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Lontar

"I am from an old clan, an even older nation, swallowed by the Republic, taken in after our defeat at the hands of the Lontars." "That was hundreds of years ago. The senate forced the Lontars to stop their aggression."

―The Blood Carver Ke Daiv recounts his history with Anakin Skywalker The Lontars were a sentient species native to the Lontar system, located in the north-western portion of the Colonies Region. Several hundred years before the end of the Galactic Republic, the Lontars attacked Batorine, a neighboring planet in the Colonies and the homeworld of the Blood Carvers, a reclusive, feudal species highly skilled at assassination. The Lontars defeated the Blood Carvers so thoroughly that their target species was brought almost to the point of extinction; the Galactic Senate, however, intervened in the hostilities and compelled the Lontars to end their onslaught. Although some Blood Carvers remained on Batorine after the Lontars ended hostilities, most survivors were taken to Coruscant, the Republic's capital, where they were kept in seclusion before finally joining the Republic in 110 BBY.

Behind the scenes

Greg Bear created the Lontars for his novel Rogue Planet, published by Del Rey in 2000. They were later mentioned in The Essential Guide to Alien Species, written by Ann Margaret Lewis and published in 2001. The Essential Atlas, published in 2009, established the location of the Lontar home star system, placing it in the same grid as Batorine.The timing of the Lontars' assault on the Blood Carvers is somewhat unclear. In Rogue Planet, Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker describes the conflict as having occurred "hundreds of years ago," and the Blood Carver Ke Daiv portrays his people as "swallowed by the Republic, taken in after [their] defeat."In The Essential Guide to Alien Species, however, the Blood Carvers are said to have joined the Republic only in 110 BBY, just 81 years before Skywalker's conversation.

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