Borqada

Borqada was a barren world in the Mandalore sector, bordering with the Mid Rim.

Characteristics
The planet was comprised mostly of rocky flatland of virtually nothing but blue-grey stone contrasted by the perpetual night sky covered in grey clouds. The only wildlife on the planet were giant mushrooms and tall grasses that carpeted some of the landscape as well as the livestock in the greenhouses of the only settlement on Borqada, Ridada. A small, palm-sized species of mynock called the "Borqadan bat" swarmed the electrified clouds and infested Borqada's mines, feasting on the quartz, jewels, iron, and gold that made up Borqada's primary export. By 6 ABY, Borqada had a population of 15,000, the majority of which being Humans all centered at Ridada and were mostly bilingual, speaking both Basic and a dialect of Huttese.

Borqada was classified as a storm world, with a continuous heavy rainfall and every spire being wrapped in waterfalls.

Ridada
Ridada was Borqada's capital city and only settlement. The domed city of Ridada had streets and houses made of reinforced steel, flanked by treated stone sidewalks, electric lanterns, lawns and parks with imported grasses, trees, and flowers, as well as all of the standard necessities such as a school, hospital, spaceport, and an organized police force. Droids were rare in the city save for security droids used by the police and labor droids in factories.

At the edge of Ridada's dome were several large "gates", which opened up to tubed tramways leading to the mines that funded the Borqadans' peaceful lifestyle.

History
Several centuries before the Galactic Civil War, Borqada was discovered and settled by a Mandalorian clan. After some time, a Hutt warlord named Borqan Merakic Gozorr brought his fleet and conquered the world, ousting the Mandalorians and naming it after himself. Borqan set up his base of operations - a slave trafficking operation - at Borqada, where he imported thousands of Human slaves - the most high-demand species in the Hutt slave trade next only to Wookiees - to be sold to allied Hutts. These slaves, centered at work camps around Borqan's Fort Ridada, eventually revolted and besieged Fort Ridada, eventually killing Borqan after defeating his mercenary army. With the technology left behind by their slain Hutt overlord, the slaves who didn't return to their homeworlds stayed behind to establish a new society based in their democratic city-state, Ridada.

In the years leading up to the Clone Wars, the mines surrounding Ridada were subjected to numerous raids by Mandalorian pirates, leading the locals to develop an intense hatred of the Mandalorians that dominated their sector.

In 6 ABY, the Mandalorian warrior Naastau purchased an abandoned space station at the edge of the Borqada system and converted it into a casino and resort station. With Borqada's trade eclipsed by the station's traffic and not wanting a Mandalorian presence in his system, the governor of Borqada objected to the station's refurbishment, however Naastau changed the governor's mind after funding the creation of the Borqada Security Force, of which he was awarded the office of Security General. Wishing to take over Borqada's lucrative mining industry, Naastau had the governor assassinated and, through Borqada's constitution, absorbed his powers until the next governor could be elected. To prevent this, Naastau used his Black Sun connections to "infiltrate" Borqada's legal system and rewrite the constitution to bring an end to the elections, leaving Naastau as Security General, governor of Ridada, and baron of the Borqadan mines through the newly-formed Borqada Company, the entity that also owned his space station. Despite his unorthodox means of coming to power, Naastau brought greater wealth to Ridada, and as such the Borqadans came to respect their new overlord, who changed very little in Borqada's government and allowed his subjects to continue living their peaceful lifestyles. The mines gradually became a front for Naastau's arms trafficking ring, which worked with such notable organizations as the Resistance.