He took the young boy as a protege and tasked him with guarding the excavation site against any intruders. During that trip, Palpatine encountered a twelve-year old Galli, who had stowed aboard his yacht Imperialis. In 25 BBY, Palpatine and his Adviser Yupe Tashu traveled to Jakku to supervise an archaeological dig on the Plaintive Hand plateau. Galli chafed under Kolob's care and longed to travel to a better world. As an orphan, he was raised at an orphanage run by the Anchorite Kolob, who lived a life of austerity and strict obedience. The human boy known as Galli grew up on Jakku. He believed that the site would become significant again in the future. About 1,000 standard years before the Battle of Yavin, the Plaintive Hand plateau was the site of an event that was regarded as significant by Palpatine. However, the planet's core still had the vital spark of life essence, something which disgusted Sheev Palpatine. At some unknown point, the planet was reduced to a barren desert wasteland. Dropped like waste." ―Ergel, to Corwin Ballast ĭarth Sidious, known to the galaxy as Emperor Palpatine, regarded Jakku as essential to his Contingency.Įons ago, the planet Jakku was once covered with green vegetation and oceans. Jakku's nearby space featured numerous navigational hazards and anomalies, with confidence in hyperspace routes below Bureau of Ships and Services minimum standards for safe navigation. Nearby worlds to Jakku included Ogem and Ponemah Terminal, the latter of which was connected to Jakku by the Burke's Trailing hyperspace route, which also linked Jakku to Adrathorpe. Owing to the planet's distance from populated space, it served as a jumping-off point for warships heading into the Unknown Regions in the final years of the Galactic Civil War. Not all residents were scavengers, however, with the isolated villagers of Tuanul worshiping the Church of the Force, an underground faith of Jedi worshipers hiding from first the Galactic Empire. Lacking a communications grid, spacers seeking to escape debts, create a new life or simply see the galaxy often wound up at Niima Outpost, owing to it having the only navigational beacon. Tuanul, Reestkii, and Cratertown were settlements on the planet, while the trading post Niima Outpost was considered the only major settlement on the planet, and was guarded by the humorless Constable Zuvio and his Niima Outpost Militia. One could become an Anchorite if certain vows were taken, while scavengers often used luggabeasts to carry supplies across the desert. Buttes were located in the south in which lichen could be scraped off of to create the alcoholic beverage Knockback Nectar. It hosted the Wheel Races in the north and mining operations dotted the planet. Niima Outpost was a junkyard settlement named after Niima the Hutt.Īn isolated planet located in the Jakku system within the Western Reaches of the galaxy's Inner Rim, Jakku was once a verdant world with forests and water, but some past calamity turned it into a barren globe of scorched badlands and marching dunes. War ain't got no reason to roll up on this rock." ― Ergel and Corwin Ballast The farthest-flung nowhere rock I could find on a star map." A place where the war will never find us. Wanted to take them as far away from the fighting as I could. A generation later, the planet was the home of the scavenger Rey, who became involved in the events of the Cold War after helping the former First Order stormtrooper Finn and the astromech droid BB-8 escape offworld with a map leading to the missing Jedi Luke Skywalker.īy 35 ABY, Jakku had been placed under the direct control of the First Order, though its populace would later rebel against them following the Battle of Exegol. In 5 ABY, Jakku was the site of the pivotal Battle of Jakku, which ended the Galactic Civil War in favor of the New Republic. Though considered by many within the galaxy to be distant and relatively worthless, Jakku was the site of important events that would shape galactic history. Jakku was a remote desert planet located in the Jakku system, within the Western Reaches of the galaxy's Inner Rim. " Here we have the desert world of Jakku-worthless on its own but soon to live forever in history as the place where the Empire defeated the Rebellion once and for all." ― Grand Moff Randd
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