Brentaal IV / Legends Brentaal IV , known more commonly as Brentaal , was a planet in the Brentaal system of the Core Worlds ' s Bormea sector and one that occupied what was arguably the most valuable location in the entire galaxy : the intersection of the Hydian Way and the Perlemian Trade Route , two of the galaxy ' s major hyperlane s . The fourth planet in orbit around the star Brenta , Brentaal had two moons and was located in the Ringali Shell , a string of star systems along the Perlemian that were near the Ringali Nebula . An arid world with warm and temperate weather , Brentaal featured two large polar caps and an equator marked by deserts and steaming oceans ; most of the planet ' s available land was dominated by warehouses , cargo holding facilities , commerce exchanges , and other trade - related structures . Brentaal ' s capital of Cormond and its Trade Hall were the seat of power on the planet , with the hundreds of Brentaal Houses — the influential families that ran the planet ' s trade guilds — represented the citizens in Brentaal ' s democratic government . As a result of its location along the Perlemian Trade Route , Brentaal was a major commerce hub that became an economic power when it joined the Galactic Republic sometime before 22 , 000 BBY , as it served as a checkpoint for traffic entering the Republic along the Perlemian . A Brentaalan hyperspace scout named Freia Kallea further bolstered her homeworld ' s affluence and economic power when she charted the Hydian Way around 3700 BBY , making Brentaal the only planet to sit at the intersection of two galactic superhighways . Brentaal ' s economic importance made it a frequent target of military conquests ; conflicts such as the New Sith Wars , the Clone Wars , the Galactic Civil War , and the Yuuzhan Vong War all saw the planet become a battleground at least once as various governments and factions fought to control Brentaal ' s vital hyperspace junction . Description . The fourth planet in orbit around the star Brenta in the Brentaal system of the Core Worlds ' Bormea sector , Brentaal IV was often called simply Brentaal . Brentaal IV lay in the Ringali Shell , a string of star systems along the Perlemian Trade Route that took its name from the nearby violet - colored Ringali Nebula that lit up the nighttime skies of planets in the region . A terrestrial world with a temperate but arid climate and two moons , Brentaal occupied one of the most valuable locations in the galaxy — the intersection of the Perlemian and the Hydian Way , two of the galaxy ' s major hyperlane s . Brentaal ' s northern and southern poles were marked by large ice caps , and the rest of the planet was dominated by a chain of particularly salty seas that separated Brentaal ' s eight continents . The planet had a rotational period of 23 standard hours and an orbital period of 342 standard days , and a diameter of 11 , 242 kilometers . The Commenor Run was another hyperlane that terminated at Brentaal , linking the world with Caamas , Alderaan , Kattada , and Commenor . A number of space stations orbited the planet , including a dozen or so XQ2 Platform s that were built by Bengel Shipbuilders decades before 19 BBY . A dry and relatively young planet , Brentaal featured a large number of mountain ranges that had been raised by groundquakes and volcanic activity , and most of the planet ' s volcanoes were dormant by the time of the Galactic Republic ' s founding . The planet ' s weather was largely warm and temperate , though the equatorial band featured deserts and steaming oceans . Most of the planet ' s settlements were located in valleys , canyons , and deltas in the livable bands between the two ice caps and the equatorial regions , and they suffered from frequent overcrowding , though the planet ' s spaceports and storage facilities were primarily built atop flattened mountains . Brentaal ' s original colonists largely erased the planet ' s native flora and fauna over the course of many generations , replacing them with ecological systems found on other Core Worlds . One of the few native species to survive was the kundril , a massive , multisegmented flying insect that lacked eyes and hunted by sound . A number of variations of kundril existed , with most hunting fish and seagoing mammals in Brentaal ' s seas , and most of the land - based kundrils were wiped out by the planet ' s inhabitants over the decades . The large amphibians known as scrange s , native to the planet Dagobah , could also be found in Brentaal ' s sewers . Air pollution was once a major concern on Brentaal , but the environmental damage was largely repaired , and the planet ' s air was made safe again , though it smelled slightly of methane . History . Early history . The region around Brentaal IV , like much of the northeastern and eastern sections of the Core Worlds , was largely explored between the years 27 , 500 and 25 , 000 BBY . Brentaal was a member world of the Galactic Republic by the year 22 , 000 BBY , developing into a major economic hub as it served as a checkpoint for traffic entering the Bormea sector along the Perlemian during the Republic ' s early centuries . Around 24 , 500 BBY , Brentaal was the site of a battle between the Legions of Lettow and the Jedi Order during the Force - using Order ' s First Great Schism . For several thousand years , the planet served as a jumping - off point for ships exploring the Colonies region , and most of the goods that returned to the early Republic from the Outer Rim Territories passed through Brentaal . Besides the Perlemian Trade Route , the Brentaal – Denon Route was an early hyperlane that linked Brentaal IV with the planet Denon in the southern Inner Rim , and the Corsin Run spiralled northeast from Brentaal to the planet Corsin in the Expansion Region . Even early in Brentaal ' s history , the planet was controlled by the Brentaal Houses — merchant families that competed for control of the planet ' s trade and shipping industries . During the Manderon Period , Andel Tanner was a prominent inventor who worked on Brentaal IV around 6000 BBY , crafting a pair of slugthrowers that were valued at over 12 . 4 million credits by the year 0 ABY . Around that same time , the Antarian Rangers , a group of individuals who aided the Jedi Order , established a division on Brentaal . Around 4000 BBY , a number of Humans from Brentaal colonized the planet Muzara in the Expansion Region , barely avoiding conflict with the native Muza ; the Brentaal League hoped that its settlement would make Muzara into a profitable agriworld . In 3705 BBY , Brentaalan native Freia Kallea — a daughter of House Kallea whose parents disapproved of her apprenticeship in the Brentaal Spacefarers League — began to work as a hyperspace scout . Over the course of the next year , Kallea linked together a number of pre - existing hyperlanes in the northern galaxy : the Corsin Run , Mandalorian Road , Sprizen End Run , the Spurs of Celanon , and the Morellian Trail . By 3694 BBY , Kallea had extended the Brentaal - Denon Route all the way to the southern rim of the galaxy , forming the super hyperlane that she named the Hydian Way , after her Duros friend Banu Hydia . The events of Kallea ' s trailblazing , along with the Brentaal noble Sival Brentioch ' s courting of Kallea during those years , were dramatized around 1500 BBY in " The Kallea Cycle " , a famous opera that endured for hundreds of years . The Human Satele Shan , the descendant of the famous Jedi Revan and Bastila Shan , was born on Brentaal IV in 3699 BBY , and the Jedi Knight Ardun Kothe worked with war refugees on Brentaal during the Great Galactic War between the Republic and the Sith Empire . The planet was the site of a Republic Military outpost during the Cold War between the Republic and the Sith Empire over fifty years later . That outpost was later wiped out by the Sith Lord Kavos , who killed the experienced Jedi Knights Ayesho and Nil in the process . During the Cold War , an anarchist group known as the Revolutionary Edge Brigade was active on Brentaal , and the group — including a Rattataki named Kaliyo Djannis — frequently robbed banks , blew up public holorelays , and kidnapped influential corporate and political figures . One such attack on Curovao became known as the Curovao Bombing . During the New Sith Wars , a series of conflicts between the Republic and various Sith factions that spanned the millennium between 2000 BBY and 1000 BBY , the Bormea sector was conquered by the Brotherhood of Darkness in the year 1002 BBY . Brentaal IV was captured by the Sith shortly after Corulag and Chandrila , with the planet ' s defenders only offering what the Sith Lord Skere Kaan considered to be token resistance . Kaan ' s capture of Brentaal forced his Jedi counterpart Lord Hoth to make his move and draw the Sith into battle at the planet Ruusan . Unrest and the rise of the Empire . Brentaal was the intended target of a by Darth Sidious in 33 BBY , when the Sith Lord boldly attempted — via machinations between the Trade Federation , Groodo the Hutt , and Trinkatta Starships of Esseles in the adjacent Darpa sector — to seize this strategic cross - roads planet , that the Federation might utterly control two major galactic trade routes , the Perlemian and the Hydian Way . A team of Jedi Knights led by Adi Gallia and Qui - Gon Jinn , including Padawan Obi - Wan Kenobi , ultimately struck down the violent plot with its intended use against Brentaal of 50 " Vulture " - class droid starfighters modified with prototype " hyperdrive " engines branded as illegal by the Republic . In 22 BBY , the Allied Tion Historical Society ' s Cradle of the Galaxy exhibit began a Core Worlds tour on Ralltiir on 13 : 4 : 1 , and the exhibit was showcased in the Cormond Museum of Arts on Brentaal starting on 14 : 3 : 1 , almost a year later , before it moved on to Chandrila two months later . On 13 : 4 : 25 , the Jedi Knight Reeft was involved in an altercation in a marketplace on Brentaal ; Reeft had been pursuing the thief Rotar Lopani , who had allegedly stolen sensitive diplomatic datapads from Coruscant a month earlier , but the Xexto bounty hunter Tosinqas attempted to claim the 8 , 000 - credit bounty on Lopani . Tosinqas fell several stories to land on Lopani , killing him , but the Xexto was startled by the sound of Reeft ' s lightsaber igniting and charged the Jedi only to kill himself by running into the weapon . The Clone Wars between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems erupted with the First Battle of Geonosis in 13 : 5 , and unrest soon reached Brentaal when the Separatist Commander and Brentaal clan leader Shogar Tok captured a prison facility on Brentaal and converted it into his base of operations . Becoming a warlord on his homeworld , Tok rallied his fellow Brentaalan s against what he claimed to be a corrupt Republic and establishing a Separatist military presence on the planet as early as 13 : 8 . As part of the Jedi Knight Quinlan Vos ' s deep - cover mission to infiltrate the the ranks of the Dark Acolyte s , the servants of the Confederacy ' s Count Dooku , the Jedi Master Tholme sent Vos to Brentaal . Vos infiltrated Tok ' s prison base as " Korto Vos , " and in 13 : 10 Vos sent a false message to the Republic claiming that Tok ' s rebel movement was unprepared for an attack . As a result , the Republic sent a fleet under the Jedi Generals Shaak Ti , Agen Kolar , Shon Kon Ray , and Plo Koon to drive out the Separatist presence there , but they found their enemy ready for the attack . Unable to bombard Tok ' s fortress on account of its heavy shielding , the Republic tried to land ground troops to take the fortress , but the building ' s ion pulse cannon s took out a large number of the Republic ' s LAAT / i gunships . Kon Ray was killed in the early fighting , and the Republic lost more than a quarter of their forces in the first few hours of the Battle of Brentaal IV against the natives and the battle droids of the Trade Federation . Shaak Ti and her troops rescued Vos and three other former prisoners — Sagoro Autem , Lyshaa , and Ryyk — and convinced them to help infiltrate Tok ' s fortress in exchange for their freedom . While Kolar led a diversionary attack , Ti and her group infiltrated the structure through the sewers and split up to achieve their objectives of disabling the shields and cannons and capturing Tok , and Plo Koon withdrew the Republic forces to wait for Ti ' s signal . Ti ' s group was successful in all of their objectives , though Ti was forced to kill Tok , and the Republic quickly achieved victory . During the early Clone Wars , Brentaal was represented in the Galactic Senate by the Human Senator Arcel Mosbree , who planned to retire from the Senate in 21 BBY . After the conflict on Brentaal , a Republic government was installed with Jerrod Maclain as temporary governor , as Mosbree was considered an accomplice to the Separatist movement on Brentaal and removed from office . In 14 : 9 , Supreme Chancellor Palpatine formally appointed Maclain as regional governor of Brentaal , a role which Malcain filled for almost twenty - five years . The Shoosha family escaped from Brentaal during the battle , and the young musician Bann Shoosha composed a work entitled the Vissencant Variations to celebrate their escape shortly afterwards . By 20 BBY , the Variations were considered to be one of the great musical works of the recent millennium , despite being less than two years old . Under the Empire . The Clone Wars came to an end in 19 BBY , when Chancellor Palpatine declared himself Emperor and reformed the Republic as the Galactic Empire . In the months after the end of the Clone Wars , several agents of the former Senator Bail Organa fled to Sel Zonn Station , one of the XQ2 Platforms orbiting Brentaal , and Imperial agents pursued them there to prevent them from escaping and reaching Organa . Sel Zonn Station was minorly popular among some Brentaal nobles at the time , though the station had not flourished in the last few years . The famous Brentaalan smuggler Platt Okeefe was born to House Okeefe around 18 BBY on Brentaal , though she later left her homeworld to become a pilot in her teens . By the year 0 ABY , the Hutt Shettora operated a criminal faction on Brentaal , controlling the black market on the world and selling good - quality merchandise at only slightly higher prices than normal . The Hutt Puullo served at the group ' s forefront , using his expertise in business to oversee the black market . Due to the planet ' s significant black market , the Empire maintained a large Imperial Customs office on the world . In 0 ABY , the pirate Venslas Beeli conducted a number of raids against Brentaal and other worlds in the region , leading the Rebel privateering frigate " Far Orbit " to attack Beeli ' s pirates . The " Far Orbit " was later lured into a trap by Imperial forces near Brentaal , though it escaped , and some of the " Far Orbit " crew later traveled to Brentaal in order to secure a datacard from an Alliance contact and managed to escape Imperial Security Bureau agents who pursued them . In 36 : 5 , the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order moved to place new tariffs on luxury agri - exports from the Bormea sector , and the resultant tariffs negatively affected imports to Brentaal . Inspired by the popular holo " Kallea ' s Hope " by Neile Janna , which translated " The Kallea Cycle " into a popular and modern format from Old Brentaal when it was released in 1 ABY , Brentaal ' s Council of Human High Culture spent the next two years working on the opera to bring it back to what they called " its classical roots . " However , the Council ' s true goals were the promotion of Humanocentrism , as they reworked the opera to highlight the achievements of Humans and excluded alien performers from the show . On 37 : 2 : 23 , Imperial Customs uncovered evidence of a smuggling scheme that was believed to be responsible for redirecting raw materials that were intended for Brentaal to the Outer Rim . Captain Dalea Trovin coordinated the investigation , and Customs raided a warehouse complex in the city of Votrad , discovering thousands of tons of raw materials that had been listed as missing or misrouted . The Brentaal Trade News published a report on Trovin ' s efforts , though the captain had not yet been able to determine where the raw materials were being diverted to . In 2 ABY ( 38 : 2 ) , Brentaal began preparing for the premiere of " The Kallea Cycle " , in which Vessa Brentioch of House Brentioch would portray her ancestor and the famed Chandrilan singer Gelod Vothran would play Sival Brentioch . The production was performed by the Brentaal Hall Conservatory and funded by a number of the planet ' s most prominent houses , including the Dajaal Family , House Brentioch , and Hall Jo ' uda , and it took place in Votrad Stadium — which had been outfitted with more than 100 , 000 seats and a 500 - mete - long stage . The show had a premiere date of 38 : 2 : 13 , and prominent dignitaries from across the Core Worlds and the Colonies traveled to Brentaal and Votrad in particular to attend , though security remained high to ensure that the production went smoothly . However , the notorious jewel thief Tanda Marelle , known in the media as the Tombat , struck at a banquet in Votrad on 38 : 2 : 12 that was attended by a number of famous guests ; Vessa Brentioch , Gelod Vothran , the production ' s Maestro Trebian Shullos , Moff Jamson Caglio of the Bormea sector , Imperial Advisor Alec Pradeux , and Inspector Zanza Gata of the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigations were among the banquest ' s attendees . However , several of the guests discovered small quella stone s — the Tombat ' s trademark — baked in their dessert bowls of shim - bay crispa , an act which many believed to be a statement on Gata ' s inability to capture the Tombat and one that raised questions as to whether Gata ' s true intent in overseeing the opera ' s security was to in fact set a trap for the thief . Moff Caglio publicly expressed his displeasure with the Inspector , but the production of " The Kallea Cycle " continued without incident . On 38 : 4 : 21 , the Brentaal League of Guilds declared a Landmark Holiday to celebrate a record week of commodities trading , as more credits and stocks had passed through the Brentaal market than ever before during a five - day period . Governor Maclain , House Brentioch , Hall Jo ' uda , and the Dajaal Family were among those that benefited from the market activity , which also boosted many corporations in the Core Worlds , and the week - long Landmark Holiday was filled with parades and parties sponsored by the planet ' s trading houses . The Brentaal Hall Conservatory presented an encore performance of " The Kallea Cycle " in celebration before the opera began a tour of the Core Worlds and the Colonies a month later , though Vessa Brentioch was replaced by Neile Janna in the role of Kallea for the Kallea Tour , and the Brentaal commodities exchange was closed during the holiday . However , in the weeks after the Landmark Holiday , Brentaal was wrought with scandal : five of the Dajaal Family ' s commerce officers were arrested after it came to light that they had breached market confidentiality , and the officers claimed that they had passed data to Governor Maclain in exchange for monetary incentives and political favors . Maclain was soon accused of underhanded dealings in the commerce exchange by two of his aides and numerous bureaucrats from nearby systems , and Emperor Palpatine himself dispatched Grand Moff Rufaan Tigellinus to head an investigation of Maclain , leading some to believe that Palpatine had assigned Tigellinus — a member of the exclusive Order of the Canted Circle and a major player in the politics of the Imperial Court — to the case because Maclain was funding the Rebellion . Tigellinus denied those rumors while assembling his staff for a departure to Brentaal , and he proceeded to interview several bureaucrats in the Bormea and Darpa sectors during his investigation . The Battle of Brentaal IV . Brentaal was still under Imperial control in 4 ABY , when the Rebel Alliance won the Battle of Endor that saw the deaths of both the Emperor and his Sith apprentice Darth Vader . The Empire began to fragment in the wake of the Emperor ' s death , and the newly - formed New Republic began advancing towards the Core Worlds and Coruscant . In 39 : 12 , nine months after the Battle of Endor , the elite New Republic starfighter unit Rogue Squadron was sent to recon Brentaal , and a group of five fighters entered the Brentaal system and began to collect data . By that time , the Empire had established a moonbase on the surface of one of Brentaal ' s moons and placed the Imperial Admiral Lon Isoto in command of the planet ' s military forces , and Imperial TIE fighters were deployed to drive off the intruders . The New Republic fighters emerged victorious and damaged the moonbase ' s interior before departing the system . Grand Vizier Sate Pestage had assumed control of the Empire after Palpatine ' s death , but Director Ysanne Isard of Imperial Intelligence desired the throne herself and advanced her cause by serving as a mediator in his dealings with — a group of wealthy and politically influential citizens — and playing the two groups against each other . Isard advised Pestage to invite an attack on Brentaal , believing that she could orchestrate a New Republic victory there and bring about Pestage ' s downfall . As Admiral Isoto was considered incompetent , Isard sent part of the elite 181st Imperial Fighter Wing under Colonel Baron Soontir Fel to Brentaal , and Pestage agreed to her suggestion before issuing a public statement that the Empire would defend Brentaal from invasion . In response , Admiral Gial Ackbar of the New Republic began active preparations for conquering the planet , giving Rogue Squadron and Colonel Horton Salm ' s Aggressor Wing two weeks to prepare . As planned , two weeks later a task force under Ackbar ' s command entered the Brentaal system and attacked the planet ' s moonbase , capturing the facility and using it as a staging ground for an assault on Brentaal itself . The Imperial forces under Isoto ' s command made no attempt to retake or destroy the facility , though the admiral — who spent most of his days in with pleasure girls in the city of Vuultin — ordered the razing of the forests around the city in order to install missile sites and a bunker for Fel ' s 18st . Though the locals protested , Isoto ignored them , believing that his presence in Vuultin made the strategically - worthless city a prime target for the New Republic . Fel disagreed and sent most of his forces to nearby Oradin , as the city ' s spaceport facilities would aid the New Republic in landing troops on the surface . Fel was correct : Admiral Ackbar ordered Rogue Squadron to feint at Vuultin while Aggressor Wing accompanied their main forces to Oradin . When Rogue Squadron and the 181st began to dogfight among the skyscrapers of Vuultin , Isoto decided to pull his capital ships back to the night side of the planet . Baron Fel ' s fighters inflicted heavy losses on Aggressor Wing in the first minutes of the battle , but the panicked admiral demanded that Fel pull his fighters back to Vuultin and defend him , and the New Republic command ordered Rogue Squadron to withdraw in fear that the 181st would attack the main battle group . Oradin was heavily damaged but was captured by the New Republic , though Fel ' s second - in - command Turr Phennir took out a New Republic assault shuttle that crashed into a Brentaal school , injuring a large number of children . When Fel refused a medal for his actions , Isoto decided to declare a Brentaalan holiday entitled " Fel ' s Day , " and despite the desires of both the Cabal and Pestage , Isard ' s manipulations kept the two sides from knowing that they both thought Isoto should be relieved of command . When news of Oradin ' s fall reached Coruscant , Isard ordered a fleet of two hundred and five vessels to launch from Coruscant and head to Brentaal with the purpose of evacuating the planet ' s wealthy upper classes . By doing so , Isard hoped to make Pestage look foolish and deprive the Cabal of a potential power base . When the fleet arrived at Brentaal , the New Republic Provisional Council feared that the evacuation would mean the removal of Brentaal ' s wealth and cultural artifacts and as such ordered the New Republic forces to stop the evacuation . Rogue Squadron and Aggressor Wing worked to disable the evacuating ships over Vuultin while assault transports landed to capture the city , and Baron Fel — angry that Isard ' s manipulations had endangered his pilots — led his unit against Rogue Squadron in order to follow his orders and honor his duty . During the assault , Isoto was assassinated by his concubine Grania at Isard ' s orders after he complied with Isard ' s demand for him to issue an evacuation order . With the issuing of the evacuation order , every ship on Brentaal was given immediate clearance for vertical takeoff , but Fel was forced to order the 181st to retreat from the battle and protect the fleeing citizens . Later history . The Brentaalans who managed to evacuate were welcomed to Coruscant by Pestage , who publicly blamed the loss of the Battle of Brentaal IV on treasonous citizens who had died in the conflict . From Brentaal , the New Republic moved their forces up the Hydian Way in 6 ABY after conquering much of the western and southern galaxy , and Oradin had been rebuilt to its former bustling state by the year 9 ABY , when the astromech droids Whistler and Gate — the droids of New Republic pilots Corran Horn and Wedge Antilles — traveled on a solo mission to the city in order to locate the smugglers Talon Karrde and Mirax Terrik . The Grand Oradin Hotel was a major resort in the city , and the building ' s turbolifts played recordings of the history of the Battle of Brentaal IV to their passengers . The planet was briefly conquered by Grand Moff Ardus Kaine in 10 ABY during the offensive planned by the reborn Emperor Palpatine . Brentaal remained a part of the New Republic for the next decade and a half , and the Brentaal Academy hosted the 412th Proceedings of Galactic Anthropology and History , with the historian Vilnau Teupt as the keynote speaker in 24 ABY . During the Yuuzhan Vong War of 25 – 29 ABY , Brentaal was attacked by the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong species , and like those of Ralltiir and Chandrila , the planet ' s inhabitants chose to fight the invaders , though several of the planet ' s cities were destroyed when the Brentaalans fought the Yuuzhan Vong . Inhabitants . Brentaal ' s society was focused entirely around commerce , with the hundreds of Brentaal Houses controlling the planetary economy and political environment . On Brentaal , politics were a means to advance one ' s interests in the commercial world , not a way to gain power , and the planet was ruled by a participatory democracy . Representatives of each Brentaal House met daily in the central Trade Hall in Cormond , where they made public policy and coaxed the economy in desired directions . The Houses , which were connected by thousands of intricate alliances and factions , were nearly all organized by family , as the ability to own a controlling stake in a Brentaal guild or House was originally restricted to family members and family - controlled businesses . A complex system involving permits and exchanges of massive numbers of credits later opened access to some foreigners limited access to certain Houses . Houses Kallea , Brentioch and Okeefe , Hall Ju ' oda , and the Dajaal Family were among the more successful and influential Houses on Brentaal . With a population of approximately 65 billion , Brentaal was primarily populated by Humans , as they made up 88 % of the planet ' s inhabitants , and the planet ' s primary language was Galactic Basic Standard . The popular Brentaalan folkhero was one who fearlessly trail - blazes new hyperspace routes as a spacefaring merchant , and Freia Kallea became a legendary figure in Brentaalan society for doing just that . Many major megacorporations maintained their headquarters on Brentaal , particularly in the capital of Cormond , and the planet also had a very well - regarded cuisine that was the result of thousands of years of interaction with other cultures . The architecture of Brentaal ' s cities was functional and stark as befitted a culture based on commerce , but as the Brentaalans favored organic - looking architecture , many offworlders considered their buildings to be oddly beautiful . As a result of its position at the junction of the Hydian and the Perlemian , Brentaal was home to many shipping companies and also had a thriving criminal underworld and black market . Locations . Brentaal ' s inhabitants lived primarily in cities that were primarily filled with spaceports , trade markets , financial markets , industrial centers , and warehouses . The city of Votrad was home to the Votrad Independent Downport , an enormous spaceport , and the Votrad Stadium , which was large enough to hold 100 , 000 patrons . The Brentaal Academy and the Brentaal Commerce Academy were two learning institutions on the world ; the Commerce Academy trained children for the planet ' s commerce - focused society , with some courses including advanced stock tracking , distribution theory , and speculative investing . While the planet ' s equatorial regions , plateaus , and flatlands were dominated by the commercial starports and warehouses essential to Brentaal ' s commercial society , the planet ' s polar regions were primarily devoted to recreational pursuits . Brentaal ' s capital , Cormond , lay on the coast of the Suporro Sea near the Gravaal Mountains , and it was home to the Trade Hall — the center of Brentaal ' s commercial interests and the seat of government . The Trade Hall featured a number of expansive trade floors , thousands of offices , gardens , and shipping centers , in addition to a private spaceport . While the rest of Brentaal was largely devoted to handling cargo , Cormond was responsible for directing the commerce as a result of the presence of the Trade Hall . The city of Oradin was located on a coast and was home to an Imperial - class spaceport , making it far more strategically valuable than the large city of Vuultin , which was located to the west in a forest and lacked a spaceport . Oradin was home to dozens of resorts and hotels , ranging in size from tiny hovels to the large upscale luxury of the Grand Oradin Hotel , which was known as the Grand Imperial Hotel in the years before the Battle of Brentaal IV during the Galactic Civil War . The Curovao family , which ran the shipping company Curovao ImpEx , lent its name to the city of Curovao , though Simith Gorofila , head of the so - called Brentaal Dissidents League , accused the family and the city of corrupt dealings with the Republic . The Favis Resort was an artificial island anchored in Brentaal ' s mild south polar sea , and it was one of the resort communities where Brentaalan nobles and guild officers retired to when the planet ' s heat became oppressive during summertime in the southern hemisphere . Numerous casinos , luxury hotels , and sports stadiums could be found at the Resort , and yacht regattas and glacier - climbing expeditions were conducted regularly . However , the Favis Resort also had a reputation for being the site of corporate espionage , as Brentaalan merchants rarely ever left their work behind while on vacation . Behind the scenes . Brentaal IV was first mentioned in the " Galaxywide NewsNets " segment of " Star Wars Adventure Journal 3 " , published in 1994 , and it received mentions in a number of sources and roleplaying guides in the years that followed . The planet first appeared in the roleplaying adventure " Imperial Double - Cross " in 1997 , and the " " story arc of the " " comic series was focused on Brentaal a few months later . The roleplaying adventure " The Far Orbit Project " , published in 1998 , stated that Brentaal lacked moons , despite the " X - wing " comics less than a year earlier clearly depicting Brentaal possessing at least one moon with a military base on it , and all subsequent sources and appearances have stated that Brentaal IV has two moons .