Ando / Legends Ando was an oceanic planet located in the Ando system of the Mid Rim . It was the homeworld of the Aqualish species . Description . Ando developed a single sentient species known as the Aqualish early in galactic history . Originating from the sea which covered 95 percent of the world , they began to establish permanent settlements on what little land remained and supplemented it with sailing ships that doubled as mobile homes . The Aqualish developed into three subspecies , the Aquala , the Ualaq and the Quara . The majority of the world ' s islands were sustained by a decaying swamp ecosystem and covered in steamy mist . Ando and her colonies were together known as the Spiverelda , which throughout its history was alternately ruled by the Aqualish and the distantly - related Harch of nearby Secundus Ando . The government tended towards turbulence and violence . History . Early history . The Aqualish evolved into three races which were constantly at war with each other : the Aquala , the baseline race of the oceans , the Quara of the wetlands , and the Ualaq of the caves and dark rain forests . Each race believed they were the dominant branch , leading to the Aqualish Civil War . Beginning with allegations leveled by the Aquala that the other two races caused a decline in the harvests of fish , the war ultimately ended in a treaty which saw the unification of all three races . After the war ended , a group of Human settlers stumbled upon the world and were killed by the startled and aggressive Aqualish . Confiscating the ship which brought the supposed invaders to the world , the Aqualish extrapolated the secrets of space travel from the exploratory craft and set forth on a campaign of conquest to the neighboring world of Andando . Not long after the landing , Andando was left a smoldering ruin , rendered inhospitable by the barbarous Aqualish . Galactic Republic . Discovered by the Galactic Republic during the Great Manifest Period , envoys attempted to make contact with the inhabitants of Ando and were rebuked with hostile fire . This quickly led to the Aqualish – Republic War that , while bloody , quickly ended in the defeat of the Aqualish . Defeated , Ando joined the Republic in 15 , 000 BBY , the beginning of the Kymoodon Era . During the Great Sith War , Ando was attacked an conquered by the Sith empire as part of the Krath Holy Crusade . While the Empire was defeated and Ando returned to the Republic , it was claimed by the Brotherhood of Darkness during the New Sith Wars . Following the Ruusan Reformation , Ando returned to the Republic again . In 102 BBY , the Aqualish colonized Andosha II and and numerous other planets in the Lambda sector . From 57 BBY , however , the colonies attempted to declare independence of the Spiverelda government based on Ando , forming the Andoan Free Colonies . Backed by Secundus Ando , Ando attempted to regain its colonies in the Andoan Wars until the Galactic Republic intervened in 39 BBY . The two sides were separated , but due to the constant violence erupting across the world , the Republic dispatched the Ando Demilitarization Observation Group to ensure the de - escalation of violence ; Master Jorus C ' baoth of the Jedi Order served as one of the group ' s primary observers . Clone Wars . Represented in the Galactic Senate by Po Nudo before the Separatist Crisis , the memory of the defeat in the Andoan Wars was still raw on Ando , and the world seceded in 23 BBY along with Sy Myrth , a move contested by the Andoan Free Colonies , which retained representation in the Senate under Gorothin Vagger . Under the leadership of Ualaq Senator Po Nudo and First Minister Daragi Hoba , Ando touched off a string of secessionist worlds that would later form the Confederacy of Independent Systems in 22 BBY . Nudo became a prominent Separatist leader and a member of the Separatist Council . As the war spread across the galaxy , a civil war broke out across the world between both Nudo and Vagger ' s factions . Assisted by the Grand Army of the Republic and Jedi Master Shaak Ti , the battle ended in a Separatist victory . Imperial era . After the rise of the Galactic Empire , former Separatist worlds suffered heavily from intense Imperial scrutiny . Appointing an Aquala Senator to replace the recently murdered Nudo , the Senator served until the disbanding of the Imperial Senate in 0 BBY . Establishing an Imperial garrison on the world , the Imperials ravaged the worlds natural resources , using them to further the Empire ' s war machine . Following the death of Emperor Palpatine , Ando joined the New Republic only to fall into the sight of one of Grand Admiral Mitth ' raw ' nuruodo ' s feint attacks in preparation for his attack on Ukio . Sending the " Bellicose " in 9 ABY , the world was taken by the Empire . Yuuzhan Vong War . During the Yuuzhan Vong War , Ando was attacked by the invaders but was issued an ultimatum : surrender a member of the Jedi Order and destroy all droids on the planet and the Yuuzhan Vong would leave in peace . The Aqualish quickly turned on visiting Jedi Knight Dorsk 82 , but this was ignored by Warmaster Tsavong Lah and an invasion and occupation of their planet ensued , enslaving the race to the foreign invaders . After the war ' s end , the Yuuzhan Vong abandoned the planet , thus freeing the Aqualish from occupation . Ando remained independent and disunited , and therefore never joined the Galactic Alliance . As of 137 ABY , Ando was a member of Darth Krayt ' s Galactic Empire . Behind the scenes . The PC game " " mistakenly places Ando in the Fakir sector of the Galactic Core . The Fakir Sector is actually located in the Inner Rim . Moreover , " " includes an appendix of all sectors and planets appearing in the game , but where the planet Ando would otherwise be included , the strategy guide strangely refers to the planet " Abdrim " instead of Ando , which is not a planet that appears in the game .