Andaria

Andaria was a system in Wild Space, bordering on Hutt Space and influenced by the Hutt crime clans to a degree. In its heyday, it was known for weapons manufacture and a vein of governmental instability. After 71 BBY, it was known for being a barren wasteland, totally destroyed by its most famous son, the Sith Lord Tak Sakaros.

Landscape
Most of Andaria's landscape was covered by grassy plains. Nabooan shaaks had been introduced as herd animals with mixed success early in the planet's history, but the primarily unarable soil necessitated a healthy trade in foodstuffs from other worlds. Andaria's human population had originally made due with food sources in the cities, but as the cities themselves expanded this became infeasible.

Andaria's oceans were famous for being incredibly shallow, rarely more than 100 meters deep. As a result, sea creatures tended to be small and the introduction of exotic predators was strictly controlled by law. Early colonists attempted to create land bridges to link the various continents, with minimal success. As a result, a healthy trade in high-speed ferry passage across the oceans sprang up.

Cities
The capital of Andaria was Marinok City, named for the Talz spacer who led the first colonizing mission, Ulu'uk Marinok. Marinok City was deliberately designed to mirror the architecture of Coruscant; it failed badly, leaving the city with a permanently antiqued appearance. The major spaceport of the planet was located in the capital, and as a result Hutt bribery of elected officials was rampant. Marinok City was connected to two of the planet's oceans by a river that flowed through it, east to west.

The second largest city, home to 8.36 million inhabitants at its peak, was Cresyl. Three nearby ore veins made the city prosper quickly, and only fifty years after settlement it had its own spaceport. Unlike most cities on Andaria, Cresyl had a very metropolized look and feel, and was a place in which it was easy to get lost. Tak Sakaros was born in Cresyl.

The few other major cities all became so due to being the sites of weapons plants or proximity to ore veins.

Economoy
The economy of Andaria was based mostly around weapons and ore exports. Colonists settled the planet originally due to the presence of pink ores used in the manufacture of durasteel. Trace amounts of cortosis were mined within a year, but this rare metal made the initial settlers phenomenally riched and contributed to the long duration of Andaria's civilization. The presence of metal supplies led to the creation of in-system smelting vats, following by weapons factories. The weapons, in turn, drew investment from Hutt crime clans, which created a booming trade with several systems in Hutt Space.