Byss

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This article is about the Deep Core world Byss, as portrayed in the Dark Empire series. For other uses of the name Byss, see Byss (disambiguation).

Byss
Image:The Emperors Citadel.jpg
Region	Deep Core
Sector	Unknown
System	Beshqek system
Suns	1: Beshqek
Moons	5
Native Species	None
Other Species	Humans, Pau'ans, Gamorreans, Toydarians, Umbarans
Population	19.7 billion
Official Language	Galactic Basic Standard
Primary Terrain	Lakes, Plateaus
Major Cities	Unknown
Points of Interest	Emperor's Citadel
Affiliation	Galactic Empire

Byss was a planet in the Deep Core near the center of the galaxy. It was the endpoint of the Byss Run. It was discovered no earlier than 45 BBY.

Byss was the secret throne world of Emperor Palpatine and the location of his towering Imperial Citadel. He also kept his secret supply of clone bodies there. A local day lasted 31 standard hours and a local year lasted 207 standard days.

History

During the Galactic Empire's expansion into the Deep Core region, Palpatine selected Byss as his personal retreat and his secret throne world. Thousands of non-human slaves were forced to labor in the "recolonization efforts" on Byss. It was on Byss that a number of captured AgriCorps workers and Padawans were held captive under the supervision of Sly Moore, until the Emperor introduced them to Darth Vader. Vader killed all but four of them; these four he trained to be Inquisitors. One of the chosen, named Tremayne, would eventually become a Grand Inquisitor.

The Emperor later drew ignorant followers to the planet under the pretext that it was a paradise world. Once they had settled into their new lives on the paradise world, the Emperor revealed his true plans for Byss. He enslaved them and drained their life energies to power his abominable experiments. Eventually, Byss was entirely enveloped in the Dark side of the Force. This was evident by the eerie blue-green sunlight that bathes the world in a strange glow.

Byss was fanatically loyal to the Emperor even after his technical death at the Battle of Endor. When the Emperor was reborn in a new clone body, Byss became the capital world of the Imperial Remnant. Byss was destroyed during a battle with the New Republic by the Galaxy Gun and the reborn Emperor Palpatine's flagship, the Eclipse II when it rammed the planet and exploded.

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