Barab I Barab I was a dark , murky planet in the Barab system of the Albanin sector of the Outer Rim Territories . Located along the Triellus Trade Route , the planet was largely avoided by spacers due to the fearsome natives known as the Barabel . Description . A murky world shrouded in darkness , Barab I ' s star was a dim red dwarf that made the planet very dark . The planet orbited the star within less than 125 million kilometers , and the planet had a day period of sixty standard hours . During the day , the planet was irradiated with gamma , ultraviolet and infrared rays , forcing all life on the planet to delve underground or cocoon itself else it be destroyed . Therefore , all species were nocturnal and adapted to hunt or forage in the evening without the risk of radiation poisoning . Because the world ' s oceans and standing water evaporated during the extremely hot day period , sudden torrential downpours soaked the planet at night , forcing the natives to hunt quickly or risk being washed away . History . While members of the Barabel species had managed to travel offplanet throughout various points in history aboard passing ships , the species did not develop its own means of space travel and largely remained on Barab I . Circa 900 BBY representatives of the Jedi Order visited the world , which was embroiled in a bloody civil war . Creating a zone of neutrality around their landing site the Jedi , led by Ithorian Jedi Master Noga - ta , managed to engage the two warring parties and end the war peacefully after thousands of years of struggle . Grateful for the Jedi intervention , the Barabel gave the Jedi their undying respect , deifying their arrival and worshiping them for generations . Over the next few centuries , the Barabel began exporting goods from their world , while remaining largely separate from the galactic community at large . Exporting exotic fruits and ores , the planet managed to create a small economy which helped bring in tools and weapons desperately needed on the world . Not only did the Barabel use imported weapons for defense against their top predator , the fearsome durgolosk , but also for work as mercenaries and pirates . When the Clone Wars erupted across the galaxy between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems , the Jedi High Council secretly dispatched one of their own members , Master Ki - Adi - Mundi , to the planet during the early stages of the war to conduct a classified mission . While the planet was not attacked during the war , it was annexed by the Galactic Empire following the end of the conflict and Governor Paro Lanto was placed in charge of the world . During this time , Planetary Safaris Inc . began sending ships to the world and poaching swiftly became a problem . The combined efforts of the Barabel and Imperial officer Osted Alater quickly put an end to the illegal hunting and the Barabel established the Alater - ka spaceport on the world in honor of their comrade . When the New Republic liberated the world from the Imperials , several Force - sensitive Barabel joined Jedi Master Luke Skywalker ' s Jedi Order to help defend the Republic from the threat of the Yuuzhan Vong . During the invasion of the galaxy , Barabel Jedi Master Saba Sebatyne traveled to defend her world from the invaders , only to find and destroy a slaveship carrying a large part of the world ' s population . Torn at the thought that she had slaughtered her own people , Sebatyne later discovered that many of the Barabel had hidden underground as the Yuuzhan Vong ravaged their world and left it in ruin .