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this planet is the second world in the Kattellyn System, and was ravaged during the Clone Wars. The once-beautiful landscape supported Human and Ee life, but was reduced to an arid wasteland after a prolonged battle between the Army of the Republic and the forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. There were few survivors of the Battle of Atraken, when Separatist forces unleashed biochemical weapons in order to defeat the clone troopers of the Old Republic. Although the Old Republic claimed that Operation Katabatic was a success, the chemicals unleashed by the Separatists seeped into the soil and continued to kill of the natives for many years to follow. Many inhabitants fled to the moon of Trilos to live in pressurized settlements. Atraken rotates once every twenty standard hours. Its year lasts 304 local days. It has three moons.