Dalna

Dalna was a small planet located in the Dalnan sector of the Outer Rim Territories. Known for its agriculture, Dalna was inhabited by a settler population known as the Dalnans, who distrusted outsiders and rarely traveled offworld. During the High Republic Era, it was home to the Path of the Open Hand cult, who believed that using the Force would cause death and destruction and therefore hated the Jedi Order. This eventually boiled over into a devastating large scale conflict with the Jedi on Dalna known as the Night of Sorrow, in which the Path, lead by Marda Ro of the Ro family, brutally attacked the Jedi at their compound on the planet. Many Dalnans joined the Jedi in the battle, resulting in many Dalnan deaths. After this conflict, the Dalnans adopted a culture focused on training for battle and the Jedi Order developed a small presence there in the form of a temple. However, Dalna was not a part of the Galactic Republic, and many Dalnans blamed the Jedi for the Night of Sorrow.

Around a century after the war, following the Great Hyperspace Disaster, Dalna considered entering into the Republic, with a Dalnan delegation sent aboard the cruiser Steady Wing to attend the dedication of the Starlight Beacon space station. The Steady Wing was sabotaged by members of the Nihil pirate organization who wished to prevent Dalna from joining the Republic, resulting in the deaths of most of the cruiser's passengers and the entire Dalnan delegation aside from Honesty Weft, son of Ambassador Weft. A sect of the Nihil led by Kara Xoo later established a presence on the planet, using it to kidnap children and raise them into the marauder's ideology. Eventually, the planet was completely devastated due to a seismic and volcanic event caused by experimentation done by the Nihil and one of their scientists, Zadina Mkampa. However, it eventually recovered and its waterfalls were visited by Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn and his master Dooku.

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