Athearia

Athearia was a Human kingdom that controlled the grassy planet Athear in the Core Worlds and was a vassal of House Organa of Alderaan. The Athearians were descendants of Alderaanian colonists that settled on Athear around 10,000 BBY.

History
During the New Sith Wars, Athear was site of an intense three-way war between a Republic army from Alderaan, the Sith Empire, and local city-states. Throughout the course of the fighting, the Sith were driven offworld and the Republic forces initiated a campaign to occupy the remaining city-states. After the last Athearian lords fell, the kingdom of Athearia was founded as a puppet state of the Alderaanian monarchy. A distant relative of House Organa named Rahzug was installed to rule Athear as prince. Rahzug, whose youth was spent fighting in combat tournaments, established a dynasty known as the Rahzugites that went on to rule as Athearian princes for centuries onward. A worldwide famine in 700 BBY triggered an Athearian pilgrimage in which hundreds of thousands of Athearians journeyed as colonists to various Outer Rim worlds. Eventually, Athearia was able to acquire its own independence from Alderaan, with historical evidence pointing to a number of space battles between the Athearian and Alderaanian navies as a result. During the Clone Wars, Athearia underwent a civil war between those who wished to remain independent and isolated, and those that wished to join the Republic in their effort against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The civil war quickly ended and Athear remained independent though began sending Athearian merchants on supply missions to wartorn Republic worlds in the Colonies region. As the Imperial era succeeded the Clone Wars, Athear's prince willingly joined his government with the Galactic Empire and was appointed the Imperial Viceroy of Athear. The viceroy was eventually assassinated by a rival political party, which resulted in the rebellious party's destruction at the hands of the local Imperial garrison. Following this brief insurgency, Athear was placed under the administration of an Imperial governor. After the Empire's decentralization at Endor, the Imperial government over Athear remained intact and managed to continue operating as an Imperial holdout for some months until they were dismantled by a New Republic invasion, after which point Athearia was restored under the Rahzugite princes as a sovereign monarchy. Several Athearians traveled to Coruscant as mercenaries to assist the New Republic in occupying the Imperial Center.

Society
By the time of the Clone Wars, despite having been a distinct culture for several millennia, the Athearians remained one of the least advanced of the Core World societies. Although their technology was wildly outdated due to anomalies in their star system that greatly impacted space trade, the Athearians maintained an elegant culture with developed government and economic systems. Athearians spoke Athearis, which was a dialect of Old Alderaanian; as centuries passed, many Athearian cities adopted the Alderaanian accent of Galactic Basic Standard. Through nearly all of their history, Athearian soldiers typically wore chainmail armor (which was commonplace in the Republic from around 25,000 BBY to 10,000 BBY) and, also like ancient Republic soldiers, were armed with vibro-pikes and swords with which they fought in archaic formations such as the shield wall. Hyperspace technology was extremely rare among the Athearians, and in later times was accessible only by Athear's most affluent merchants and military leaders.