Bonadan

Bonadan
Astrographical
Region	Outer Rim Territories, Tingel Arm
Sector	Corporate Sector
System	Bonadan System
Galactic coordinates	(342, 342)
System coordinates	(14, 6)
Suns	1 (Bonad)
Moons	2
Physical
Primary Terrain	Industrial Centers, Eroded Wastes
Planet Type	temperate/breathable
Planet Size	13 x 13
Points of Interest	Bonadanian Spaceports
Societal
Native Species	Humans, Duros
Official Language	Galactic Basic
Approximate Population	10 Billion
Major Cities	Bonadan Spaceport Southeast II
Affiliation	Galactic Empire
Grand Moff	{{{moff}}}

Bonadan is the critical port of entry to the Corporate Sector, and is the primary world in the Bonadan system, boasting 10 gigantic spaceports. It is a strip-mined planet located at the end of the Hydian Way. The Bonadan Heavy Industries Corporation, a firm well known in the Corporate Sector for its superior munitions and industrial equipment, is based here. Natives of Bonadan call themselves 'Bonadanians'. This densely populated planet is home to billions of citizens and species from around the galaxy.

Description

Its yellow, parched surface is heavily eroded, and its topsoil has been destroyed due to constant industry, mining, and construction. The remaining surface is covered with factories, refineries, docks, and shipbuilding facilities servicing ten spaceports, the largest being Bonadan Spaceport Southeast II, the capital and seat of the planetary government.

A massive weather control station is located in the mountains to the north of the main cities, which is used to generate 'sweeper storms' that clean the polluted air, allowing the planet to remain inhabitable. Foreign weapons are banned on Bonadan, and being caught by one of the omnipresent weapon detectors is grounds for immediate arrest. Newcomers are thoroughly scanned before landing by the planet's Security Force, known indigenously as the 'Espos'.

From space, Bonadan appears as a yellow sphere covered with rust-red stripes. It looks barren and parched, for whatever plant life that has not been killed died due to careless mining operations, abundant pollutants, and simple neglect. The Bonadanian tortapo, a hardy, six-legged, reptilian creature covered by a protective bone shell, is one of the last surviving fauna native to the planet.

The originally verdant, beautiful landscape of Bonadan was rendered scorched and barren hundreds of years ago by excessive strip-mining, pollution, and environmental neglect. Many of the native species of flora and fauna, while beautiful, produced spores and venoms lethal to non-Bonadanian species, which led the original colonists to drive them into extinction.

History

The Formation of the Corporate Sector

Bonadan was first settled by colonists (mainly Humans and Duros) from worlds across the Core Worlds several thousand years ago, when the Old Republic spearheaded the Corporate Sector initiative. It was one of the founding worlds of the Corporate Sector Authority, a coalition of corporate interests that were originally given free reign by the Old Republic to rule the uninhabited region with a free hand.

Bonadan and the Clone Wars

By the time the Clone Wars erupted, many the systems of the Sector had sworn allegiance to the Confederacy of Independent Systems, save for a handful that remained loyal to the Galactic Republic. Bonadan was the foremost of these 'loyalist holdouts'.

The Confederacy attempted to wrest control of the system from the Bonadanian planetary government several times, but they were continually pushed back. Throughout the War, the Bonadan system was considered a strategic position in the Corporate Sector that the Republic could not afford to lose.

The planet was heavily defended by its own indigenous Security Forces and what remained of the CSA's pro-Republic Picket Fleet, which were augmented by Republic reinforcements towards the end of the conflict, as soon as they could be spared from other fronts throughout the Outer Rim. During the Fourth and final Battle of Bonadan, the CIS dispatched a sizeable Fleet to conquer the system and clear the way for a planetary invasion, but this offensive was repulsed by a joint Bonadanian-Republic fleet under the command of Captain Koltana Evard of the CSA Picket Fleet, CO of the Invincible-class Dreadnought Heavy Cruiser Steadfast, who assumed overall command of the Loyalist Fleet after Confederate forces had managed to destroy the Republic command ship with all hands lost.

Evard's successful stand against virtually impossible odds made her the toast of her homeworld, not to mention a military hero. The defeat Evard had exacted upon the CIS over Bonadan was decisive and costly enough that the Separatists never again attempted to invade it. After the fall of the Confederacy and the end of the War, the systems of the Corporate Sector were nationalized by the Galactic Empire. Evard, whose loyalty rested in the now-disbanded CSA, decided to retire from active military life, rather than accept a position offered to her to serve in the new Imperial Navy's Admiralty.

In recognition for her heroism and loyalty during the Clone Wars, the Bonadanian planetary government gave the honorably discharged Captain an honorary promotion to the rank of Commodore, which she holds in retirement. In her retirement, Commodore Evard has become something of a planetary celebrity, somewhat to her amusement.

Bonadan and the New Order

With the rise of the Galactic Empire and the nationalization of the Corporate Sector into the New Order, the Corporate Sector Authority had ceased to exist. The planetary government of Bonadan was allowed to remain somewhat semi-autonomous in recognition of the planet's loyalty during the Clone Wars, but the presence of the New Order across the planet is undeniable. Civilian morale and loyalty is at an all-time high, since the Empire has made overtures to guarantee Bonadanian autonomy, offering the citizens of the planet greater breathing room than they enjoyed during the reign of the Corporate Sector Authority, while also requesting more reasonable tithes that the previous government.

Bonadan's industries and capacities as a major center of interstellar commerce make it a critical center of Imperial control in the Corporate Sector. With the change of government above the planetary level, Bonadan's government has begun to shift its agenda towards the ambitious (and expensive) effort of repairing the extensive damage to Bonadan's natural environment via terraforming techniques and artificial climate manipulation. This project will undoubtedly take decades, perhaps even centuries, to complete, but once the plans have come to fruition, descendants of the present-day Bonadanians will have yet another reason to be proud of their homeworld.