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Alderaan
Welcome
System: Alderaan System Terrain: Plains, small seas Species: Humans Language: Basic Point of Interest: Aldera , Castle Lands
Everyone has heard of the Alderaan tragedy. Grassy plains and alien ruins, distinguished universities and celebrated museums, soaring thrantas and dazzling glimmer fish were all obliterated in an instant by the Death Star's superlaser, leaving only a ragged debris field fittingly called the Graveyard.........
For thousand of years ALderaan was famosu as a world of unspoiled beauty and a center of art, culture, and education. The earliest colonists refused to pave their new home over as Corusacant had been. So they built cities into canyon crevasses, beneath the polar ice and on stilts in the shallow saline seas. The rolling plains and gentel
breeze attracted some of the greatest artists adn philosophers who ever lived.
Some sought inspiration in the Castle Lands )emply dirt mounds left by
long-vanished aliens, while other used the endless fields as their canvass in
vast grass paintings. Though Alderaan had long been a democracy, it sill retained a royal family: House Organa. The Organas, ruling from the capital Aldera, took an active role int he Old Republic government and helped oversee the voluntary demilitarization of theri world after the bloody Clone Wars. After Palpatine rise, Bail Organa became a founding member of the Rebel Alliance, Leia his adopted daughter, Leia, followed in his footsteps. But Princess Leia was captured above Tatooine by Darth Vader and brought aboard the newly completed Death Star, Grand Moff Tarkin had planned to use his new weapon on Alderaan-as an example to other free-thinking worlds-but now he could also finally crush the Rebellion. The princess was brought to the control center and lead to believe that she could save her homeworld by divulging the site of the secret Rebel base. Leia named a location, but i made no difference- the defenseless planet was Obliterated. Tarkin, however, had made a disastrous error.
The callous murder of billions stuck angry not fear into the galaxy. new allies seeing te Empire true face flocked tot e Rebel banner. Imperial spokespeople put their best pin on the story. Initially claiming that Alderaan had destroyed itself with titanic internal detonations. When a pirated holoclip exposed the lie, the Empire claimed that it action had been necessary to prevent the release of "Bail Organa's bioware virus" Few, save the staunchest imperial loyalist, believe that. Today those Alderaanians who were safely off world during the incident make regular pilgrimages to the Graveyard. Among the drifting rock they leave flower's poems, and mementos of there lost loved one. The survivors leave with a new determination the galaxy must never forget.
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