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Dathomir

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this planet, the fourth and primary world in the Dathomir System, was a sort of penal colony set aside by the Old Republic as a place to send outcasts to live out their lives in isolation. Some 600 years before the Clone Wars, the Jedi Council also exiled fallen Knights to Dathomir, requiring that the outcasts be placed on the planet without any way of ever leaving. Dathomir was also known as the home of the rancor. Over time, a group of Force-sensitive witches who used spells to control the Force evolved to take control of the planet. Dathomir was located in the Quellii Sector. It was here that Imperial Warlord Zsinj has established a prison colony and a new shipyard. The planet's gravity was somewhat lighter than standard. It was full of the Dark Side of The Force, moreso than Dagobah. After the Battle of Naboo, Jedi Master Quinlan Vos discovered the existence of an Infinity Gate on the planet. The danger it posed forced the Jedi Order to eliminate any record of Dathomir from the Republic's star charts, in order to prevent unauthorized access to the device. Several years after the Battle of Endor, Han Solo 'won' the planet from Omogg in a sabacc game. Its value at the time was estimated to have been somewhere around three billion credits. It had 3 continents set in a vast ocean, and it was orbited by four moons. During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy, Dathomir fell to the alien invaders shortly before the Battle of Ithor.