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Maltha Obex

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this is the Tobek name given to the planet Brath Qella. The Tobek discovered the planet some years after the Old Republic's Third General Survey team found it. The Survey team's follow-up expedition found the planet glaciated, and it was deemed that Brath Qella wasn't worth further effort. The planet seemed to disappear from Republic records, and was forgotten during the reign of Emperor Palpatine. The Tobek took control of the planet, and renamed it Maltha Obex, the name that appeared in the New Republic's database when Kroddok Stopa was dispatched to find Brath Qella. The intense hunt for information about the Qella led to the discovery that the planet originally had two moons. The orbit of one moon decayed, and it collided with the other. The resulting destruction caused both moons to crash into Brath Qella, plunging the world into an ice age. The natives of the planet - known as Qella - fled the world until such time as it recovered from the disaster, when they could return and repopulate it.