Mustafar/Legends

Mustafar was a small planet located in the Mustafar system of the Outer Rim Territories, coreward of Rutan, between the Hydian Way and the Ninth Quadrant.
A fiery volcanic world where an unusual type of lava was mined as a natural resource, Mustafar often served as a place to dispose of unwanted evidence, a quality which drew Black Sun to the planet. It also drew the Sith: it was here that Darth Maul began his training under Darth Sidious. Mustafar served as the last capital of the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars, thus becoming the site of the Separatists' downfall, an event that shaped galactic history. In a duel that followed, Darth Vader fought his former mentor, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. The fallen Jedi lost and was severely burnt after he was caught on fire by one of Mustafar's lava rivers, forcing him to wear a suit of dark armor to live.
==Description==
Mustafar was a very young and volatile world, torn apart by opposing gravitational forces of the gas giants Jestefad and Lefrani, with the former being the closer of the two. Astride thick-skinned lava fleas, the native Mustafarians leapt across the lava fields to mine the planet's unique and valuable minerals present in the lava.
The intense geological activity creates natural scanning interference that has kept prying eyes away from Mustafar for most of its history.
The Mustafarians oversaw the mining facilities constructed by the Techno Union on the planet.
Due to the planet's volcanic nature versions of the phrase "until Mustafar freezes over" were commonly used in the galaxy.Republic Commando: Triple Zero
==History==
===Early history===
Once a lush green world, Mustafar was home to a Jedi Enclave built around 5300 BBY. Jedi Master Chu-Gon Dar, an individual whose mastery of physical Force was unmatched, also lived there. He created a unique Force-sensitive object while on the planet known as the Chu-Gon Dar cube which was used to both channel and manipulate the physical Force to alter the physical properties of an item placed inside it. However, in 3996 BBY, the resurgent Sith wished to exterminate the Jedi, and so a climactic battle took place on the planet. This battle was so intense that one of the nearby gas giants was pulled into its current location by the Force, starting the gravitational tug-of-war. The environmental hazards caused by this forced the Jedi to abandon their temples on the planet. This caused all knowledge of Chu-Gon's cube to be lost. Mustafar would also be the home of the Force organization the Blackguard.
Mustafar was home to two variants of sentient Mustafarians—the northern Mustafarians, who were tall and thin, and the southern Mustafarians, who were short and squat. Centuries ago, a cataclysmic eruption destroyed all Mustafarian settlements except for Fralideja.
===Galactic Republic===
Mustafar became a major mining world during the Old Republic era, when the Mustafarian explorer Jesl Berken discovered rich mineral deposits in the region that was later named Berken's Flow after him. Then, in 300 BBY, the Techno Union claimed Mustafar which would allow them to collect rare ores from its surface without the need for deep-bore mines. To this end the Techno Union signed a treaty with the native Mustafarian which allowing them to mine the resources in exchange for advanced technology suited to the high temperatures on the planet. The Berken's Flow was for some times the richest source of natural resources in the galaxy.
Sometime before 54 BBY, a reclamation station on the planet owned by a Black Sun Vigo named Cabra had been used to dispose of enemies and evidence. However by 54 BBY it had been made available to Damask Holdings which turned it into an accounting facility.
Around 54 BBY, Darth Sidious was given Maul, a newborn Dathomirian Zabrak from a Nightsister named Kycina while in the Blue Desert City on Dathomir. Kycina was seeking to save the boy from his fate of serving as a Nightbrother for Mother Talzin but unbeknownst to her, she was giving him to a Sith Lord. Sidious brought the boy to the Damask Holdings facility on Mustafar and left him in the care of custodial droids. Less than a year later, Sidious informed his master, Darth Plagueis about the child who instructed him to train the boy as a Sith assassin. During the following years, Maul received harsh training on Mustafar from a droid named TD-D9 until he was eventually taken off of Mustafar to continue his training on Orsis.The Wrath of Darth Maul Due to his time training on Mustafar, Maul considered it to be his homeworld.
===Clone Wars===
At the time of the Clone Wars, the Techno Union had owned Mustafar since 300 BBY, harvesting minerals and energy from the 800-degree-hot lava. It was comparatively cool compared to most other lava due to the unusual mineral allotropes that became molten at a lower temperature. Regardless, the lava could only safely be mined when a repulsor field was placed to repress any eruptions and deflect heat away from those harvesting it.
During the Battle of Christophsis the clone trooper, Slick, used a BARC speeder that had the phrase "Send'em to Mustafar" written on it in aurebesh.The Clone Wars: Shadowed
During the early years of the war, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, in his guise as Darth Sidious, tasked the Duros bounty hunter Cad Bane with kidnapping Force-sensitive children and taking them to the Damask Holdings facility on the planet, where he could turn them into a cadre of Force–wielding spies for the Galactic Empire. The plot was scuttled by Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano.
At some point prior to the second year of the war, Black Sun, under the leadership of Xomit Grunseit, moved its headquarters to a fortress on Mustafar. Death Watch, together with their new allies Darth Maul and Savage Opress, arrived in the Black Sun complex with an offer of allegiance. When Grunseit refused, Opress murdered all the members of his cabal, making Captain of the Guard Ziton Moj leader of the syndicate.
Palpatine continued to have a vested interest in the planet, and in the final days of the Clone Wars, ordered General Grievous to move the Separatist Council to the Klegger Corp Mining Facility, ostensibly for their own safety. In reality, he had gathered them there for their execution at the hands of his new apprentice, Skywalker, newly anointed as Darth Vader. The Separatist leaders obeyed Palpatine's instructions to deactivate the droid armies, bringing about the end of the war, and were thereupon immediately greeted by Vader, who slaughtered them. At somepoint before before traveling to Mustafar with the Separatist Council, Wat Tambor visited the Power Mounds of the Elders on Skako where he was told he would meet is end on Mustafar.
Before Vader left the facility, he was confronted by his wife Padmé Amidala to answer for his former master Obi-Wan Kenobi's allegation that he had fallen to the dark side and massacred Jedi younglings at the Jedi Temple. When Kenobi himself came down from Padmé's ship, having stowed-away against her knowledge, the enraged and jealous Vader Force choked his wife, inflicting mortal damage to her trachea that she would succumb to during labor.
A fateful duel between former master and pupil then commenced, culminating with Kenobi severing Vader's remaining limbs and leaving him to burn on the banks of a lava river. Despite his grievous injuries, Vader survived to be rescued by Palpatine, who brought him back to Coruscant, where he was rebuilt into the feared cyborg executor of the new Galactic Emperor at his Surgical Reconstruction Center. 
Vader would later consider Mustafar as the death of Anakin Skywalker and the birth of Darth Vader. By 3 BBY, Wilhuff Tarkin had seen enough privileged information that led him to suspected that Skywalker had become Vader after the supposed death of Skywalker on Mustafar.Death Star
===Imperial era===
====Aftermath====
The Klegger Corp Mining Facility was severely damaged during the confrontation between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi, and a part of its structure collapsed into the surrounding lava. Immediately after the formation of the Empire, the HoloNet News reported that an industrial accident on Mustafar drove the price of Dolovite to 760 credits per barrel. Nevertheless, Klegger Corp never recovered from the damage of its main facility, leaving the company, the most important on Mustafar, bankrupt. After the destruction of the Separatist Council, the Techno Union was Imperialized and Mustafar was largely forgotten. The Mustafarians quickly took over the mining operations of the Techno Union. Milo Mensix, a local corporation executive, salvaged the assets and the staff of Klegger Corp, preventing the mining business from falling apart. Mensix Corp eventually became the largest mining corporation on the planet. The Mensix Mining facility was built shortly after the end of the Clone Wars, in the neighborhood of the ruins of the Klegger Corp Mining Facility.
While aboard the Sundered Heart, C-3PO commented on their recent experiences on Mustafar and its corrosive atmosphere to R2-D2 shortly before C-3PO was forced to have a memory wipe performed. Obi-Wan relived his experiences on Mustafar, even tasting ash in his mouth and fire in his lungs, in 19 BBYThe Essential Reader's Companion while he was tracking down a group of Tusken Raiders on Tatooine in order to recover a number of moisture vaporators for the Lars homestead. Although Obi-Wan believed that he had killed Vader on Mustafar, he later discovered that Vader survived after hearing a HoloNet News report about a battle on Kashyyyk where Vader killed a number of Jedi survivors.Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
Following the funeral of Senator Amidala, her head of security Gregar Typho was motivated to find the truth behind her death. Over the next year, Typho searched for records regarding the events on Mustafar. He eventually obtained the official records detailing Skywalker's death on Mustafar, however he noticed that the record did not list the cause of death which led him to conclude that it was not a normal death and eventually speculated that Vader had been responsible for the death. Typho later paid 5000 credits to Boulad, an information broker on Coruscant, who had obtained additional travel records that included Darth Sidious's journey to Mustafar, which reinforced Typho's belief that Vader had traveled to Mustafar and killed both Padme and Skywalker. Typho eventually confronted Vader who confirmed his suspicions before killing him.Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows
====Gizor Dellso's rebellion====
Following the end of the Clone Wars a Geonosian fugitive named Gizor Dellso, who had refused to surrender at the end of the war, came into possession of stolen dataplans for an experimental Imperial starfighter. In order to safely plan his next movies, he made his way to to Mustafar and reactivated a hidden droid factory. There he spent years building up his forces including a army of battle droids and a fleet of ships.
The Empire discovered Dellso's activities on Mustafar sometime between 17 BBY and 12 BBY,Based on combined information from multiple sources, the events of Star Wars: Battlefront II mission to Mustafar takes place between 17 BBY and 12 BBY:
*The New Essential Chronology dates to the formation of the Galactic Empire to 19 BBY.
* Star Wars: Battlefront II specifies that "years" passed between the formation of the Empire and the mission to Mustafar, which places the earliest date to 17 BBY. 
* Star Wars: Battlefront II also places the mission to Mustafar before the Kamino uprising which The Essential Atlas dates to 12 BBY.
Thus the Mustafar battle must therefore take place between 17 BBY and 12 BBY for which the 501st Legion was dispatched by Lord Vader to eliminate Dellso. The 501's mission began in orbit over Mustafar, where Dellso's fleet engaged the Imperials. During the battle, the 501st repelled the droids that had boarded their Star Destroyer, destroyed a number of droid starfighters and crippled a Providence-class carrier/destroyer.
The 501st then landed on the planet and stormed the mining facility near his droid factory in other to destroy the schematics for a new type of battle droid. After the legion's troopers successfully destroyed the plans, Dellso joined the battle personally. Despite being accompanied by other armed Geonosians and battle droids, Dellso was eventually killed in battle. After which the Empire destroyed the mining facility and Dellso's droid factory from space.
===Galactic Civil War===
Shortly before the Death Star plans were stolen, the Alliance to Restore the Republic hired, Rianna Saren, a Twi'lek mercenary to investigate a research ship on Alderaan that was seized by a Black Sun Vigo named Slak Sagar that the Alliance had connected with a secret Imperial project. After making her way through the ship to the communication center, Saren overheard a conversation between the Sagar and Zarien Kheev, an Imperial slaver communicating via hologram. During the conversation they discussed shutting down their project on the ship due to Saren's inflation as well as a final shipment of a drug to Mustafar. Saren later relayed the contents of the conversation to Leia Organa who pieced together that the drug was being used on slaves working to produce Mirkanite on Mustafar. Saren proceeded to volunteer to investigate the facility on Mustafar for the Alliance hoping to catch up with Kheev who had previously owned and mutilated Saren.Star Wars: Lethal Alliance
After landing on Mustafar, Saren made her way to the facility while gliding over lava rivers using her hovering droid companion Zeeo. Once Saren reached the edge of the facility she proceeded on foot past a number of Stromtroopers. Rianna eventually made her way to a control room where Zeeo discovered that Kheev had left for Tatooine. Rianna vowed to follow Kheev to Tatooine after the mission to get her vengeance. Rianna then made her way to the main drilling shaft where she and Zeeo sabotaged three vents which caused lava rise and destroy the facility. After making it back to her ship she fought through a number of TIE fighters before being able to jump to hyperspace. During her missions for the rebel alliance Saren utilized a number of martial arts moves including one named the Winds of Mustafar.
After the destruction of the first Death Star, it was rumored that several would-be Jedi found their way to the legendary world of Mustafar, and were apparently guided on their path to Knighthood by the spectral form of Obi-Wan Kenobi. A disturbance caused by a gathering of dark side energy drew Kenobi's spirit to the planet. Other explorers at the time apparently encountered the ancient assassin droid HK-47 along with an ancient Hammerhead-class cruiser.Star Wars Galaxies: Trials of Obi-Wan
===Post-Endor===
The Sith Lord X1, formerly a clone trooper, had made Mustafar his base of operations sometime during the New Republic era. X2 found his brother on Mustafar and led New Republic troops in a battle against X1 and his forces. After a fight over the planet, X2 and his troops descended to the planet's surface. X2 rescued Luke Skywalker who was on the planet intending to confront X1. However he was captured, and X1 was planning to clone him in order to create an army of Dark Jedi. Once X2 destroyed his brother's cloning lab and rescued Skywalker, the two brothers dueled, ending with the death of X1 as well as the defeat of X1's army.
At sometime during 137 ABY, Mustafar came under the control of Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire.
==Inhabitants==
Mustafar was the homeworld of the Mustafarians, a sentient species of arthropd humanoids very little water in their biology. Mustafarians were made up of two main subspecies, the thinner Northern Mustafarians and the squatter Southern Mustafarians, who could withstand higher temperatures. Mustafarians spoke a buzzing, insectoid language known as Mustafarian.
Mustafarians paid little interest to the events of the galaxy prefering to focus on harvesting the minerals carried in the lava streams of their world.
==Behind the scenes==
Mustafar was originally known as "Mufasta" in early drafts of Revenge of the Sith. Ironically, Mufasta happens to be a primary translation for "The Chosen One".
In an interview published by Rolling Stone on August 25, 1977, George Lucas said that Vader fell into a volcanic pit while dueling Obi-Wan and that the resulting injuries are why he wears his armor. Lucas also mentioned this backstory to Lawrence Kasdan during the writing of Return of the JediThe Making of Return of the Jedi and this backstory is mentioned in the novelization of Return of the Jedi.Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novelization The concept of a lava duel also appears in the Rough Draft and Revised Rough Draft of the script for Return of the Jedi, in which Luke Skywalker battles Darth Vader over a lava lake in Palpatine's throne room in the lowest levels of the Imperial Palace.
Mount Etna was scouted for Revenge of the Sith, to capture plate photography for backdrops in the Obi-Wan Kenobi vs. Darth Vader fight on Mustafar. Conveniently, Etna erupted during the making of the film, so Lucas sent a team to film it. The resultant moving image of lava flows could be used as backgrounds for the duel. These images could have been done by CGI, in theory, but it would have been more difficult and expensive than sending a few people to Sicily with cameras, as Lucas states in the audio commentary to Episode III.
The Mustafar scenes took a lot of work and time from the many special effects workers. The lava was made of a food additive with bright lights shining underneath it for the glow. The overview scene was built with a scale model in a pitch black studio. During filming, the room was filled with fog to create the steam effect. The actors were filmed on a green screen and the special effects artists brought it all together.
==Appearances==
===Non-canon appearances===
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*LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
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*LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy 
*LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
*Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan 
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