Thonner/Legends

Thonner was an Outer Rim Territories planet located in the Moddell sector. It was covered in shallow oceans and seas that were broken by strings of sandy islands. Freshwater vents also dotted Thonner's surface, and lichen imported from the planet Maya Kovel grew on the world's islands. Thonner's Lesser Firagh Peninsula was home to dangerous fauna such as the Zoun mauler.
Settled in 25 BBY, Thonner hosted a native population of Ayrou, Humans, and Kian'thar who were collectively known as Thonnermen. Practicing fishing and trapping as well as lichen farming, they led a semi-nomadic existence. Initially the Ayrou used Thonner as a penal colony, and the incarcerated Mon Calamari Vcikas hid on the planet a statue that was valued by the Ayrou. At some point, the Ayrou presence on Thonner decreased to just a few individuals, and the t'landa Til Korraj and his gang of pirates maintained a base on the planet.
==Description==
Thonner was a terrestrial planet that occupied the fourth orbital position in the Thonner system. It lay within the Inner Moddell systems area of the Moddell sector, one of the subsectors making up the Inner Zuma Region within the Outer Rim Territories' Zuma sector. Along with the rest of the Thonner system, the planet was connected to the Maya Kovel and Ovise systems by the hyperlane known as the Annaj-Houche Run, while another hyperspace route linked it to the Qina system.
Thonner's local year lasted 312 local days, each of which was twenty-one standard hours long. Its gravity was ninety-five percent standard, and it had a breathable Type I atmosphere and a temperate climate. The planet was covered in shallow saltwater oceans and seas that were broken by chains of sandy islands. Bubbling freshwater vents also dotted Thonner's surface, while marshlands in which corsit-puzzle trees grew covered the Lesser Firagh Peninsula of the Firagh continent. In addition, by the time of the Yuuzhan Vong War, lush colonies of lichen imported from the planet Maya Kovel covered many of Thonner's islands.
The wildlife of Thonner included fish as well as Thonnerwrots, a type of bony marine crustaceans. The fauna of the Lesser Firagh Peninsula, which included the tree-climbing amphibian corsit and the fierce predator known as the Zoun mauler, was dangerous enough that the planet's Thonnermen inhabitants did not establish any settlements in the area.
==History==
===Ayrou prison world===
Despite Thonner's location on the relatively well-traveled Annaj-Houche Run, the planet was only settled in 25 BBY, although by that time it had already served for years as a hideout for occasional fugitives. Members of the Ayrou species helped develop the first settlements on Thonner, and they had a heavy presence on the world in the years following settlement.
The Ayrou used Thonner as a penal colony for those Ayrou and other sentients who had resorted to using violence in order to achieve their goals, which was anathema in the Ayrou society. Eventually, however, only a few Ayrou remained on Thonner, the species denied having used the planet as a prison, and the former Ayrou presence on the world came to be chiefly represented by the lichen imported from the Ayrou homeworld, Maya Kovel.
===Dangerous escape===
Sometime during the use of Thonner as an Ayrou prison, sly incarcerated Ayrou criminals stashed on the planet a statue sought after by their species. The prisoners planned to escape and retrieve the statue, but it eventually fell into the hands of another incarcerated individual, the Mon Calamari Vcikas, who became very attached to the artifact and buried it at a site past the mollusk arches, determined—similarly to its previous owners—to retrieve it once he left prison.
At some point at least sixteen years after the settlement of Thonner, a swoop gang became active at a location south of the Ayrou holding cells, and when it began to cause trouble for the prison guards, a group of prisoners including Vcikas overwhelmed their sentries and escaped into the Lesser Firagh Peninsula. There, the dangerous fauna claimed the lives of every escapee except the Mon Calamari and an individual whom the Ayrou had imprisoned for participating in a fistfight on Maya Kovel. By the time the pair had reached the sea, they had suffered an attack by a Zoun mauler that left the face of Vcikas' companion disfigured.
===A hidden statue===
The Mon Calamari became separated from his companion, and the latter was found by Thonnermen who adopted the former prisoner as a worker. When the Ayrou guards visited the Thonnermen in search of the escapees, they did not recognize Vcikas' former fellow inmate due to their scars. The worker believed that Vcikas came to live off the land on Thonner, taking some of the Thonnermen's harvest during lean seasons.
At some point, the former prisoner of the Ayrou relayed the story of their escape to a listener, and eventually Thonner was visited by a group of treasure hunters who, on the account of the tale, believed that the statue Vcikas had possessed was, in fact, one of the two valuable artifacts known as the Tessents. During the visit on Thonner, the group also enlisted the help of the local miner and metallurgist Saqc'or, and the local pirate gang led by Korraj also became involved in the search for the Tessents.
==Inhabitants==
The inhabitants of Thonner were known as Thonnermen. They included thirty million Humans as well as members of the Kian'thar species and a few Ayrou. The semi-nomadic Thonnermen, governed by tribal councils, practiced fishing, trapping, and lichen farming. They had access to space-level technology and exported foodstuffs off-world in exchange for importing lumber and technology. Ayrou traders traveling along the Annaj-Houche Run also transported boxes of lichen seeds to Thonner.
The Svivreni miner and metallurgist Saqc'or resided on Thonner while prospecting for potentially valuable untapped resources. In addition, a pirate gang led by the t'landa Til Korraj operated out of Thonner, with the group including members of several aquatic species such as Aqualish and Quarren.
==Locations==
The Firagh continent of Thonner was at one point the site of Ayrou prisoner holding cells that were situated near the Lesser Firagh Peninsula. The pirate Korraj and his gang maintained a base on the peninsula, which was in turn located between Firagh and the Greater Zoun Archipelago. The base was situated in the peninsula's shallow tidal flats, and it was only accessible via a series of treacherous sea caves.
The first settlements on Thonner consisted of large platforms built out of giant Trindellan oaks—imported from the Trindello system—above the planet's freshwater vents. Later, aqueducts were constructed in order to transport the freshwater to Thonner's islands. By the time of the Yuuzhan Vong War, the planet also hosted a spaceport of limited services, and it was also the site of the location known as the mollusk arches.
==Behind the scenes==
Thonner first appeared in the roleplaying adventure "Race for the Tessent," which was published for use with Wizards of the Coast's Star Wars Roleplaying Game in the ninth issue of the Star Wars Gamer magazine on February 22, 2002. The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed Thonner in grid square H-16.
Instead of featuring a set plot, "Race for the Tessent" presents several settings in the Moddell sector, Thonner being one of them, that the player characters may visit during their search for the artifacts known as the Tessents. For each of the settings, the adventure also suggests possible circumstances for a Tessent being hidden there. Assuming that as much of the non-contradictory information presented in the adventure as possible is canonical with respect to the Star Wars Legends continuity, this article assumes that the Alsakan Tessent and the Ayrou Tessent were instead hidden on the planets Ast Kikorie and Vasha, respectively.
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*The Essential Atlas
==Notes and references==
Category:Agriworlds
Category:Low-gravity planets
Category:Moddell sector planets
Category:Terrestrial planets
 
Category:Type I atmosphere planets