- "So where am I off to this time?"
"You're going back to the Western Reaches. A world called Wadi Raffa." - ―Has Obitt and Matese
Wadi Raffa was a legacy planet in the Western Reaches[2] and Outer Rim Territories.[1] The Galactic Empire hired Ranos Yalli and Has Obitt to transport old Separatist weapons to Wadi Raffa so that the Empire could "discover" them and thus remove Wadi Raffa's Legacy status. Removing Legacy status meant that the once-verdant world could be mined to exhaustion for doonium and dolovite, crucial materials for the construction of the first Death Star. The Empire soon began strip-mining and deforesting the planet to harvest these materials.[2]
Wadi Raffa was a beautiful planet, featuring land masses with green and yellow forests and conical mountains, including a volcano. Wadi Raffa's rivers combined with the seas to form estuaries, and from its sandy coves and red clay riverbanks, an array of inlets and scattered rocky islands were visible amongst the deep blue water. As a Legacy world, it had no large settlements and only featured a settlement of a few hundred Turlin/Benthic Extraction workers. Turlin/Benthic legally extracted undersea minerals from the hydrothermal vents such as kammris and meleenium until the Imperial takeover.[2]
Appearances[]
- The High Republic: Tears of the Nameless (and audiobook) (In flashback(s))
- Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel (and audiobook) (First appearance)
Sources[]
- Star Wars Galaxy Map
SWCA 2022: 7 Things We Learned from the Lucasfilm Publishing Behind the Page Panel on StarWars.com (backup link)- Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
