O'reen

O'reen was an Unknown Regions planet with a surface featuring thick fog and tall mesas and plateaus. It was inhabited by the near-Human O'reenians. The planet was colonized after the Great Hyperspace War as a Galactic Republic advance warning outpost, based on a self-sufficient military garrison. Eventually, the colonists were stranded and isolated from the rest of the galaxy. Following a coup led by Magnus, the colony's military leader, O'reenian society transformed itself into a caste-based military dictatorship devoted to the planet's military buildup under the rule of a leader holding the title of Magnus. Only those who served with O'reen's military were granted full citizenship and rights.

Millennia after O'reen's settlement, the natives captured a corporate exploration vessel that had discovered their world. The encounter made the O'reenians realize how backward their level of technology had become compared to that of the wider galaxy. In an attempt to counter that, the O'reen Star Corps performed raids on nearby star systems to capture modern military technology. Stolen equipment was then analyzed on O'reen in order to upgrade the planet's own armaments. During that time, the planet was visited by offworlders on several occasions.

During the Clone Wars, O'reen's natives captured the crew of a Republic military exploration ship, resulting in a rescue operation on the planet, followed by the Republic Senate placing the hostile world under a quarantine that lasted for decades. At some point following the disestablishment of the Republic, the O'reenians stole a prototype tactical data core from a galactic-scale naval force, planning to install it aboard a refurbished battle cruiser. A group of individuals tasked to retrieve the tactical computer traveled to O'reen. There, the group infiltrated the Orbital Deployment Center garrison-city and stole the computer from an analysis station before escaping the planet. As the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong invaded the galaxy, O'reen once again became virtually forgotten; however, the ruling Magnus continued to wait for an opportunity to expand the planet's influence.

Text and facts from the “O'reen” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.