Raxus Prime
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An ancient planet once as glamorous and renown as Coruscant itself, with a Galactic History spanning back over twenty-five thousand years. In the Pre-Republic Era, a large stellar empire known as the Kingdom of Cron swept across much of the distant Tion Cluster. Raxus Prime was at one time a gorgeous terrestrial planet and one of three galactic capitals of the Kingdom of Cron. About Twenty-four thousand years ago, following the death of the Cronese ruler Xim the Despot, the Kingdom collapsed and much of the Tion Cluster joined the then fledgling Galactic Republic. Over the following millennia, industry and heavy mining gradually took hold and inflicted their usual toll on the ecosystem. With complete lack of regulation or regard for conservation, Raxus was eventually consumed by the "progress" of Mega Industrialization.
By 1,000 BBY, Raxus had had the misfortune of being host to a number of galactic conflicts. After a complete transformation from it's serene natural form to an industrial giant and eventually to a toxic pollution choked wasteland, the nearly abandoned world had become a virtual technological junkyard planet. Destroyed strewn remnants of domestic industry piled upon destroyed strewn remnants of domestic industry, entire scrapped and abandoned star fleets from all eras of the Republic, and all technologies between or imaginable covered entire continents. The oceans had long dried up or become so polluted they resembled nothing possibly described as water. Much of the population relocated, and the little that remained fed the machine, living in completely sealed habitats and working in the remaining massive factories. Completely enclosed tunnels connected one area to another, linking living quarters, working bays, storage facilities and infrastructure. The surface crawled with patchwork junk droids, seemingly assembled from parts salvaged from the planet's vast technological wastes itself, who plied the landscape on some unforeseen mission, collectively or independently unknown, but all in harmonic unison none the less.
During the Clone Wars, Raxus Prime was the birthplace of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and was Count Dooku's personal stronghold. In the years of the New Order afterwards, the Empire established control of the planet and used it's vast unfathomable junk heaps as a source of the rare metals required for starship construction. A few years prior to the Battle of Yavin, it was rumored to be the site of a mysterious Star Destroyer crash. Since then it has enjoyed a relative lull in it's vibrant and storied legacy. . .