Atraken

Atraken was a doonium rich planet conquered by the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The Galactic Republic tried to liberate it in 1981 and were only successful through a series of strikes called Operation Katabatic nearly a year later. The Separatists engaged in a "poisoned well" policy, releasing a biochemical plague into the planet's water table that killed 90% of the population. The survivors mostly relocated to Trilos, if not to other neighboring worlds. Thrynka Padaunete blamed the disaster on the Jedi.
The once beautiful planet had been left a desolate, bombed-out husk by the second year of the War of the Ring after eleven months of fighting. Its oceans, those that hadn't boiled away, were now large bodies of poisonous water and the poisonous air carried what remained of the chemical weapons that were used. The only life forms capable of living on Atraken were the 'diehards'; large burrowing insects that had adapted to eating the poison.
==Appearances==
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*Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight 
*Planet of Twilight 
==Sources==
*Planets of the Galaxy, Volume Two 
*The Star Wars Planets Collection
*The New Essential Chronology
*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
==Notes and references==
Category:Confederacy of Independent Systems planets
Category:Galactic Republic planets
Category:Low-gravity planets
Category:Rolion sector planets
Category:Terrestrial planets
Category:Type III atmosphere planets