Kuat

The planet Kuat remains mysterious and oddly closed to outsiders, despite its long history of strong participation in the Republic. The Duros people who have inhabited this world since time out of mind retain a tightly-knit culture, often inaccessible to outsiders. In spite of their closed culture, the Duros people are welcoming to off-worlders, as long as they remember that they are off-worlders and do not delve too deeply into Duros business.
Because of this, Kuat retains an exotic allure that attracts a minority of adventurous vacationers. But Kuat's true claim to fame, and the source of its most tantalizing appeal, is the Kuat Drive Yards.
==History==
Kuat was one of the core founders of the Republic.
===Recent Events===
The previous Senator, Puul Vrannig, was asked to retire with honor after a seventy-five-year term characterized by shrewdness, and political opacity in the Senate. A new High Baron of Kuat, one Kisaha Ontio, has also taken the position of Kuati Senator. 
==Economy==
The main industry of Kuat is shipbuilding, a task completed at the Kuat Drive Yards. Producing only the most advanced and high quality starship technology in the galaxy, Kuat Drive Yards has become the embodiment of the power of the Duros people. Only Duros may own stock in the Drive Yards, and the Stock Barons of the Drive Yards control Kuat.
==Government==
Kuat is a Feudal Corporation. In this form of government, the leading shareholder of Kuat Drive Yards is automatically the High Baron. KDY shares are very expensive. They may be bought only by Duros, but may be given to others (a very, very rare gift); possession of even one share confers the title of Baron. The High Baron appoints the Galactic Senator, manages planetary resources, and champions Kuati interests in the galaxy.
===Current Leadership===
Kisaha Ontio, the High Baron of Kuat, also serves as its Senator. Little is known about his politics at present, but he is rumored to have little use for the labrythine bureaucracy of centralized Republic government.
==Planet==
Kuat is a terraformed world with forests and plains, rivers and lakes, and is quite hospitable, although its weather tends to be very wet, with near-constant heavy rains, and when it's not raining, the atmosphere is often thick with fog or drizzle.
The planet is surrounded by a dense network of yards, floating space-ports for teeming masses of workers, and a constant stream of orbital-traffic. 
===Atmoy Ama===
Atmoy Ama is home to the main Kuati Drive Yards, which are normally closed to all but high-ranking officials, and is built on the borders of Lake Atmoy. The shipyards here mean that the streams running out of the city are polluted.
Despite the galactically renowned technology of the planet, the majority of these travelers employ animal labor in some way or another, particularly for transportation. Foot traffic is on stilted and covered walkways above the road proper.
The Omkino Lane and Project 9393 sections of this city are its dark underbelly - the streets and buildings are dilapadated, its residents poor and, more often than not, hungry.
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=Dark Horizons 2=
"Oh dear... Sir, it appears to be customary that the challenger fight without a weapon."
::- C-3PO, during Han Solo's negotiations with the Trandoshan Republic
By the Clone Wars, Kuat was long-poisoned by its massive industrialization and drained of resources. But the Duros who ruled Kuat had little care for they were rich and wanted for nothing. When the Empire established rule over the Galaxy, the Duros were a favored race among non-humans. For they provided the Star Destroyers. But with the fall of the Emperor, many Duros involved with Kuat Drive Yards took their wealth and fled, thinking the Rebellion would visit vengence upon them. Those that did not flee fought 
each other for control over the Drive Yards. But it was not to be a Duros that took control of Kuat next, but a human.
Grand Admiral Felder captured the shipyards in his attempt to restore the Empire's glory. However, not a single Star Destroyer was produced before Kuat Drive Yards and Kuat itself fell to another faction: not the Rebels, but the Trandoshans. Long separated and fighting amongst themselves or for crime bosses, they were in no state to conquer Kuat. However, Leia Organa Solo and her husband, Han Solo, negotiated for several weeks to unite the tribes under a single goal: the liberation of their home planet.
With assistance from the Rebellion, the Trandoshan Alliance retook Kuat during a surprisingly short campaign. The Duros themselves barely put up a fight, and a clever ruse allowed the Trandoshans to board the Grand Admiral's Star Destroyer, with lethal results for him. Without their leader, the Imperials surrendered to the Rebel Fleet that appeared to support the Trandoshans. Without the Imperial Fleet the Duros surrendered. Though the Rebellion had hoped to negotiate peace between the Trandoshans
and the Duros, the victorious Trandoshans exhiled all the Duros from Kuat. Which is to say they killed the ones who didn't manage to escape.
Kuat is now ruled by the Trandoshan Republic of Kuat. As a race, they thrive on their old homeworld, fiercely loyal to the proud Trandoshan Republic. Technically members of the New Republic, the Trandoshans do not care for galactic politics, preferring to place their homeworld first.