (Mentioned only)
Living Force: Last Stand on Wizards.com (backup link) (original site is defunct) (Mentioned only)

Sources

Notes and references

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
↑ The Client States and Miscellaneous Regions map in The Essential Atlas places the entirety of grid square P-7 in the Trans-Hydian Borderlands.

[EAOC-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)

[Region-2] The Client States and Miscellaneous Regions map in The Essential Atlas places the entirety of grid square P-7 in the Trans-Hydian Borderlands.

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