Polar Sea (Alderaan)

The Polar Sea was a sea located on the Core Worlds planet Alderaan. A type of coral could be found in the sea that the House of Tagge scion Ronen Tagge stated was rare. In 1 BBY, Alderaan and its Polar Sea were destroyed by the Galactic Empire's Death Star superweapon, which left the coral virtually nonexistent.

Between 1 BBY and 3 ABY, Tagge hired the rogue archaeologist Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra to acquire a number of artifacts which he planned to destroy. While she obtained the artifacts for Tagge, Aphra also acquired some of the coral, which thrilled him, noting it had been virtually nonexistent due to Alderaan's destruction. After the archaeologist was paid by Tagge, she stole the artifacts back from him. In 3 ABY, Aphra informed her crew about the incident with the coral from Alderaan's Polar Sea after Tagge told the archaeologist's crewmate—Professor Eustacia Okka—to give Aphra his regards.

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