Cerea is a peaceful terrestrial planet in the system of the same name located in the Mid Rim. The native Cereans have shunned technology for the longest time, and even only joined the Republic shortly before the Battle of Naboo. Still, technology was brought to the planet by off-worlders, but it is contained exclusively in spaceport cities called the Outsider Citadels. Mostly, the spectacular vistas of endless rolling valleys, crystal clear lakes and rivers, majestic snow-capped mountains, and thick, lush forests are left unspoiled.

Cereans live in cities built using natural resources, and travel on animals or boats. The Cerean males have a very low birthrate, so it is socially accepted for a male to have several wives.

Cereans have also founded an order of monks that practice a philosophy called the Zwei-do. The use the Zwei (or the Force) to always improve themselves and learn melee combat techniques of martial arts. The Zwei-do monks had a temple in the snowy mountains, but it was recently destroyed by agents of the Emperor. Only one Zwei-do monk is known to have survived. His name is Maeyvin and he recently visited the ruins of the temple, and found clues as to the identity of the destroyers of the Zwei-do Order.

Politics: The Corulag government is run by a House of Citizens elected by the populace and presided over by the Imperial governor. There are numerous political parties, but all are solidly in the Imperial camp. Local laws are relatively strict. Personal weapons may be brought onto the planet, but must be registered with the government, which holds the weapon until a 10-day waiting period has elapsed, during which a background check is run on the registrant.

Governor Zafiel Snopps is a no-nonsense captain of industry who is far more concerned with keeping his powerful economy chugging along than in currying favor with his superiors. He is popular with the people of Corulag, since he used to be Corulag's representative in the Imperial Senate before receiving a special appointment as governor when that body was disbanded. The Emperor, who rarely grants such favors, is reconsidering the wisdom of his decision as Zafiel's popularity rises.

Culture: The people of Corulag are wealthy and productive, and pay little attention to worlds less favored and fortunate. They bask in the knowledge that their success as a society is entirely due to their superior abilities and culture. Actually, their successes in the Imperial era are largely due to the fact that Corulag latched itself firmly to the fortunes of Senator Palpatine, and rode with him all the way up to the top. It also doesn't hurt that Coruscant is only a few hours away via the hyperlanes.

Economy: Corulag is the home of several high tech firms, including Gowix Computers, Danthe Artifice, Ltd., Gwain Spices, and the Mansom Corporation. Sienar Fleet Systems maintains a major research and development complex near Dammon University in Curamalle.

Points of Interest: Corulag hosts the Corulag branch of the Empire-spanning Academy. Corulag Academy is the sister school of Raithal Academy, and is only slightly less prominent. Like Raithal, Corulag Academy prepares the most talented young Imperial citizens for military service. The main campus is situated in Curamalle, and there is a training facility on the Imperial Navy base located on Corulag's largest moon. Corulag Academy accepts qualified students from most of the Core, and a smaller number from other regions. A surprising number of students from Corulag itself enter the Academy, and as a result, natives of Corulag often become senior Imperial officers.

The high technology of the Duros turned their world of origin into a wasted, spent, and fouled planet. Any useful resources were extraced long ago, and the atmosphere became a dangerous mixture of poisonous gases several thousands of years ago. The population of Duro relocated to massive orbital cities high above the now-toxic world from which they sprang.

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System Datafile: Tatooine is the principal planet in the Tatooine Star System, located in Arkanis Sector in the Outer Rim Territories. Twin suns - Tatoo I and Tatoo II - reflect off the sand-covered world, giving Tatooine the appearance of a third sun. Sodium-rich sand and flat expanses of rock, dunes, and cramped canyons form most of the landscape of the desert world. High winds sweep oceans of sand into the atmosphere, creating dangerous and frequent sandstorms.

Dry, hot, and inhospitable, Tatooine is nevertheless inhabited by a wide variety of life. Creatures such as womp rats, krayt dragons, jerbas, eopies, cliffborer worms, trooshtis, skettos, gorgs, worrts, urusai, bonegnawers, howlers, raivors and dewbacks seem to be native to the planet. Banthas, rontos, massiffs, scurriers and others were transported to the world by visitors. The planet even boasts a Sarlacc or two.

While people have lived on Tatooine for thousands of years, there have been only intermittent "waves" of colonization. Many turned to moisture farming, setting up homesteads where they toil to pull water vapor out of the atmosphere. When the settlers arrived, they found two sentient species of native inhabitants: the small, skittish Jawas and the tall, powerful Sand People (later called Tusken Raiders). The scavenging Jawas quickly found a place in Tatooine society as traders, but the aggressive Sand People lived as nomads and frequently raided colonist settlements.

From the several Rodian and Human settlers sprouted the spaceports of Mos Eisley, Mos Espa, Mos Taike and Mos Entha. The official capital city and center of government is the town of Anchorhead, but Mos Eisley is the more frequently visited. Besides attracting interstellar commerce, the city attracts social undesirables from the space lanes and other walks of life.

The Empire has a small presence on Tatooine, in the form of an Imperial Governor in the system and a small garrison of Stormtroopers in Mos Eisley.

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Alderaan has several awe-inspiring sights: grassy plains and alien ruins, distinguished universities and celebrated museums, soaring thrantas and dazzling glimmerfish.

For thousands of years Alderaan has been famous as a world of unspoiled beauty and a center of art, culture, and education. The earliest colonists refused to pave their new home with ferrocrete--one Coruscant was enough for them. Instead, cities were built into canyon crevasses, beneath the polar ice, and on stilts in the shallow saline seas.

The rolling plains and gentle breezes attract some of the greatest artists and philosophers who ever lived. Some seek inspiration in the Castle Lands (empty dirt mounds left by long-vanished aliens), while others use the endless fields as their canvas in vast "grass paintings."

Though Alderaan has long been a democracy, it still retains a royal family: House Organa. The Organas, ruling from the capital, Aldera, took an active role in the Old Republic government and helped oversee the voluntary demilitarization of their world after the bloody Clone Wars. After Palpatine's rise, Bail Organa became a founding member of the Rebel Alliance, and his adopted daughter, Leia, followed in his footsteps.

From the Coyn Bureau of Tourism:

You are approaching the planet Coyn, Gateway of Elrood Sector, and homeworld of the proud and noble Coynite people.

Coyn is famous for its weaponry and is also home to the Mercenary Guild of Coyn, which boasts the mightiest warriors of this world. Our mercenary activities are famous throughout the galaxy.

As our guests, you are expected to honor and obey the En'Tra'Sol, the King-Law. It is a legal system that has provided for our needs for thousands of years, and it is the standard of conduct by which all are judged.

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