Ghorman was a Colonies planet located along the Rimma Trade Route. Its sector, the Sern sector, was represented by Senator Fang Zar in the Galactic Republic's senate during the Clone Wars. Under the oppression of the Galactic Empire, Ghorman and its people were debated over in the Imperial Senate, with individuals such as Ars Dangor and Sly Moore cutting off the world's shipping lanes. In 2 BBY, a peaceful protest took place against Imperial oppression, but ended with the Imperial troops slaughtering protesters.
Ghorman was a terrestrial planet located in a star system in the Sern sector within an intersecting portion of the Interior and the Colonies regions. Situated at the coordinates L-13 on the Standard Galactic Grid, the world fell along the Rimma Trade Route super-hyperroute between the planets Giju and Thyferra. Ghorman shared its name with the Ghorman velvet and Ghorman silk materials.
Senator Fang Zar (right), who represented Ghorman's sector, was a member of the Delegation of 2,000.
During the Clone Wars, a galactic war between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems that began in 22 BBY, the Sern sector, and therefore Ghorman, was represented by Senator Fang Zar in the Galactic Senate. Ghorman and other worlds in Zar's sector like were considered to be rebellious. Towards the war's end, Zar joined around two thousand legislators known as the Delegation of 2,000 in signing the Petition of 2,000, a formal protest that called for the Republic Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine to give up his emergency powers and begin cease-fire talks with the Separatists. The petition was presented during the last full Senate session before the Clone Wars ended in 19 BBY.
The end of the Clone Wars saw the Republic's transition into the Galactic Empire under Emperor Palpatine and the destruction of the Jedi Order, with all Jedi becoming enemies of the Republic and subsequently the Empire. A day after the founding of the Empire, sixty-three senators that had signed the Petition of 2,000, including Zar, were accused of having colluded with an alleged Jedi insurgency and arrested as a result. The HoloNet News, the Empire's official state-sanctioned news agency, made a report on the incident shortly after, where it released a partial list of those taken into custody including Zar. Any senator that professed their loyalty to the Empire was freed from custody thereafter.
During the reign of the Empire, Ghorman fell under Imperial rule and oppression. The anti-Imperial group named the Ghorman Front eventually began to be active. Imperial policy around Ghorman and its resident Ghormans also became the subject of debate in the Imperial Senate by 5 BBY, some calling for decree over Ghorman matters. That year, Imperial officials, including Ars Dangor and Sly Moore, cut off the planet's shipping lanes, affecting the food supply of the resident Ghormans.
The day after the decision, Dangor and Moore were expected at a dinner at the residence of the Senator Mon Mothma of the Imperial Senate, having been invited by Mothma's husband Perrin Fertha. Mothma despised the decisions on the Ghorman shipping lanes and argued with Fertha about his decision to bring Dangor and Moore, sarcastically asking whether they should find some Ghorman guests for the dinner as well. Shortly after, Senator Dhow proposed a fact-finding commission into the Imperial policy regarding the Ghormans. Mothma backed the proposal with her own bill in a senate session in hopes of it being able to assail the Empire's treatment of Ghorman's people, but she was interrupted by news spreading about a major heist.
In 2 BBY, residents of Ghorman carried out a peaceful demonstration in protest against the Imperial oppression on their world. However, the peace protest ended with Imperial troops massacring many of the protesters, an incident that became known as the Ghorman Massacre. In response to the atrocity, Senator Mothma went before the Imperial Senate and spoke out against Palpatine, naming him for ordering the Ghorman Massacre and denouncing his tyrannical leadership. At the end of the statement, she promptly left the session with her aides and went into hiding. The fugitive Mothma went on to found the Rebel Alliance against the Empire shortly afterwards, uniting many rebel cells that had been operating under her own unofficial network for some time.
After the Alliance's establishment, a speech made by Mothma known as the Declaration of Rebellion circulated around on the HoloNet channel and through posters, one such being found on Ghorman. Secretly part of the Alliance, Senator Tynnra Pamlo served as their Minister of Education, being exposed to evidence of the Empire's atrocities on Ghorman and other worlds while working with the Alliance's intelligence branch. After the Ghorman Massacre, the artist Mevera Starros smuggled a few cases of the Sacha-Lo bevarage from Ghorman, keeping a few bottles for herself.
Around 3 ABY, the Imperial Security Bureau Agent Andressa Divo made a report regarding the search for the Alliance's most recent base, commenting that civilian deaths on populated planets like Ghorman and Garel had prompted the Alliance to seek out unsettled worlds to establish their operations.
The residents of Ghorman were known by the same name. The human Magva Yarro was a Ghorman idealist who took part in the protests that ultimately ended in the Ghorman Massacre. Having survived the atrocity, she went on to join the extremist rebel group known as the Partisans. Similarly, Fennro Drogan was a human Ghorman who was part of the Ghorman Front before eventually serving with the Alliance's Bitter Pill Company.
Ghorman was introduced into the current Star Wars canon when it was included on a map that was implemented into the fifty-second issue of De Agostini's magazine series Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon, published around December 30, 2015. The planet Ghorman originated in Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first mentioned in the Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game supplement The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, published by West End Games in 1990. Ghorman's first appearance in Legends was in the 1993 LucasArts video game Star Wars: X-Wing.