KO-35

KO-35 was a planet in the Kerova System and was the homeworld of Andros Khayman, Karone Khayman, and Zhane. It was also the home of the late Jedi Master Bryan Khayman. It was destroyed in 2001 as punishment by the Galactic Empire for Karone's alleged treason using Death Star III. Many of the planet's inhabitants were able to use which made it a perfect hiding spot for members of the Jedi Order looking to hide from Darth Sidious and the Great Jedi Purge. This included the Khaymans who moved to the planet in 1979 after the birth of their first child, Bryan.
==History==
In 1996, KO-35 was invaded by a huge army, resulting in the near death of Zhane at the hands of a monster, and the abandonment of the world by its people (further rushed by an invasion of deadly insects, caused by Darkonda). Andros blamed this on Bryan as the attacks had intensified following Bryan's return from Luke Skywalker's Yavin IV Jedi Academy as a Jedi Knight, to which Bryan countered that the attacks would have been done directly by The Empire if they were about him. Since then, the world remained empty, until the Astro Rangers helped transport them back home after stumbling across their new homeworld while Bryan moved to Earth and settled in New York City.
During his mass invasion of every major planet of the universe in 1998, Dark Specter had the Machine Empire attack KO-35. It was the death of Zordon which released a pure beam of energy that wiped out the invaders and freed the world. Following this, the planet became a major industrial center and produced a number of MC80 Star Cruisers among other ships for various countries on Earth including the United States, Great Britain, Israel as well as the second Astro Megaship. This helped rebuild the planet's economy, but made it a prime target for possible attack by The Empire when Moff Tiaan Jerjerrod arrived in the system investigating the events of 1998.
== Destruction and Aftermath ==
In 2001 a few days after the September 11th Attacks on New York, Karone was captured by Imperial forces and taken to Death Star III where she was charged with treason by the Grand Moff in charge of the project a man named Winston. As punishment for her alleged crime, Winston ordered the station to KO-35 and then after a Kangaroo Court in which he found Karone guilty of treason against The Empire, ordered the station to fire its superlaser at the planet and destroying it along with any ships still under construction and killing its inhabitants while Karone was forced to watch helplessly. Winston then ordered Karone returned to a Detention Cell and scheduled for execution at a time to be determined.
Shortly after the planet's destruction, the Megaship was captured with Zhane and the Space Rangers aboard along with the droids C-3PO and R2-D2. With searches of the ship turning up nothing as the Rangers had hidden in a secret room that Winston's Stormtroopers and Scanning Crew failed to find, the Rangers were able to overpower the Scanning Crew and remaining Stormtroopers, stealing their uniforms and weapons before taking over a control room above the docking bay with Bryan Khayman and Steven Porter donning the armor while Marcus Jacobs and Nick Franklin donned the Scanning Crew uniforms and the two female Rangers remained on the Megaship. The Rangers eventually rescued Karone and disabled the station's tractor beam with the help of R2 and Zhane posing as a prisoner before making an escape and causing a small amount of internal damage to the station on their way out.
In the following Battle of Eltar. United States Marine Captain Steven Laramie tasked Khayman with firing the kill shot at the station as Laramie was led to believe that only a Jedi could make the shot and Khayman's X-Wing also carried the Black Knight Squadron's only functioning astromech droid. Laramie also felt that it would provide Khayman with some justice to destroy the battle station. Despite R2-D2 being disabled by a TIE Fighter during the battle, Khayman still managed to fire the fatal shot with the help of Jacobs and Porter on the Megaship who destroyed two of the three pursuing TIEs and scuttled the third.
== Legacy ==
Andros made sure to teach his children about their Kerovian heritage although the family's roots traced back to Naboo where Bryan was born. Andros eventually marked September 13th, 2001 as the date of destruction for the planet and as of 2019 still believes that he, his siblings, and Zhane are the only survivors of the planet's population although the Remnant is currently searching for others following Bryan's death in 2010 and a fear that the First Order might attack any colonies created by surviving Kerovians who were off-world in 2001 when the planet was destroyed.
Many of the ships built in the planet's shipyards served in the Battle of Gratha where Bryan Khayman and Steven Laramie destroyed Death Star IV and Operation Lothal Freedom where First Order forces under the command of Armitage Hux were driven away from the planet Lothal. General Wedge Antilles noted the planet's destruction in a 2013 report to the New Republic, but added that all Imperials responsible for carrying out the planet's destruction were either killed with their Death Stars or executed after a series of war crimes trials held in New York.
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