Sump/Legends

Sump was planet in the Outer Rim Territories' Koradin sector. It was the homeworld of the easily-manipulated Nuknog species, the leaders of which sold their world to a consortium of mining corporations around 1000 BBY. The Nuknog were then essentially reduced to slavery, working for centuries at offworld mines and factories for no pay while Sump was gradually polluted.
When a pair of Jedi eventually arrived on the planet in search of a wanted criminal, the plight of the Nuknog was made known to the Galactic Republic, which ordered the mining corporations to cease their operations on Sump. The planet's economy was subsequently left in ruins, and, despite Republic relief efforts that brought food supplies to the starving Nuknog and offered to help them rebuild their agricultural industry, the distrustful natives were ultimately unwilling to help themselves, and by the time of the Clone Wars, the galactic interest in their situation waned.
==Description==
Sump was a planet located in the Sump system, a part of the Outer Rim Territories' Koradin sector. It was situated on the Lipsec Run hyperlane, which linked it to the Virgillia and Keskin systems. Sump was a humid urban world that featured several oceans on its surface. Eventually, the planet's ecosystem became polluted, leading to the creation of vast, toxic marshes that could not sustain life.
==History==
===A world sold===
Space surrounding Sump had been widely explored between 3000 BBY and 1000 BBY. Around the latter year, leaders of the planet's easily-manipulated native Nuknog species made a deal with a consortium of unscrupulous offworld mining corporations wherein the Nuknog would cede control over their world in exchange for employment, food, and modest accommodations. The corporations subsequently put the natives to work in mines and processing factories, where they performed tasks that were deemed too hazardous for offworld personnel.
The Nuknog were left unpaid for their work, ate leftovers, and slept in tight prefabricated military barracks. The mining industry eventually polluted Sump, and meanwhile, countless Nuknog perished due to low-quality equipment and mining accidents. For the following centuries, changes to the mining contracts led to Sump and the de facto enslaved Nuknog changing the company that owned them, and the plight of the planet's natives did not catch the attention of the wider galactic community despite at least one Nuknog, Gal-Stod Slagistrough, being a member of the offworld Jedi OrderThe Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force by 990 BBY.
===Republic sympathy===
The situation changed when a pair of Jedi visited Sump during the search for a wanted criminal. The Galactic Republic became aware of the mistreatment of the Nuknog, and the Republic's Senate ordered the mining corporations to end their operations on the planet and repay the Nuknog several centuries' worth of lost wages. Amid the controversy, the corporations dissolved, abandoning the mines and factories on Sump and leaving the natives unable to feed themselves. The planet eventually became a dilapited locale that few offworlders cared to visit.
Sympathy for the starving Nuknog ran high in the Republic, leading relief workers to bring emergency food supplies to Sump and to offer to help the Nuknog rebuild their homeworld's devastated agricultural industry. The distrustful Nuknog, however, while accepting the food, instead blamed the Republic for their situation and demanded that the government supply them with food and other necessities in perpetuity. When it became apparent that Sump's natives were unwilling to put in the work themselves to help alleviate their plight, the public sympathy for the Nuknog disappeared. By the time of the events preceding the Clone Wars, the problems of the Nuknog on Sump no longer held any interest for the Senate or the galaxy at large, which made for another reason for the Nuknog to resent the Republic.
===Into the Clone Wars===
At some point by 22 BBY, is set on the date "13:5:9," which corresponds to 22 BBY per the reasoning here. an astromech droid manufactured by Industrial Automaton experienced a malfunction in its hover rockets and fell down, injuring a worker at a port on Sump. The incident resulted in the company paying a costly out-of-court settlement to the worker and was eventually noted on the date 13:5:9 in an issue of the CoCo District Edition of the HoloNet News.
Sump remained outside of the Republic's territory during the Clone Wars, although during the first campaigns of the conflict in 22 BBY the Nineteenth Sector Army of the Republic was nevertheless tasked with engaging the military forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems in the planet's vicinity.The Essential Guide to Warfare By 20 BBY, Sump remained undecided on its affiliation to either the Republic or the Confederacy. The planet was also situated outside of the Galactic Empire's borders by 17 BBY.
==Inhabitants==
Sump was the homeworld of the Nuknog, a species of reptilian humanoids that spoke the Nuknog language. The Nuknog barely managed to survive on their polluted homeworld. The average life expectancy of a Nuknog was nearly doubled if they made their home off Sump, and therefore, although it was a luxury that few of the planet's natives could afford, most Nuknog jumped at the chance to leave their homeworld and never return. The Nuknog were easily tricked with promises of safe passage offworld, but they had few skills to offer in return. In order to just leave Sump, those Nuknog who managed to depart frequently bought passage aboard passing starships by selling themselves into slavery.
The private investigator Slyther Bushforb and the podracer Ark RooseThe New Essential Guide to Characters were both Nuknog from Sump who had made their way offworld, with the Nuknog government only allowing the latter to participate in the Galactic Podracing Circuit for promotional reasons. The population of the Sump system around 25 ABY numbered between 500 million and one billion.
==Behind the scenes==
Sump was first mentioned in the 2000 reference book Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I by Kristin Lund.Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I The first visual depiction of the planet was on a 2001 map of the Star Wars galaxy designed by James King and Laurence Butler and included with the first issue of The Official Star Wars Fact File magazine. "Sump" was erroneously used in the 2002 twenty-sixth issue of The Official Star Wars Fact File magazine as the species name of the Nuknog podracer pilot Ark Roose. The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the Sump system, and therefore the planet itself, in grid square I-18.
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==Notes and references==
Category:Ecumenopolises
Category:Koradin sector planets
Category:Mining planets
Category:Slavery worlds
Category:Swamp planets