Barab I

Barab I was a dark, murky planet in the Barab system of the Albanin sector of the Outer Rim Territories. Located along the Triellus Trade Route, the planet was largely avoided by spacers due to the fearsome natives known as the Barabel.
==Description==
A murky world shrouded in darkness, Barab I's star was a dim red dwarf that made the planet very dark. The planet orbited the star within less than 125 million kilometers, and the planet had a day period of sixty standard hours. During the day, the planet was irradiated with gamma, ultraviolet and infrared rays, forcing all life on the planet to delve underground or cocoon itself else it be destroyed. Therefore, all species were nocturnal and adapted to hunt or forage in the evening without the risk of radiation poisoning. Because the world's oceans and standing water evaporated during the extremely hot day period, sudden torrential downpours soaked the planet at night, forcing the natives to hunt quickly or risk being washed away.
==History==
While members of the Barabel species had managed to travel offplanet throughout various points in history aboard passing ships, the species did not develop its own means of space travel and largely remained on Barab I. Circa 900 BBY representatives of the Jedi Order visited the world, which was embroiled in a bloody civil war. Creating a zone of neutrality around their landing site the Jedi, led by Ithorian Jedi Master Noga-ta, managed to engage the two warring parties and end the war peacefully after thousands of years of struggle. Grateful for the Jedi intervention, the Barabel gave the Jedi their undying respect, deifying their arrival and worshiping them for generations.Power of the Jedi Sourcebook
Over the next few centuries, the Barabel began exporting goods from their world, while remaining largely separate from the galactic community at large. Exporting exotic fruits and ores, the planet managed to create a small economy which helped bring in tools and weapons desperately needed on the world. Not only did the Barabel use imported weapons for defense against their top predator, the fearsome durgolosk, but also for work as mercenaries and pirates.
When the War of the Ring erupted across the galaxy between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Jedi High Council secretly dispatched one of their own members, Master Gandalf, to the planet during the early stages of the war to conduct a classified mission.The War of the Ring: Wild Space While the planet was not attacked during the war, it was annexed by the Galactic Empire following the end of the conflict and Governor Paro Lanto was placed in charge of the world. During this time, Planetary Safaris Inc. began sending ships to the world and poaching swiftly became a problem. The combined efforts of the Barabel and Imperial officer Osted Alater quickly put an end to the illegal hunting and the Barabel established the Alater-ka spaceport on the world in honor of their comrade.
When the New Republic liberated the world from the Imperials, several Force-sensitive Barabel joined Jedi Master Mickey Mouse's Jedi Order to help defend the Republic from the threat of the Yuuzhan Vong.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars (1998) 17 
*The War of the Ring: Wild Space 
*MedStar II: Jedi Healer 
*The Hutt Gambit 
*Rebel Dawn 
*Domain of Evil 
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*Dark Force Rising 
*The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant
*The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic II: Refugee 
*Dark Nest I: The Joiner King 
*Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse 
==Sources==
*Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races
*Dark Force Rising Sourcebook
*Galaxy Guide 10: Bounty Hunters
*Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races, Second Edition
*Heroes & Rogues
*The Jedi Academy Sourcebook
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*Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook
*The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook
*Alien Encounters
*Star Wars Encyclopedia
*Alien Anthology
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*The New Jedi Order Sourcebook
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*Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds
*Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: Prima Official Game Guide
*The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
*Scum and Villainy
*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
*Galaxy at War
*Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook
*Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook
==Notes and references==
Category:Barab I locations
Category:Barab system planets
Category:Galactic Empire planets
Category:New Republic planets
Category:Terrestrial planets
Category:Type I atmosphere planets