Scrapyard (Belgaroth)

Scrapyard was a waste storage site on the planet Belgaroth. Although Belgaroth had many junk fields, only one of them became known simply as the Scrapyard. It covered an area of 900 square kilometers and served as the main dumping ground for obsolete equipment, worn-out ship parts, expended weapons, burned-out droids, toxic waste, and the occasional victim of the local crime syndicate. Piles of debris sometimes reached 50–60 meters in height. There was no security at the Scrapyard, as there was almost nothing worth stealing. Chemical clouds constantly hung over the area, and the soil was saturated with poisons that had been dumped there for years.

During the time of the Galactic Empire, the planet Belgaroth became a textbook example of a small, insignificant world destroyed by the New Order for its own selfish purposes. The ecological disaster caused significant changes to the planet’s natural environment and forced local species of flora and fauna to adapt rapidly to the new conditions. Predatory swamphulks quickly learned to digest aggressive chemicals and consume processed metal waste. In this altered world, wild swamphulks settled in the surroundings of the Scrapyard, and, despite the harsh conditions, they learned how to survive there.

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