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the original homeworld of the Hutt race, Varl was the only planet in the Ardos system. Once a lush, forested paradise, Varl was later rendered a cratered wasteland which no longer had the necessary resources to maintain itself. Hutt legend said the planet was destroyed when Ardos' twin star, Evona, was sucked into a black hole. Hutt legends maintained that Ardos and Evona were lovers, and that the many planets in the system were their children. When the black hole consumed Evona and many of the system's planets, legend held that Ardos became enraged and began to self-destruct. This led to Ardos' shedding of incredible amounts of radioactive material and shrinking to become a white dwarf. At this point, the Hutts no longer felt Ardos a worthy god, and abandoned Varl and the Ardos System. The fact that Ardos and Varl actually existed was an astrophysical impossibility. Some scientists theorized that the Hutts devastated the planet in a civil war. The Hutts left the dying planet and established colony worlds elsewhere, including Nal Hutta. From space, Varl was a brown ball of rock and dust, with large portions of the planet visibly glowing from radiation. Much of the precipitation that fell wsa in the form of acid rain, and all of the planet's surface water was contaminated or toxic. The major cities were allowed to crumble and fall, cluttering the landscape with twisted wreckage. The only inhabitants were the slaves left behind by the Hutts, and a few beings who worked in the squallid manufacturing facilities that still operated on the planet.