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Planet Name: Kessel
System Name: Kessa
Sector: Kessel
Region: Outer Rim
Terrain: Desert, cities
Zones: Kessel Shipyard, Maximium Security Prison, Sith Army Base

Kessel the first planet of the system it was named after is, if not for anything else known for its potato like shape. This planet is no more than a large moon and has become one of the most important planets in the galaxy's smuggling circles. The main reason being Kessel is the only source of the telepathy-inducing glitterstim spice in known space.

Having no atmosphere of its own large atmosphere producing factories where constructed all over the planets surface. While the planet still remains too small to hold the atmosphere that is created by these factories the atmosphere they do create allows one to traverse the surface needing only oxygen masks. Due to the inability of Kessel to hold an atmosphere the factories are constantly in operation in order to equal the constant loss of atmosphere. This constant atmosphere loss has made for another unique aspect of Kessel; as the planet travels through space it leaves behind a visible white trail of oxygen from its artificial atmosphere causing many to mistake the planet with a comet.

Spice can be used for a variety of products but is largest and most lucrative use is to induce temporary telepathy upon its subject. When Spice was first discovered the Spice mines where run by the less reputable elements of the galaxy. The Empire upon examining the wealth that this product provided to those elements took over full control of the spice mining operations in Kessel and sealed of the system with military forces. Requiring a large pool of manpower to operate the deadly mines on Kessel the Empire created a prison on the planets surface to meet the increasing manpower demands of the mine. This prison was to house both political enemies of the Empire as well as other criminals many where given long-term sentences to prevent them from ever leaving the mines with stories of its horrors. Incarceration at the Kessel prison was soon to be a dreaded sentence for any unfortunate persons who found themselves before the courts of the Empire. To be sentenced to Kessel no matter the length of period was most likely a death sentence for any species.

Kessel being no more than a moon has no molten core and no atmosphere and thus generates no heat, being in the deep mines of Kessel is near to being in space itself and is just as cold. Constant cave-ins faulty breathing masks and heating gear meant that many prisoners suffered the unfortunate death of either breathing vacuum of space or suffering its environment. On top of these problems, any direct light activates the spice and as such the miners have to work in complete darkness as they traverse the dangerous mines. To make an already dangerous occupation more deadly the origins of the spice on Kessel where regrettably discovered by an unfortunate miner. The spice is created by a voracious species of energy spider native to Kessel who use the spice strands as a web to catch prey. A miner could wonder into one of these webs and find themselves impaled by one of these spiders and be completely drained of energy in mere moments.

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Ug Hale jumped at him. Rang had forgotten about the spiders web they had recently found in this section and got stuck right in it unable to move

"aahhhhhh!"

Ug Hale took the key card "hope u enjoy the spiders company rang ha he."

Ug Hale quickly made his way through the tunnels, which he knew well, to the army base section using his key card. As he made it the lights in the area stung his eyes, luckily security was sparse and someone had kindly supplied a y-wing filled with spices and weaponry, he jumped in and took off, jumping to light speed.

He took out a spice "arhh the sweet smell of freedom."