Bleys Harand Bleys Harand was a famous Corellian historian , philosopher and merchant who lived during the Imperial Period . He was a noted Ximologist and his theory of the Ash Worlds being a remnant of the lost Kiirium Reaches of Xim ' s empire was generally accepted and proved . He wrote the text " Travels Amid Strange Stars " , detailing his search for a true artistic depiction of Xim the Despot . Biography . Harand was active during the end of the Galactic Republic and the early Imperial Period . A historian with an interest in Ximology , he made a notable contribution to the field when he drew a connection between the various similar winter holiday traditions of the Tionese , such as the Devouring ceremony of Stalimur and the Wakemeet festival of Barseg . Harand believed that these religious days were a cultural memory of the genocidal campaign waged by the Hutt Empire against the Tionese after Xim the Despot ' s defeat at the Third Battle of Vontor in 25 , 100 BBY . To prove his theory , Harand sent his students , including the young Henrietya Antilles , on expeditions into the Ash Worlds , a largely barren , unsettled stretch of space trailing of the Tion Cluster . They discovered that radiation levels on many of the uninhabited planets there fit the profile of fission bomb attacks some twenty - five thousand years previously . Since the ancient Hutt Empire was known for such genocides and atrocities , historians had until then considered the Ash Worlds an abandoned Hutt domain . Harand , however , suggested that the Ash Worlds were in fact the remnants of the lost Kiirium Reaches attested to in Xim - era chronicles . For millennia the true location of the Kiirium Reaches , as well as the identities of Huronom and Astigone , the Seventh and Eighth Thrones of Xim , had been debated . The Salin Corridor had been suggested as a possible location , with Columex and Trogan often being identified as Huronom and many luxury resorts on Centares carrying the name Astigone . Further afield , Jabiim , Lucazec , and even Lantillies had been proposed as the " Lost Thrones " . While the newborn Galactic Empire ' s interdiction of the Ash Worlds for weapons testing made further expeditions impossible , Harand and his students searched for proof in the records of the Tion Cluster . Henrietya Antilles ' discovery of the Great Duinarbulon Mausoleum and translation of the tomes within proved Harand correct : the Antilles Map found in the Mausoleum showed that the planet Wyndigal 2 was once Huronom , while OHS3842 - 03 had been Astigone . Subsequent discoveries in the archives of Duinarbulon and on Dellalt confirmed that the Hutts had destroyed the Kiirium Reaches around 24 , 000 BBY , to gain a buffer zone between Hutt Space and the young Galactic Republic pushing into the Tion Cluster . Harand ' s theories on the Devouring were largely accepted by 40 ABY . Harand additionally wrote a travelogue entitled " Travels Amid Strange Stars " , detailing his journey around the Tion Cluster in search of an accurate , contemporary artistic depiction of Xim the Despot . His journey took him from Dellalt to Barancar to Soruus , where he dismissed the various statues of Xim as forgeries or inaccurate while dealing with unhelpful guides . On Dravione , he was unsuccessful in locating the remainder of a ruined statue of Xim , which was destroyed above the knees . He remained unsuccessful on Duinarbulon , Nuswatta and Desevro . Finally , on Xim ' s homeworld of Argai , largely unchanged since the Despot ' s day , he concluded that the native Argaians would likewise be little changed in appearance from Xim . After his groundcar broke down outside a cemetery near Sah Gosta on Argai , Harand noticed a disinterred skull , remarking that this symbol of death , and the symbol of Xim ' s empire , was as good a depiction of the Despot as any he would find . Personality and traits . Harand was known for having a quick tongue and was renowned for his descriptive records of various civilizations . He had a rather grandiloquent writing style that was somewhat condescending to the people of the Tion Cluster : he regarded most of his tour guides as sullen or swindlers , and considered the Argaians " squat and unlovely " , unchanged since the days of Xim . Rather romantic , Harand reflected on the inevitability of death in " Travels Amid Strange Stars " , connecting it to the death ' s head symbol of Xim ' s empire . In that moment , he felt connected to the long - dead Despot .