Gygax

Coordinates: S9
Planet Type: Terrestrial
Climate: Gygax's climate is universally hot thanks to runaway greenhouse gas effect, with no seasons to speak of due to an insignificant axial tilt.
Terrain: Volcanic wastelands, mountain ranges, lava flats, saltwater oceans
Atmosphere: Toxic (volcanic gasses)
Gravity: Triple standard
Diameter: 36,720 km
Length of Day/Rotation: 56 standard hours
Length of Year: 45,625 standard days (125 standard years)
Sentient Species: Kra'alak Du'uogwuin
Languages: Basic
Population: 18.4 million
Species Mix: 98% Kra'alak Du'uogwuin, 2% other.
Resources: In addition to extensive mineral and metal deposits of the more mundane nature, Gygax also has songsteel deposits and a unique firegem. The Gygax firegem comes in blue, orange and red, with violet being exceedingly rare and green absent entirely. They can be so dark as to be almost black, or so pale as to be almost white. They are luminous translucent crystals, warm to the touch and bearing curious properties that allow them to attune to the Force. They dragons value them greatly, only allowing the smallest gems to be exported. The firegems are most common in the planet's rings, but some have fallen to the surface.
Government: Clan geriacracy
Economy: The Kra'alak Dragon economy is based largely on droid workers mining materials from their planet and selling them to purchasers both on Gygax and on the moons in exchange for manufactured goods.
Major Exports: Minerals, metals (precious and base), gemstones, raw materials.
Major Imports: Foodstuffs, art, droids, hyperspace-capable starships.

Culture: The sole culture of note on Gygax is that of the Kra'alak Du'uogwuins, a species of intelligent reptilian super-predators.

Technology: The technology on Gygax is on par with the galactic standard of about three to five thousand years BBY. However, they lack hyperdrive technology and disdain blasters, lasers, and other weapons tech. To the Kra'alak Dragons, technology is for transportation and entertainment.

Satellites: Garyx, Kanein, Lakhisis

History: Gygax is a harsh, volcanic world. Its surface is mostly bare rock, blackened with heat, crisscrossed with rivers and lakes of lava flowing from the astounding three billion active volcanos on its surface - just under one every square kilometer. The planet's atmosphere is deep and thick, a poisoned fume lethal to all but the native life released from the planet's depths through volcanic vents. It has no fresh water on the surface, only iron-rich green salt water so hot as to almost be boiling. Groundquakes are an hourly occurrence on the planet, and though most are so light the locals barely notice them they are sometimes devastating enough to destroy great swaths of Kra'alak Du'uogwuin civilization. Tidal forces from the relatively massive moons and an unusually high concentration of fissile materials in the planet's core maintain Gygax's high levels of geological activity.

Gygax has remained out of galactic civilization up until very recently. Prior to establishing contact with the galaxy, it had only intermittent ships crash-landing in the system after running afoul of the tangle of hyperspace hazards surrounding the system. The hyperspace hazards are the result of strange, alien hyperspace buoys that produce a massive net nearly impossible to navigate safely. They have been in place for at least twenty-five thousand years, and are believed to be the result of an ancient civilization cordoning off Gygax. Some believe the reason was to prevent the Kra'alak Du'uogwuins from defeating them in a battle, but others propose that it was something more akin to partitioning off an experiment - or an enormous fishbowl. Whatever the true cause is will remain unknown, as the alien species disappeared millennia ago and have left no other traces of their existence.

The earliest Kra'alak Dragon civilization appears to have began much earlier than that, however. Their origins and early history are shrouded in mystery, as much myth and legend as they are historical facts. What is known is that they are distantly related to the Duinuogwuin star dragons. Millennia of isolation in the Gygax system have led to them radically diverging from their ancestors, much like the krayt dragons diverged from them. Unlike the Tatooinian monsters, the Kra'alak Dragons retained their sapience - they'd simply lost the ability to travel through space or faster than light. Over time they began losing or mutating other of the star dragons' fantastic abilities, reducing in size as they slowly developed something approximating a civilization on their hellish world. The Kra'alak Dragons eventually became so adapted to Gygax's poisoned atmosphere that they required it, even as they learned new technological advances to replace some of their lost abilities. They spread over the moons of their homeworld between 24,000 and 10,000 BBY, but they never developed hyperspace travel, advanced computers, or three-dimensional projection before making contact with outlanders.