Oort system

The Oort system was a star system located on the border of the Mandalore and Ojoster sectors. The system was surrounded by a phenomenon known as the Oort Cloud, which was a shroud of large comets as well as various electromagnetic anomalies that rendered travel in and out of the system next to impossible. Despite this, in c. 15000 BBY, Human colonists from Alderaan, Coruscant, and Alsakan managed to enter the system and terraformed several dozen celestial bodies such as planets, moons, dwarf planets, and stationary asteroids, bringing with them thousands of different lifeforms of all kinds. One such colony ship that transported diverse species to the system was the Bret Ark. These colonies gradually coalesced into nation-states that took the form of kingdoms and republics, resulting in a vast political climate among the Oortlings.

The Oort Cloud, preventing the movement of both their primitive starships and radio signals, eventually cut off the Oortlings' contact with the rest of the galaxy and soon enough, many inhabited bodies within the system began losing contact with one another. As the biomes of each body took a different evolutionary route over the millennia, the Human populations too developed different characteristics based on environment, as was the case with Human populations elsewhere in the galaxy. Many of these Human populations either descended into primitive tribalism or devolved entirely into different semisentient Human subspecies.

It wasn't until around 500 BBY, after several millennia of war, unification, and disaster occurring among each of the isolated populations, that Oortling societies began remastering space travel and started the process of forming into a single community, albeit one riddled in conquest as well as religious, political, and cultural discourse. Around this time, alien Humans from the Meerian and Weneen sectors managed to pass through the Oort Cloud and began spreading Republic culture as well as the Galactic Basic Standard language. The Galactic High Basic writing script that became used by more than half of the galaxy's Basic speakers developed on the Oortling dwarf planet Lade ages before Basic even reached some nations, and as such the script became known among other Oortlings as Laden. Despite these interactions, the Oortling community would remain isolated though remained somewhat exposed to alien cultural, linguistic, and political influences.

The Union of States eventually formed in the system and became the local superpower as it contended with other republics and monarchies in the system while also furthering its interstellar contact (as its rival nations pushed to isolate the system). While the Oortlings remained divided among these nations, peace was relatively stable over time as local rulers and presidents feared the technological advancements of one another. With warring and strife brought to an all-time minimum, many Oortlings began traveling into the wider galaxy as traders, journalists, diplomats, and mercenaries. This was considered to be the Oort system's reintegration into the galaxy, though Oortling language, culture, social behavior, and overall lifestyle indicated that extrastellar contact with the Oortlings had been occurring for centuries before this point. One notable Oortling that ventured into the galactic community was Naastau, who became a Mandalorian warrior in the time surrounding the Imperial era..