Kor Utaru

"My world. My treasures. My legacy. It's all mine, and it always will be. Let them all marvel at my splendor! My kajidic is a farce. My heirs are unworthy. They will inherit nothing but dust. I leave only a map to be found, a challenge to be conquered, and a world of riches to be taken by one stronger than all the squirming little Huttlets who wriggle in my shadow. Only one as great as I shall have Kor Utaru."

- Serraba the Hutt

Kor Utaru was a Huttese throneworld located in the galaxy's Outer Rim, in the region of Hutt Space known as Bootana Hutta. Claimed by the Utaru kajidic, Kor Utaru became a closely guarded treasure world where, under the orders of clan leader Serraba Utaru Veduo, secret vaults were constructed and filled with the vast wealth of the kajidic.

Upon Serraba's death, Kor Utaru laid untouched for millennia. The only record of the Utaru clan's treasure world was locked in a holomap orb, hidden away at their ancestral estate on Nar Kreeta. Though Serraba had intended for one of his descendants to find the orb and unlock the secrets of Kor Utaru, it was instead stolen in 22 BBY by the human Viktor Gestas. Gestas and his Mandalorian partner, Ezgi Deshra, followed the trail provided by the orb, becoming the first sentients in ages to walk upon the surface of Kor Utaru and explore its underground vault.

Description
"What's it like out there?" "Mucky, humid, and stuffed full of ill-gotten goods. As places go, I think we've reached peak Hutt."

- Senoota and Viktor Gestas

A terrestrial world with an oxygen-abundant atmosphere breathable to humans and Hutts alike, Kor Utaru was located in the Outer Rim Territories of galaxy. Situated within the heart of Hutt Space, in a region known as Bootana Hutta—the "Garden of the Hutts"—the planet was unknown to all but a select few, and heavily guarded by the Hutts who reigned over the sector. Possessed of three barren moons and days that spanned twenty standard hours, Kor Utaru orbited an orange star and had a diameter of close to 9,100 kilometers.

The surface of Kor Utaru was almost uniformly flat, devoid of any mountains, valleys, or trenches. Additionally, the entire globe was covered in a single, enormous, shallow sea. The sea's depth varied from only ten meters at its lowest point, to just above an average human's knee at its most shallow, in and around the planet's scarce spans of silty marshland. Due to the world's relatively close proximity to its star and its watery environment, Kor Utaru's climate was often warm and extremely humid. The only indigenous life to call Kor Utaru home were a hardy species of aquatic grass and some rudimentary algae, drifting on the ocean waves in several dozen supermassive clouds.

Following the planet's occupation by the Hutts, the Utaru kajidic had a secret vault constructed on Kor Utaru, dug into the water-logged terrain approximately thirty-three degrees north of the equator. A vast underground complex, the hidden treasure trove became a repository for the clan's enormous wealth.

History
An ancient, uninhabited world originally occupied only by primitive algae, the planet was discovered by Huttese explorers just prior to the infamous Hutt Cataclysms. Claimed by the Utaru kajidic, the clan's new throneworld was subsequently deemed Kor Utaru. Unlike so many of their peers—who covered their holdings in Bootana Hutta in lavish pleasure palaces, sprawling cities, and extravagant bath houses—under the auspices of the clan kajidii Serraba Utaru Veduo, Kor Utaru was instead chosen to house a single, secret treasure vault. Hidden inside a massive underground bunker that Serraba had his many slaves construct, the Utaru vault was covertly filled with a vast collection of the clan's valuables. After the work was completed, Serraba had his slaves slaughtered, and all information on Kor Utaru was erased both from hard records and living memory, at the cost of many more lives.

For centuries, only Serraba the Hutt knew the whereabouts of Kor Utaru. In that time, his clan had grown frivolous with their remaining wealth, focusing on self-aggrandizing pursuits like an opulent palace on Nar Kreeta, rather than strengthening the standing of the clan as a whole. Shortly before his death, Serraba hid a crystalline map orb that led to Kor Utaru right under their noses in the Nar Kreetan palace. Disappointed in his current kin, Serraba hoped that a worthy heir might one day discover the map, journey to Kor Utaru, and claim his fortune. His hopes were never realized, however, and Kor Utaru remained undiscovered for millennia, until the last scion of the Utaru clan— Ondola Utaru Ventri —perished, leaving the palace and all the rest of his estate up for auction to the highest bidder.

Behind the scenes
The planet Kor Utaru was created and developed by author Mia Mesharad as one of the primary locales featured in her 2019 story  The Nar Kreetan Job .

Appearances

 *  The Nar Kreetan Job