Caamas / Legends Caamas was a highly populated and marsh - covered Core World in the Cirius system , the second planet orbiting the star Cirius . It was notable for the devastation it suffered during an Imperial orbital bombardment which destroyed its ecosystem and nearly wiped out the native Caamasi . Geographic features . Caamas was once a temperate , hospitable world of jungles , marshes , steppes , and rolling hills . Its dense rainforests and jungles teemed with life . After the Imperial bombardment , nearly all flora and fauna either disappeared or were mutated beyond recognition . Caamas became a barren waste , and without vegetation to release oxygen , the atmosphere became toxic and unbreathable . Bombardment kicked up smoke and dust into the air , and the surface became wracked by dust storms and falling soot , eroding the surface and sending dirt and mud into the oceans . The waters , once teeming with sea life , became muddy , polluted , stagnant , and lifeless . History . Pre - Republic era . Caamas was the homeworld of the behemoths and the sentient Caamasi people . Around 30 , 000 BBY during the Pre - Republic era , Caamas was ruled by the space - faring Rakata . Using Force - based hyperdrives , they traveled to many worlds around the galaxy that possessed significant signatures in the Force , uniting them to form the Rakatan Infinite Empire . After five thousand years of galactic dominance , the Rakata retreated to their homeworld . Old Republic era . In 25 , 053 BBY , Caamas was one of the Core Founder s of the Galactic Republic . Some legends claimed that the early Jedi learned morality from the Caamasi , whose name came to mean ' friend from afar ' or ' stranger to be trusted ' in various languages used throughout the galaxy . Despite these legends , few Caamasi ever learned the ways of the Force under the Jedi . There was , however , a Jedi Temple established there for contemplation , learning , and teaching proper moral judgment , and at least one Caamasi did become a Jedi , Ylenic It ' kla , who served during the Clone Wars . During the last stages of the Pius Dea Era in the 11 , 100s BBY , the Caamasi opposed the Pius Dea - controlled Galactic Republic ' s inquisitions against domestic opposition . They succeeded in persuading the Jedi to end their centuries - long Recusal and collaborated with the Jedi and Alsakani to mastermind an anti - Pius Dea heresy which developed into the Renunciates movement by 10 , 967 BBY . During the Seventh Alsakan Conflict , the Caamasi were part of a broad anti - Pius Dea coalition which toppled the sect and ended its grip on the Republic . Following the Battle of Uquine , the last Pius Dea Supreme Chancellor Contispex XIX was tried and imprisoned for life on Caamas . The planet was represented in the Galactic Senate by Eeshrin Ot ' Hyne , who opposed the Military Creation Act . Despite this , Caamas remained loyal to the Republic during the Clone Wars that followed . Pacifistic by nature , the Caamasi found war distasteful , possessing a deep empathy and respect for other beings , including their enemies . Destruction . Although Palpatine appreciated the loyalty of Caamas , he found their adherence to the principles and values of the Old Republic intolerable . The Empire had the planet subjected to a planetary bombardment in 19 BBY shortly after the Clone Wars , after the powerful and heavily guarded planetary shields were infiltrated and lowered by Bothan agents . The Jedi Temple on Caamas was ruined , suffering many direct hits at Palpatine ' s direction . Many survivors fled to other worlds including , ironically , Alderaan . It was here that one of the largest communities of the Caamasi Remnant settled , hoping to find sanctuary , only to die when that planet too was destroyed by the first Death Star . The Royal Library on Alderaan contained a great deal of information on the attack . In later years , other communities of Caamasi survivors were formed on Kerilt and Susevfi . Several years after the destruction of Caamas , a meteor hit the planet and carved a massive crater in its surface . Between 2 BBY and 0 BBY , Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan led a mercy mission to Caamas . New Republic era . Under the New Republic , a few Caamasi founded Refuge City on Caamas , from which they hoped to decontaminate and rescue their blighted world . They were aided by the Ithorians , who were naturally drawn to such projects , as they were with the reconstruction of Telos IV many centuries prior . Some of the Ithorians , however , arrived when their herdship crashed on Caamas under mysterious circumstances , and the xenological jungle it contained took root on Caamas ' smallest continent in the southern hemisphere . The existence of this herdship was known only to a few Ithorians . The ruined Jedi Temple was located in this impenetrable alien jungle . Just south of Refuge City lay a crater that had been caused by a meteor strike shortly after the devastation . The Bothans paid Caamas 50 , 000 credits a year to use this location as a waste dump . The funds went directly to decontamination efforts . It was virtually unknown that Bothan Debris , Incorporated , who rented the location , was a front for the Bothan Spynet , run by an agent named Kursk Te ' tell . Caamas Document Crisis . In order to devastate the surface of Caamas , Palpatine had to ensure the planetary shield generators were deactivated . To that end , he hired a group of Bothan operatives , an action that did not come to light until the Caamas Document was uncovered from the remains of Mount Tantiss in 19 ABY , prompting a major crisis in the New Republic . To add to the confusion , a copy of the document was altered shortly after its discovery by Grodin Tierce to implicate Bothan clans who had had no involvement in the operation , a copy which was given to Lando Calrissian by a fake Grand Admiral Thrawn . Later history . In 130 ABY , it was the site of the final battle of the Sith – Imperial War . The Galactic Alliance Defense Fleet was militarily defeated by the Imperial Navy . The Galactic Alliance was dissolved and the Empire was thus reestablished as the primary galactic government .