Sedesia

A high-gravity planet located in the Mid-Rim, Sedesia is an arid, cold world of tundra, forests, and mountains. The planet's severe axial tilt causes extreme seasonal changes and unpredictable weather, and all planetary travel is restricted to ground vehicles due to the violent windstorms. Sedesians cross the planet's surface on six-legged reptilian mounts called striders, and sometimes on unique, single-wheeled machines called wheelbikes. Sedesia has been colonized for several hundred years, and its 1.5 million settlers are primarily stubborn breedtash ranchers known for their independence and sympathy towards the Rebellion. The planet's capital and largest city is Besia Osurne, home to 250,000 people and containing the popular Trail's End tavern near the stockyards. The Empire, testing a pathogen-based loyalty enhancement project, infected the entire population of Sedesia with a deadly plague called the Gray Death through aerial spraying. Imperial forces set up medical facilities, ostensibly to protect the citizens from the plague, but in reality forcing them to become dependent on the Empire for their continued survival. [SWAJ]