Chiron, a planet situated within the Chiron system, resided in the expansive sector called the Ash Worlds. It served as the original homeworld for the Chironians, a sentient species.
Lusa, a member of the Chironian species, became a Jedi Knight within Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order. Not long before the Yuuzhan Vong conquest of Coruscant, a voxyn brought about Lusa's killed on Chiron.
The Chironian species are portrayed as centauriforms.