Ulrooine

Ulrooine was a planet in the Al'Ulroo system of the of the Outer Rim, colonized by Chorrian speaking Wylixians from Whoxx in 555 BBY. It was a barren planet at first, but the Wylixians terraformed it into a beautiful world full of forests and lakes.

History
When the Wylixian colonists arrived in 555 BBY, Ulrooine was a barren world of lifeless canyons, mountains, and valleys. The only signs of life were microbes in the thick ice that covered nearly half of the planet. Over the next century, the ice was melted to make rivers and lakes and the Bronze Ocean. Plants and animals were brought in and the terraformed planet became utterly beautiful. The two architecturally fantastic cities of Brysia and Perlysiau were completed in 421 BBY. However, the corruption so carefully avoided by the Wylixians' cousins on Whoxx began to arise after 400 BBY.

It was noted in 252 BBY by the sentientologist Roumal Siulo that the Wylixians of Whoxx were kind and loving, rich in cultural heritage, whereas the Wylixians of Ulrooine were as greedy and corrupt as the rest of the galaxy’s sentients, having thrown aside their roots. The Hutts took an interest in Ulrooine in 250 BBY and the Wylixians were dealt with treacherously. Becoming more and more corrupt, they allowed so many scum and villainy onto their world that they became a minority species by 200 BBY. Ubukko, a Hutt criminal who had operated primarily in the Core until 216 BBY, set up a new base of operations on Ulrooine in 178 BBY.

In 64 BBY, it was learned by her clan that Ubukko had been selling many of their secrets to the Republic, Banking Clan,, , , Trade Federation, and the Black Sun, as well as other Hutt clans. the Hutt raised a private army on Cessopyre and attacked Ulrooine. The war quickly degenerated into a stalemate and remained as thus for two years until Ubukko asked the Trade Federation and the Bothans for assistance. Then a team of four Jedi, Master, Master and his apprentice, , and the  Jedi Knight Nolins Boole arrived to end the conflict because Ubukko asked her allies in the Republic for help.

In 62 BBY Oruba’s forces entered the city of Brysia and a battle was fought. After proving victorious, Oruba’s men massacred some fifty Wylixians. The fighting continued in the countryside and the Jedi struggled to negotiate a peace settlement as Oruba’s armies approached the city of Perlysiau. They attacked it, taking the Fraunly building, the city’s great museum and library. Much damage was done but they discovered what they were searching for— the entrance to Ubukko’s secret underground labs. After battling the droids guarding the facility, Oruba’s forces took over the labs and stole about ten percent of the prototype technologies and made careful copies of whatever data they could find but left the original texts intact. Then Oruba demanded the Jedi take a tour of Ubukko’s labs and see what dangerous weapons, viruses, and other technologies the Hutt was working on.

Once the Jedi saw the lab works, Oruba was willing to negotiate an end to the fighting. The Republic took control of the labs and removed all of the prototype technologies and research, including an early design for a, based on technology from the Sith Wars. Ubukko was warned that the Republic would pursue legal action against her should her researchers continue to develop radically dangerous products. Oruba agreed then to remove his forces from Ulrooine, bringing peace to the Al’Ulroo system. Prisoners were exchanged and the invading Hutt left the system.

However, in 61 BBY, hostilities resumed and Oruba once again invaded Ulrooine. This time, the Republic failed to respond to Ubukko’s pleas for aid and fighting continued into 60 BBY. Then Oruba’s forces proved victorious and Ubukko was executed. Following the death of Ubukko, the Wylixian population was largely marginalized.

Ulrooine remained largely neutral during the Clone Wars, although a few low-output droid factories were built on the planet to bolster the CIS armies around the galaxy. The planet also produced some foodstuffs and raw materials for the Republic. A few Republic-loyal citizens formed a secret society to oppose the sale of droids to the CIS but, apart from the murder of a Dimok heavy freighter captain who was delivering the battle droids, nothing ever came of it.

After the war, Ulrooine was occupied by Imperial forces who built a garrison on the world but the planet was never officially part of the Empire. Imperial forces abandoned the planet in 7 ABY after being attacked by a squadron of New Republic starfighters. By 50 ABY, the terraforming done by the Wylixian settlers many centuries before started to fail. Many of the imported plants and animals died off and the rivers and lakes began to freeze as temperatures dropped. The Hutts remained in control of the world and they had no interest in correcting the environmental decay.

Behind the Scenes
The two cities of Ulrooine, Brysia and Perlysiau, are Welsh words. Brysia means hurry and Perlysiau means herbs.