Thyferra

System: Points of Interest: Species: Terrian: Language: Role In The Galaxy: Sector or Region: Planets Status: Population: Controlled By:	Polith System Bacta Processing Plants Vratix, Humans Rain Forests Vratix, Basic Home of the Medical Fluid Bacta Inner Rim-Polith System Active Population Unknown # First: Neutral Second: Galacitc Empire (Includes Xucphra & Zaltin) Currently: New Republic
The planet of Thyferra is located in the Polith System, and is the homeworld of the mantislike Vratix and is the center of the Galaxy's bacta industry. The planet is a green-and-white world covered with rain forests, and its axis tilt is little but makes the place unbearably humid. There are two airless uninhabited moons that orbit Thyferra and the planet itself orbits a yellow star. The planet was first conntacted durring the middle years of the Old Republic, and even though the Vratix had already colonized many of the worlds in there system the contact with the Republic ushered in a technological revolution. The Vratix soon invented a healing fluid called bacta that was made by growing alazhi and mixing it with the chemical kavam, and the fluid was extremly profitable and powerful Vratix operations spread across many worlds. With the rise of the Galactic Empire and Emperor Palpatine the two large bacta-harvesting corporations, Xucphra and Zaltin, negotiated a special deal with the Imperials, that allowed the compaines to gain a virtual monopoly on the bacta industry. The two conglomerates controlled 95 percent of the galaxy's bacta and became known as the Bacta Cartel. The human-owned compaines long dominated the Vratix and ran the goverment, and the total bacta output averaged seventeen billion liter a year. The planet-wide goverment was led by two canirs (chief officers) appointed by an elected council, each canir represented one of the two corporations, and because Xucphra and Zaltin were compitors there was frequent goverment gridlock, which helped give rise to the Ashern (Black Claw) terrorist group, which viewed the corporations as a threat and attempted to topple them. In the political confusion following the Battle of Endor, Thyferra remained neutral and profited by selling bacta to both sides. Two and a half years after the Battle of Endor the New Republic was anxious to please the Thyferra leaders, and recruited the human pilots Bror Jace (from Zaltin) and Erisi Dlarit (from Xucphra) into the famous Roque Squadron. The New Republic put on a covert campaign to gain the enterence of Thyferra into the New Republic, and when a deadly war broke out on Thyferra and Roque Squadron was there to defend Thyferra against Ysanne Isard there efforts paid off and Thyferra voted to join the New Republic.