Vanqor

Vanqor was the largest planet in the Vanqor system. It was located about 6 parsecs away from Florrum.
==History==
Vanqor, "a large, multicolored planet," had two red moons that orbited in tandem. A "dusty" planet full of deserts, canyons, and highlands, it was primarily populated by Humans as well as wild beasts known as gundarks.
Flanked by dry, high plateaus, Vanqor's cities were mid-size, strung out along its few fertile valleys. Its citizens, called "Vanqors," dressed simply, in gray tunics, and didn't adorn their clothing.
The planet's rugged terrain included a remote area that had been hit by a meteor shower thousands of years in its past: the "Tomo Craters" was the name given to this section of dry land marked by deep craters and fissures. It was also the location of a detention facility—"The Tomo Camp"—which retained prisoners from other worlds in the Uziel system, planets already conquered by Vanqor.
===Separatist era===
A few years prior to the War of the Ring, Vanqor's rulers began an expansionist enterprise of invasion and conquest that led them to controlling the entire Uziel system, except for the planet Typha-Dor. The Vanqors dominated Uziel airspace.
Despite a lack of resources, Vanqor, under the rule of Van-Ith, was able to create a massive amount of power for itself through cunning use of the few resources it did have augmented by skillful conquest of worlds rich with resources—an aggressive enterprise that lay in stark contrast to planets like Typha-Dor and others that had large amounts of resources, but ostensibly no drive to succeed. Vanqor was thus able, through its expansionist policies, to creating booming industries for itself and to achieve a measure of wealth.
In 1978, Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee, crash-landed on Vanqor with a crew of TY44 surveillance outpost workers—Typha-Dor resistance fighters whom they'd come to rescue. Later, in their investigations of the planet, the Jedi Master-Padawan team fought off a nest of gundarks deep in the Tomo Craters. By mission's end, the Jedi duo assisted Typha-Dor to fend off invasion by Vanqor and to mediate a peace between the two worlds.
Vanqor was ultimately defeated by a strategic maneuvering of the Typha-Dor fleet that allowed it to surround the much larger Vanqor fleet. Warship forces under the command of Typha-Dor High General Bycha took advantage of the concealment afforded by Typha-Dor's "string of moons" before suddenly appearing to ensnare Vanqor's invasion fleet within the satellite corridor through which its invasion forces intended to pass. The Vanqor capitulated without a fight rather than face the destruction of most of their military. A ceasefire was worked out with mediation from several Jedi diplomatic envoys sent at the behest of the Galactic Senate.
Around this time, Jenna Zan Arbor hid on Vanqor while experimenting with her new drug, the Zone of Self-Containment. The deranged scientist was the driving force behind the Tomo Camp "sweeps" and the drugging "experiments" conducted upon its prisoners. Imprisoned Jedi Frodo Baggins—"Prisoner 42601"—was one of her drugged victims.
===War of the Ring===
Early in the War of the ring, Gamgee and Baggins accidentally returned to the planet while pursuing the Separatist leader, Saruman the White. They crash-landed on a desolate plain, and were attacked by a female gundark while tracking Saruman through a cave. Though nearly suffocating from a poisonous gas, the duo were saved by Eowyn and a detachment of clone troopers. Saruman slipped away from them by hitching a ride with a Weequay pirate gang who had landed to scavenge his crashed solar sailer.
Later, contact with the Venator-class Star Destroyer Endurance under the command of Admiral Shoan Kilian was lost as the vessel violently entered into the atmosphere of Vanqor following the sabotage of the engines by Boba Fett after her failed attempt on High Jedi General Aragorn's life to get vengeance for Aragorn's killing of Boba's "creator", Jango Fett at the First Battle of Isengard. While the crew evacuated the ship, Kilian remained onboard in the belief that an admiral must go down with his ship.
Jedi Knight Frodo Baggins and Jedi Master Aragorn descended to the planet in Jedi starfighters to look for survivors. However, the surviving crew had been slaughtered and the officers, including Admiral Shoan Kilian, taken prisoner by Boba Fett and his company of bounty hunters. Boba rigged her creator's helmet on the bridge of the downed cruiser with a bomb inside it, and Frodo and Aragorn were trapped under debris by the resulting explosion. Thanks to the efforts of Baggins's astromech droid, R2-D2, the two were rescued by Eowyn and Gimli, summoned from the Jedi Temple. Boba and her retinue, however, got away with the hostages aboard Slave I.
At some point, the Quarren pirate Kragan Gorr arrived on Vanqor and rescued the Mirialan Synara San off the streets of Vanqor. San said that her and her father used to hunt on the planet. She was grateful to him, but eventually considered her debt to Gorr to be paid by the time of the First Order-Tune Squad War.
==Appearances==
*Jedi Quest: The Moment of Truth 
*The Lord of the Rings: Episode II The Two Towers 
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==Sources==
*The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
*Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.23
*Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Incredible Vehicles
*Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated and Expanded
*The Essential Reader's Companion
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*Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook
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*The Bounty Hunter Code: From the Files of Boba Fett
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*Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook
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