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this was the name of the native human population of the planet Haruun Kal. This people was semi-nomadic, shunning permanent settlements for nomadic tribes known as ghosh, in an effort to avoid being caught in one of the planet's many storms. In this way, they helped ensure their continued survival despite the planet's toxic, gaseous oceans. The Jedi Council believed that a starship transporting Jedi Knights during the Great Sith War crashed on Haruun Kal, and that the survivors were, in fact, the ancestors of the Korunnai. This theory was the primary proposal for the reason behind the fact that all Korunnai could touch the Force. A simpler theory was that the Korunnai evolved over time to use the Force to predict Downstorms; only those with an advantage could survive the waves of toxic gas that accompanied the storms. During the years leading up to the Clone Wars, the Korunnai and their low-country neighbors, the Balawai, were locked in a vicious civil war which became known as the Summertime War. The native Korunnai had been displaced by the offworlders, and fought to maintain their independence. Both sides of the conflict were brutal to their opponents, with a certain amount of "recreational torture" occurring to prisoners before they were executed.