Rogue Planet is a Star Wars novel written by Greg Bear. Released in 2000, it ties into the Star Wars movie The Phantom Menace and features Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker travelling to the mysterious world of Zonama Sekot.
Characters[]
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Anakin Skywalker
- Ke Daiv - a Blood Carver assassin sent to hunt Anakin
- Raith Sienar - an extremely ambitious engineer
- Wilhuff Tarkin - the future Moff Tarkin, then a Commander within the Republic
- Sekot - the avatar of the living planet Zonama Sekot
- Charza Kwinn - a Priapulin (aquatic worm species) ally of the Jedi
- Jabitha Hal - the daughter of the Magister
- Gann - a Ferroan instructor living in Middle Distance
- Sheekla Farrs - a Ferroan airship pilot
- Shappa Farrs - a Ferroan ship designer
- Vargo - a Langhesi forger
- Thracia Cho Leem - a Jedi Master and the former Master of Vergere
- Vergere - one of Thracia's apprentices, a Fosh (avian species)
- Mace Windu
- Yoda
Publisher's summary[]
You've seen the movie The Phantom Menace. You've read the #1 New York Times bestselling book based on George Lucas's masterpiece. Now, before the eagerly awaited release of Episode II, comes a stunning new Star Wars novel from one of science fiction's greatest talents, a writer universally acclaimed for his keen grasp of cutting-edge science and the brilliance of his page-turning plots: multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Greg Bear. The result is pure adrenaline, an unforgettable journey stretching from the farthest reaches of known space to the battlefield of a young boy's heart, where a secret struggle is being waged that will decide the fate of billions.
That boy is twelve-year-old Anakin Skywalker. The Force is strong in Anakin…so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted the young Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight. Obi-Wan, like his slain Master, Qui-Gon, believes Anakin may be the chosen one, the Jedi destined to bring balance to the Force. But first Obi-Wan must help his undisciplined, idealistic apprentice, who still bears the scars of slavery, find his own balance.
Dispatched to the mysterious planet of Zonama Sekot, source of the fastest ships in the galaxy, Obi-Wan and Anakin are swept up in a swirl of deadly intrigue and betrayal. For there are others who covet the power such superfast ships could bring. Raith Sienar, a brilliant but unscrupulous weapons and ship designer, has the brains to decipher the Zonama Sekot ship design. Commander Wilhuff Tarkin has at his disposal the forces of the mighty Trade Federation with which to extract the secret. Together, they make a formidable foe, one a small and undeveloped planet can hardly hope to stand against.
But as Tarkin's fleet strikes with all its brutal power, Obi-Wan and Anakin sense a disturbance in the Force unlike any they have encountered before. It seems there are more secrets on Zonama Sekot than meet the eye.
The search for those secrets will threaten the bond between Obi-Wan and Anakin…and bring the troubled young apprentice face-to-face with his deepest fears—and his darkest destiny.
Plot[]
Chapter 1[]
Three years after leaving Tatooine, young Padawan Anakin Skywalker takes part in an illegal winged race in Coruscant's garbage pits. Before the race begins, Anakin is antagonized by a Blood Carver. While Anakin first assumes that the Blood Carver is simply an aggressive competitor, the Blood Carver reveals himself to be an assassin and attacks Anakin - who uses his wings to fly away. Right before Anakin is attacked, his Master Obi-Wan Kenobi finds Anakin and buys a set of race wings to chase after him.
Anakin and the Blood Carver descend deeper into the worm-infested bottom of the pit (where the racers must steal a scale from one of the worms to win the race). While purposefully falling to the bottom, Anakin is distracted - allowing the Blood Carver to clip his wings and send him falling to the bottom of the pit. While Anakin sits at the bottom of the pit, the assassin attacks him by swooping down on him. Anakin destroys his race wings to get some sort of club to bat the assassin out of the air. Right before Anakin can do this, Obi-Wan drops down to the bottom of the pit and clips the assassin's wings with his lightsaber - sending the assassin careening down into the silicate sludge that lurks in the bottom. After using the fuel tanks of his broken race wings to refill the engines of Obi-Wan's wings, the two fly out of the pit - with Anakin snagging a worm scale while they depart.
Chapter 2[]
While Anakin and Obi-Wan escape from the garbage pit, a Commander within the Republic Outland Regions Security Force meets with an ambitious engineer named Raith Sienar. After discussing how the Republic's shift against the Trade Federation brought about by the Naboo incident, Tarkin reveals that he has planted a robotic spy in the Jedi Temple and also reveals that the Jedi are planning something involving a mysterious jungle planet and mysterious and extremely rare spacecraft. Raith is shaken by the true nature of these revelations but still shows Tarkin plans for a massive space station that could defend (or control) entire star systems.
Chapters 3 and 4[]
Having escaped the garbage pit, Anakin and Obi-Wan are brought before the Jedi Council to answer for their failings. Master Mace Windu interrogates the two of them and asks them to find out how they failed. He is soon joined by Master Thracia Cho Neem, who helps out while being much kinder to Anakin. Eventually, Anakin realizes that his failing was that he sought out personal goals instead of thinking of the needs of the Council (who are possibly under threat by the Blood Carver assassin). This out of the way, Anakin is able to convince Thracia and Mace Windu to send him and Obi-Wan on a mission instead of letting him stew in the Jedi Temple. As such, Thracia suggests that Obi-Wan and Anakin discover what happened to a former apprentice of hers named Vergere who vanished after taking an off-world mission. Though Thracia assumes that Vergere has simply stayed offworld of her own volition, she is still somewhat worried that something has happened to her.
Shortly after the meeting, Anakin reminisces on it while repairing a protocol droid. He believes that he got off somewhat easy and decides to work to prove himself to the Council.
Chapters 5 and 6[]
A day later, Anakin and Obi-Wan depart for their mission. While leaving Coruscant, Thracia gives the two a data card and tells them that an ally of the Jedi named Charza Kwinn will help them unlock it. As their ship departs Coruscant, it docks with a ship owned by Kwinn called the Star Sea Flower. While within the Star Sea Flower, Obi-Wan reveals all he knows about the mission - that they are going to a mysterious planet known as Zonama Sekot. Sekot sits within an area of the Galaxy known as the Gardaji Rift and is a source of various extremely fast starships.
Chapter 7, Chapter 8, and Chapter 9[]
While examining a museum of his failed designs and contraptions, Raith Sienar is found by Wilhuff Tarkin - and his Blood Carver assassin. Under the implied threat of death, Wilhuff has Raith track the ship that Obi-Wan and Anakin are using in the hopes that it will lead him to Zonama Sekot and its mysterious ships. Shortly after this, Charza departs with Anakin and Obi-Wan into hyperspace. This is noticed by Tarkin, who gives Sienar (alongside his Blood Carver "associate" Ke Daiv) control of a small platoon of ships that will follow Charza's ship to Zonama Sekot.
Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, and Chapter 13[]
As the Star Sea Flower approaches Zonama Sekot, Tarkin visits Sienar and asks to see a Sekotan ship he has in his possessions. Sienar agrees to this and showcases the ship (which is deceased due to its pilot being accidentally killed). Meanwhile, the Star Sea Flower exits hyperspace and enters into orbit around Zonama Sekot and its binary stars. While looking over the planet with Anakin and Obi-Wan, Charza shows his worries about two Jedi being sent to a planet where one Jedi has already been sent. Unbeknownst to the crew of the Star Sea Flower, Tarkin has already sent Sienar's fleet in pursuit of them.
Chapter 14, Chapter 15, and Chapter 16[]
As the Star Sea Flower approaches Zonama Sekot, Obi-Wan reveals that he has a pouch with a collection of aurodium ingots (worth around three billion credits) on his person so that, if Vergere has not already done this, they can buy a Sekotan ship. Shortly after talking with Obi-Wan about this, Anakin stares out at Zonama Sekot and feels that they are flying towards trouble. As Sienar departs in a ship known as the Admiral Korvin with a company of advanced E-5 battle droids, the Star Sea Flower is found by Zonama Sekot's orbital control - which gives the Flower clearance to land after confirming that the ship is an authorized client transport vehicle. Shortly after landing on the planet, Anakin and Obi-Wan are met by a mysterious woman wearing a snow mask.
Chapter 17, Chapter 18, and Chapter 19[]
The mysterious woman brings Obi-Wan and Anakin to one of Zonama Sekot's numerous domes and begins questioning Obi-Wan on why he came to the planet. She is initially cold with him (becoming dismissive and cynical when he introduces himself as a teacher) but then softens somewhat after getting orders from someone called "The Magister" telling her to bring the two Jedi to the south of the planet. As such, the woman leads the two of them to a transport that brings them to a village named Middle Distance built into the trees of the forest. There, a tall man named Gann meets with the two Jedi and formally invites them to Zonama Sekot and tells them that they will have to go through several tests before they can buy one of the ships.
Meanwhile, Sienar speaks with the captain of the Admiral (who is named Kett) as the ship departs from Coruscant and enters into hyperspace.
Chapter 20, Chapter 21, and Chapter 22[]
Shortly after this meeting with Gann, Obi-Wan discusses the nature of Zonama Sekot with his young padawan and deduces that everything living on the planet is symbiotically linked. This allows the humans living on the planet to live in the trees with living furniture. They also discuss what might have happened to Vergere. The next day, Gann brings the two Jedi to the village of Far Distance on a zeppelin so that they can meet their "seed-partners". While in the zeppelin, the two Jedi meet a "grower" named Sheekla Farrs. While the two Sekotans discuss the practice of seed-partners, a structure known as the Potentum is mentioned - which reminds Obi-Wan of a heretical Jedi group.
Chapter 22, Chapter 23, and Chapter 24[]
While the two Jedi ingratiate themselves with the Zonama Sekotans, Sienar decides to test out both the droids' strengths and the skills of Ke Daiv by reprogramming the verbobrain of an extremely strong E-5 battle droid. Sienar then invites Ke Daiv to his quarters and (while under the company of the E-5 droid) grills him on why Tarkin sent him exactly. Ke Daiv initially refuses to tell but slips that he has been ostracized by his family. Sienar uses this as a wedge and then starts making plans with Ke Daiv.
Meanwhile, the Jedi are brought to a chamber filled with seed-partners (large round spiked seedpods that are presumably the larval form of the Sekotan ships). Both of them are supposed to be chosen by two seedpods but, while they are inside, every single seedpod detaches from the walls and begins pressing against them.
Chapter 25 and Chapter 26[]
Gann and Farrs arrive just in time to stop Obi-Wan and Anakin from being suffocated by the seed-partners. While most of the seed-partners detach from the Jedi, a few seed-partners cling to them - with quite a few clinging to Anakin. Gann reveals that a few of these seed-partners had a previous client who could not complete the shipbuilding process. Though Gann does not reveal who this client was, Anakin assumes it was Vergere. Shortly after this, Gann reveals that the Magister wants a private audience with the two Jedi.
Meanwhile, the Admiral is able to exit hyperspace and emerges just outside of the Sekotan system. While approaching the system, Sienar reveals to Captain Kett that he wants to reprogram the ship's droids.
Chapter 27[]
Shortly after this, the two Jedi fly to the Magister's base in another zeppelin. While flying to the base, the two see signs of a battle which scarred the battle. Once inside the base, they are met by the "Magister" - or rather, an illusion that gives the appearance of a Magister. Obi-Wan vaguely senses this illusion but does nothing to break it. While returning back to Middle Distance, Obi-Wan uses lip-reading to speak with Anakin without their (somewhat alive) zeppelin about what might have made the illusion. Obi-Wan comes to the conclusion that the planet itself made the illusion of the Magister, but cannot figure out why it would make the Magister.
Chapter 28 and Chapter 29[]
The morning after returning to Middle Distance, Obi-Wan and Anakin meet with Sheekla's husband, a designer of ships named Shappa. Shappa is greatly impressed by the amount of seed-partners that bonded with Anakin and sees this as an opportunity to design a massive ship that he figured would never be made.
Meanwhile, as the Admiral orbits Zonama Sekot, Ke Daiv slips through the planet's orbital control in a small ship and surveys the planet. On returning to the Admiral, the Blood Carver reveals what his survey showed - that the south half of the planet is covered in clouds besides a massive volcano and that the north half is covered in scars from an unknown battle. Sienar then gives Ke Daiv money to buy a ship from the Sekotans.
Chapter 30, Chapter 31, Chapter 32, and Chapter 33[]
Shortly after designing their ship, Anakin and Obi-Wan travel on a zeppelin to a forest of boras (sentient Zonama Sekotan trees). While travelling to the forest, they are met by one of the Magister's daughter in the flesh. This daughter (who is named Jabitha) explains how the annealer boras ready the seed-partners to become ships. After this discussion, Obi-Wan thinks over the possible friendship between Anakin and Jabitha. Once the zeppelin has docked, Anakin and Obi-Wan (accompanied by Jabitha and Gann) travel into a cavern that holds an underground river. While in this cavern, Obi-Wan learns that something killed all the life on the southern hemisphere of Zonama Sekot but finds that Jabitha and Gann do not wish to talk about it.
While Ke Daiv travels to Sekot to buy a ship, the Admiral remains in orbit around Zonama Sekot. While his ship hangs in orbit around the planet, Captain Kett briefly strikes up a conversation with Sienar about what will happen when his forces move from being members of the Trade Federation to members of the Republic. Though Sienar believes the captain is a hypocrite and possibly a war criminal, he says nothing about this and instead ruminates on how exactly he got his hands on the ruins of a Sekotan ship and the various hands it passed through before it got into his hands. Once Ke Daiv's ship lands onto Zonama Sekot's surface and he contacts the Admiral, Sienar muses over the various signs of a previous battle before commanding his fleet to stay completely hidden until the correct moment.
Chapter 34, Chapter 35, and Chapter 36[]
As the Jedi (accompanied by Gann and Jabitha) cross the underground river on a small boat, Obi-Wan ruminates over Anakin's unusual life in silence. They soon cross into the factory valley and Gann leaves their company, as he is not allowed into this part of Zonama Sekot. Anakin and Obi-Wan are soon met by several Sekotans riding insectoid beasts of burden called carapods. Jabitha introduces these as the forgers. Before leaving with the forgers, Anakin realizes that some of his seedpods have a message from Vergere within them that reveals that the Jedi seemingly left the planet to solve an unknown "greater mystery". The carapods soon bring the forgers and the two Jedi nearby to the forging pits, where the ships are built. Once here, a forger by the name of Vagno promises to take all of Anakin's seed-partners and forge a massive ship out of them.
Chapter 37, Chapter 38, and Chapter 39[]
While Anakin and Obi-Wan get closer and closer to having their ship built, Ke Daiv is barred from even getting seed-partners when he finally lands on Zonama Sekot. Upon hearing of this, Sienar sends a message to Tarkin stating that Ke Daiv has died and he is working on his own terms now. Sienar hopes that Ke Daiv can use his "backup plan" before Tarkin's forces arrive in several days.
Obi-Wan and Anakin are brought to the pits in which the seedpods are prepared before being made into ships. Using something called a tampasi to control the weather, the forgers strike the seedpods with lightning - causing them to basically explode like popcorn. Fortunately, none of Anakin's seedpods are killed in the process. While this is happening, both Obi-Wan and Anakin can hear the voice of the deceased Qui-Gon Jinn before they progress to the next part of the process - which Vagno claims no client ever remembers.
Chapter 40 and Chapter 41[]
Vagno introduces the two Jedi to the shipbuilding team of a shaper named Vidge, who (though somewhat hesitant due to the extremely large number of seedpods that Anakin has brought) leads the merging of a frame made by Shappa Farrs with an engine, a hyperdrive, and a link between the metallic components and the organic seedpods. Once all of these have been put into place, Vidge has Anakin and Obi-Wan commune with a group of biomechanical shipbuilders named the Jentari to finetune the shipbuilding process.
Meanwhile, Sienar notices that something is wrong with his personal droid underling. This is closely followed by several droid fighters leaving the ship and flying towards Zonama Sekot seemingly all on their own. While the Admiral is able to shoot down one of these ships, the other four escape to the planet below. While thinking over this, Sienar realizes that Tarkin hardcoded several contingency programs into the droids on the Admiral that can supersede his own reprogramming. As such, Sienar destroys his droid security guard.
Chapter 42 and Chapter 43[]
Shortly after the ship's finetuning has begun, Anakin and Obi-Wan are brought before a Sekotan named Fitch who explains that the Jedi are not to leave the vicinity of the ship, as it will die if they do so. While the two Jedi discuss this, they are visited by a group of Sekotans who reveal that the planet is under attack by offworld forces. Though most of them want to confer with the Magister before getting the help of the Jedi, others do not want to wait and plan to bring the Jedi to the Magister (who has not been seen for weeks) directly to their leader. Before they can agree on this, the escaped droid ships attack Middle Distance. Obi-Wan and Anakin plan to escape in the new ship but are found and attacked by Ke Daiv before they can do so. After knocking Obi-Wan out and while Ke Daiv is moving towards Anakin, he notices that Jabitha is lurking within the rubble. Before Jabitha can attack the assassin, Anakin tells her to stay still. Ke Daiv then forces Anakin to get into the pilot's seat of his new Sekotan ship. While doing so, Jabitha sneaks aboard and accidentally becomes Ke Daiv's hostage. After Anakin convinces Ke Daiv not to kill his hostage, he examines the controls of the ship and realizes that her fuel reserves are low. As such, Anakin has to fly to somewhere on Zonama Sekot with fuel.
Chapter 44, Chapter 45, and Chapter 46[]
After Ke Daiv has kidnapped Anakin and Jabitha, Obi-Wan awakens and asks Shappa for a ship to pursue the Blood Carver and his hostages. Shappa agrees to this but a paranoid Gann accuses Obi-Wan of bringing the intruders to Zonama Sekot. While rebutting this, Shappa reveals that the planet was attacked once before. Obi-Wan then questions Shappa about this and learns that, three years previously, the planet was visited by mysterious creatures called "Far Outsiders" and tried to take over the planet before they were repelled by the Magister, Vergere, and Zonama Sekot itself. Having explained this, Shappa then reveals that Anakin's ship is being closely monitored.
While Ke Daiv is busy stealing a ship, Tarkin's fleet arrives in orbit around Zonama Sekot. Upon their arrival, Tarkin gives orders demanding that Sienar be arrested and brought to him. Though it seems like Tarkin plans to use Sienar as a scapegoat and execute him, Tarkin says that he must speak with his friend in private once he is brought to him. Once he is in front of Sienar, Tarkin accuses him of interfering with the droids. Though both did do this, both are also unsure what exactly happened to the droids. They then discuss Ke Daiv's plots before Tarkin reveals that he plans to take Sekot through superior firepower and will demonstrate it by stopping an "aggressor" ship that is being piloted by Charza Kwinn. While plotting this, Tarkin learns that mysterious gargantuan ships are emerging from Zonama Sekot.
Chapter 47 and Chapter 48[]
As Ke Daiv forces Anakin to fly the ship towards the Magister's mountain, Anakin begins to both hear and see a message left behind by Vergere within her seed-partners. Though Anakin initially tries to block it out, he relents and listens to the message. Vergere's message reveals the Far Outsiders to Anakin and also reveals that something deep inside of Zonama Sekot is beginning to awaken.
As Shappa and Obi-Wan follow Anakin's ship in a Sekotan ship of their own, Obi-Wan asks Shappa about the Magister. From these questions, Obi-Wan is able to figure out that the current Magister's father was a follower of a force known as the Potenium named Leor Hal. Having figured this out, Obi-Wan and Shappa return to their travels but soon find that the hostile ships surrounding Zonama Sekot were seemingly sent by the Republic and that they have begun dumping sky-mines into the atmosphere of Sekot.
Chapter 49 and Chapter 50[]
Once Anakin's ship arrives at the Magister's mountain, Anakin finds that the palace has gone missing and that the mountain is battle-scarred. Ke Daiv tries to get Jabitha to tell him what happened to the mountain but finds that Jabitha knows little. Shortly after this, the sky-mines begin falling and Anakin lands the ship on the mountain. Meanwhile, Charza Kwinn's ship begins to descend to avoid the sky-mines while Obi-Wan hears a voice telling him that Anakin will face his trial alone.
Chapter 51, Chapter 52, and Chapter 53[]
As Anakin and Ke Daiv explore the mountain, Anakin tries to convince Ke Daiv that he still has some honour left. Ke Daiv reveals that he is an orphan that was booted out of his adoptive clan for accidentally killing one of his new brothers. Ke Daiv then tries to purposefully anger Anakin - with Anakin telling him to stop doing that as the dark side of the Force begins to flow through his body. Meanwhile, Sienar and Tarkin notice Anakin's ship and sends skymines away from it and towards Charza Kwinn's ship.
Chapter 54, Chapter 55, and Chapter 56[]
Though Jabitha assumes that Ke Daiv has won his brawl with Anakin after he staggers away, she soon realizes that the Blood Carver is badly wounded. Once Anakin recovers from his wounds, he stands beside Ke Daiv as he dies from his injuries and screams in despair at taking a life. After recovering from this shock, Anakin and Jabitha enter the Magister's mountain. They soon find the corpse of the Magister - who was crushed to death by rubble - and are met by a mysterious figure that uses the image of the Magister and Vergere and declares itself to be Sekot. Meanwhile, Tarkin sends droid starfighters after Charza Kwinn's ship and the Sekotan ship that Obi-Wan is using.
Chapter 57 and Chapter 58[]
Anakin briefly talks with Sekot and learns that, as of now, they have only truly spoken with the Magister. The Magister believed that Sekot was the manifestation of the Potentium (something that Sekot says is not true) and told Sekot to build weapons against the Far Outsiders when they arrived. Before Anakin can ask anything else about this, he is forced outside with Jabitha. Once outside, he watches as a mine ship that Tarkin and Sienar are using to land on the mountain lands. Anakin is forced inside its bowels along with his Sekotan ship while Jabitha is left behind.
Meanwhile, Obi-Wan has Shappa land his Sekotan ship on the mountain and leave with Jabitha and without him. Once on the mountain, Obi-Wan is attacked by droid ships - with one of these ships accidentally incinerating Ke Daiv's corpse - before these ships are destroyed by Charza Kwinn's ship. Obi-Wan then boards Charza Kwinn's ship and the two set off in pursuit of Tarkin.
Chapter 59 and Chapter 60[]
Once inside Tarkin's ship, Anakin is visited by Sekot once again. They reveal that they can use their powers to destroy Tarkin's fleet but that this will likely kill Anakin in the process. Meanwhile, Sienar tries to convince Tarkin to simply leave the Sekotans with a warning instead of completely destroying them. Tarkin says does not say anything about this and instead orders the interrogation of Anakin.
Chapter 61, Chapter 62, Chapter 63, and Chapter 64[]
While Charza Kwinn flies his ship towards the ship Tarkin and Sienar are using, the two invaders try to convince Anakin to let them experiment on the ship. Though Anakin thinks about doing this so he can survive, he realizes that he shouldn't do this and tells them that he will not help them. Before Sienar or Tarkin can use the ship, Charza Kwinn's ship drills into the side of the mine ship. Obi-Wan then boards into the ship and frees Anakin and his ship. While the two Jedi refuel the Sekotan ship, Tarkin gives an order to destroy the mine ship while fleeing it in an escape pod.
Chapter 65, Chapter 66, Chapter 67, and Coda[]
Fortunately, Anakin's ship is able to escape from the mine ship right before it is destroyed. While evading droid starfighters and skymines, the two Jedi discover that Zonama Sekot has a series of massive hyperspace-capable engines which the planet plans to use to escape Tarkin's forces. The planet uses these engines to clear a path for both Anakin and Charza Kwinn's ships to escape before leaving - with the fate of the colonists being ambiguous. Unfortunately, Anakin's ship begins to die due to its connection with Zonama Sekot. Before it does, Anakin christens it the Jabitha and is able to drive it to a frigid outpost world known as Seline. From there, the two Jedi are picked up by Obi-Wan and Thracia.
A short coda describes what happened to most of the major characters in the aftermath of this story and the rise of the Galactic Empire.
Worldbuilding[]
- Aurodium is an extremely rare metal used as currency in some parts of the Galaxy.
Coruscant[]
- Coruscant's unrecyclable garbage is shot off the planet by a series of massive cannons.
- Most of the garbage of the planet lurks in massive pits which are filled with huge worms that fix the refuse sludge (like worms fixing the soil).
Aliens[]
- Naplouseans are a race of beings made up of stringlike tissues. They have three legs and a large amount of eyes. They are seemingly able to both speak and communicate through smells, though they cannot laugh.
- Blood Carvers are a race of yellow-skin humanoids. They are an artistic people who rarely get involved in politics. The planet Batorine seemingly has a large population of Blood Carvers on it.
- The Priapulins are a race of aquatic worm-like beings with a symbiotic relationship with a race known as the food-kin or Crast. Priapulins eat the Crast and then bring life to more Crast. They are a peaceful race.
Zonama Sekot and its ships[]
- Zonama Sekot is a mysterious world that is a source of mysterious biologically-crafted ships. During Rogue Planet, it sits within the Gardaji Rift in the orbit of a red giant and a white dwarf which form a sort of pinwheel shape in space.
In-universe continuity[]
- Zonama Sekot is a somewhat major planet in the New Jedi Order series - being tied to the major antagonists the Yuuzhan Vong. Vergere reappears in the New Jedi Order series as well.
- Blood Carvers appear again in Mick Harrison's Dark Times comic series, Morrie Mullins' Living Force campaign A Mon Alone, Craig Robert Carey; Jason Fry; and Dan Wallace's Star Wars Gamer campaign Race for the Tessent, and the Tatooine arc of the Legacy comic (written by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema). They are mentioned in various reference books, most notably The Essential Guide to Alien Species (written by Ann Margaret Lewis).
- Wilhuff Tarkin is meant to be the future Grand Moff Tarkin from A New Hope.
- Raith Sienar is first mentioned in David West Reynolds' reference book Episode I Incredible Cross-Sections. He is mentioned in James Luceno's novels Darth Plagueis, Labryinth of Evil, Dark Lord, and Jedi Eclipse. He is also mentioned in Matthew Stover's novelization of Revenge of the Sith, Haden Blackman's comic Crossbones, and Jude Watson's novella Against the Empire.
- The plans that Sienar shows Tarkin are presumably a primoridial version of the Death Star.
- A Priapulin Jedi Master named Skwelli is mentioned in Daniel Wallace's reference book The Jedi Path. Priapulins are mentioned in The Essential Guide to Alien Species and Matthew Stover's novel Traitor.
- The Gardaji Rift (and by extension, Zonama Sekot) sits within the Tingel Arm - the same Arm of the Galaxy that the Corporate Sector, Aparo sector (home to Cadomai Prime), the Dalonbian sector (home to Belkadan and Sernpidal), the Veragi sector (home to the Gree Enclave), the Wyl sector, and the Thandor Cluster (home to the planet Brosi).
See Also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Phantom Menace | Terry Brooks | 1999 | Rogue Planet ties into Phantom Menace. |
| Cloak of Deception | James Luceno | 2001 | Another Star Wars novel tying into Phantom Menace - being set some time before it instead of after it. |
| Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter | Michael Reaves | 2001 | Another Star Wars novel tying into Phantom Menace. |
| The Price of Paradise | Colin Brake | 2006 | A novel with a vaguely similar setting |
| Titan | John Varley | 1979 | A novel with a vaguely similar setting |