Naos III

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"As remote a world as can be found in known space, my lord."
―Count Dooku, to Darth Sidious[2]

Naos III was a frigid small moon in Wild Space, near Smuggler's Run and the Corellian Run. Because of its orbital position, Naos III should have been a frozen ball of muddy ice covered by regular snowfalls, but intense volcanic activity kept the surface just warm enough to melt the ice into a thick sludge. With days that never seemed to end, for most of its short year the moon’s continued habitation owed to a pink-fleshed delicacy fished from the ice-covered rivers that plunged turbulent and roaring from a surround of nearly sheer mountains. Known as the Naos sharptooth, the fish spawned only in the coldest months, was shipped offworld, flash-frozen, and sold at exorbitant prices in eateries from Mon Calamarito Corellia.

History

Little more than a mud-covered frontier world, this small moon originally was settled by Rodian and Lethan Twi’lek criminals, lured by the hope of discovering rich veins of ryll spice in Naos III’s volcanically heated cave systems.[3] Indigenous herbivores and carnivores had been hunted to extinctio early on by those same colonists. The creatures most often seen currently were bovine rycrits and woollier-than-normal banthas. The dispirited humanoids who had colonized the moon had never bothered to award a name to their principal population center, so it, too, was known as Naos III. Visitors expecting to find a typical spaceport found instead a cluster of fortified hilltops, interconnected by bridges that spanned a delta of waterways. As befitted a place with such a dearth of creativity, the moon had attracted nomads and spacers of dubious character, eager either to lose or reinvent themselves. While Rodians and Lethan Twi’leks comprised the majority, humans and other humanoids were well represented. A few wealthy sportfishers arrived each year, but Naos III was simply too remote and too lacking in infrastructure to support a tourist trade.[2]

Still, few locals banked enough credits to buy passage off Naos III, preferring instead to return their meager earnings to Naos III Mercantile, which oversaw the sharptooth industry and owned nearly every store, hotel, gambling parlor, and cantina. The moon had low-slung prefab buildings, icicles decorated almost every building. The streets were mostly damaged ceramacrete paving, and very little of the local climate control machinery were in good repair, in keeping with the local ethos. The streets were known to be mucky and dangerous, with little sanitation, and debris being shuffled to the side of the roadway.[2]

Darth Sidious hoped to murder Obi-Wan Kenobi on the moon during the last months of the Clone Wars, in an effort to “orphan” Anakin Skywalker. He ordered his apprentice Darth Tyranus – Count Dooku – to ensure Kenobi’s death. Tyranus was hesitant, since it clearly meant that Sidious wanted to take Skywalker as a future apprentice. The two Jedi had been searching for Fa'ale Leh, as part of their ongoing investigation into the many connections Sidious had throughout the galaxy.[3] According to the intel described by the Bith Thal K'sar on Escarte, the Lethan Twi’lek pilot had originally delivered a prototype Sith infiltrator vessel to Darth Maul. She pointed the Jedi in the direction of The Works, a derelict area of decrepit factories and warehouses on Coruscant.[2]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 StarWars.com Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 Labyrinth of Evil
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. II, p. 360 ("Naos III")
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