Corulag

Corulag was a Core Worlds planet that was influential in the Galactic Republic helping the world Eriadu out of its debts and putting it onto the galactic-map. Under the Galactic Empire, it was the site of an Imperial Academy, the Corulag Military Academy, which caught some success from its strategic pairing of training instructors, like Commandants Angor and Bedgar.
Corulag was listed at the location of arrest for the criminal "Liana Hallik," who was arrested in the Five Points system in 1 BBY. Around that year, the Rebel Alliance Captain Cassian Andor went to Corulag when investigating the Empire's kyber crystal shipments, leaving for the Ring of Kafrene when he was summoned by an informant of his.
After the Empire's fall in 5 ABY, New Republic veteran Chass na Chadic resided in the city of Curamelle on Corulag, attending therapy for a while. She moved on the planet to Crullov, but her life as a veteran ended when her building was raided by security forces, Chadic eventually moving on to the astronomical object Spirana.
==Description==
Corulag was a terrestrial planet located in the Interior portion of the Core Worlds. Situated at the coordinates L-9 on the Standard Galactic Grid, it lay along the Perlemian Trade Route super-hyperroute between the planetsStar Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire Chandrila and Coruscant.
==History==
===High status===
Corulag was a notable member world in the Galactic Republic in the time after the fall of the SithTarkin in 1032 BBY,Star Wars: Timelines the planet having influence in the Republic's Galactic Senate. During that time, entrepreneurs from the world saved the settlers of the Outer Rim Territories planet Eriadu from their debts to the InterGalactic Banking Clan, which had given loans for the development of Eriadu's lommite mining. Corulag's senatorial influence also led to the Hydian Way, a super-hyperroute that was originally founded in 3705 BBY, being routed through Eriadu space, putting the Outer Rim world on the galactic-map. The Core World entrepreneurs that helped Eriadu in turn forced the planet to increase its lommite supply and demanded much of the profits. This transformed large sections of Eriadu into polluted industrial zones and poverty stricken cities.
The Republic became the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY, and Corulag was the site of an Imperial Academy, the Corulag Military Academy. While considered less prestigious than academies like the Raithal Academy, Corulag still produced a number of well-regarded Imperial graduates. Such success was in part due to their tactic of pairing training instructors based on abilities they had in common. The match-up of Commandants Angor and Bedgar, noted respectively for relevant and robust combat strategy classes and the intricacies of military administration, exemplified this.
===Seedy activities===
In 1 BBY, the criminal Jyn Erso, who used the alias "Liana Hallik," was arrested by Imperial Admiral Bethava Rocwyn in the Five Points system,Rebel Rising being incarcerated in the Wobani Labor Colony.Star Wars: The Rebel Files Her arrest record, designated file / 7976.994.5., listed the location of her arrest to Corulag,Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious her intake record at the Wobani Labor Camp doing the same. The latter file was eventually included in The Rebel Files, an archive of non-electronic documents compiled by rebel archivist Hendri Underholt.
Around that same year,The report mentioning Corulag in Star Wars: Rogue One: Rebel Dossier is set shortly before the Battle of Scarif, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 1 BBY. the Rebel Alliance's intelligence branch probed reports that the Empire was transporting kyber crystals to the Horuz and Patriim systems, General Airen Cracken assigning Captain Cassian Andor to investigate these. Andor's investigations led him to Coruscant and then to Corulag.Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization At those worlds, he learned of rumors that the Empire was using convoys of civilian freighters to conceal kyber shipments, some passed through the Ring of Kafrene trading outpost from the direction of the Unknown Regions. While on Corulag, Andor received a message from Tivik, his informant in the extremist rebel cell known as the Partisans, which summoned the rebel operative away to meet with the informant on the Ring of Kafrene.
In 4 ABY, the aspiring Jedi Luke Skywalker spoke with the Force ghost of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi while visiting the swamp planet Dagobah. In that conversation, Kenobi told Skywalker that the fate of Corulag and many other planets relied on a final confrontation between the latter and the Sith Lord Darth Vader.The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem
===Post-Imperial era===
After the fall of the Empire in 5 ABY, Chass na Chadic, a veteran pilot of the New Republic, resided in the city of Curamelle on Corulag. There, she went to therapy appointments at a medcenter, favouring a bearded snake-woman therapist. However, Chadic gave up on therapy after she missed an appointment and the snake-woman could not reschedule for a month. Remaining on Corulag, she eventually relocated to Crullov, another location on the world, for a cheaper rent, living in a closet sized apartment in a complex rife with scrappers and death stick addicts. One night, though, Chadic got drunk enjoying the bands at the Little Orto street fair and returned to security forces raiding her building. This brought her life as a New Republic veteran to an end, and she eventually relocated to the astronomical object Spirana.
Imperial Archives kept a section on the "Corulag Imperial Military Academy," including the file "Combined Officer's Curriculum 27" that covered the pairing of Commandants Angor and Bedgar. Having read the file, historian Beaumont Kin summarized the Imperial Academy's curricular success in hisStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary 35 ABY book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire.Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
==Inhabitants==
Corulag was the homeworld of Baron Lero Danthe. The human Agias Rikton was also brought up on the world taking more of a liking to his grandfather, a Republic veteran, as he struggled to get along with his parents, who ultimately cut ties with him when he left to join the Empire. Merei Spanjaf played kicker in the grav-ball youth bracket on Corulag. By the time she left the planet for Lothal, it had been significantly changed by the Galactic Empire.
==Behind the scenes==
Corulag was first mentioned in John Jackson Miller's 2014 novel A New Dawn. It originated in Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first mentioned in West End Games' 1992 roleplaying supplement Heir to the Empire Sourcebook.Heir to the Empire Sourcebook
==Appearances==
*Tarkin 
*A New Dawn 
*Servants of the Empire: Edge of the Galaxy 
*Servants of the Empire: Rebel in the Ranks 
*Servants of the Empire: The Secret Academy 
*Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization 
*The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem 
*Alphabet Squadron 
*Victory's Price 
==Sources==
*Star Wars Rebels: Visual Guide: Epic Battles
*Star Wars: Rogue One: Rebel Dossier
*Star Wars: Geektionary: The Galaxy from A - Z
*Star Wars: The Rebel Files
*Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious
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*Star Wars Galaxy Map
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*Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
==Notes and references==
Category:Core Worlds planets
Category:Galactic Empire planets