Kammia Kammia was a planet in the extremely remote Drynn system , among the sparsely populated Shiritoku Spur of Wild Space . Kammia was a Human colony world of the Galactic Empire , notable for its rich soil . In the years following the Battle of Yavin , Emperor Palpatine ceded a number of colony worlds , including Kammia , to the Ssi - ruuvi Imperium in exchange for the aliens ' species - enslaving entechment technology . The Empire released a news report claiming that a mysterious virus had wiped out the Kammia colony to hide the truth . Description . Kammia was a particularly remote planet located in the Drynn system of the Shiritoku Spur , an area of space that lay on the edge of the Outer Rim Territories in the galactic region known as Wild Space . Kammia had excellent soil , rich for agricultural purposes . History . Sacrificed to the Ssi - ruuk . One of the Galactic Empire ' s frontier Human colonies on the periphery of known space , Kammia was settled during the early years of the Empire and was dedicated to producing agricultural foodstuffs due to the planet ' s rich soil . The Imperial Human colonists introduced Chandrilan grain to the planet ' s soil in their agricultural efforts . Following the Battle of Yavin , the Ssi - ruuvi Imperium , representing a species of alien invaders from the Unknown Regions , began to attack Imperial colony worlds along the edge of the Outer Rim in an effort to assimilate the Human colonists inhabiting them . Through a process known as " entechment , " the alien invaders harnessed their captive Humans ' life forces as a source of energy for their war machines . News of the invasions soon reached Emperor Palpatine . Craving the aliens ' entechment technology for his own purposes , the Emperor agreed to cede Imperial citizens to the aliens in return for access to their technology . One of the first colony worlds sacrificed to the aliens was Kammia , which fell following a raid on the outpost . Imperial cover - up . As had been done with the aliens ' first invasions , the Empire easily hid the truth of the Kammia colony ' s fate through the control of media outlets . The Empire created and distributed false cover stories for each of the lost colony worlds , ranging from industrial accident to Rebel Alliance attack . On 37 : 4 : 21 , in the year 2 ABY , the Imperial HoloVision released a news report explaining that a mysterious disease had wiped out the Kammia colony with no survivors , and that the planet was placed under strict quarantine . According to the Imperial Colonization Board , the release explained , belief was that the colonists ' Chandrilan grains had interacted with components in the planet ' s soil to produce a non - indigenous plant that led to the evolution of a contagious " mystery virus , " which quickly spread to the colony . The ICB expressed its condolences to the families of those lost colonists , and the Emperor pledged that the Imperial Survey Corps would refine its soil - screening process to avoid further tragedies . In the years following , rumors spread through the region of aliens attacking starships in the Shiritoku , and cantina tales suggested that the destruction of colonies such as Kammia were related . Those rumors proved true when the aliens invaded the Imperial planet Bakura in 4 ABY . Behind the scenes . The colony world Kammia was first introduced into " Star Wars " canon in the February 1996 " The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook " , written by Kathy Tyers and Eric S . Trautmann , which identified Kammia as one of the first Imperial planets to succumb to Ssi ' ruuvi attack . The 2004 sourcebook " Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds " later mentioned Kammia briefly in its description of the planet Bakura , establishing both planets to be in the Shiritoku Spur region of Wild Space . The , a supplement to the 2009 publication " The Essential Atlas " , includes in its database a " Kammia system , " located in Wild Space ; there is no listing for the Drynn system , Kammia ' s star system , as originally established by " The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook " . However , according to " The Essential Atlas " co - author Jason Fry , the Online Companion ' s database listed star systems according to names of well - known celestial objects rather than proper system names , and that the database ' s listing is not intended to create new system names or override previously established continuity . Given Fry ' s declaration , this article treats the " Kammia system " as conjecturally synonymous to the Drynn system .