Keitum system

The Keitum system was a part of the Mid Rim's Ariarch sector and contained the planet Keitum. By the time of the Separatist Crisis, it was affiliated via the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty to seven other star systems. That alliance was part of a larger network of forty systems linked by various alliances and treaties to each other, centered on the inconspicuous planet Ansion.
In 22 BBY, when members of the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty were considering seceding from the Galactic Republic, the Confederacy of the Independent Systems sought to facilitate the secession of the entire network of systems affiliated with Ansion. The Separatist plans were foiled by a Jedi mission to Ansion, which resulted in the planet and its partner systems remaining loyal to the Republic. Following the subsequent Clone Wars, the Keitum system successively fell within the borders of the Galactic Empire, the New Republic, and the Imperial Remnant.
==Description==
The Keitum system was a part of the Ariarch sector in the New Territories portion of the Mid Rim. It was situated at the endpoint of the hyperlane known as the Rago Run, which linked it to the Ansion system in the Churba sector. The system contained the planet Keitum.
==History==
===A web of alliances===
The Keitum system was situated in space explored at some point between 3000 BBY and 1000 BBY. By 22 BBY,The Essential Reader's Companion dates the events of The Approaching Storm, during which the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty is in effect, to 22 BBY. it was both a member of the Galactic Republic and a signatory of the never-invoked Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty, the latter of which placed it in a web of mutual affiliations with seven other systems: the Dorin and Mondress systems of the Expansion Region; the Eeropha system in the Colonies; and the Ansion, Glom Tho, Lonnaw, and Malari systems in the Mid Rim. In addition, Keitum, its partner systems, and the Malarian Alliance—also affiliated with the planet Ansion—all had treaties of their own with other worlds, which led to the seemingly insignificant Ansion lying at the center of a network of approximately forty politically connected star systems. During the Separatist Crisis, signatory systems of both the Malarian Alliance and the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty were individually considering leaving the Republic.
The Confederacy of Independent Systems intended to facilitate the secession of Ansion from the Republic, which was predicted by the Separatists to cause a cascade of secession by all the systems linked to the planet via its treaties as well. Presidente Shu Mai of the Commerce Guild explained the Separatist plan to the Corellian industrialist Tam Uliss and his Twi'lek companion during a meeting with Ansion's Senator Mousul in a private chamber on Coruscant, a Core Worlds planet that served as the capital of the Republic, in 22 BBY. Mai also singled out the member systems of the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty for the group in a holographic projection of the galaxy. However, a mission to Ansion undertaken at the time by members of the Jedi Order on behalf of the Republic ultimately resulted in that world and its partners remaining loyal to the galactic government, foiling the Separatist plans.
===Clone Wars and beyond===
During the first campaigns of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY, the Republic's Seventh Sector Army was tasked with defending the Keitum system's vicinity against the military forces of the Confederacy. Shortly after the acquisition of the planet Ukio by the Commerce Guild during that conflict, the Keitum system was featured on a galactic map displayed on a viewscreen at a facility run by Passel Argente, the MagistrateThe Clone Wars: Act on Instinct of the Corporate Alliance.
At some point following the establishment of the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY, the newly appointed Imperial Moff of the Mid Rim's Churnis sector declared all existing treaties and alliances involving Ansion to be null and void, and by 17 BBY, the Keitum system was situated within the territory controlled by the Empire. Between 12 ABY and 17 ABY, the Keitum system fell within the borders of the New Republic, but control over the system had been passed to the Imperial Remnant by 40 ABY.
==Inhabitants==
Keitum was the origin point of the social group known as the Keitumites, and the Keitum system's population around 25 ABY numbered between one hundred and five hundred million.
==Behind the scenes==
The Approaching Storm, a 2002 novel by Alan Dean Foster, featured a holographic representation of the several unnamed star systems connected to the planet Ansion via the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty. The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas, authored by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry, subsequently identified one of those systems as the Keitum system and placed it in grid square J-6.
==Appearances==
*The Approaching Storm 
*The Approaching Storm abridged audiobook 
*The Clone Wars: Act on Instinct 
==Sources==
*The Essential Atlas 
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*The Essential Guide to Warfare
*Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook
*The Official Star Wars Fact File Collector's Guide & Galaxy Chart
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*Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook
*Star Wars: Force and Destiny Core Rulebook
==Notes and references==
Category:Ariarch sector star systems
Category:Galactic Empire star systems
Category:Galactic Republic star systems
Category:Imperial Remnant star systems
Category:New Republic star systems