Sump

"I'm sure Chancellor Greylark will agree that we had to seize this opportunity. […]"
"Please, Chancellor Mollo. To what opportunity are you referring?"
"For the Republic and the Jedi to bring peace to this system and beyond! We've received requests for aid from Sump and Shuraden. We've gotten word Merokia has cut off all ties to E'ronoh. This war is now affecting the trade routes in the Koradin sector."

―Supreme Chancellor Orlen Mollo and Creighton Sun^[6]

Sump was an Outer Rim Territories planet located in the Koradin sector. It was the homeworld of the sentient Nuknog species. In 382 BBY, Sump was affected by a war fought between planets Eiram and E'ronoh of the Eiram system, and it consequently submitted multiple aid requests to the Galactic Republic.

Description

Sump was a terrestrial^[5] planet^[7] located in the Sump system, a part of the Koradin sector^[3] of the Outer Rim Territories^[1] and the Western Reaches.^[2] Situated in grid square I-18 of the Standard Galactic Grid, it was linked by^[1] the Lipsec Run^[4] hyperspace route to the Merokia and Shuraden systems, with another route branching off at Sump and connecting to the Eiram system.^[1]

History

Sump was affected by a war between planets in the Eiram system (pictured).

In 382 BBY,^[8] the war fought between the Eiram system's planets Eiram and E'ronoh also affected worlds beyond the system, including Sump. The latter planet eventually submitted multiple requests for aid from the Galactic Republic, a fact that the Republic's Supreme Chancellor Orlen Mollo noted to Jedi Master Creighton Sun at one point around that year.^[6] At some point, Sump was mentioned in an entry of an artist's journal dedicated to the native Nuknog species. The journal was restored, expanded, and displayed at the Graf Archive^[5] at some point no earlier than 34 ABY.^[9]

Inhabitants

Sump was the homeworld of the sentient Nuknog species,^[5] including^[10] the offworld podracer Ark Roose.^[5]

Behind the scenes

Sump as depicted in the Star Wars Legends continuity — Sump as depicted in the *Star Wars* Legends continuity

Sump was introduced into the current Star Wars canon by the mobile app Star Wars: Force Collection,^[10] which was released on September 4, 2013.^[11] Although its release predates the reset of the Star Wars canon on April 25, 2014, following The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of the franchise,^[12] Lucasfilm Story Group member Leland Chee later confirmed that the game was kept updated to fit with canon.^[13]

Sump originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first mentioned in the 2000 reference book Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I by Kristin Lund.^[14] The world was given its first visual depiction on a map of the galaxy included with the fifth issue of the Star Wars Gamer magazine,^[15] which was published on July 24, 2001.^[16]