Khormai The Khormai , the native sentient species of the frozen planet Khorm , were humanoids characterized by their stout physiques , blubber y skin , bushy mustaches , and prominent tusks . Khormai often wore robust environment suits that sported large smoke stacks , which emitted plumes of gray gas . Members of the species traveled between their disparate settlements via transports known as rail jet s , or from within the gullets of large , furry worms known as aelid s , whom Khormai could summon with a special instrument . A wide degree of dispositions marked the species , with some supporting war and enslavement , yet others peace . The species and their homeworld held great strategic value in the galaxy due to the mining of agrocite , an ore with important military uses . During the Clone Wars , an ambitious Khormai warlord named Unger Gout capitalized on Khorm ' s agrocite deposits to broker a deal with the leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems , Count Dooku : in exchange for control of the planet , Gout enslaved his own people to mine agrocite for the Separatists . Gout employed a weather - control station to create massive storms in the planet ' s atmosphere and thus control when starships could make landfall . Meanwhile , a rival Khormai , Adaroo , took control of a resistance movement . A force of Jedi Knights and clone troopers from the Galactic Republic managed to land on the world , where they teamed up with Adaroo to lead an assault on Gout ' s location . Although bumbling by the Republic Major Kendal Ozzel nearly lost them the mission , Adaroo and the Republic forces defeated Gout and his reinforcements , battle droids led by the Dathomirian assassin Asajj Ventress . The planet returned to Republic hands . Biology and appearance . With both male and female members , the Khormai were sentient , rotund humanoids . Their bodies were covered in thick skin that ranged in color from dull to rich brown , the hide riddled with wrinkles and pockmarks . The Khormai ' s stocky legs stood them roughly 1 . 8 meters tall on average , and their flipper - like hands boasted either three or four fingers each . The species ' s girth enabled them to wield large weapons . The species ' characteristic dome - shaped head attached to the fat , broad neck in blubber y folds . Wide - set eyes , white with no discernible irises , flanked a small nose shaped like an inverted triangle ; the nasal opening was either pink or black in coloration . Although the mouth sported a full set of white teeth , it was dominated by two stubby , white tusks that jutted out from the upper jaw , itself covered by a white mustache . The chin and neck also sported a thin coating of white stubble . Tiny ear flaps extended from the sides of the head . Society and culture . The Khormai inhabited villages on the icy world of Khorm . While a system of conveyances known as rail jet s connected distant settlements , the Khormai employed local creatures known as aelid s for transport through difficult , mountainous terrain . Such travel required the Khormai riders to first call the worms with a thin horn . They then attached control straps to direct the beasts . However , rather than riding atop the creatures , the Khormai allowed themselves to be swallowed up to direct the creatures from within the worms ' gullets as the creatures burrowed through the soil ; aelids rarely digested live prey . The species had access to climate - control technology that was capable of creating vast storms . Khormai tended to wear bulky environment suits both in the wilds of their homeworld and aboard starships . The suits were characterized by exhaust pipes in the back that constantly belched black smoke . Other Khormai sported accoutrements such as capes . The ravages of the Clone Wars foregrounded fissures in Khormai society . While some purported to value peace over war , ascribing the latter as the purview of tyrants , others practiced warlordism and enslavement of Khormai detractors and aliens to their homeworld . Both factions had access to heavy weaponry with which to fight . The species buried its dead in graves dug out from the ice . At least some Khormai demonstrated fluency in Galactic Basic Standard , although they peppered their use of the language with idiosyncratic sounds , such as " tchk - tchk " . Khormai naming conventions allowed both single - and double - part names ; examples included Adaroo and Unger Gout . History . The Khormites evolved on the planet Khorm , a chilly world covered in snow and ice . The planet became integrated into the greater galaxy at some point between 5000 and 4000 BBY , when it fell within the Halori sector , located within the Trans - Hydian reaches of the Mid Rim . As the Jedi Civil War raged from 3959 to 3956 BBY , Khormai fell within Darth Revan ' s Sith Empire . It later lay beyond the territory of the Galactic Republic during the New Sith Wars as well , from 1004 to 1000 BBY . With the outbreak of the Clone Wars , a galaxy - spanning conflict that pitted the Republic against the breakaway Confederacy of Independent Systems , Khorm came to the attention of both sides due to its possession of a rare ore known as agrocite , which could be used to enhance the power of beam weapons and starfighters . The warlord Unger Gout received support from the Separatist leader Count Dooku to install himself as the planet ' s leader . In return , Gout oversaw an agrocite processing facility in the Kafiri Mountain Range , a forbidding region only accessible via a tortuous overland journey . There he drove a workforce of enslaved Khormai miners , whom he forced to collect ore for the Separatist war effort . The Separatists established a base on the world , composed of BX - series droid commando and B2 super battle droids under Gout ' s command and defended by J - 1 semi - autonomous proton cannon s , to protect the warlord and his operation . As an added security measure , Gout employed a climate - control station that allowed him to generate massive storms that roiled in Khorm ' s atmosphere and prevented Republic air strikes . Battle of Khorm . Gout ' s actions also fostered the formation of a resistance movement , a group of Republic sympathizers led by a Khormai named Adaroo . Circa 22 BBY , the resistance leader had identified a vulnerability in the droid defenses of Gout ' s fortress . Meanwhile , the Republic Jedi General Plo Koon made contact with Adaroo and revealed that a force of clone troopers had come to the world under the leadership of himself and the Jedi Masters Kit Fisto and Tauht . The Khormai resistance leader remained incredulous of the Republic ' s motives for intervening in the conflict ; he believed that the offworlders sought only access to Khorm ' s agrocite mining and processing sectors and cared little for the plight of the enslaved Khormai . Nevertheless , he accepted the offworlders ' help in the hopes of freeing Gout ' s captives , and led Koon ' s command to a soft spot in the Separatists ' defenses . Gout witnessed his enemies ' approach and ordered fire on nearby ice crystals , which thundered down among the Khormai and Republic troops in an avalanche . At the same time , the Republic Major Kendal Ozzel , in command of Republic ground forces on the world , ordered the All Terrain Recon Transports and All Terrain Tactical Enforcers under his command to open fire on the agrocite processing plant where Gout was based . When Ozzel ordered his clone troopers to disembark from their vehicles and attack , the Jedi entered the fray to protect them . As Adaroo , Fisto , and Koon stormed the trenches surrounding the factory and Tauht destroyed the cannons , Ozzel ordered his walkers to open fire on Gout ' s base — despite the presence of the Jedi . The warlord saw his droid forces greatly reduced ; he fled to a separate base within an agrocite mine in his personal rail jet . In his absence , the Republic established its base of operations in the structure . To bolster the Separatist forces on Khorm , the Confederacy ' s leader , Dooku , sent his apprentice , Asajj Ventress , to support Gout , despite the warlord ' s protests . When the Republic Admiral Wieler notified them that a Separatist starship had somehow entered the atmosphere , the Republic forces surmised that Gout and the Separatists had access to some sort of weather - control technology . A small contingent of troops under the leadership of Adaroo , Fisto , and Koon set out on CK - 6 swoop bikes to destroy the nearby climate - control center , a move that would allow a Republic airstrike to cover the ground troops during a liberation of the mines . Nevertheless , under Ventress ' s command , Separatist forces led a counter - assault on the agrocite plant . Ozzel and Tauht led the Republic ' s defense , but the Jedi was killed in the battle . Ozzel ignored his fallen general ' s orders to defend the center and instead ordered a charge on Ventress ' s position . Ventress and Gout recognized the Human ' s folly and activated their awaiting forces of DSD1 dwarf spider droids , hidden under the snow . They also called up a giant storm , which wiped out entire Khormai villages . Ventress and Gout retook the plant and captured Ozzel ; when interrogated , he revealed the whereabouts of Fisto , Plo , Adaroo , and their forces . Adaroo and the Republic forces reached a decimated village , where the resistance leader insisted upon burying the dead before carrying on . The difficult terrain forced the party to dismount from their swoops and instead travel on foot . Despite Ventress ' s proximity to Adaroo and the Jedi , Gout contacted his underling , the Aqualish Villpu Nagg , who was in charge of the weather - control station . Gout ordered Nagg to generate a storm with enough power to kill the Republic demolition party . Nevertheless , Ventress managed to overtake Adaroo and his companions and laid an ambush for them . During the skirmish , Ventress created an avalanche that buried Republic and Separatist forces alike . The Jedi used the Force to shield their troops and Adaroo from injury . Ventress eventually gave up her search for survivors and departed . The Republic strike team then re - emerged from the snow and destroyed the remaining Separatist droids . With several casualties and injuries , continuing on foot seemed impossible . Instead , Adaroo blew a horn to summon large , furry creatures known as ice worms , in whose gullets the party could continue their trek . Upon arrival , a clone trooper sliced into the station ' s junction box and refocused the center ' s storm upon the station itself , a plan Fisto had proposed . The ploy worked : the station was destroyed and the storm dissipated . Despite the fact that Ozzel and a few other troopers had escaped Gout ' s prison , the major was ready to surrender once again when the storm dispersed and Republic air forces arrived to turn the tide of the battle . Gout responded by herding the Khormai captives deep into the mines , surrounding himself with sentient shields who could double as hostages . Meanwhile , Adaroo , Fisto , Koon , and their forces returned to the agrocite factory and noticed it was scarcely defended . Nevertheless , Adaroo cautioned that his intelligence had suggested that the interior of the mine was heavily guarded . They proceeded with caution . Ventress , too , soon penetrated the mine and arrived at Gout ' s location . There , she had a droid line the mine with thermal charges . Adaroo and the Jedi arrived as that ploy was in progress , and they realized that she intended to demolish the mine — and kill all the Khormai trapped there — should the Separatists be forced to abandon the agrocite deposits . Unable to contact Ozzel due to jamming of their communications , the liberators were forced to try to rescue the Khormai before Ventress could detonate her charges . As Ozzel and the Republic craft attacked the warlord ' s position , Gout replied with his agrocite cannon s , which turned the tide of battle against the Republic . In the mines , Adaroo joined Koon and his clone troopers in an attempt to subdue Ventress and free the captives while Fisto and the clone trooper Sharp assaulted Gout ' s cannons . As Koon confronted Ventress in a lightsaber duel , Adaroo and the troops reached the enslaved Khormai only to discover they were heavily guarded . Meanwhile , Fisto and Sharp reached Gout ' s cannons . Panicked , Gout ordered all droid troops to his position , which left Adaroo and his troops with little resistance back in the mines . Fisto and Sharp neutralized the cannons , and the resulting explosion killed the Khormai warlord . The Separatist cause lost , Ventress fled , leaving the world in Republic hands . With the captives freed , Adaroo agreed to supply agrocite for the Republic . The Republic established a base on the world near the agrocite processing plant . Later history . Khorm remained in Republic space during the Outer Rim Sieges of 20 to 19 BBY . Years later , in 7 and 8 ABY , the Khormai home planet was within a region largely dominated by vassals or allies of Warlord Zsinj , a Human who attempted to rebuild the Galactic Empire with him at its head . The species ' homeworld was part of the Borderland Region during the Thrawn campaign of 9 ABY , and it was within the territory of Darth Krayt ' s Sith Empire by 137 ABY . Khormai in the galaxy . At least some Khormai left their homeworld ; for instance , circa 22 BBY , two Khormai were patrons of a casino within a base hidden within an asteroid near Cavamina Minor . There , the Khormai witnessed the destruction of Republic and Separatist flotillas that had been lured into the mined asteroid field by the base ' s owner , Attuma Duum . When a Human named Shon - Ju infiltrated Duum ' s base and disabled its deflector shields , the station itself came under threat of the mined asteroids and was destroyed . Behind the scenes . The Khormai first appeared in the Dark Horse comic book " " , the first issue of a that was first published in July 2009 . The story was written by Henry Gilroy and Steven Melching , and the artwork was provided by Scott Hepburn and Michael E . Wiggam . Penciller Brian Koschak later included two Khormai extras in the comic book " " , published by Dark Horse in December 2010 . A purple - furred alien with features that largely match those of the Khormai appears in " The Last Command 5 " , a comic book illustrated by Edvin Biukovic and first published in April 1998 . However , because the Balti , another species of blubbery , tusked aliens , appear in the short comic story " A Hot Time in the Cold Town Tonite ! , " originally published in " Star Wars Tales 6 " in December 2000 , no definitive species identification may be given to the tusked , purple - furred character .