Alfard

A dry arid world in the Alphecca Sector with three continents and one large, shallow sea. Mountains surround a large part of the ocean so for large parts of the planet, the weather is mostly dry apart from occasional heavy rainstorms that drench the arid plains, turning them into mud and transforming the canyons into rivers for a few weeks every year.

The planet has a population of native near-humans who inhabited several climes, but with relatively plentiful deposits of lommite, which is used to make durasteel and transparisteel, Alfard was colonized less than a decade before the outbreak of the Separatist Crisis by the Offworld Mining Corporation with backing from the Banking Clans so a lot of the natives integrated in.

The only remaining native cultures that still practice their lives unchanged to some extent are the mountain clans, the  matriarchal pastoralists who herd animals from oasis to oasis, and the people near the sea.

Settlements were established to begin mining the lommite and a large arcology christened Exentis was created near the planets equator to act as a starport and refinement center, but the banking clan called in its loans when the Alphecca sector remained neutral during the Clone Wars.

The planet was occupied by a light detachment of battledroids, but the Separatists decided to pull out rather then defend the system. As a parting gesture debris were scattered across the systems primary hyperspace lane. Normally the debris would be pushed out of the way naturally by gravity but the conditions are just right near Alfard for that process to be stretched out over decades instead of a few weeks. The planet is now only accessible by indirect hypserspace route, which significantly drove up the price of shipping lommite to the point where it was no longer competitive.

Alfards economy bottomed out, and those settlers who could leave did. Former miners have turned to eking out a living as farmers, regular and moisture variety. Unemployment is high in the only city on the world, and there's been a rise in crime over the year. Pirates and smugglers still use the debris-riddled hyperlane despite the danger and they use Alfard as a stopping off point. There about 500 stormtroopers stationed on the planet who primarily act as gendarmes.

Locations of Note:

Aghat- the mountain city of the Amazons and the seat of their mysterious Queen Mother.

Exentis- Acropolis, Starport, and planetary capital, built over a reach seam of lommite on Alfard's equator. Population 800k and unemployment rate at 80%.

Kira Altis- a small farming settlement only five hours by hoverbike from Exentis