Sophros

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"This world is alive. Every part of it. From stones to skies. Be wary. As I said—it will defend itself."

―Marchion Ro^[2]

Sophros, which translated as "the Balance," also known informally as Planet X, which it was dubbed by the prospector Radicaz "Sunshine" Dobbs, was a planet located in Wild Space that sat on the edge of the Galactic Frontier. After her experience on the planet, Guide of the Open Hand Marda Ro preferred to think of the planet as a nameless place.

The planet was a nexus in the Force where energies from both the light side of the Force and dark side gathered.

Description

"The beings we believed to be mindless animals are not. They are sentient, although not in the way we typically understand it. This world is a Force nexus, a place where vast amounts of both the dark side and the light gather. The Nameless channel those energies and keep them in balance. That is all they have, and all they need. When Marchion Ro took them from this place, they became maddened and monstrous. They were starving and enslaved, their minds swallowed by hunger."

―Jedi Master Elzar Mann, describing the Shrikarai and Sophros^[4]

A planet with no true name^[3] though known by its natives as Sophros^[4] was located in Wild Space^[1] on the edge of the Galactic Frontier,^[5] near the Unknown Regions.^[6] The entire planet was alive^[2] and a Vergence in the Force. Energies from the dark side of the Force and light side of the Force gathered on world.^[4] The world was dubbed Planet X by hyperspace prospector Radicaz Dobbs.^[3]

It was a diverse, colorful, and paradisiacal planet home to many creatures, including the Under-Dwellers, who longed to escape Planet X,^[3] and the Shrikarai, or "Nameless," who were happy on world but would become hungry monsters if taken off it.^[4] Another being that lived on world was known as the protector.^[3] Furthermore, every part of the planet was in some way alive, including its geology and atmosphere, and it was known to defend itself. The planet had a dangerous and tempestuous atmospheric layer^[2] known as the Veil, which attempted to hold back foreign matter from landing on world.^[3] One way in which an individual could pass through the Veil was after many lives were lost or sacrificed in it,^[2] with those other targets distracting its defenses for the others to pass through.^[3] The Ro family thus thought of passage through the Veil as requiring a great sacrifice in order to reach the treasures below.^[2]

The surface of Planet X had healing properties, but the world's influence got into the heads of whomever arrived; the world's influence instilled a sense of rapture, joy, and euphoria in those who touched down, making them not want to leave and forget their own identities if not fought against. Dobbs theorized it was a defense mechanism to make those who arrived on planet not want to leave or an ability from the Force. Individuals could also feel the flow of the Force, even if they were not Force-sensitive, on world. Ultimately, visitors could even unlock Force-sensitivity due to time spent on Planet X, although those powers could just as easily leave the person should they leave the world.^[3]

Unlike underground passages on other worlds, a kelp-like vegetation covered the rock walls of a cave system, past which the Under-Dwellers lived. During the Path of the Open Hand's mission to Planet X, that kelp-like plant life and a number of small bug creatures attacked an Under-Dweller that attempted to get out. The protector itself also intervened to hold back the Under-Dweller and then attacked the Path, who were attempting to leave the world with Nameless eggs. The Veil itself, too, seemed to expand out to try and stop their escape.^[3]

History

Distant past

Some time in pre-history the blight emerged in this region of space. The planet was constructed by unknown parties to contain the blight from escaping into the rest of the galaxy. At the center of the planet was an area in perfect harmony between the light and dark side of the force where the blight was held at bay. The planet had been formed around two force vergences, one dark and one light, each corresponding to either the sub-terrain area of the planet or to the surface of the planet. The number of Nameless on the planet helped keep the areas in balance by eating the creatures that resided on it. When too many nameless were taken off planet or killed, it unbalanced the world allowing the blight to escape its prison.^[4]

Discovery by Dobbs

Around 400 BBY, rumors persisted of the planet's existence.^[5] In 382 BBY,^[7] Radicaz "Sunshine" Dobbs traveled to the planet with hyperspace prospectors Spence Leffbruk and Dass Leffbruk. While flying through the atmosphere of the planet, Spence and Dass' ship was damaged. Dobbs agreed to help them off the planet for half the reward of discovering the planet. Instead, Sunshine abandoned them on the planet Gloam.^[8] Sometime later Graf clan scion Sky Graf and Dass Leffbruk sought to find the planet, and intended to traveled there with Jedi Padawan Rooper Nitani. The three were forced to abandon their attempt when Nitani was called to Dalna by her Jedi Master Silandra Sho.^[9]

Path mission

Around the same time, Guide Marda Ro accompanied other members of the Path of the Open Hand to find more of the Nameless to use against the Jedi Order. One member of the team was a Force-sensitive named Calar, whose skill in tracking would help the Path locate the eggs. His abilities, while rationalized by fellow team member Bokana Koss, disturbed Ro and played a part in her disillusionment with the Mother's leadership over the cult. During the push through the Veil, Calar experienced a Force vision of grave consequences their mission would unleash upon the galaxy, begged his fellow Path members to turn back, and ultimately tried to destroy the ship himself to protect the greater galaxy and the Force, but he was killed by Dobbs before he could succeed.^[3]

After landing on world, Bokana Koss and Shea Ganandra developed powers in the Force, which concerned Marda, who was already disturbed by Calar's inclusion. While Koss was able to guide the Path to the eggs, he then experienced a vision that revealed their actions would allow the Under-Dwellers to spread out into the greater galaxy as a blight, the consuming power foretold by Calar. Koss was able to snap out of his vision when an Under-Dweller attacked, with that Under-Dweller then defeated by a being called the protector. The protector and the Veil both tried to prevent the Path's escape from Planet X with the eggs but failed. However, the Path was then put down by the Jedi and their allies in the Night of Sorrow, but Marda survived.^[3]

Nihil mission

The Nihil ship Ikoru travels through Planet X's Veil. — The Nihil ship *Ikoru* travels through Planet X's Veil.

Knowledge of Planet X and how to get through the Veil were spread down through the Ro family line^[2] started by Marda.^[10] Sometime between 231 BBY and 230 BBY,^[11] Eye of the Nihil Marchion Ro^[2]—a descendant of Marda's^[10] who had been raised to fulfill his family's revenge.^[12]—and a group of Nihil devotees called the She'ar visited the planet to retrieve members of the Nameless. After sacrificing members of the group to the planet's atmospheric veil, Ro was able to pass through it safely and landed on the planet in the Cloudship Ikoru. Then Ro activated an ancient control rod to summon the Nameless, but in doing so caused all of the planet's creatures to attack him and his group. However, Ro managed to secure several of the creatures and departed the planet with them in the Ikoru.^[2]