Rothana / Legends Rothana was a remote planet in the Rothana system located in Quiberon sector , near the edge of the Outer Rim Territories , most famous for being the headquarters of Rothana Heavy Engineering and the source of the Grand Army of the Republic ' s military materiel during the Clone Wars . Description . A snowy world with arctic terrain , Rothana ' s wildlife was adapted to the freezing conditions . The Rothanian arctic horny whelmer had a wide , squatting , sturdy stance that was mimicked in the design of the RHE All Terrain Tactical Enforcer . As the headquarters of Rothana Heavy Engineering , a subsidiary of Kuat Drive Yards , the planet ' s economy was almost entirely based around shipbuilding and developing military vehicles . Rothana was surrounded by a vast honeycomb of orbital shipyards and dry dock s for KDY ' s secret constructions . The planet was protected by a formidable KDY corporate - security starfleet . History . Rothana was discovered in Wild Space by hyperspace scouts in 800 BBY . Its location was sold to Kuat Drive Yards , which dispatched the noted engineer Quiberon Kuat to the system with thousands of workers and a fleet of starships . In his lifetime , Kuat used Rothana ' s great mineral wealth to create a dense network of shipyards , mines and factories that became Rothana Heavy Engineering , a subsidiary of KDY . Located far from the Core Worlds and isolated from corporate espionage , Rothana became KDY ' s primary site for pursuing secret projects . It was accessible only by a convoluted network of hyperlane s , the locations of which were issued to KDY personnel on a strictly need - to - know basis : KDY ships did not even receive Rothana ' s coordinates . Instead they jumped to one of several points beyond Molavar , the junction of the Triellus Trade Route and the Manda Merchant Route . There they downloaded encrypted hyperspace coordinates and an IFF signal from an RHE hyperspace beacon . Broadcasting the signal then temporarily deactivated the numerous mass - shadow mine s placed along the Rothana Route . Such a convoluted security system caused tragedy in 311 BBY , when the star yacht carrying Ursula Kuat , KDY ' s principal director , was destroyed on the Rothana Route . This sparked the Kuati Succession Crisis , and only decades later did it come to light that Kuat had been killed by rivals on the KDY directorate . Rothana became surrounded by a vast network of shipyards . Due to its close proximity to Kamino , Rothana was chosen by the Kaminoans to manufacture the vehicles and vessels of the clone army they were growing for the Galactic Republic at the request of Jedi Master Sifo - Dyas . In 31 BBY , KDY principal director Onara Kuat received an immense , anonymous order to create a massive force of new military vehicles . In addition to the vast amount of credits KDY received in instalments for the order , it was also given billions more to blaze a new hyperlane from Rothana to Kamino , the Quiberon Line . Over the next nine years , Project Icefang saw the development of thousands of new military vehicles for the clone army . Ships traveled back and forth along the Quiberon Line for testing and training on Kamino . A handful of field tests were conducted elsewhere , but were so few that sightings of the new vehicles were dismissed as fantasies . During the Clone Wars , Rothana continued to produce equipment for the GAR and withstood repeated Separatist plots to discover its location . During the reign of the Galactic Empire , Rothana was host to several advanced Imperial ship - constructions , including the automated dreadnaught " Eye of Palpatine " . Rothana ' s location was mostly declassified , and the region around it became the Quiberon sector , though access remained heavily restricted and the planet strongly guarded . The planet became an Imperial fortress world , but was abandoned by the Empire once the Rebel Alliance won the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY . During the Second Galactic Civil War , the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances believed Rothana would join with the Corellians purely to observe due to their shipbuilding rivalry . Inhabitants . Rothana ' s isolation created an insular culture among the Rothanians , who developed an elaborate system of etiquette far too complicated for outsiders to mimic . This provided an additional layer of security against corporate espionage . The Rothanians were considered insular and strange even by Kuati standards . Behind the scenes . Curtis Saxton mentioned in an interview with TheForce . net that Rothana was named in " " after an intervention from George Lucas .