Selonia

One of the five inhabited worlds in the Corellian system, Selonia has a clean blue sky and a surface composed of hundreds of islands separated by innumerable seas, inlets, and bays. Terrain on the many islands includes meadows, woodlands, and rolling hills. The small land areas are evenly distributed around the planet-- no point on land is more than 150 kilometers from the water, and no water is more than 200 kilometers from land. Famous sights on the world include the Cloudland Peaks. Beneath the surface of Selonia is a powerful planetary repulsor, which was used in ancient times to transport the planet into its current orbit from an unknown location. Selonia is the homeworld of the alien species known as Selonians, who have thick tails, sleek fur, and long faces filled with needle-sharp teeth. Selonians are hive animals, who live together in genetically-related dens. Each den is made up of one fertile female (the queen, who gives birth to all members of a den), a few fertile males, and several hundred sterile females. All sterile females with the same father are said to be in the same "sept," and members of a sept are genetically identical. It is the sterile females who interact with other species and perform all the important functions of Selonian life; the fertile Selonians are treated merely as breeding stock. Selonians make poor liars and have a deep psychological need to reach a consensus among each other, even if the resulting agreement does not always make sense. Selonians are often comfortable inhabiting underground tunnels and warrens. Many years ago, a Selonian den tried to cheat other members of their same den. For this dishonor, the perpetrators were exiled from Selonia and Corellia, and eventually settled on Sacorria. Fourteen years after the Battle of Endor, two Selonian factions-- the Republicists and the Absolutists-- struggled for control of the planetary repulsor. The Republicists intended to turn it over to the New Republic in exchange for Selonian sovereignty, while the Absolutists planned to use it as a weapon for the creation of Selonian independence. The Hunchuzuc Den, allied with the Republicists and the Chanzari Den, proposed to use Han Solo as a bargaining chip to open negotiations with the New Republic. The Overden, the ruling power on Selonia and allied with the Absolutists, won the Hunchuzuc over to their side when they claimed to control the Selonian repulsor. Kleyvits, representing the Overden, held Leia Organa Solo captive and tried to force her to recognize Selonia's independence from the New Republic. When it was revealed that the dishonored Saccorian Selonians were actually operating the repulsor, the Overden suddenly lost all power in favor of the Hunchuzuc Den. During the crisis, a Bakuran attack force led a diversionary assault on Selonia and one of its ships was destroyed by Selonia's repulsor. [AAC, AAS, SAC]