The first underground network of rakghouls was discovered when a mining crew drilled into what they thought was a pocket of prothium gas.
Over four hundred years before the Galactic Civil War, the Hutt artist Gorgo used super-cooled prothium gas to create decelerated luminescent images. By the time of the Galactic Empire, only a few examples of the work remained.
The gas giant Killaniri in the Killaniri system was a major source of prothium. BlasTech Industries maintained a prothium refining station in orbit to process gas mined from the planet using automated gas collectors. The gas was then shipped from starport on the moon, Justa.
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- Cracken's Rebel Field Guide
- Planets of the Galaxy, Volume One
- The Star Wars Planets Collection
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