Jelucan Jelucan was a planet in the Outer Rim Territories . The planet sided with the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars . During the Age of the Empire , Jelucan was annexed by the Galactic Empire . It was the homeworld of Thane Kyrell and Ciena Ree , two star - crossed lovers who fought on opposite sides of the Galactic Civil War . Description . Jelucan was a cold and rocky mountain ous planet in the Outer Rim Territories . It was inhabited by human s and several alien species . The planet ' s population was divided into two communities : a community of human valley dwellers known as the First Wavers who lived in the planet ' s remote valley and a second - wave of human and alien settlers who dwelled in urban centers such as Valentia . The second wavers tended to be more affluent than the valley dwellers and the two communities distrusted each other . The second wavers looked down on the valley dwellers as primitive and superstitious while the valley dwellers regarded the second wavers as avaricious and selfish . Jelucan was also home to the non - sentient muunyak species , which were commonly used to carry supplies across the rugged terrain . One known mineral from the planet was Jelucani fogstone , which was used to sculpt statues . Ridgecrawlers were also a common form of transport due to the rocky terrain . History . Jelucan was settled relatively late in galactic history , sometime around 511 BBY . The First Wavers were exiles from another world who refused to break allegiance to their king and arrived in near total poverty , but managed to survive . About 350 years later , a second - wave of settlers arrived , who established mining operations on the planet and considered the ways of the initial settlers to be backward . The second - wave of settlers used the profits from their mining operations to become wealthy aristocrats , while the first wave settlers remained largely destitute . During the Clone Wars , Jelucan was part of the Confederacy of Independent Systems . Following the CIS defeat and the end of the war , Jelucan was left independent and would in 11 BBY , be annexed by the Galactic Empire , who held a giant ceremony on the desolate world which was attended by Grand Moff Tarkin himself . During the ceremony , Tarkin befriended two local children , the second - waver noble Thane Kyrell and the valley - dweller Ciena Ree , and encouraged them to join the Imperial Navy when they reached maturity . After the ceremony , multiple Imperial ships returned to their Star Destroyer s in orbit , however a few headed to newly built Imperial facilities on the southern plateaus . Due to the planet ' s alignment with the Separatists , the Empire only recruited a handful of Imperial cadet s from Jelucan , preferring the more populous Inner Rim worlds Five years later , Imperial - introduced ridgecrawler s began to replace the native muunyak species as the common mode of transport . A few years before the Battle of Yavin , Thane and Ciena were accepted into the prestigious Royal Imperial Academy on Coruscant ; which the two regarded as part of fulfilling their lives ' dream of joining the Imperial Navy . The two cadets graduated shortly before the events of the Battle of Yavin and joined the Imperial Navy during the Galactic Civil War . Disillusioned with the Empire ' s brutality , Thane later defected to the Rebel Alliance . By the time of the Galactic Civil War , Jelucan had become heavily polluted due to the excessive mining by the Empire . The people of Jelucan also began wearing the same attire , making it nearly impossible to tell the difference between first and second wavers . The planet ' s legislative building was also taken over by the Imperial Military . Following the Battle of Hoth , Lieutenant Commander Ciena Ree returned to her homeworld after her mother Verine Ree was falsely accused of embezzling funds at the mine she worked . Despite the doctored evidence , Verine was convicted and sentenced to six years of hard labor . During that time , Ciena reunited with her lover Thane and the two made love despite fighting on opposite sides . During the time of the New Republic , Jelucani fogstone was used to build a statue of the rebel hero Senator Bail Organa at the New Republic senatorial complex on Hosnian Prime . In 28 ABY , the statue was destroyed by the Amaxine warriors during the Napkin Bombing . Behind the scenes . Jelucan first appeared in Claudia Gray ' s 2015 novel " Lost Stars " , which was part of the " " multimedia series . Jelucani fogstone was later mentioned in passing in Gray ' s 2016 novel " Bloodline " . The planet was first illustrated in the reference book " " .