Retsinis VIII

"This planet is damned!"

- Retsinis VIII bartender

Retsinis VIII was the eighth planet of Retsinis in the Retsinis system which was located in the Sith Space sector of the Outer Rim.

The world was a gloomy and depressing place because all life was destroyed on it by a cataclysmic natural disaster and the sky was scorched by the debris, continously swirling in the planets jet stream blocking out part the sunlight and making the sky red. Sometime afterward, settlers arrived and the planet became little more than a barren and lifeless stop-off point for those travelling to the Horuset system. It's primary export were rare Retsinis gems and the even rarer Retsinis Nitrous.

The Jedi turned Dark Jedi Kryzon Vellox hailed from Retsinis VIII.

Early History
Before the year 25,000 BBY Retsinis VIII was a lush planet of grassy plains, forests, lakes and rolling hills. There was no intelligent life or civilisations on the planet so little was damaged by construction or expansion. But when a comet crashed into the planet around the year 25,000 BBY all life was wiped out. The impact created a gigantic seismic wave which ripped up the planet in a matter of hours, killing all in its path. The force of the collision pushed up all the magma from beneath the planets crust up through the ground making huge earthquakes and volcanoes which spewed out the molten rock.

The planets surface was obliterated and all the debris was thrown into the jet stream and it never came down again so all light from Retsinis was blocked out for 4000 years on Retsinis VIII.

Sith Arrival
One and a half thousand years later the planet had calmed somewhat; the earthquakes had seized, the volcanoes no longer erupted so violently and the lava had cooled and solidified to make a walkable terrain. The First Great Schism had engaged the Legions of Lettow and the Jedi Order in an all out war. A small group of Dark Jedi part of the Legions of Lettow hid some of their Dark Side Artifacts from the Jedi on Retsinis VIII, however, after the Legions of Lettow were destroyed by the Jedi all infomation on the whereabouts or even the existance of the artifacts were lost.

The Colonisation of Retsinis VIII
In the year 21,000 BBY the sky cleared to some extent but the scarred planet now had a red sky, a constant sign of how much the sky had be damaged by the debris and loss of sunlight.