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this dry planet had eight continents surrounded by salty oceans. It was located at the intersection of the Perlemian Trade Route and the Hydian Way, and was the fourth planet in the Brentaal System. Brentaal was settled several thousand years before the Battle of Yavin, and they imported a variety of plant and animal life to make the planet more hospitable. A commercial world, Brentaal's economic and political life was run by the noble families of the planet's ruling Houses. It was one of the many planets chose to secede from the Old Republic and join the Confederacy of Independent Systems, during the early stages of the Clone Wars. This gave Count Dooku a way to cut off the Republic's to two major hyperspace routes as well as it's access to the Tion Cluster. Through the efforts of Shaak Ti and Quinlan Vos, Brentaal was liberated from Separatist control. During the New Order, the Houses were overseen by Imperial Governor Jerrod Maclain. The planet was liberated from Imperial control shortly after the Battle of Endor by Rogue Squadron, in a conflict that became known as the Battle of Brentaal. The planet was not known as a tourist location, mainly because its atmosphere was once heavily polluted. Decades of environmental reconstruction restored the atmosphere, but it maintained a natural odor of methane that was unusual to off-worlders.