Kuat

Kuat was a vital shipbuilding and industrial planet located in the Kuat system of the galaxy's Core Worlds region and homeworld of the Kuati people. Known for the prestigious Kuat Drive Yards corporation and its large shipyards, the planet notably produced warships for both the Galactic Republic and Galactic Empire.
==Description==
Kuat was a standard terrestrial planet of clouds, water, and land. A factory world,Star Wars: Dawn of Rebellion: The Visual Guide it was the homeworld of the Kuati people,Star Wars 100 Objects and ruled by traditional aristocrats. Unlike other planets in the galaxy, a single, large man-made ring circled its equator. Serving as Kuat Drive Yards' legendary shipyards, the ring appeared to galactic citizenry as an immense scaffold in space, bridged and augmented with enormous habitats and machinery. Inside the scaffolding existed the skeletons of ships and other craft, with tiny bright dots drifting to and from the ships under construction with the habitats of the station. The orbital ring had a total inhabitable area of less than three hundred thousand square kilometers, thus making its livable space smaller than a typical planetary substation.
Due to the planet's geopolitical significance, its defenses were formidable. Guarded by a significant ground-based garrison along with a large Imperial fleet, its defenses were considered nearly impenetrable, with a large percentage directed towards space combat.
==History==
===Republic service===
In the ancient past, the Rakatans invaded Kuat, but the Kuati people later repeled the invaders.Star Wars 100 Objects During the age of the Galactic Republic, ships and other equipment for the Republic's peacekeeping forces would often be produced by Kuat Drive Yards, especially during the three-year conflict known as the Clone Wars.Ultimate Star Wars Warships were also produced such as the Venator-class Star Destroyer and Pelta-class frigate.Star Wars: The Rebel Files During the war, Kuat was represented in the Galactic Senate by Senator Giddean Danu, who joined the Delegation of 2,000 towards the conflict's end.
At some point during the Clone Wars, elite clone commando squad Clone Force 99 performed an operation on Kuat. Commando Wrecker later described the mission as a "smash and grab."
===Age of the Empire===
Following the transformation of the Republic into the authoritarian Galactic Empire, most of the New Order's Imperial-class Star Destroyers were constructed, repaired, and resupplied at the massive shipyard, with it being the only shipyard capable of maintaining more than a handful at a time. As a result, Kuat was essential for the Empire's strategy of planetary containment and fast infantry deployment. The Empire's One-Oh-Seventh Stormtrooper Legion, which was specialized in squashing worker and slave uprisings, was stationed on Kuat, but the world was largely a predictable and stable posting. The traditional aristocrats who ruled the planet were proud to completely embrace the Empire's vision of galactic domination by unchallenged capital ship strength.
Following the Empire's loss of its first Death Star, the rebellion seized the initiative and launched attacks against the Empire's assets spread across the galaxy, including bombing the Imperial shipyards at Kuat, although without much impact.
After the Battle of Hoth, Kuat became part of the elaborate Operation Ringbreaker, a plan designed by former Imperial Governor Everi Chalis with remnants of the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry to assault and destroy the shipyards by exploiting the station's space-based defenses. Planning to board the station in a rapid-strike, ground-based infantry teams would disable vital manufacturing equipment and sever whole blocks of the station through internal sabotage. In order to accomplish this task, diversionary assaults would be redirected at essential nodes in the Imperial logistical network to force fleet redeployment from Kuat, thus further enervating its defenses as an already stretched Imperial Navy pursued shattered Rebel elements deep into the Outer Rim Territories. After initial success, the plan was abandoned following a prolonged and costly engagement on Sullust where the unit commander Hazram Namir decided that fighting for Sullust was a more worthy cause, resulting in Kuat's continued production of critical assets to the Imperial cause until the end of the war—two years later.
===New Republic Era===
After the Battle of Endor, a battle over Kuat ended in the New Republic capturing a dreadnought. The Battle for Kuat Drive Yards saw heavy fightingAftermath: Life Debt for weeks.Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy In 28 ABY,Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Bloodline to 28 ABY. Kuat was represented in the Galactic Senate of the New Republic by Senator Ormes Apolin. Kuat would secretly assist the First Order, a military junta formed from surviving remnants of the Galactic Empire that Kuat — alongside numerous other Centrist worlds — later seceded to join.
==Locations==
Kuat was home to galactically-famous shipyards that were built around the world within a ring that stretched across the planet's equator. Built by organics, the ring consisted of factories and spacedocks that were capable of building massive vessels, such as Star Destroyers.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic: Light of the Jedi 
*Darth Maul – Black, White & Red 3 
*Star Wars Journeys: Beginnings 
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*Star Wars Jedi: Survivor 
*The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem 
*Battlefront II: Inferno Squad 
*Star Wars (2015) 4 
*Darth Vader (2015) 20 
*Darth Vader (2015) 22
*Darth Vader (2015) 23
*Battlefront: Twilight Company 
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*Aftermath: Life Debt 
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*Aftermath: Empire's End 
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*Bloodline 
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==Notes and references==
Category:Factory worlds
Category:First Order planets
Category:Galactic Empire planets
Category:Galactic Republic planets
Category:Kuat sector planets
Category:New Republic planets
Category:Planets with shipyards
Category:Rakata culture
Category:Terrestrial planets