Duro

Duro was the heavily polluted homeworld of the Duros species. Located on the Corellian Trade Spine, the planet itself was mostly abandoned, housing mostly food processing plants. Most people lived in one of the 20 orbiting cities.

Duro was surveyed by the Columi 100,000 BBY, but the Columi were not impressed. Duro became a slave world of the Infinite Empire. Duros helped create the Star Forge 30,000 BBY. Following a plague that struck the Rakata, the Duros rebelled 25,200 BBY. The Duros then formed a hereditary monarchy.

Duros were interested in exploration and ventured off their homeworld to explore the Galaxy at an early age. Hyperspace catapults linked Duro with Coruscant, Corellia, and other Core Worlds. Having reverse-engineered the hyperdrive independently of the Corellians, Duro entered a Golden Age as a Core Founder 25,000 BBY under Queen Rana Mas Trehalt. The monarchy was eventually abolished in favor of a collection of ruling corporations.

The Duros colonized Neimoidia during their earliest wave of expansion, though the Neimoidians were considered a separate culture by 15,000 BBY. The Duros discovered Sneeve 13,975 BBY, Adner 5,000 BBY, and Koboth (prior to 219 BBY).

3,962 BBY, the planet itself was laid to near-total waste during the Mandalorian Wars, when the Mandalorian invasion fleet advancing on the Colonies and Core regions destroyed much of the world using thousands of Basilisk War Droids. Years of misery and rebuilding were ahead of the Duros people, merely the latest phase in the long series of Sith Wars. During the War of Light and Darkness, the Duros colony on Harpori was wiped out by Kaox Krul 1,000 BBY.

220 BBY, during Duro's Industrial Age, the mining city of Tayana reached its height. 200 BBY, the Tiercam Dam was built.

During the Clone Wars, the Confederacy of Independent Systems launched Durge's Lance 20 BBY, a coordinated and major campaign that lead to the capture of Duro. During the battle, General Grievous ordered an orbital bombardment of the surface. This resulted in the pollutants from the numerous factories which covered Duro's surface to be released radioactively, and the surface being rendered the uninhabitable wasteland that it would remain for eons to come. The swift success of the campaign sent shockwaves throughout the Galactic Republic, and even neutral Corellia began to tighten its defenses.

The Galactic Empire collected what was left of Duro's natural resources, and forced many Duros to move off the planet. In an attempt to stir up conflict between Duro and Corellia, the Empire declared Duro to be part of the Corellian Sector. With the Trade Federation nationalizated, the disgraced Neimoidians began to reintegrate themselves into mainstream Duros culture.