Dxun

**Dxun**, also known as the **Demon Moon**, is the largest of four moons that orbited the Inner Rim world of Onderon. Like its parent planet, it was covered almost entirely by dense jungles that were populated by many species of fierce, predatory animals.

## Description

Despite being temperate and habitable, the jungles of Dxun posed major challenges for its inhabitants. Due to its constant rains and wet climate, mechanical devices did not last long and required continuous maintenance. Moreover, the jungles were inhabited by many dangerous predators such as bomas, cannoks, drexls, maalraas, skreevs, and zakkegs, forcing the moon's inhabitants to be armed at all times.

Though considered a moon of Onderon, Dxun and Onderon were almost sister planets. They were so close to one another that it was only a short shuttle ride between them, and they even shared a bit of the same atmosphere. Every year, during Dxun's summer season, the atmospheres of Onderon and Dxun would connect. This allowed the vicious Drexls to wander and settle on Onderon, thus laying the foundations for the Beast Wars.

## History

### Early History

At the end of the Beast Wars, Jedi Master Arca Jeth decided to relocate the sarcophagus of Freedon Nadd, the former Dark Lord of the Sith and king of Onderon, from Onderon to Dxun, in an attempt to prevent future Sith from drawing on its power. The plan worked for the most part, though two of history's most pivotal Sith Lords, Exar Kun and Darth Bane, would later manage to enter the tomb of Freedon Nadd on Dxun.

At the end of the Great Sith War in 3996 BBY, Mandalore the Indomitable, leader of the Mandalorians, was eaten alive by vicious beasts on Dxun.

### Mandalorian Wars

"*We claimed this moon decades ago when we reforged ourselves after Exar Kun's defeat. Some of us call it home.*"
―A Mandalorian Neo-Crusader, circa 3951 BBY
After assuming the leadership of the Mandalorians, Mandalore the Ultimate made Dxun his stronghold, from which he planned his attack on the Galactic Republic. In 3963 BBY, the Mandalorian Wars expanded into a galaxy-wide conflict when the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders began their invasion of the Republic. From their headquarters on Dxun, Mandalore's forces attacked and took nearby Onderon in mere hours. A battle with the Republic forces took place on the moon, but it was little more that a rear-guard holding action by the Republic.

Years later, after the Jedi Revan and Malak had entered the war and pushed the Mandalorian forces back to their original Dxun staging-grounds, a far more bloody battle was fought. The Republic attempted to capture the Mandalorian headquarters on Dxun. Republic forces managed to defeat the Mandalorians, but the victory came at a heavy cost. The Mandalorian outposts were entrenched and well defended.

### Onderon Civil War

In 3956 BBY, Canderous Ordo took the title of Mandalore and gathered a handful of Mandalorians, most of whom were mercenaries at the time, on the Dxun moon, in the rebuilt headquarters of the old Mandalore. There they regrouped, concealing their presence from both the Republic and the native Onderonians, silencing all scouts who came anywhere near their encampment. When the Onderon Civil War erupted, the Mandalorians fought alongside the Jedi Exile, despite, or perhaps *because* of her involvement in their defeat at Malachor V.

### Galactic War

In the jungles of Dxun, the ruins of several abandoned research stations have been discovered and consequently, the labs were explored. Around 3627 BBY, the Czerka Corporation's CI-004 Research Facility suffered an outbreak of specimens and a strike team was sent to handle the situation

### New Sith Wars

Millennia later, in 1000 BBY, the Sith Lord Darth Bane began training his new apprentice Darth Zannah on Onderon. Bane left Onderon to find Freedon Nadd's tomb on Dxun after the Seventh Battle of Ruusan. Bane immediately recognized it as a world infused with the dark side. It was here, in the well of darkness near Freedon Nadd's tomb, that Bane acquired orbalisk armor. By the time of Darth Bane, while the tomb and the well ranked as significant dark side sites, the entire moon had become a dark side site. Between the eras of Exar Kun and Darth Bane, Dxun was a common pilgrimage for those attempting to master the dark side of the Force.

### Legacy Era

While the presence of the Dark side never truly subsided on the jungle moon of Dxun, its role as a nexus for thos seeking to master the dark side of the force was eventually forgotton, in large part due to the indirect efforts of the Fel Empire. Eventually the Mandalorians rediscovered the historic moon and small training camps and outposts were set up throughout the jungle. The warriors retain a small presence on the world to this day.

### Galactic Legends

When the Mandalorian Revenant was formed around 982 ABY the warriors of Dxun made up the very first recruits as most shared no love for Mandalore the Redeemer, their disagreements with his policies often being a driving force for many to seek refuge on the moon which was isolated from the rest of Mandalorian space.

Around 996 ABY an imperial Research party landed on the moon in order to explore the tomb of the ancient Sith Lord Freedon Nadd. The Mandalorians were aware of this expedition but did not interfere as they never truly claimed the moon as their own, simply choosing to live there.