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Calamari
System: CalamariAn ocean-covered world with little solid land mass, Calamari was originally known as Dac. It was the homeworld of two amphibious races, the Mon Calamari and the Quarren. Because of the role of the Mon Calamari in defeating the Empire, many beings came to call the planet Mon Calamari, or simply Calamari. This rankled the Quarren population, who accepted the name change but used the name Dac in their own conversations. Calamari was a tectonically stable world, lacking any mountains to break up the ocean that covered its surface. Calamari was orbited by a single moon. Its day lasted about 21 standard hours, and its year spanned 398 local days. The planet was covered with deep oceans, with many islands and coral atolls. Much of the exposed land was marshy, and incapable of supporting any kind of civilization. Thus, the two native species turned to building floating cities from the ores mined from the ocean floor. Some parts of the cities were exposed above the ocean's surface, but the majority of the space in Calamarian cities was underwater.
Much of the planet's history was written in the civil wars staged between the Quarren and the Mon Calamari, although these wars became little more than skirmishes as both sides lacked the firepower to destroy each other. That all nearly changed with the onset of the Clone Wars, when the Quarren Isolation League threatened to turn the planet over to the Separatists. Only the intervention of Jedi Master Kit Fisto, and his rallying of the Mon Calamari Knights, managed to fend off the Quarren and keep the planet free. However, the resentment between the two races continued to ferment just below the surface. When the Quarren assumed control of the planetary government, in the wake of the Battle of Caamas, they reverted using the planet's original name, Dac.
Calamari was also famous for its orbital shipyards, another fact which made the planet a prime target for opposing factions throughout the history of the galaxy. For many decades, the Mon Calamari controlled the planetary government, and allied the shipyards with the Alliance and the New Republic. In the wake of the Second Battle of Coruscant, and the death of Borsk Fey'lya, the New Republic's provisional government - led by the newly-elected Chief of State Cal Omas - was established on Calamari. After the surrender of the Yuuzhan Vong near Coruscant, the Galactic Alliance put plans in place to rebuild Coruscant to once again serve as the political center of the galaxy. Because of its remote location, Calamari was returned to the Quarren and the Mon Calamari when the Galactic Alliance chose to make its temporary base on Denon. In the years that followed, the Quarren assumed more and more control over the shipyards, and eventually allied them with the New Empire. The shipyards were badly damaged when Admiral Gar Stazi tried to steal the Star Destroyer Imperious, crippling the New Empire's ability to produce and repair starships.
Source Abbreviations Listing - E6, DE1, SWSB, GG4, DA, COTF, DESB, DW, OWS, UF, SWLI, SWLW, XWP
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