Er'Kit/Legends

Er'Kit was an Outer Rim Territories planet located in the Noonian sector. It was the homeworld of the sentient Er'Kit species and in 22 BBY was represented in the Senate of the Galactic Republic by Senator Danry Ledwellow. Remaining a part of the Republic during the subsequent Clone Wars, Er'Kit also was a member of the Republic's successor, the Galactic Empire, with the future Imperial Navy officers Treuten and Kosh Teradoc hailing from the planet. After the Battle of Endor of 4 ABY, Er'Kit was a member of various Imperial splinter factions, including the Imperial Remnant.
==Description==
Er'Kit was a terrestrial planet located in the Er'Kit system, a part of the Noonian sector in the New Territories portion of the Outer Rim Territories. It was an urban world situated on the Braxant Run hyperlane, which connected it to the Borgo Prime and Storinal systems. Another hyperspace route also linked it to the Hewett system. From space, Er'Kit appeared brown, tan, and gray.
==History==
The area of space including Er'Kit was explored between 3000 BBY and 1000 BBY, and by the time of the final phase of the New Sith Wars between the Galactic Republic and the forces of the Sith tradition of Force-users, the planet was a part of the territories unaligned with or contested by the two factions. At least one member of Er'Kit's native species of the same name resided offworld by 32 BBY.The New Essential Chronology dates the events of , which include the appearance of Ody Mandrell on Tatooine, to 32 BBY. By the date 13:4:4, Senator Danry Ledwellow represented Er'Kit in the Republic's Senate. Ledwellow was implicated in participating in an Outer Rim enslavement ring that saw the senator profit from the activities of Thalassian enslavers in the Noonian sector, a fact that was noted by an issue of the CoCo District Edition of the HoloNet News.
During the Clone Wars, Er'Kit was situated within Republic-controlled space, and the Republic's Ninth Sector Army was tasked with engaging the military forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems in the planet's vicinity during the first campaigns of that conflict in 22 BBY. By 20 BBY, however, the planet remained undecided on its affiliation to either the Republic or the Confederacy. Er'Kit fell within the borders of the Republic's successor, the Galactic Empire, by 17 BBY, and at some point by the time of the Empire's reign, the brothers and future Imperial Navy officers Treuten and Kosh Teradoc were born a year apart into a hardscrabble family on the planet.
Er'Kit lay within the territory of the Empire's Oversector Outer in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Endor of 4 ABY, but advances by the military of the New Republic against Imperial splinter factions in the wake of that engagement resulted in the oversector's boundaries having receded from the planet two years later. Er'Kit was nevertheless situated within Imperial Space between 7 ABY and 8 ABY and, by 10 ABY, was specifically located within the borders of the Imperial-controlled territory consolidated during Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn's campaign against the New Republic in the preceding year.
The planet fell within the borders of the reorganized Imperial Remnant between 12 ABY and 13 ABY, but, once again, an offensive by the New Republic left it outside the boundaries of the former government by 17 ABY. The extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong conquered the Er'Kit system between 25 ABY and 26 ABY as part of their invasion of the galaxy, and the system remained under the invaders' control by 27 ABY.
==Inhabitants==
Er'Kit was the homeworld of the sentient Er'Kit species. By the time of the reign of the Galactic Empire, the planet was also home to a family that included the Human brothers Treuten and Kosh Teradoc. The population of the Er'Kit system around 25 ABY numbered between one and ten million.
==Behind the scenes==
Er'Kit 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.
HoloNet News Vol. 531 #50 and HoloNet News Vol. 531 #51, two issues of the representation of the in-universe HoloNet News that were written by Pablo Hidalgo and Paul Ens and respectively published by April 4 and April 11 of 2002, both capitalized the planet's name as "Er'kit." The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the Er'Kit system, and therefore Er'Kit itself, in grid square M-6.
==Appearances==
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==Sources==
*Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I 
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*Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Illustrated Companion
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*Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
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*Star Wars: Complete Locations, 2005 edition
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*The Essential Atlas
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*The Essential Guide to Warfare
*Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook
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*Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook
*Star Wars: Force and Destiny Core Rulebook
==Notes and references==
Category:Braxant Run
Category:Ecumenopolises
Category:Galactic Empire planets
Category:Galactic Republic planets
Category:Imperial Remnant planets
Category:Noonian sector planets