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this was the first of the floating cities built in the atmosphere of the planet Genarius. It was founded by a Trandoshan named Russok, who ordered round-the-clock work on its construction in order to have it ready for occupancy. He drew people to the station with claims of the unlimited potential for wealth in mining the gas clouds. However, Russok and his people were unprepared for the radiation storms which swept across the planet. During one of these intense storms, Nub Saar suffered a catastrophic failure in its repulsorlift systems. The radioactive winds of the storm buffeted Nub Saar for nearly two weeks, killing every living thing on the city by shredding them to pieces at the atomic level. Much of the structure of Nub Saar was reduced to rubble, and the husk of the city remained aloft after achieving a kind of orbit in the clouds. Subsequent builders of floating cities on Genarius used the examples of Nub Saar in designing future cities. There were rumors that clusters of beings survived in the ventilation and sewer systems, but were genetically altered by the radiation. Some 20,000 beings supposedly lived in the city, but no records of their existence has been found. However, investigations into the state of Nub Saar were officially prohibited by the government of the Cularin System, so it was impossible to ascertain what really happened. The government, for its own part, declared Nub Saar to be the example of how to build a floating city in orbit around Genarius, claiming that there was a lower limit to the altitude of a city, below which it would suffer the same sorts of massive damage the Nub Saar experienced. The former Jedi Knight Dazen Mok didn't agree with this explanation, and set out to investigate Nub Saar for himself. He found that Nub Saar was just over two kilometers lower than Tolea Biqua, which had suffered through radiation storms and survived. Dazen Mok theorized that Nub Saar had, in reality, been attacked by something born of the Dark Side of the Force. This dark force had once been roused by Karae Nalvas to help him build his floating fortress of Conkesta, and that had been living within the clouds of Genarius until it awakened by the presence of the new city.