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Endregaad
this planet, located in the Joxin System of the Tion Cluster, was blockaded by the Corporate Sector Authority during the early years of the New Order, when a mysterious plague broke out on its surface. The disease became known as the Endregaad Plague, because it had never been seen before. The blockade managed to keep the disease from spreading to nearby worlds, but also isolated the planet's inhabitants. For much of its history, Endregaad was believed to have been a swamp world, until ecological changes in climate caused the shallow seas to evaporate. Endregaad eventually became an arid, dusty world known for its colorful rock formations of red sandstone and blue granite. The surface of the planet was continually swept by wind- and sandstorms that scoured the earth and left nothing behind. For this reaon, the settlers built their outposts atop mesas and plateaus. Local legend held that banshees rode the winds that swept the bottomlands, seeking to exact an unknown revenge. Much of the planet's economy was centered on the mining of geodes, which provided a wide variety of crystals for jewelry and art.
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Endregaad Plague
this was the name given to the virulent disease that sprang up on the planet Endregaad during the early years of the New Order. It affected one being in ten, and was distinguished by a fever, extreme loss of body fluids, crusting around the eyes and mouth, and a thickening of the fingers and tongue. Initial investigation by Endregaad's medical community revealed that no species was naturally immune to the plague, but the effects of the disease appeared to be non-fatal. Medicinal spice was found to be a way to control or even cure the disease, allowing a being to recover quickly. While the plague was still infectious, a being had to continue to take the spice treatments, or risk being infected again. Repeated infections would eventually lead to death, as the body became too weak to fight back. Further investigation into the plague revealed that it had striking similarities to diseases which affected other arid worlds like Endregaad. Mika the Hutt discovered that plague's source was a downed YV-100 freighter that had crashed near the Temple Valley. The freighter had been traveling in the Indrexu Spiral when the crew contracted the original plague, and crashed on Endregaad when the crew finally died fom repeated exposure. However, few knew that the freighter was actually one of Mika's own ships, and had been in the Indrexu Spiral on a mission to deliver tempest spice. In the following months, Angela Krin discovered that the Endregaad Plague was a mutated form of a virus that was native to Varl, the planet that was once home to the Hutts. Complicating matters, the virus was capable of altering normal spice into a crude form of tempest.
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