Haidoral Prime

Haidoral Prime, or simply Haidoral, was a backwater planet located in the Kontahr sector of the Mid Rim Territories and the Slice regions. It was governed by the Galactic Empire by the time of the Galactic Civil War, and Everi Chalis, an emissary to the Imperial Ruling Council, was appointed governor of the world as punishment after Emperor Palpatine blamed her and other Imperial higher-ups for the loss of the Death Star superweapon.
The Rebel Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry, also known as Twilight Company, attacked Haidoral Prime in 3 ABY, overcoming its Imperial defenses and raiding the planet. During the conflict, rebel First Sergeant Hazram Namir and his squad fought Imperial fire teams before meeting other rebel units at the central plaza of Haidoral's capital city, where a recruitment drive was held by Twilight Company.
Chalis, believing her Imperial career was over, planned to defect to the company and sent a secret message claiming there were rebel captives in her mansion. As a result, Namir's squad was sent to investigate. The unit infiltrated the mansion and killed a number of guards before finding a makeshift tactical center with Imperial officers. There, Chalis arrived and helped kill the officers before offering to defect to Twilight Company. The governor was subsequently stunned and taken back to the rest of the company, which left Haidoral Prime after.
==Description==
Haidoral Prime, also referred to as simply Haidoral, was a terrestrial backwater planet located in the Kontahr sector within an intersecting portion of the Mid Rim Territories and the Slice regions. It was situated in square R-10 of the Standard Galactic Grid and was linked by a hyperspace route to the Mid Rim celestial bodies Ubrikkia and Kwenn.Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game Haidoral Prime's weather included rain that smelled like vinegar and coated skin like sweat. The planet was also home to crystalline mountains. The world's Type I atmosphere was breathable to humans and felinx.
==History==
===Changes in power===
By the time of the Galactic Civil War between the Rebel Alliance and Galactic Empire, Haidoral Prime was under an Imperial-aligned government. Around 1 ABY,Battlefront: Twilight Company states that Everi Chalis became governor of Haidoral Prime at the beginning of the Mid Rim campaign, which began around 1 ABY according to Star Wars: Timelines Everi Chalis, an emissary to the Imperial Ruling Council and honorary Grand Architect of the New Order, was appointed as governor of Haidoral. Her new position came as a punishment after Emperor Palpatine blamed incompetence among the highest echelons of the Galactic Empire for the destruction of the Death Star superweapon in 0 BBY.Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
During her time as governor, Chalis ruled from a mansion in the outskirts of Haidoral's capital city, Haidoral Administrative Center One. She believed that too many felinx were turning feral and hindering the city's reputation. Therefore, she ordered a culling of the creatures. One resident named Corbo lost his felinx under Chalis's orders. However, the Emperor eventually chose to replace Chalis's staff with a number of Imperial Army officers, who policed the governor for months. Around that time, a Haidoral resident named Roach was put into an Imperial detention center, the reasons largely involving her spice addiction. The sentence led her to have a grudge against Chalis and the Empire.
===Rebels attack===
In 3 ABY, the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry, better known as Twilight Company, attacked Haidoral Prime. With just a single legion of stormtroopers spread out between three continents, Chalis feared that her career in the Empire was over. The governor's Imperial defenses on the planet failed, and Haidoral Administrative Center One was raided by Twilight Company, who stole supplies and locked down Chalis's mansion with half a dozen squads. Imperial defenders struggled to keep control of some civilians, choosing to shoot them as a result.
On the final day of Twilight Company's attack, rebel First Sergeant Hazram Namir and two of his squad surveyed some streets in the capital, finding a number of dead civilians on a road. After they inspected the bodies, the trio was attacked by a fire team of four stormtroopers. Following a short skirmish, the three rebels killed their attackers before making their way to the city's central plaza where other squads were regrouping. The fourth member of Namir's squad, Brand, met them there, having dealt with another Imperial fire team that Namir had missed.
With a scheduled eight hours left on Haidoral, Twilight Company began a recruitment drive, with one squad hijacking the capital's public address system to promote the open recruit to civilians. While a number of locals came to join the company, one man begged for the rebels to leave, and others asked for the company to stay and continue fighting the Empire; the latter group was sent away with weapons that the rebels could spare. The recruits were assessed by Namir for the recruiting officer of that occasion, Quartermaster Hober. When three civilians began fighting, the first sergeant broke up the scuffle and gave the trio a warning.
===The governor's defection===
Meanwhile, Chalis was under the custody of the Imperial officers at a makeshift tactical center established in her mansion's dining hall. Fearing punishment for Twilight Company's attack on Haidoral, she planned to defect to the rebels. The governor sent an MSE-6 series repair droid to the rebels surrounding her mansion with an anonymous message claiming that there were captured rebels being held inside the residence, specifically the room where she was based. After confirming the droid was not bomb-rigged, the rebel Sergeant Fektrin passed the message along to Captain Micha Evon, Twilight Company's commanding officer. Although all of the company's personnel was accounted for, the captain feared that there might be captured civilians inside the mansion, and tasked Namir's squad with investigating.
Namir and his squad were subsequently called to the residence, where Fektrin briefed the first sergeant on their mission, much to the latter's distaste. The squad infiltrated Chalis's mansion via a neighboring rooftop garden—the house's occupants complied when Namir gunned down their custodial droid—and used a magnetic grappling gun to slide down to a mansion. The Besalisk rebel Gadren stayed at the garden as the grappling line did not support his mass. The other three made their way inside Chalis's residence, killing a number of guards on their way to the room where there were allegedly captives.
Namir and his two soldiers stormed into the dining hall–turned–tactical center, finding Imperial officers rather than any prisoners. While the colonel in charge was confused about the claim of captives, Chalis entered the room herself and proclaimed herself as the prisoner. The governor shot the colonel, and the rebels promptly joined her in killing the other officers. After tending to one of his soldier's injuries, Namir questioned Chalis, who revealed herself as the governor and made her offer to join Twilight Company. While Namir took aim at the governor with his blaster rifle, Gadren arrived and stunned her. The first sergeant chose to take Chalis back to the rest of Twilight Company, and the squad made their way back to the company.
===Post–rebel attack===
Twilight Company departed from Haidoral Prime on its starships, the CR90 corvette Thunderstrike and its escort, the Braha'tok-class gunship Apailana's Promise, once all of the supplies seized on the planet were distributed among the battle group. Evon reported Chalis's defection on Haidoral Prime to Alliance High Command, with General Carlist Rieekan informing the Alliance's leader, Mon Mothma, of the matter in an official document.Star Wars: The Rebel Files
In a journal entry reflecting on Twilight Company's Operation Ringbreaker campaign, which took place later in 3 ABY,Star Wars: Timelines Mothma considered the Haidoral Prime defection to be an example of how the Alliance could put itself on equal footing with the Empire when leaning on diplomacy and subterfuge. The document and journal entry were included in The Rebel Files, an archive of non-electric documents compiled by archivist Hendri Underholt. The same year, Haidoral Prime was a destination for a transport landing at Mirogana Spaceport on the Outer Rim Territories moon Toshara, with a coordinator at the spaceport announcing departures to it.
In 4 ABY, the aspiring Jedi Luke Skywalker spoke with the Force ghost of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi while visiting the swamp planet Dagobah. Kenobi told Skywalker that the fate of Haidoral and many other planets relied on a final confrontation between the latter and the Sith Lord Darth Vader.
==Inhabitants==
Haidoral Prime was populated by many humans. Some residents kept felinx as pets.
==Locations==
Haidoral Prime had at least three continents and a capital city that the Empire named Haidoral Administrative Center One, while the local populous named it "Glitter" after the crystal mountains that lined the horizon.
==Behind the scenes==
Haidoral Prime first appeared in the 2015 novel Battlefront: Twilight Company, written by Alexander Freed. The 2024 DK Publishing reference book Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy states that the planet is the homeworld of Everi Chalis,Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy which contradicts Twilight Company information that she grew up on a different backwater planet. This article uses the information from the novel.
==Appearances==
*The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem 
*Battlefront: Twilight Company 
*Star Wars Outlaws 
==Sources==
*Star Wars: The Rebel Files
*Star Wars Galaxy Map
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*Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Empire planets
Category:Mid Rim planets
Category:Terrestrial planets
Category:The Slice planets
Category:Type I atmosphere planets