Rystan system

The Rystan system was a star system in the Outer Rim Territories. In addition to its star, it contained the Rystan Badlands asteroid field and the tidally locked planet Rystan. At some point no earlier than 379 BBY, the Evereni Velya Faer told the Evereni pirate leader Marda Ro about the system being a meeting spot for Evereni, which she mentioned in a message she recorded for her descendants. By 252 BBY, her great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to Ro's journal.
In 231 BBY, Marchion Ro—having become the Eye of the Nihil by then—and the navigator Udi Dis visited Rystan to retrieve a Force-devouring monster called the Great Leveler, a task with which Ro's cousin Kufa assisted him. Ro killed both Dis and Kufa upon securing the Leveler. Later, in 230 BBY, the Nihil pirates raised the Stormwall barrier, blocking hyperspace travel to and from an area of the galaxy in which the Rystan system was located.
==Description==
The Rystan system was located in grid square M-20 of the Standard Galactic Grid in the Outer Rim Territories and the Western Reaches. The system featured a weak star that was orbited by the tidally locked wasteland planet Rystan. It also contained the dangerous Rystan Badlands ice asteroid field, which had many asteroids with a mass of millions of tons. A comet could also be found in the system.
==History==
===Significance to the Evereni===
The system became a meeting spot for members of the Evereni species by some point no earlier than 379 BBY.The segment of "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" depicting a Jedi's death onboard the Gaze Electric takes place around 379 BBY per the reasoning here. Marda Ro met the Faers after the Jedi's death; therefore, she must have met them no earlier than 379 BBY. At that time, the Evereni Velya Faer noted this fact to Marda Ro—the Evereni founder of a group of pirates who would eventually become the Nihil—after sheThe High Republic: Temptation of the Force mentioned having been told that Evereni only met in death by another member of the species. Ro later mentioned the system in a recording she made for her descendants.
By 252 BBY,"The Lie" chapter in The High Republic: Eye of the Storm 1, which includes Shalla Ro's death, features Asgar Ro's ascension to Eye of the Nihil, an event dated to 252 BBY by Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia. As The High Republic: Temptation of the Force establishes she introduced Marchion Ro to Marda Ro's journal, he must have listened to it by that year. during his youth, Ro's great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to her journal, including the message where the system was mentioned. Between a point no earlier than 379 BBY and 241 BBY,A section of "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" feauring a green-skinned man is set after a Jedi's death onboard the Gaze Electric, which takes place around 379 BBY per the reasoning here. At that time, the Great Leveler is still in Marda Ro's possession. Meanwhile, Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of The High Republic: The Rising Storm to 231 BBY. Kufa states that she has not visited the Great Leveler in the Shrine in over a decade. Therefore, the Leveler must have been moved to the Shrine at some point between no earlier than 379 BBY and 241 BBY. the Great Leveler—a beast that fed on Force-sensitives—found its way from Marda's possession to a Shrine under Rystan's Golamaran ice flats. During the Leveler's time there, faithful believers such as the Evereni Kufa made pilgrimages to the Shrine, but over time they lost faith and stopped visiting the Shrine.
===Nihil conflict===
====Marchion Ro's mission====
By 231 BBY,Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of The High Republic: The Rising Storm to 231 BBY. the Rystan Badlands had become littered with wrecks of cruisers that failed to pass through the asteroid field. In that year, the Force-sensitive Talortai navigator Udi Dis piloted a starship called the Squall Spider through the field, carrying Marchion Ro—who had ascended to the rank of Eye of the Nihil by then—onboard for his mission to Rystan. During their journey, a comet plowed through the Rystan Badlands, triggering a chain reaction of collisions.
Shortly after, Ro entered the cockpit to inquire how much longer it would take to reach the end of the badlands. The Talortai said that they would reach the end in a few minutes and noted it would have been quicker to use a Path hyperlane to reach Rystan, but Ro explained that he wished to observe Dis' impressive flying skills.
After exiting the badlands, Dis brought the Spider around the system's star and entered Rystan's atmosphere. The ship landed in the planet's habitable band, where the pair met Kufa, Ro's cousin. Kufa led Ro and Dis across the Golamaran ice flats and through underground tunnels into the Shrine. In the Shrine, Dis began to experience visions of his homeworld and his father due to the Leveler's influence on Force-sensitives. Satisfied that the legends about its power were true, Ro killed both Kufa and the Talortai, and took the Leveler with him back to the planetoid Grizal where Ro's Nihil pirates had a base. There, the Twi'lek Tempest Runner Lourna Dee asked him about his mission, and Ro told her that it was successful. Soon after, the Dowutin Tempest Runner Pan Eyta told his fellow Tempest Runners about his suspicion that Ro used the Rystan system expedition to silence Dis and keep the origin of the Paths a secret.
====Trapped in the Occlusion Zone====
At some point, the system began to be considered a part of the area designated as the Galactic Frontier by the Galactic Republic. In 230 BBY, the Nihil raised the Stormwall barrier around an area on the Frontier, blocking hyperspace travel across the Stormwall.Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia The Rystan system was a part of that region and became one of the systems that lost contact with the rest of the galaxy. Weeks later in 229 BBY, the Vurk Jedi Master Harli Cogra included Rystan on a map of the affected area in the first chapter of their book, Chronicles of the Jedi.
==Behind the scenes==
The Rystan system first appeared in Cavan Scott's The High Republic: The Rising Storm, a 2021 novel released as a part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's Phase I. The system was later identified in the short story "A Closed Fist Has No Claws," written by Tessa Gratton and published in the 2023 young-adult anthology The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life as a part of the multimedia project.
==Appearances==
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*The High Republic: The Rising Storm 
==Sources==
*Star Wars Galaxy Map
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*Star Wars: The High Republic: Chronicles of the Jedi
==Notes and references==
Category:Occlusion Zone
Category:Outer Rim Territories star systems
Category:Western Reaches star systems