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Makem Te

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this arid planet, the homeworld of the Swokes Swokes race, was the third planet in the Makem System. Much of the planet's surface was covered with rocky deserts, with crumbling bedrock grudgingly giving way to scrubby plantlife. There was virtually no surface water found on Makem Te, and the Swokes Swokes were forced to tap into underground aquifers to obtain the water they needed. One of the most interesting surface features found on the planet was The Tract, an ever-growing cemetary that contained the remains of some 1.2 trillion Swokes Swokes. By the time of the New Order, The Tract covered more than seven percent of the planet's surface area. An Old Republic scouting party first believed that The Tract was simply a vast northern ice cap, although further investigation revealed its true nature. This investigation also led to the discovery of valuable ores and medical-grade spice being found beneath the desert sands, two facts that gave Makem Te a sudden importance to the Republic. As off-world interests began to strip the planet of its resources, several groups of Swokes Swokes fanatics began to disrupt their operations in an effort to regain control of their planet. During the last years of the Old Republic, a violent civil war erupted on the planet between when the Temple of the Beatific Razor began to take power away from the Congress of Caliphs. A Republic peace-keeping force was dispatched to quell the violence and restore the planet's society, but it was exterminated by the Beatific Razors. The Congress of Caliphs then turned to Count Dooku and the Confederacy of Independent Systems for aide, and the fighting was halted for many years. During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy, Makem Te was briefly attacked, and the orbital refueling station near it was destroyed as part of a plan to disrupt traffic along the Perlemian Trade Route. The planet itself was relatively unscathed, although debris from the station crashed very near to The Tract.