The Scourge of Logonis

Logonis, the sole planet in the Logonis system

4689 BBY (before the Battle of Yavin)

Ruler: Yels Tragest

 

Logonis was a heavily inhabited planet, with a population density rivaling that of Coruscant, and its five moons;  Altra, Wava, Sekten, Longedi, and Raxis all were occupied by the Sith Empire’s military, no unauthorized people in, no prisoners out… no one knew what was happening until the last minute

 

On Altra, the base there was a bioweapons research facility, giving the Sith their terror weapons, Wava, Sekten, and Longedi were all occupied by shipyards, and Raxis was where most of the garrison was when they weren’t patrolling the streets of the underworld.

 

On the planet… well that was a different story. The local dictator was petty and ruthless, they cracked down on minor crimes and every major crime was unforgivable. As with Coruscant, the lower you went into the underworld, the more scum you encountered, a haven for black market dealers, as  long as you didn’t get caught!, and paradise for many diseases to rage unchecked.

 

That is… until the Great Scourge of Logonis happened.

 

An unregistered ship had entered the airspace a few hours after the sun rose, it had landed at the Diplomatic Relations platform, near the Westport spaceport, a few strange looking figures in black robes disembarked the ship, they did not speak, and they walked in a jerking, uneven motion… these “visitors” were escorted to the dictator’s palace, the pilots of the airspeeders were never seen again, but that didn’t matter at the time, the beings were admitted into the palace, and all hell broke loose, the strangers leaped at the dictator and his guards and whatnot, and they literally ate their victims’ faces off, everyone in the palace died that day, but not in the way you would think, the dead were reanimated and the process repeated, within hours most of the planet’s population was wiped out, all reanimated, and one by one the survivors were killed off. The whole incident lasted 13 hours. Every living being died, down to the plants.

Later it was revealed by the Dark Council this was the work of Darth Scabrous, in the search for immortality. And the bodies lay there for thousands of years, until the Empire found it and Project i71a was commissioned.