Kol Atorn

**Kol Atorn** is a planet located in the Outer Rim Territories' Kanz sector. Currently, the sector falls within the Relgim Oversector of the Fel Empire. It was settled by Mandalorian emigrants and exiles following the Mandalorian Wars. It is famously known as the birthplace of Mandalore the Hammerborn, who grew up in the alleys of one of the mining towns on Kol Atorn.

## Description

Kol Atorn was a terrestrial planet situated in the star system of the same name, a part of the Kanz sector in the New Territories portion of the Outer Rim Territories. Kol Atorn was located far from Mandalore, the Mandalore sector planet that served as the homeworld of the Mandalorian warrior culture and this disconnected for most of its history. As such the Mandalorian inhabitants of the planet developed a unique dialect of mando'a.

The planet itself was mostly covered in deserts and mountain chains with small oceans dotting the planets surface. Due to the small amount of surface water available Kol Atorn was a very dry and arid world with duststorms frequently sweeping across the deserts and into the small mining towns located on the edges of the mountains. The largest of these towns is Naur'kad which also serves as the planets capital.

## History

Kol Atorn was settled by Mandalorian emigrants and exiles following the Mandalorian Wars, and the planet became an enclave of the Mandalorian culture. An individual grew up in Kol Atorn's alleys and learned to speak *Mando'a* from the Mandalorians residing there. The individual eventually became one of the greatest Mandalores, specifically coming to be known as Mandalore the Hammerborn. Mandalore the Hammerborn's origin on Kol Atorn was noted in *Ba'jurne Kyr'tsad Mando'ad*, a manifesto of the Death Watch Mandalorian splinter group. The document was supposedly written by the movement's leader, Tor Vizsla—although the Death Watch's opponent Jango Fett doubted its authenticity—and was eventually included in the book *The Bounty Hunter Code* by Jango's son, the bounty hunter Boba Fett.

The world remained relatively isolated from the rest of the sector until the waning years of the Galactic Republic when it began to export ore to the nearby *factory system* of Kol Huro. Since then it has had a strong trading relationship with the system. Both of them fell under the sway of the Galactic Empire, then the Imperial Remnant, briefly by the Yuuzhan Vong before being retaken by the Fel Empire which has remained in control of the system ever since.

Despite being a part of the Fel Empire for a long time, the world received little attention from the Imperials so long as ore shipments continued to the much more important Kol Huro system. As such the Mandalorian inhabitants were able to retain their own unique culture and language that diverted from that of their original homeworld. The Mandalorians of Kol Atorn were involved in the creation of the Imperial Special Operations Division, which was initially trained using Mandalorian tactics from the world's most skilled warriors. After the reestablishment of the Imperial Mission, the organization has made several attempts to integrate the local population to the Imperial ideology but besides teaching them Imperial Basic had little success in converting them due to their thousands of years of entrenched culture and traditions. Nevertheless, the Mission maintains a Monastery on the world. Kol Atorn is also one of the very few imperial worlds to recruit and maintain their own milita and law enforcement officers.