Nixus (Haileap system)

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This article is about the gas giant in the Western Reaches' Haileap system.
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"Is that a double gas giant?"
"Certainly looks like it. Since we're still in the Haileap system I'm guessing those are Nixus and Neralus. Which means there is nothing anywhere nearby."
―Avon Starros and Vernestra Rwoh[4]

Nixus was a gas giant located in the Haileap system of the Outer Rim Territories. It formed a double planet with the gas giant Neralus, and both were orbited by the moon Wevo. The system formed by the two planets and their natural satellite was noted in an almanac of planets composed by the Galactic Republic explorer Leric Schmireland around 532 BBY.

Three centuries later, the double planet was observed by the aspiring inventor Avon Starros from a shuttle aboard which she and a group of other individuals had escaped the destruction of the starship Steady Wing. Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh then guessed that the planets were Neralus and Nixus, and Starros' protocol droid, J-6, later looked up information on the gas giants and Wevo in Schmireland's almanac.

Description

Nixus was a gas giant that formed a double planet with the gas giant Neralus and orbited two suns in the Haileap system. It was a part of the Dalnan sector,[4] a subsector of the Tunka sector[3] in the Outer Rim Territories[1] and the Western Reaches,[2] and was located in grid square I-19 of the Standard Galactic Grid.[1] The small jungle moon Wevo orbited Neralus and Nixus, with one of the two planets appearing brown-and-orange-striped from the moon's surface and looming large in its sky.[4]

History

"But, as to your other question, there is one location in the almanac that describes a heavily forested area with a corrosive rain. It orbits a double gas giant with dual suns and is designated as Moon Two-Three-One-Two-Three-Four, but known colloquially as Wevo."
―J-6, to Avon Starros[4]
Nixus and its sister planet, Neralus, were orbited by the moon Wevo (pictured).

Nixus and its sister planet, Neralus, were orbited by the moon Wevo (pictured).

The system formed by Nixus, its sister planet, and their moon was noted in an almanac of planets catalogued by the Galactic Republic explorer Leric Schmireland and his team[4] around 532 BBY. In 232 BBY,[5] a maintenance shuttle of[4] the star cruiser[6] Steady Wing, aboard which a party consisting of Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh, Jedi Padawan Imri Cantaros, the aspiring inventor Avon Starros, the human Dalnan Honesty Weft, and the droids J-6 and SD-7 had escaped the starship's destruction, traveled through the Haileap system, eventually approaching Wevo. When Cantaros let Starros know of the latter fact, she observed the double planet and its moon through the spacecraft's viewport, and Rwoh speculated that, since they had not left the Haileap system, the planets had to be Neralus and Nixus, further noting that there was "nothing anywhere nearby." After the shuttle landed on Wevo, Starros requested that J-6, her protocol droid, look up any information on their location present in Schmireland's almanac, with the droid subsequently reporting that the document indeed mentioned Wevo and the planets it orbited.[4]

Behind the scenes

Nixus appeared in the 2021 junior novel The High Republic: A Test of Courage, written by Justina Ireland and published as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's[4] Phase I.[7] The book's cover art, done by Petur Antonsson, depicts one of the two planets orbited by the moon Wevo, but it has not been specified whether the world seen in the illustration is Nixus.[8]

Appearances

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Star Wars: The Acolyte: The Visual Guide — Based on corresponding data for Haileap system
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: The Acolyte: The Visual Guide places the Haileap system, and thereby Nixus, in the area of space Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the Western Reaches.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 StarWars.com Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version) — Based on corresponding data for the Haileap system
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 The High Republic: A Test of Courage
  5. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of The High Republic: A Test of Courage, which establishes that Leric Schmireland's composition of an almanac mentioning Nixus took place approximately three centuries prior, to 232 BBY.
  6. ↑ The High Republic: Mission to Disaster
  7. ↑ StarWars.com Every Star Wars: The High Republic Book and Comic Series (So Far) on StarWars.com (backup link; content not present on current version)
  8. ↑ ArtStation-Logo Petur Antonsson (@paacart) on ArtStation: Star Wars The High Republic (backup link)