Human-Gungan conflicts/Legends

A war was fought between the Human Grizmallti colonists of the planet Naboo and the native Gungans in approximately 3900 BBY. The colonists had fled a brutal civil war on their homeworld, and encountered the Gungans within weeks of their arrival.Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Despite their best efforts, diplomats on both sides failed to negotiate peace, and the Gungans and Humans engaged in brutal conflicts for territory and access to resources in the following decades.
Eventually, the two species signed a peace treaty in which both sides agreed to avoid each other, while maintaining an intense distrust. As a result of the conflict, the Humans reinvented their culture to focus on peace, art, and knowledge, also calling themselves the Naboo.Secrets of Naboo The animosity between the species persisted for generations until they united to repel the Trade Federation in the Invasion of Naboo in 32 BBY.
==Behind the scenes==
The war between the Gungans and the Humans was first mentioned in Secrets of Naboo, a 2001 sourcebook for the Wizards of the Coast Star Wars Roleplaying Game. A variety of sources suggest that no war between the Gungans and the Humans ever took place, including a claim made by Padmé Amidala in Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace that both societies had lived in peace.
Another source to refute the existence of the war was the DataBank in the 2001 LucasArts video game Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. During the game's development, early levels of the Gungan campaign were intended to involve a conflict between the Gungan Boss Gallo and Human Naboo tyrants, but the creative team, including level designer Stephen J. McManus, was informed that canonically, no war between the two had taken place. McManus was forced to redesign the campaign to become a war between Gungans.
In 2004, Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed: Prima Official Game Guide stated that the Humans and Gungans did not attack each other despite their opposition, but acknowledged that armed clashes were rare.Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed: Prima Official Game Guide 2008's Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide also refuted the existence of the war, describing the Gungans as "unperturbed" by the arrival of Humans.Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide
==Sources==
*Secrets of Naboo 
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*The New Essential Chronology
*Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition Core Rulebook
*The Essential Atlas
*Nexus of Power
==Notes and references==
Category:Battles of Naboo
Category:Conflicts during the inter-Sith Wars period
Category:Conflicts of the Mid Rim