Free Cities

The Free Cities were a disparate group of self-ruling s on Mure that lay on the s of the planet's equatorial Encircling Sea.

Founded during the Pax Rakata and golden age of the, the Free Cities were unique among the planetary nations of Mure in that they were not subordinate to any larger state. Instead, due to possessing, they enjoyed a fair degree of and were generally ruled by dedicated s or s answerable only to the greater governor of Mure.

The Free Cities were the only planetary states on Mure to survive the fall of the Empire in  and subsequent slave rebellions, in large part due to their isolated, heavily protected locations in the Encircling Sea. With the founding of the First Predorate by Osraa, the majority of the surviving Rakata population from Upper and Lower Mure withdrew to the Free Cities. Even in the millennia following the arrival of the Kûskûshnwûlanjattsisottoikut and the founding of the Second Predorate, the Free Cities constituted the primary residences of the Rakata Mure tribe.

Behind the scenes
The Free Cities and their imperial immediacy are both references to the of the, city-states independent of local rulers and answerable only the Emperor himself.