Mamendin

Mamendin was a world situated in the Core Worlds. It colonized the Mid Rim's Malari system, and, by the time of the Separatist Crisis, the Malarian Alliance bound it to that system as well as, ultimately, around forty others. By 24 BBY, Mamendin was where the Slams gang of criminals hailed from. Two years later, members of the Malarian Alliance were considering withdrawing from the Galactic Republic. A Separatist plot to ensure that outcome did not succeed, and the Galactic Empire later declared the Malarian Alliance to be null and void.

Description

Mamendin was a terrestrial^[3] world located in the Mamendin system^[1] of the Farrfin sector,^[2] a part of the Northern Dependencies portion of the Core Worlds. It was situated on a hyperspace route that connected it to the Farrfin and Kidiet Olgo systems.^[1]

History

Settlers from Mamendin colonized the Malari system of the Mid Rim.^[1] By 22 BBY,^[6] the Malari system was linked to Mamendin, a member world of the Galactic Republic,^[1] both commercially and militarily via the Malarian Alliance, a treaty^[7] that had been established at some point by approximately 33 BBY.^[8]

The Malarian Alliance placed Mamendin in a web of mutual affiliations with three Mid Rim star systems: the Malari system as well as the Ansion and Dbari systems. In addition, Mamendin, its partner systems, and members of the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty—also affiliated with the Malari system—all had treaties of their own with other worlds, which led to the seemingly insignificant planet Ansion lying at the center of a network of approximately forty politically connected systems.^[1]

By 24 BBY,^[9] Mamendin was the point of origin of the humanoid Slams gang, who began their criminal career there with crimes such as con jobs and identity thefts before moving off-world to the rest of the Core Worlds. That year,^[4] the Republic^[10] Senatorial aide Tyro Caladian relayed that fact to^[4] the Jedi Knight^[11] Obi-Wan Kenobi while letting him know about the Slams' recent escape from prison.^[4]

During the Separatist Crisis,^[1] signatory systems of both the Malarian Alliance and the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty were individually considering leaving the Republic.^[5] The Confederacy of Independent Systems intended to facilitate the secession of Ansion from the Republic, which was predicted by the Separatists to cause a cascade of secession by all the systems linked to the planet via its treaties, as well. However, a mission to Ansion undertaken^[1] in 22 BBY^[11] by members of the Jedi Order on behalf of the Republic resulted in that world^[1] and its partners remaining loyal to the galactic government,^[5] foiling the Separatist plans. At some point following the establishment of the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY, the newly appointed Imperial Moff of the Mid Rim's Churnis sector declared all existing treaties and alliances involving Ansion to be null and void.^[1]

Behind the scenes

Mamendin was first mentioned in The Changing of the Guard, Jude Watson's 2004 eighth installment of the Star Wars: Jedi Quest young-reader novel series.^[4] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed it in grid square K-9.^[1]

Appearances

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• Jedi Quest: The Changing of the Guard (First mentioned)

Sources

• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III ("Valadon")
• The Essential Atlas

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