Eroudac

Eroudac was a terrestrial planet located in the Mid Rim and the Slice regions. The planet was orbited by a pink moon and its terrain featured crystal mountains and seas. During the High Republic Era, a Jedi temple operated on Eroudac. Several Jedi Masters and Jedi younglings were stationed there by 230 BBY, including the youngling Jamil Sollis. However, the Jedi evacuated the temple in 230 BBY following the Jedi High Council's recall of all Jedi to the Core Worlds planet Coruscant, upsetting Sollis as he struggled to adjust away from home.
After 21 ABY, the Garsea family settled on Eroudac and established themselves in the Eroudac Citadel. She attended a local academy while there to appease her father, but often spent most of her time in a local spaceport instead. Sometime after her parents died, the smuggler Izal Garsea left the planet after failing a smuggling job for one of her academy professors.
==Description==
Eroudac was a small terrestrial planet located in the Mid Rim and the Slice regions of the galaxy, in grid square P-15 on the Standard Galactic Grid. It was orbited by a pink-colored moon that shone light down on the planet below. The world's terrain featured crystal mountains and warm seas, as well as a Type I atmosphere breathable to humans, Hutts, and Cereans.
==History==
===Mountain Jedi temple===
During the High Republic Era, Eroudac was home to a temple of the Jedi Order, having been built into the side of one of the world's crystal mountains. By 230 BBY,Per the reasoning here, the events of The High Republic: Beware the Nameless, which take place a year and a half after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, must take place in 228 BBY. As Beware the Nameless establishes that Jamil Sollis grew up at the Eroudac Jedi temple prior to the Jedi Order's recall to Coruscant, an event Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia dates to 230 BBY, he must have been stationed there by 230 BBY. several Jedi younglings and Jedi Masters were present there, though the temple's population was notably less than that of the Core Worlds planetStar Wars: Galaxy's Edge: Traveler's Guide to Batuu Coruscant's Jedi Temple at that time.
One of the Jedi younglings who considered Eroudac home was Jamil Sollis, who received rigorous training from the temple's Jedi Masters. While there, he stayed in the facility's dormitories and enjoyed looking up at the pink light of Eroudac's moon through a skylight. At one point, Sollis also swam in Eroudac's warm seas, having been pushed by a wave that moved forward more chilling waters. In 230 BBY, the Jedi High Council recalled all Jedi to Coruscant and implemented the Guardian Protocols, hoping to protect the Jedi Order against the dangers of the Nihil marauders and their Force-draining Nameless creatures.Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia Sollis and the other younglings on Eroudac evacuated the world with their Jedi Masters aboard a ship, being informed of the threat they faced as they traveled to Coruscant.
While stationed in Coruscant's Jedi temple in 228 BBY, Sollis reminisced on missing Eroudac and its temple, having felt out of place and unable to focus in his new environment. The youngling later participated in a mission to the planet Palagosal, often thinking about the crystal mountains of his home when overwhelmed. He felt that the fellow youngling Tep Tep—who had been displaced from her original temple on the Outer Rim planet Valo understood what it felt like to miss home and sought her out to talk about his feelings.
===A new beginning===
In 21 ABY,Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of A Crash of Fate to 34 ABY. The novel establishes that Izal Garsea left Batuu when she was five years old, and as the novel takes place on the day before and on Izal Garsea's eighteenth birthday, she must have left the planet in 21 ABY. the Garsea family moved out from the Outer Rim planet Batuu and eventually arrived on Eroudac, where they settled at the Eroudac Citadel. Afterward, the daughter of the family—Izal Garsea—started to attend a local academy to appease her father. Garsea spent most of her days on Eroudac at the spaceport, where she would board her family's light freighter, the Meridian, and fly it around the planet. Izal's mother, Ixel Garsea, had been able to smooth-talk her way out of citations and get landing permits from the police officers in the world's local law enforcement agency.
Following the death of her parents, Izal Garsea took a Galactic Politics course at the academy on Eroudac. During the course, she met a fellow student and started dating him. The relationship ended after she met her boyfriend's parents, who did not care for an orphaned woman like Garsea; she had no social status on Eroudac and no aspirations of becoming a politician's wife. Sometime later, Garsea accepted a smuggling job from the academy's genetic science professor. She was set to travel to the planet Haneli aboard her starship, acquire some haneli flowers, and smuggle them off the planet. During the job, Garsea was caught with the flowers, and decided to drop the cargo and to abandon her home on Eroudac rather than returning to face her professor.
===Planning the future===
In 34 ABY,Star Wars: Timelines Izal Garsea returned to Batuu, where she reunited with her old childhood friend, Julen Rakab. Explaining where she had been, she told Rakab everything that had happened at Eroudac. After a skirmish at a local farm, Garsea learned that Rakab owned a starship, which motivated her to invite Rakab on a date on Eroudac.
Rakab was initially confused about the choice of Eroudac, but Garsea explained that Eroudac was the last place where she had lived with her parents, and that it had ancient ruins and a pink moon. Rakab agreed to go on the date once his ship got repaired. Rakab and Garsea started dating, but their plan to go to Eroudac did not come to fruition, and they instead hoped to visit it together one day. The same year, the historian Eloc Throno included Eroudac on a map in his book, Traveler's Guide to Batuu.
==Inhabitants==
Several Jedi, including the human Jamil Sollis, lived on Eroudac by 230 BBY. Izal Garsea and her family also resided on the world for some time following their departure from Batuu, as did others such as her boyfriend and academy professor.
==Locations==
By the High Republic Era, a Jedi temple was built into the side of one of the world's mountains. The Eroudac Citadel was a residence where the Garsea family lived during their stay on Eroudac. Other points of interest on Eroudac included the local spaceport, an academy, and ancient ruins.
==Behind the scenes==
Eroudac was created for the 2019 young-adult novel A Crash of Fate, written by Zoraida Córdova, which introduced it via mention. The planet's name is an anagram for Ecuador, the country where Córdova was born. Mentions of Eroudac were later included 2024 junior novel The High Republic: Beware the Nameless, also authored by Córdova and published as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's Phase III. In an interview, Córdova confirmed the reference to Actlyon in Beware the Nameless had been an intentional callback to her previous Star Wars work.
Ahead of its release, on December 12, 2024, the author also revealed that Eroudac's first full appearance and visual depiction would be in the then-upcoming one-shot comic The High Republic Adventures Phase III Annual within her story about Churo the Hutt, "The Adventures of Churo the Hutt and the Heart of Eroudac." The comic story was illustrated by Juan Samu and published by Dark Horse Comics as part of The High Republic Phase III on January 29, 2025. Before the interview, uncolored, unlettered comic pages from "The Adventures of Churo the Hutt and the Heart of Eroudac" had been revealed during the Lucasfilm Publishing Panel at New York Comic Con on October 19, 2024. Thus, that preview marked the visual debut of Eroudac.
Córdova was excited for Eroudac to make its visual debut, reflecting that while editing the comic, she had never imagined seeing the world in visual form. Though she had originally created Eroudac for A Crash of Fate, the author enjoyed being able to revisit subjects she had created in more of her Star Wars work, having remarked that she had been unsure if she would be able to.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic: Beware the Nameless 
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*A Crash of Fate 
==Sources==
*Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: Traveler's Guide to Batuu
*Star Wars Droids Guide to a Galaxy Far, Far Away
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==Notes and references==
Category:Mid Rim planets
Category:Terrestrial planets
Category:The Slice planets