Felucia / Legends Felucia ( or / fʌ ' lusiə / ) was a largely unsettled terrestrial jungle planet in the Felucia system of the Thanium Worlds in the Outer Rim Territories . Located near the junction of the Perlemian Trade Route and Shaltin Tunnels , the world featured a hot and humid atmosphere and significant water resources beneath a surface irradiated by ultraviolet light of the star Felix . Native plant , fungal , and animal life evolved to dominate the environment in a deep symbiotic relationship , causing significant Force energy to permeate the ecosystem . One native species of sentient Felucians developed Force - based tribal societies in subterranean caverns while another socialized in farming communities based around nysillin crop ; both were largely undisturbed by the greater galaxy until 27 , 000 BBY , when the planet was discovered by Gossam Couriver hyperspace explorers / colonists from Castell . After aggressive resistance from the native wildlife indicated that the world would not support large - scale colonies , the new arrivals established hard - fought , scattered resort settlements on the surface . Early populations , comprising only wealthy Gossams and their poor servants , knew the planet as Galuch and retained colonial control over it until around 25 , 126 BBY , when Xim the Despot absorbed the world into his empire as it expanded throughout the Tion Cluster . Xim ' s dominion fell in 25 , 096 BBY , and although Felucia changed political loyalties throughout the millennia , the world and its meager settlements of mixed - species immigrant laborers were entirely controlled by the Gossam - dominated Commerce Guild by 700 BBY . These small settlements eventually developed into commercially administered cities like Kway Teow , Har Gau , Jiaozi , and Niango , pushing the native jungle - dwelling Felucians to retreat into the wilderness . Independent communities of escaped workers , fugitive labor organizers , and Felucian nysillin farmers maintained tenuous communities in the dangerous wilds , but the Commerce Guild retained economic and political control of their world . When the Guild allied with the anti - Galactic Republic Separatist Movement to create the Confederacy of Independent Systems in 22 BBY , Felucia joined the rebellion movement in the Clone Wars as a Confederate fortress world . Separatist General Grievous set up a blockade of the planet early in the war , which was unsuccessfully challenged by the Grand Army of the Republic around the beginning of the conflict . The Republic made a more successful second attempt around a year later . By 19 BBY , the Commerce Guild had once again established its dominance of Felucia and Guild President e Shu Mai chose it as her new headquarters and base of military operations . Its tactical significance made it a primary target in the Republic ' s Outer Rim Sieges , resulting in a bloody months - long battle at the end of the Clone Wars . The battle ended with the near - poisoning of the Felucian water supply and the mass murder of the Republic ' s Jedi commanders with the issuance of Order 66 . The years of violence traumatized the native ecosystem , pushing its natural energies and Force - sensitive inhabitants towards the dark side . During the Great Jedi Purge , Jedi Master Shaak Ti and her apprentice Maris Brood went into hiding in the Felucia jungles , working to bring the shamanistic Felucian tribes away from the dark side . Master Ti was killed by an assassin in 3 BBY , throwing the surviving Felucian shaman and Maris Brood deep into the grip of the dark side . The natural Force power of the natives eventually caught the attention of the Galactic Empire , which prepared to exterminate the tribes in order to preempt any threat their power posed . Brood led hordes of dark - sided Felucians against Imperial invaders , but was herself killed during the fight . Although the Empire later maintained a presence on the planet through the Galactic Civil War , Felucia became heavily trafficked by crime syndicates like the Jabba Desilijic Tiure ' s chapter of the Hutt Cartel and the rival Zann Consortium . The New Republic later wrested control of the world away from the Empire ; it again changed hands during the Yuuzhan Vong War , when the alien invaders claimed it for their Empire . Following the war , Felucia was colonized by Ithorian refugees . Description . Felucia had a diversity of bizarre plants ( such as spike , spore , and enormous plants ) , fungi , and animals which were almost rubber - like and translucent . When the sun shone , the environment glittered like multicolored glass . Most of Felucia was entirely covered by a humid , fetid landscape of huge fungal forests , and its wildlife included native gelagrubs , immigrated acklays , and a prodigious sarlacc . Felucia had strong ties to the Living Force , and as such the world ' s flora and fauna , including Jungle Felucian s , could be influenced by a presence of a strong Force - user , both light and dark . Most plants and animals of Felucia had adapted special defenses to protect them from each other , which made them particularly hostile to off - worlders . Felucia was known to radiate a sort of life force that the native Jungle Felucians were capable of feeling . History . Early history . Originally known as Galuch , the planet was colonized by the Gossam Courivers in 27 , 000 BBY , early in their interstellar history . Felucia was a hard planet to colonize because of its dense forests and creatures . When the Gossams tried to colonize it , many aggressive plants and animals tried to defend the planet , but the Gossams finally gained a few footholds on it . Felucia was one of their earliest colonies , though it was one of the least populated since its vast fungus jungles proved too wild to support large Gossam colonies . As such , the planet became little more that an exotic retreat world for the wealthy Gossam along with their lowly servants and laborers . Circa 25 , 126 BBY , the planet was absorbed into Xim ' s empire as he expanded his borders from the Kingdom of Cron . Sometime before 700 BBY , the planet began to be controlled entirely by the Commerce Guild , and resistance to the Guild was found in scattered townships in the wilderness . These townships were home to escaped workers , criminals , and enemies of the Guild . As colonies spread , the native Jungle Felucian species went underground or lived in small villages in the thickest forests . Many , if not all , of the Jungle Felucians were Force - sensitive , and had a communal relationship with the planet ' s ecosystem . Around 53 BBY , Felucia became a member of the Republic . A little over two months after , Senator Palpatine took up his post on Coruscant , and Felucia was given a seat in the Galactic Senate . The move was viewed by some as a way for the Trade Federation to secure greater support in the Senate . Indeed , some senators , chief amongst them the delegate from Sullust , openly viewed Murkhana as a mere " client world " of the Trade Federation . Clone Wars . At some point during the Clone Wars , a farming community was established on the planet to grow the nysillin that served as a medical herb . The reptilian Felucian farmers were later terrorized by Hondo Ohnaka ' s pirate gang , who demanded that the settlement hand over their harvest . In order to protect themselves , the farmers hired a group of bounty hunters which consisted of Sugi , Embo , Seripas and Rumi Paramita . The Galactic Republic also established a medical station in orbit around the planet in order to treat clone troopers wounded in battle . However , the Confederacy of Independent Systems staged an assault that destroyed the space station and deployed a station that held Vulture droids to destroy any intruders . Felucia later became the headquarters of the Commerce Guild , which supported the Confederacy of Independent Systems , and Felucia would become a valuable member world . In 21 BBY , the Jedi Obi - Wan Kenobi , Anakin Skywalker , Ahsoka Tano , and Plo Koon were involved in a futile assault on the planet . Later in the war , the planet was named by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine as part of a " Triad of Evil , " alongside Mygeeto and Saleucami . Felucia ' s proximity to several important hyperlane s made it an important target for both sides of the war , and the campaigns on the planet dragged on . At one point , Ahsoka Tano was kidnapped by Trandoshan headhunters during the push to take a Separatist outpost . The Republic later sent the 182nd Legion to Felucia to fight Separatist troops on the planet . One month later , contact with the legion had been lost , and the Republic sent the 501st Legion to fight the Separatists . The 501st were confronted by Acklay and flesh - eating diseases for many weeks . The horror of the battle was so bad that one clone said they would have been driven insane , if not for the Jedi Commander Aayla Secura . A group of clones were sent to find a missing AT - TE in the Felucian forest . There they found that Acklay had killed the occupants , but the clones protected their platoon by killing the acklay . After retrieving power cells from a crashed LAAT / i gunship , the clones reactivated the AT - TE and finally broke through the Separatists ' front line by damaging their artillery . The planet was attacked during the Outer Rim Sieges . After the first attack , in 19 BBY , Barriss Offee and Zonder were imprisoned on the planet . Aayla Secura took the " Intrepid " to Felucia to capture Shu Mai and rescue Barriss and Zonder ; meanwhile , the Separatists began their attack on Coruscant . With the help of Padawan Ekria , Aayla Secura rescued Barriss and Zonder from the Nigkoe Detention Facility , resulting in a full - fledged ground battle . The Republic forces then assaulted Shu Mai ' s personal compound , not realizing Mai had already evacuated and was on Utapau . The Jedi infiltrated the compound and found Mai long gone , but managed to shut down the droid army remotely , letting Commander Bly ' s clone troops into the compound , at the same time the " Invisible Hand " was crashing onto Coruscant . Unfortunately , the compound was booby - trapped , and released toxins , killing many clones . The Jedi barely escaped before the entire compound exploded , but many clones did not . The trap also triggered a " poisoned well " policy to keep the planet from being of worth to the Republic , unleashing a highly poisonous biological agent into the water supply of Felucia ' s natural planet - wide aquatic distribution system , capable of infecting the entire planet in four days . Shu Mai had left behind forces ordered to fortify the planet ' s major water - treatment facilities . They knew the only way to prevent the deaths of millions was to take over the facilities and contain the toxin . The Jedi Council sent Stass Allie with clone reinforcements to Felucia . Stass dropped off the clone reinforcements and Padawan Drake Lo ' gaan on Felucia and then headed to Saleucami . The Republic forces split into three forces , each headed toward a different facility : Barriss , Lieutenant Inc , and Lieutenant Barr to Har Gau ; Ekria , Zonder , Drake , and Lieutenant Galle to Jiaozi ; and Aayla and Commander Bly to Niango . Barriss ' forces defeated a Commerce Guild patrol , at the cost of Lieutenant Inc ' s life . Barriss ordered Lieutenant Barr ' s troops to abandon her and go get Lieutenant Galle for help . Meanwhile , Lieutenant Galle used a staged retreat to distract the Commerce Guild forces from the facility at Jiaozi , which the Padawans were able to infiltrate . The Padawans completed their mission at Jiaozi by shutting down the outgoing pipes before the arrival of the toxin , but were unable to access the controls of the Niango and Har Gau . Ekria was puzzled when she detected a Confederacy - encrypted holo from Coruscant being received by Bly , not understanding that it was Darth Sidious relaying Order 66 . Ekria was able to tap into the clone - cam feeds of Bly ' s troops and behold Aayla , who was spooked by the complete silence of the wildlife as she and Bly headed towards Niango . As Aayla was distracted by a native bird taking to the air , she was gunned down from behind by Bly and the other clones . Simultaneously , Barriss was fighting alone , surrounded by droids . To her relief , she saw Lieutenant Galle ' s men seemingly rush to her rescue , but instead they shot her down . The Padawans were horrified by Aayla ' s murder , but able to decrypt the message and hear Order 66 . They then heard a new message on Republic channels from Coruscant : " Calling all Jedi . This is Supreme Chancellor Palpatine . The war is over . I repeat , the war is over . All Jedi are ordered to return to the Jedi Temple immediately . You will receive further instructions when you arrive . " The Padawans then checked Galle ' s clone - cam , and saw that Galle ' s troops were about to burst into the Jiaozi facility to kill the Padawans . The Padawans barely escaped , and would later head to Coruscant . Later events . Since their defeat , Separatist remnants , including Gossam settlers , found shelter in small enclaves in the fungal wilderness , joining forces with fugitive laborers , outlaws and smugglers they formerly persecuted . After the Clone Wars , the damage to the ecosystem combined with the pain and suffering felt on the planet caused many of the force sensitive Jungle Felucian s to teeter dangerously close to the dark side of the Force . This made Felucia an even more dangerous place , in many years to come . Sometime before the Galactic Civil War , the Empire conquered the planet , after the world ’ s capture , they destroyed any local resistance . In the aftermath of Felucia ' s fall , the Empire began to occupy the world . The Imperial forces maintained presence in Kway Teow primarily to gather Gossam slaves for export and to research biological agents takes from diverse and abundant plant life . However , the Consortium continued to offer freedom for the locals against the Empire . During the late days of the Great Jedi Purge , Darth Vader sent his secret apprentice Starkiller to Felucia to deal with Force - sensitives there . Master Shaak Ti had exiled herself to this planet , where she was training the grief - stricken Padawan , Maris Brood , and Jungle Felucians for a confrontation with the Dark Lord . Starkiller fought his way through a small army of Jungle Felucian warriors and engaged Shaak Ti in a lightsaber duel . Despite Master Ti summoning more Jungle Felucians and even calling on the assistance of a Sarlacc , Starkiller defeated her in combat , and after informing Marek about how he could be " so much more " if he turned to the light , she then purposely fell into the pit and conceded her defeat . Marek attempted to save her as she began her plummet , but her body exploded in blue light as she died , causing him to turn back and shield his eyes , this had further plundered Felucia to the Dark Side . Not realizing that Ti was dead , Senator Bail Organa came to convince the Jedi to join his rebellion . Maris , who had been driven insane by the dark side , kidnapped the senator to use to bargain with Darth Vader . However , one year later , a reformed Starkiller redeemed himself by rescuing the Senator . After dueling Maris , he allowed her to live , something that Organa condemned , likening her to Darth Vader . The Empire began operations on the planet to eliminate the native Force sensitives and established a prison facility , from which agents of Bail Prestor Organa rescued Admiral Gilder Varth . During the Galactic Civil War , in 1 BBY , Jabba Desilijic Tiure had sent a Sith holocron that he spent half his wealth on to Felucia to be protected by the Empire , where it was stolen by the Zann Consortium . It was during this time that Tyber Zann here led a contingent of his underworld mercenaries against the Imperial forces . However , Zann would get captured by Imperial forces as part of a trap set up by Jabba , although he would later escape . Sometime afterward , the New Republic liberated Felucia from the Empire ' s rule and ended their reign on the planet . The planet was overrun by the Yuuzhan Vong during their invasion of the galaxy . The Ithorians later colonized the planet , along with Borao , after the devastation of Ithor , under the protection of the Galactic Alliance . Behind the scenes . Felucia was created for . Early concept art for the planet depicted a world of enormous bulbous plants that seeped antigravitic goo into the skies , which later evolved to become the planet Saleucami ( at the time , named " Falucia " ) . Originally designed for an opening montage of Confederacy planets under assault by the Galactic Republic , Felucia later was used during the Order 66 montage scene , serving as the place of the death of fan favorite Aayla Secura . The planet was later explored in the Expanded Universe media such as Paul Ens ' webstrip " Evasive Action : Reversal of Fortune " and , most recently , the " " multimedia project . The planet has been featured in the video games " " and " " as playable battleground . With its background expanded in " The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide " and " The Essential Atlas " , Felucia has also appeared in and of .