Haidoral Prime, often shortened to Haidoral, existed as an unimportant planet in both the Kontahr sector and the Mid Rim Territories, as well as the Slice. During the Galactic Civil War period, the Galactic Empire governed it. Following the loss of the Death Star [superweapon](/article/superweapon], Emperor Palpatine held Everi Chalis and other high-ranking Imperials responsible, leading to her appointment as governor of Haidoral as a form of punishment. She had previously served as an emissary to the Imperial Ruling Council.
In the year 3 ABY, the Rebel Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry, also known as Twilight Company, attacked Haidoral Prime. They managed to overwhelm the planet's Imperial defenses and conduct a raid. During this conflict, First Sergeant Hazram Namir and his squad engaged in combat with Imperial fire teams. They later joined other rebel units in the central plaza of Haidoral's capital city, where Twilight Company organized a recruitment campaign.
Feeling that her Imperial career was finished, Chalis decided to try and defect to the company. She sent a clandestine message claiming that rebels were being held captive in her mansion. Consequently, Namir's squad was dispatched to investigate. They infiltrated the mansion, killed several guards, and discovered a makeshift tactical center occupied by Imperial officers. Chalis then arrived and assisted in eliminating the officers before offering to defect to Twilight Company. However, she was stunned and taken back to the rest of the company, which subsequently departed from Haidoral Prime.
Haidoral Prime, also known as Haidoral, was a terrestrial planet of little importance. It was situated in the Kontahr sector, within the intersection of the Mid Rim Territories and the Slice. Its location was square R-10 on the Standard Galactic Grid, and it was connected to Ubrikkia and Kwenn in the Mid Rim via a hyperspace route. The planet experienced rain that smelled like vinegar and felt like sweat on the skin. Crystalline mountains were also a notable feature of its landscape. The Type I atmosphere was breathable for both humans and felinx.
During the Galactic Civil War era, which pitted the Rebel Alliance against the Galactic Empire, Haidoral Prime was under the control of an Imperial government. Around the year 1 ABY, Everi Chalis, an emissary to the Imperial Ruling Council and honorary Grand Architect of the New Order, was assigned the role of governor of Haidoral. This appointment was a consequence of Emperor Palpatine attributing the destruction of the Death Star superweapon in 0 BBY to the incompetence of high-ranking officials within the Galactic Empire.
As governor, Chalis governed from a mansion located on the outskirts of Haidoral Administrative Center One, the capital city. She believed that the increasing number of feral felinx was damaging the city's reputation, and therefore ordered a culling of these creatures. One resident, Corbo, lost his felinx due to Chalis's orders. Eventually, the Emperor replaced Chalis's staff with Imperial Army officers who monitored her for several months. During this time, a Haidoral resident named Roach was imprisoned in an Imperial detention center, largely due to her addiction to spice. This led her to harbor resentment towards Chalis and the Empire.
In 3 ABY, the 61st Mobile Infantry of the Alliance, widely known as Twilight Company, launched an attack on Haidoral Prime. With only a single legion of stormtroopers dispersed across three continents, Chalis feared the end of her Imperial career. The Imperial defenses under the governor's command failed, and Twilight Company raided Haidoral Administrative Center One. They stole supplies and confined Chalis to her mansion with six squads. Imperial defenders struggled to control some civilians, resorting to shooting them.
On the final day of Twilight Company's attack, First Sergeant Hazram Namir and two members of his squad patrolled the streets of the capital, discovering several dead civilians. After inspecting the bodies, they were ambushed by a fire team of four stormtroopers. Following a brief engagement, the three rebels eliminated their attackers and proceeded to the city's central plaza, where other squads were regrouping. The fourth member of Namir's squad, Brand, joined them there, having dealt with another Imperial fire team that Namir had missed.
With eight hours remaining on Haidoral, Twilight Company initiated a recruitment drive. One squad hijacked the capital's public address system to encourage civilians to join. While some locals enlisted in the company, one man pleaded for the rebels to leave, and others requested that they stay and continue fighting the Empire. The latter group was given spare weapons. Namir assessed the recruits for Quartermaster Hober, the recruiting officer. When three civilians started fighting, the first sergeant intervened and issued a warning.
Meanwhile, Imperial officers held Chalis in custody at a makeshift tactical center in her mansion's dining hall. Fearing punishment for the attack by Twilight Company, she plotted to defect to the rebels. The governor sent an MSE-6 series repair droid to the rebels surrounding her mansion with an anonymous message claiming that captured rebels were being held inside the residence, specifically in the room where she was located. After verifying that the droid was not rigged with a bomb, Sergeant Fektrin relayed the message to Captain Micha Evon, the commanding officer of Twilight Company. Although all of the company's personnel were accounted for, the captain worried about the possibility of captured civilians inside the mansion and tasked Namir's squad with investigating.
Namir and his squad were summoned to the residence, where Fektrin briefed the first sergeant on their mission, much to his displeasure. The squad infiltrated Chalis's mansion through a neighboring rooftop garden—the house's occupants complied when Namir shot down their custodial droid—and used a magnetic grappling gun to descend to the mansion. The Besalisk rebel Gadren remained at the garden because the grappling line could not support his weight. The other three entered Chalis's residence, killing several guards on their way to the room where the captives were supposedly held.
Namir and his two soldiers stormed into the dining hall, which had been converted into a tactical center, and found Imperial officers instead of prisoners. While the colonel in charge was confused by the claim of captives, Chalis entered the room and declared herself the prisoner. The governor shot the colonel, and the rebels quickly joined her in killing the other officers. After tending to one of his soldier's injuries, Namir questioned Chalis, who revealed her identity as the governor and offered to join Twilight Company. As Namir aimed his blaster rifle at the governor, Gadren arrived and stunned her. The first sergeant decided to take Chalis back to the rest of Twilight Company, and the squad returned to the company.
Twilight Company left Haidoral Prime on its starships, the CR90 corvette Thunderstrike and its escort, the Braha'tok-class gunship Apailana's Promise, after all the seized supplies were distributed among the battle group. Evon reported Chalis's defection on Haidoral Prime to Alliance High Command, and General Carlist Rieekan informed Mon Mothma, the Alliance's leader, of the event in an official document.
In a journal entry reflecting on Twilight Company's Operation Ringbreaker campaign, which occurred later in 3 ABY, Mothma considered the Haidoral Prime defection to be an example of how the Alliance could achieve parity with the Empire by using diplomacy and subterfuge. The document and journal entry were included in The Rebel Files, a collection of non-electronic documents compiled by archivist Hendri Underholt. In the same year, Haidoral Prime was a destination for a transport landing at Mirogana Spaceport on Toshara, an Outer Rim Territories moon, with a coordinator announcing departures to it at the spaceport.
In 4 ABY, Luke Skywalker, an aspiring Jedi, spoke with the Force ghost of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi while visiting the swamp planet Dagobah. Kenobi informed Skywalker that the fate of Haidoral and numerous other planets depended on a final confrontation between Skywalker and the Sith Lord Darth Vader.
Haidoral Prime first appeared in the 2015 novel Battlefront: Twilight Company, authored by Alexander Freed. The 2024 DK Publishing reference book Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy incorrectly states that the planet is the homeworld of Everi Chalis, contradicting Twilight Company's information that she grew up on a different backwater planet. This article uses the information from the novel.