Byss
Type: Dark Side-Enshrouded Terrestrial
Temperature: Temperate
Atmosphere: Type I (Breathable)
Hydrosphere: Moderate
Gravity: Standard
Terrain: Urban, plateau reserves, canyons
Length of Day: 31 standard hours
Length of Year: 207 local days
Physical Diameter: 21,600 km
Sapient Species: Human
Starport: Imperial Class
Points of Interest: Byss Bistro, Desolation Peak, Emerald Splendor Estates, Emperor's Citadel, Gauntlet Scanner Stations, Great Hall of Byss, Imperial Control Sector, Imperial Freight Complex & Port Tower Tarkin-12
Population: 19.7 billion
Planet Function: Imperial Capital
Official Language: Basic
Government: Dark side Theocracy
Major Cities: ?
Tech Level: Space
Major Exports: None
Major Imports: High Technology, Weapons, Foodstuffs
Affiliation: Galactic Empire, Imperial Remnant
System: Beshqek system
Sun: Beshqek
Moons: 5
Sector: Deep Core Security Zone
Region of Space: Deep Core
Side Note: Byss eventually got blown up.
Notes:
Byss was a planet in the Deep Core, near the center of the galaxy, discovered no earlier than 45 BBY. A local day lasted 31 standard hours and a local year lasted 207 local days. It was the endpoint of the Byss Run.
Byss itself was somewhat of a myth, seeming to be the perfect place to live. Its eerie blue-green glow, caused by its sun, also added to the strangeness of the world. Despite this outward appearance, however, Emperor Palpatine's dark side energies were everywhere, corrupting not only the inhabitants, but the planet itself.
Byss was the secret throne world of Palpatine and the location of his towering Imperial Citadel. He also kept his secret supply of clone bodies there.
Description:
Byss was a mythic paradise world enshrouded in the dark side of the Force, located within the isolated and nearly inaccessible Deep Galactic Core. It was situated at the end of the Byss Run, a heavily guarded artificial hyperlane kept open by hundreds of non-mass S-thread boosters, connecting the planet to the Core Worlds. The planet was otherwise nearly impossible to reach safely through hyperspace, due to the high density of stars in the Deep Core and the constantly shifting patterns of the region's natural hyperlanes. Byss was the fifth planet of the Beshqek system and orbited the star Beshqek; it was one of two habitable planets in the system, the other being Relus. The planet was orbited by five moons, which had little influence on its tides.
Source:
- Wookieepedia