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this water-covered planet was the homeworld of the Kaminoan race. It was the fifth planet in a star system located in the area known as Wild Space, beyond the Outer Rim Territories. The system itself was actually part of a dwarf satellite galaxy that spun within the known galaxy, some twelve parsecs to the south of the Rishi Maze. Kamino was constantly swept by intense rainstorms, earning it the nickname "Planet of Storms." Centuries before the Battle of Geonosis, the planet's surface was made up of flat landmasses that were separated by choppy oceans. Huge glaciers and thick polar caps kept a large part of the planet's water supply under control. Most cities were established on the temperate coastlines. A sudden rise in planetary temperature caused the polar caps to melt completely in less than 200 years, submerging all the landmasses under roiling oceans of water in an event known the Great Flood. Even the planet's best geologists were unprepared for the amount of water that was contained in the glaciers and ice caps. Retreats that were built on mountaintops were quickly abandoned to the rising water. This change in surface level caused additional problems by changing the atmospheric density and configuration, which resulted in the massive storms that swept the planet, dumping more rain into the oceans. The native Kaminoans adapted these changes by building stilted cities that stuck out of the water, sitting above the waves on thin, sturdy columns that provided little resistance to the water. Shortly after the Battle of Naboo, it was on the stilted cities of Kamino that Jango Fett was cloned to create the clone armies used during the Battle of Geonosis. Like many planets, Kamino experienced regular seasons. However, these seasons were marked by variations in heat and cloud cover, but the rains never stopped. The oceans of Kamino held a wide variety of life, including huge cousins of the colo claw fish and opee sea killers found on Naboo. The planet was orbited by three moons. Near the end of the Clone Wars, Kamino was attacked by the Mandalorian Protectors, who were acting under orders from the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The attacks left the cloning facilities in shambles, cutting off one of the Republic's primary sources of clone troopers.