LIFELESS DEAD WORLD | OUTER RIM

Features

Insignificant. The barren and lifeless planet Grutoka, the first planet of the system of the same name, is nothing more than a gravelly rock floating around an exhausted star which went nova a millenna ago. A resourceless chunk of mass in the middle of nowhere on the Outer Rim, Grutoka I would be an insignificant blip on any galactic chart, were it not for the space station orbiting it.

Underworld Controlled. Ostensibly worthless to almost anyone, Grutoka incidentally falls within the sphere of influence of The Lock, given that the station is locked in orbit of the planet. However, it has no settlements—nor any life whatsoever—over which to hold political sway.

Locations

Kron’s Lock. The infamous underworld den known as The Lock orbits Grutoka, and is the single reason any starfarer would ever likely visit the planet.

History

Discovered four hundred years ago, during what many would now consider to be the last golden age of the Old Republic, it was famously dismissed as being utterly worthless. This assessment, to be fair, has held up to any reasonable scrutiny ever since.

Decades later, however, a strange space station appeared in orbit around the planet, entirely abandoned and apparently non-functional. How it had come to arrive at such a remote and otherwise lifeless place remains a mystery. After initial scans of the station were completed, it was dismissed as a relic of some ancient race which had once monitored the system. The most common hypothesis is that it is little more than some kind of security station, or observation platform, which somehow has the capability of moving between the planets of some long-destroyed civilisation.

Phenomena

A standard day on Grutoka lasts thirty four standard hours, and the length of its solar year is five hundred and seventy two local days.

Native flora and fauna are non-existent as far as any survey has detected.

A worthless lump of cauterised rock. I’m not even certain that, even had we found a mountain of liquid quadrinix right under the surface, anyone will ever bother with it.

—Colron Fosh, LithoCorp xenogeologist