Ralltiir / Legends Ralltiir was a planet in the Ralltiir system of the Darpa sector in the Core Worlds . The second planet in orbit of the star Rallt , Ralltiir had twenty - eight moons and three continents that wrapped around the planet . A major financial center in the galactic economy , Ralltiir was a member world of the Galactic Republic but remained largely neutral in galactic politics to ensure that the finances of its inhabitants remained safe from political influences and war . Located in the Ringali Shell , a string of planets along the Perlemian Trade Route that lay near the Ringali Nebula , Ralltiir was one of the only planets in the Darpa sector to remain independent from the Esselian Empire . Besides its financial services , Ralltiir was also a major source of marble , as the planet ' s mountain ranges featured large deposits of marble and were riddled with quarries , and its population of 10 billion sentients was almost entirely Humans . During the Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic , Emperor Palpatine decided to make an example of Ralltiir and dispatched Lord Tion with an Imperial fleet to the Ralltiir system in 0 BBY . Tion ' s bombardment and subsequent invasion of the planet , coupled with a blockade of the Ralltiir system that choked off the Perlemian Trade Route , lasted almost four years . Governor Dennix Graeber ' s corrupt rule of the shattered planet was finally ended when the Ralltiiri resistance brought down the planet ' s shields and allowed the forces of the New Republic to liberate the world . Ralltiir rebuilt its broken economy over the next several decades , and although the planet was briefly captured by a resurgent Empire in 10 ABY , it was once again thriving by the time of the Yuuzhan Vong War in 25 ABY . However , the Ralltiiri ' s fear of economic instability led them to refuse asylum to refugees fleeing from the extra - galactic Yuuzhan Vong species — but the planet was taken by the Yuuzhan Vong nonetheless . By 137 ABY , Ralltiir was a major financial center of the Galactic Empire under the Sith Lord Darth Krayt , and it was the site of a pivotal battle between Krayt ' s Empire , the Empire - in - exile , and the Galactic Alliance Remnant during the Second Imperial Civil War . Description . Ralltiir was the second planet in the Ralltiir system , a star system that was located in the Darpa sector of the Core Worlds . Ralltiir orbited its star Rallt in an orbital period of 255 standard days and had a local day of 19 hours , and Ralltiir was itself orbited by twenty - eight moons . A major financial center of the galaxy , Ralltiir lay along the Perlemian Trade Route in the Ringali Shell — a string of systems along the Perlemian that were situated closest to the Perlemian ' s intersection with the Hydian Way hyperlane . The Shell , which included the planets Esseles , Rhinnal , Brentaal IV , Chandrila , and Corulag , took its name from the Ringali Nebula , a violet - colored nebula that threaded through the region and lit up the nighttime skies of every planet in the Shell . Ralltiir was situated approximately thirty - one hours away from Rhinnal , the next planet along the Perlemian if one was traveling south along the hyperlane , and Ralltiir lay on the very edge of the boundary separating the Core Worlds from the Colonies region . A terrestrial and temperate world that measured 13 , 449 kilometers in diameter , Ralltiir possessed a standard atmosphere , a moderate hydrosphere , and standard gravity . Ralltiir possessed three main continents , with one located at the southern pole , a second wrapping around the equator , and a third wrapping around the planet near the northern pole . The three continents all featured prominent mountain ranges and undeveloped coastal regions with large expanses of marshes and wetlands . Much of the available land was dominated by Ralltiir ' s numerous cities . The climate and topography of Ralltiir ' s mountains varied greatly ; the mountain ranges that were located at extreme latitudes featured glaciers , while the High Ontis — the central mountain range at the planet ' s equator — was arid and dotted with desert scrub . Ralltiir ' s oceans were unique in that they experienced " balanced " tidal forces , as the gravitational pull of Ralltiir ' s twenty - eight moons largely counteracted each other and therefore did not cause extreme tidal activity . However , the Tas Sea was a particularly turbulent body of water on Ralltiir , and it was dotted by a number of granite outcroppings — some of which were large enough to build entire fortresses upon . Ralltiir ' s primary exports were its financial services and marble , as the planet featured significant deposits of marble . A number of marble quarries were located in the High Ontis , though they had been largely stripped of any valuable marble by the time of the Galactic Empire ' s rise to power . Ralltiir had a well - earned reputation as a stable economic center and a haven for safe investment ; most of the planet ' s financial institutions were politically neutral so as to protect their finances from the political maneuverings and uprisings that affected market stability . Ralltiir was also home to a species of predatory birds known as casting hawk s as well as a creature known as the Ralltiiri glowmite , and a type of fish known as the ralltiirieel was native to the planet ' s oceans . The Ralltiir tiger was a well - known and fierce carnivore native to Ralltiir ' s mountains , and the tigers often experienced fits of blood madness in which they would attempt to kill everything around them . History . Early history . The region of the galaxy which included Ralltiir was widely explored by Humans from the planets Coruscant , Corellia , Kuat , Alderaan , and Alsakan between 27 , 500 – 25 , 000 BBY . When the modern hyperdrive was developed in 25 , 000 BBY , Ralltiir was one of the planets which the newly - blazed Perlemian Trade Route linked together . By that time , the region of space that would become the Darpa sector was under the control of the Esselian Empire , but Ralltiir remained staunchly independent from that Esseles - based government , relying on its extensive interstellar banking system to maintain its independence . Client worlds and corporations would help guarantee Ralltiir ' s neutrality to protect their assets . Ralltiir ' s own currency , the Ralltiiri Colonial , was approximately equal in worth to the Galactic Credit Standard . Despite Ralltiir ' s reputation as a secure center of the galactic economy , it also had another reputation in the decades before the Mandalorian Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Mandalorian warrior culture : it was considered the place where individuals came to make poor purchasing decisions . Galactic fads such as blasters with reversible handles and sing - along holograms originated on Ralltiir in the years before 3963 BBY , and Ralltiir ' s influence led the Republic Navy to assign a battlegroup to guard the world even before the Mandalorians reached the Mid Rim . Ralltiir also received an influx of refugees fleeing the Mandalorian advance in the Outer Rim Territories . By that year , the Muun Dremullar Obohn di Garthos was serving as the curator of the Obohn Gallery of the Industrial Aesthetic on Ralltiir , and his brother - in - law was the Ralltiiri police constable . The Snivvian Marn Hierogryph and his accomplice , the failed Jedi Padawan Zayne Carrick , attempted to scam Obohn into buying fake statuary , and though their scam fell apart initially , the pair ultimately succeeded in scamming Obohn for a large sum of credits . They later left Ralltiir aboard the stolen freighter " Little Bivoli " , though they were forced to join part of the Republic battlegroup when the convoy departed the Ralltiir system . During the Great Galactic War between the Republic and the Sith Empire , Agent Marcus Trant of the Republic Strategic Information Service — the Republic ' s intelligence agency — participated in a covert operation on Ralltiir . The Human Archiban Kimble was born on Ralltiir in 3668 BBY , and the planet was represented by Senator Wain Andrell in the Galactic Senate of the Galactic Republic during the Cold War between the Republic and the Sith Empire . Rise of the Empire . During the final decades of the Republic , Alexi Garyn , the leader of the Black Sun criminal syndicate , maintained a fortress in the Tas Sea as his base of operations . In 33 BBY , the Sith Lord Darth Maul was sent to assassinate Garyn and dismantle Black Sun ' s leadership . Maul stormed Garyn ' s fortress and eliminated all of the Black Sun forces present before killing the criminal leader himself . Also during that year , Maul eliminated an entire hive of the Bartokk species in a remote region of Ralltiir , around thirty - eight kilometers south of the city of Grallia . Several criminal organizations , including the Wookiee organization Kalmec , were headquartered on Ralltiir by the time of the Separatist Crisis , when hundreds of star systems were departing the Republic and joining the Confederacy of Independent Systems . In 22 BBY , during the Separatist Crisis , Ralltiir sponsored Team Ralltiir as the planet ' s limmie team in the Galactic Cup of Limmie , and Team Ralltiir defeated Team Tralus in an upset match with a single score in the opening round of the Cup . That same year , the Cradle of the Galaxy exhibit — a display of Pre - Republic era artifacts collected by the Allied Tion Historical Society — began its year - long tour on 13 : 4 : 1 when it opened at the Cambriele Exploration Auditorium , and the exhibit stayed there for roughly six months before it continued its tour of the Ringali Shell worlds along the Perlemian by heading to Rhinnal on 13 : 9 : 1 . After the Clone Wars between the Republic and the Confederacy ended in 19 BBY , the Republic was transformed into the Galactic Empire under Emperor Palpatine . The financial center of Muunilinst , a rival of Ralltiir , had supported the Confederacy during the war and had been largely destroyed , leaving Ralltiir with greater financial influence . Ralltiir ' s reputation as a safe haven soon began to draw supporters of the Alliance to Restore the Republic , and Ralltiir was known to be the site of Rebel activity by the year 1 BBY , when the Alliance dispatched intelligence units to Ralltiir and uncovered evidence that the Empire was constructing a superweapon . However , Imperial supporters infiltrated the planet ' s fiscal records and altered them in the spirit of the Empire ' s humanocentric policies . The accounts of both Rebel sympathizers and non - Human investors were wiped clean , but the Ralltiiri High Council denounced the sabotage and worked to reverse the attacks in order to maintain Ralltiir ' s reputation of neutrality and financial safety — actions that were influenced by Rebel sympathizers within the Ralltiiri government . Ralltiir received further scrutiny when its citizens protested against the Empire ' s recent brutal campaign in the Tion Hegemony . Imperial occupation . Ralltiir ' s Senator at the time pandered and deferred to Emperor Palpatine ' s authority throughout the entire affair , but late in the year , Palpatine decided to make an example of the planet and dispatched Lord Tion with an Imperial fleet to Ralltiir . Tion ' s forces arrived in the month 35 : 2 and bombarded Ralltiir ' s surface with his " Imperial I " - class Star Destroyer " Devastator " . The Griffon Flight Wing , a Rebel squadron , attempted to attack the " Devastator " , but their efforts were in vain . The bombardment was followed by an invasion of the planet ' s surface , and the High Council was disbanded and its members arrested . Imperial soldiers occupied Ralltiir ' s cities and martial law was declared ; the population was herded into concentration camps and suspected Rebel sympathizers were executed . The entire Ralltiir system was sealed off in a blockade , and Tion refused to allow even relief organizations entry to the system in the weeks that followed the invasion . Amid Tion ' s " purification campaign , " Senator Leia Organa of Alderaan arrived in the Ralltiir system aboard her starship " Tantive IV " , claiming to be on a diplomatic mission to deliver relief supplies to the High Council . Organa was permitted to land , but Tion met her at the landing pad and informed her of the High Council ' s dissolution . Their conversation was interrupted when a group of Rebels launched a diversionary attack on Tion ' s forces , and Tion sent Organa back to her ship . A wounded Rebel named Basso was able to inform Organa that Tion ' s forces had a surveillance system set up in the city ' s administrative center . Organa was accosted by the Sith Lord Darth Vader , Palpatine ' s right hand , who tried to search her vessel , but Organa manipulated Lord Tion ' s feelings for her in order to ensure that she could leave the planet safely . In the early weeks of the occupation , Commander Akobi of the Imperial Army ordered an attack on what he thought was a Rebel munitions depot — but because the Rebels were blocking his communications , the target was actually a small town called Ettam . By its second month , the Imperial blockade began to negatively affect Ralltiir ' s economy , as Grallia Spaceport had been shut down and the Perlemian Trade Route was effectively cut off . Tion quickly installed a corrupt Imperial governor named Dennix Graeber at the head of a military tribunal , and despite Tion ' s death on Alderaan a few weeks after the start of the occupation , Imperial forces retained military control over the planet for the next few years . Graeber grew wealthy by orchestrating a complex network of " corrupt " inspection officials , smugglers , and contacts that moved contraband military supplies to Rebel cells on Ralltiir , and he used the armed status of the cells to justify further crackdowns on the populace . In 0 ABY , in the months after the Battle of Yavin in which the Alliance won a powerful victory against the Empire , the Empire became aware that two Rebel scientists were hiding on Ralltiir , and dispatched two additional Star Destroyers to bombard the planet until the two surrendered . However , the Alliance ' s Red Squadron were sent to Ralltiir in order to extract the scientists , who were trapped under a DSS - 02 shield generator surrounding the capital of Cambriele with a force of AT - AT walkers searching the nearby region for them . Commander Luke Skywalker , Wedge Antilles , and Lieutenant Sarkli were sent to defend the city with T - 47 airspeeders and ensure that the scientists escaped . The Rebel pilots destroyed the three bridges around the city in order to halt the AT - ATs ' advance , but Sarkli ' s defection to the Empire alerted Skywalker and Antilles to the fact that the battle was a trap . Skywalker , Antilles , and a number of Rebel troopers under the command of Captain Bren Derlin were forced to fight their way through Cambriele and escort the scientists off planet , successfully bypassing the Imperial blockade . Graeber was still in power in late 1 ABY , when authorities launched a raid three weeks in the planning against a secret Rebel armory in the commercial sector of Salibury in the early morning of 37 : 2 : 11 . The raid resulted in the capture of thirty - five Rebels and over 300 tons of weaponry . It was not until 4 ABY , several months after the death of Emperor Palpatine at the Battle of Endor , that the planet was liberated ; the Ralltiir underground succeeded in knocking out Ralltiir ' s planetary shields , allowing a fleet of six Mon Calamari Star Cruiser s sent by the New Republic — the Alliance ' s successor state — to attack the planet . Ralltiir began to rapidly rebuild its shattered economy , which had been forced to rely on the planet ' s still - plentiful marble reverses during the Imperial occupation . However , the Imperial invasion of the Core Worlds during Operation Shadow Hand in 10 ABY sent the markets into recession again when nearly all of Ralltiir was evacuated , and was conquered by the Empire . Fortunately for Ralltiir ' s economy , the reborn Emperor Palpatine was defeated shortly afterward and the Imperial offensive collapsed in the Core , allowing Ralltiir to resume its role as a major financial center . Later history . In 25 ABY , as the intergalactic Yuuzhan Vong species invaded the galaxy , Ralltiir was represented in the New Republic Senate by Ab ' el Bogen . Later that year , as more and more systems fell to the Yuuzhan Vong , the Ralltiiri Secretariat agreed to provide temporary shelter to almost six thousands refugees . However , by the time Ambassador Leia Organa Solo arrived with the refugees at Ralltiir , the Secretariat had vetoed the proposal , as several of the planet ' s investors had objected and caused the banks to pressure the Ralltiir Ministry of Finance and so on until the Secretariat had been forced to revise the decision . Solo and the refugees were denied landing privileges at Grallia Spaceport , and despite Solo ' s attempts to convince Minister Shirka to change the decision , the refugees were force to go to the agriworld Ruan . By 27 ABY , Ralltiir had been conquered by the Yuuzhan Vong , and transports containing Ralltiiri refugees were used as missiles by the Yuuzhan Vong to destroy Coruscant ' s shields during their attack on the New Republic ' s capital . Syal Antilles , the daughter of the famous New Republic pilot Wedge Antilles , changed her name to Lysa Dunton in a Ralltiiri courtyard that had a reputation for being horribly disorganized sometime before 40 ABY . By 137 ABY , Ralltiir had come under the control of the Galactic Empire under the Sith Lord Darth Krayt , and the Coruscant Third Fleet under Admiral Peto Kelsan was stationed in the Ralltiir system in addition to the planetary defenses set up on Ralltiir ' s moons . That year , the forces of the Galactic Alliance Remnant under Admiral Gar Stazi entered the Ralltiir system and attacked the Third Fleet , wiping out part of the planetary defense network and inflicting damage on the Third Fleet in the early stages of the battle . Not long into the fighting , the Bastion Second Fleet of the Empire - in - exile , the Empire under Emperor Roan Fel , arrived to support Stazi as part of his new alliance with Emperor Fel . The Second Fleet ' s Admiral Edouard Fenel called upon the Third Fleet ' s personnel to honor their loyalty to the Emperor Fel , the true Emperor , and most of the Third Fleet accepted Fenel ' s demands and surrendered . However , Captain Vaclen Tor of the Third Fleet frigate " Steadfast " refused to surrender , and his resistance inspired Admiral Kelsan to take back his previous surrender . Kelsan ordered his ships to set their self - destructs and to launch escape pods , but Fenel ' s promise to destroy the escape pods led Admiral Stazi to place the Alliance fleet between the Bastion and Coruscant fleets as a shield . The resultant standoff ended when Emperor Fel himself ordered Fenel to stand down , and Stazi left the still - intact " Steadfast " on Ralltiir as a gift for Fel . Inhabitants . Ralltiir was primarily inhabited by Humans , with Humans making up 96 % percent of the planet ' s population of 10 billion inhabitants . Ithorians , Wookiees , and Quarren were among the various alien species who also made Ralltiir their home . Ralltiirians or Ralltiiri , as the natives of Ralltiir were most commonly known , were considered to be cultured and dedicated to the financial industry , though their society was split by pro - Imperial and pro - Rebel factions during the Galactic Civil War . Almost all professionally - employed Ralltiiri were involved in finance , and the few who were not were involved in crime or worked as artisans or laborers in the marble - mining industry . The large number of Humans on Ralltiir led to a cultural tendency for the planet ' s elite to adopt the current culture and dress of Coruscant , and the tendency was particularly strong during the reign of the Empire . A number of corporations controlled Ralltiir ' s mining industry , including Xwizi Marble and the Imperial - subsidized Ralltiir Consolidated Marble . The Regency Spires Imperial Trust was one of the few companies to survive the Imperial occupation largely intact , as it primarily served Imperial officers and officials . The Trel family was an influential family of investors native to both Ralltiir and Coruscant . Locations . Ralltiir ' s capital was the city of Cambriele , which was the site of the famous Cambriele Exploration Auditorium and the Dusky Sky Café as well as the home of the power cell - manufacturing Cambriele SolidState Corporation . Salibury was a substantial city - state and one of Ralltiir ' s major population centers along with the city of Grallia , which sat across the idyllic Lake Grallia from the sprawling Grallia Spaceport . The University Faculty Medical Center was also located on the shores of Lake Grallia . Ralltiiri architecture was rather varied in style ; numerous styles and types of buildings were mixed throughout the planet ' s cities , with old and new buildings side by side . Unlike some other Core Worlds , the buildings of Ralltiir ' s cities were not segregated economically . Demilla City was another city on Ralltiir , and the Darpa Hotel was a famous hotel that had existed on Ralltiir sometime before 43 ABY . Behind the scenes . Ralltiir was first mentioned in the " Star Wars " radio drama in 1981 , and the Empire ' s subjugation of the planet has been mentioned in a number of sources over the following decades . Ralltiir has been occasionally misspelled as both Raltiir and Ralltir in different publications , such as the issue of the and the " " . The video game " " mistakenly places Ralltiir in the Fakir sector of the Galactic Core , though the Fakir sector is actually in the Inner Rim . The roleplaying guide " Coruscant and the Core Worlds " mistakenly used the image of the planet Rhinnal in its entries for both Rhinnal and Ralltiir , and " The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide " repeated the mistake by using Rhinnal ' s picture for Ralltiir . Ralltiir was cut from the 2006 video game " " before the game was released , though images of the planet remained in the game ' s files .