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Arkanis Sector
Located near Hutt controlled space, the Arkanis Sector played a key role in galactic affairs during the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War. The Clone Wars began on Geonosis, which also served as the initial building site of the first Death Star. Key Imperial military outposts were located throughout the sector, including Sentinel Base and the Arkanis Officer Academy. The remote desert world of Tatooine was also located in the Arkanis Sector.Arkanis
Location: Arkanis System, Arkanis Sector, Outer Rim Territories
Native species: Human (Arkanisian)
A human dominated world that was home to an Imperial Officer Academy. While the planet was captured by and joined the New Republic near the end of the Galactic Civil War, many Arkanisians retained Imperial sympathies.
- Academy of Evil: The planet was home to an Imperial Officer Academy. There was also a secret, highly exclusive 'academy within an academy' known as the Commandant's Cadets run by Brendol Hux, of which one of the prerequisites to join was killing another cadet. Most of these recruits were between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, though they could be even younger.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: The planet is part of an autocracy with a few other worlds in the Arkanis sector, known as the Regency Worlds, and they were quick to ally with The Empire, receiving many perks. Even after the Empire fell, many Arkanisians continued to support the Empire's ideals and outright allied with the First Order.
- Perpetual Storm: Rain is very common on Arkanis, with heavy rain occurring on average 2-3 days a week. Sunny days are considered rare.
- Undying Loyalty: Many Arkanisians remained loyal to the Empire after its fall, and joined the First Order to bring its successor state into power.
Armitage Hux's mother
Armitage Hux's mother
Species: Human
Appearances: Aftermath: Life Debt note | Age of Resistance note | The Last Jedi note
Admiral Brooks: "Given you found his mother in a kitchen, you'd think your illegitimate son could at least serve a drink, Commandant Hux."
A kitchen worker whom Brendol Hux had an affair with, resulting in Armitage Hux's birth.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Hux appears to have some level of care or strong feeling for her, as when Poe Dameron starts cracking a Your Mom joke about her, Hux completely flips out.
- The Ghost: She is only ever mentioned rather than appearing in person, though she was still alive and living on Arkanis during the Siege of Arkanis in 5 ABY.
- No Name Given: Her name is not mentioned, with Gallius Rax merely referring to her as "some...kitchen woman".
- Small Role, Big Impact: She is the mother of General Hux, who eventually became a leader of the First Order, bringing widespread death and terror upon the galaxy.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: We don't know how involved she was in her son's life or what ultimately happened to her. When Rae Sloane evacuated Brendol and Armitage from Arkanis during the New Republic's siege, she was told not to concern herself with Armitage's mother and she was presumably left behind.
Maratelle Hux
Maratelle Hux
Species: Human
Appearances: Aftermath: Life Debt note
Gallius Rax: "[Brendol] has a child — a bastard boy, as I understand. Not born of his wife, Maratelle, but of some... kitchen woman."
The wife of Brendol Hux, though she is not the mother of his son, Armitage.
- Awful Wedded Life: We don't get any details about their marriage, but taking into account that Brendol cheated on her with the kitchen staff and didn't seem to care that she was left behind in the middle of a siege, it doesn't look promising.
- The Ghost: She is only ever mentioned in Aftermath: Life Debt, though she was still alive and living on Arkanis in 5 ABY.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: We never learn what happened to her after the Siege of Arkanis; when Rae Sloane got Brendol and Armitage off the planet, she was told not to concern herself with Maratelle, who was presumably left behind when her husband fled to the Unknown Regions.
Arkanisians on other pages
- General Armitage Hux on the First Order page.
- Senator Carise Sindian on the New Republic Senate page.
Geonosis
Location: Geonosis System, Arkanis Sector, Outer Rim Territories
Native species: Geonosian
A large, red, rocky world close to Tatooine. It was a key world to the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars and the construction site of the first Death Star. Has many moons, including one (barely) habitable ice moon called Bahryn, as well as an impressive ring system.
- After the End: Father Time was not kind to Geonosis. Sometime between thousands to millions of years before the Battle of Yavin, a great cataclysm occurred that resulted in the destruction of its moon, forming a hostile ring system that wipes out nearly all life on the planet, leaving only the Geonoisians and a few other remaining hardy species to repopulate. The planet itself barely recovered before The Empire came into the picture and finished the job.
- All Planets Are Earth-Like: An interesting example of "All Planets are Mars-like", since it more heavily resembles Mars, in both looks and climate, than anything on Earth.
- Asteroid Thicket: Is home to a particularly hostile ring system. Truth in Television, however, since ring systems are far more chaotic than a much more vast asteroid field.
- Conveniently Close Planet: It's less than a parsec away from Tatooine, which helps Anakin and Padmé reach it far faster than the Jedi and Republic forces.
- Forbidden Zone: By the time of Rebels, Geonosis is under "quarantine", enforced by Imperial patrols if anyone starts snooping around.
- Ghost Planet: After the Geonosians were wiped out by the Empire, complete with an aura of death that can be sensed by any Force-user in range.
- Hostile Weather: Heavy dust storms are a major issue on Geonosis.
- Meaningful Name: The fact that the first major war in the franchise begins on a planet which has a name sounding similar to "genesis" can’t be suprising.
- Industrial World: Geonosis is a downplayed example. It's outwardly a fairly standard desert planet dotted with the city-spires of the Geonosians and even a small sea, but its economy revolves entirely around industrial construction, especially of droids — beneath those cities are immense, cavernous factories where vast numbers of droids are continuously being built.
- Sacrificial Planet: Was all but completely wiped of any living things as the Death Star was nearing completion.
- Single-Biome Planet: All of Geonosis is just oddly shaped rock spires and harsh deserts.
- Wretched Hive: A desolate wasteland that is home to sadistic insectoids who produce droids for killing, queens who use brain worms to control sentient beings, and horrific gladiator games.
Geonosian
Geonosians
Geonosians were insect-like beings, complete with wings, nesting in colonies, who conspired with the Separatists to develop plans for the first Death Star.
- Airborne Mooks: The winged warrior caste. Also double as Elite Mooks in their hierarchy, as they are slightly larger than the Separatist droids.
- Always Chaotic Evil: Subverted. Not all Geonosians are necessarily evil, and their genocide at the Empire's hands is seen as a particular
Moral Event Horizon the Rebel Alliance tries to use to get more people to join their cause. - Beastly Bloodsports: A major part of Geonosian culture. Given how quickly their population can grow, days or even weeks long gladiatorial games are an important way to cut down the population and gives the survivors a chance to gain in stature.
- Black Speech: Non-Geonosians infected with brainworms will instantly speak fluent Geonosian, even if they're of species where that language would be very difficult to master, let alone speak.
- Death by Adaptation: In Legends, there was nothing suggesting that the species suffered from a genocide campaign despite their involvement in the Death Star's construction and survived for at least fifty more years. In canon, while not every Geonosian was killed during the planet's "sterilization", it would seem the species as a whole is endangered unless there are other Geonosian hives off-world.
- Hero Killer: In addition to killing many Clones during the Second Battle of Geonosis, one Geonosian kills Sember Vey, Iskat's Jedi Master during the First Battle of Geonosis.
- Hive Caste System: Their society is made of up multiple castes, which include the winged warriors and wingless drones.
- Insectoid Aliens: They're a race of bipedal, human-sized bugs.
- In the Back: One Geonosian kills Fvorn this way during Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade.
- In-Universe Nickname: They are sometimes simply called "Bugs" by clone troopers and other Republic forces.
- Mooks: During the Geonosis scenes in Attack of the Clones and The Clone Wars' Geonosis arc. In terms of the Geonosian hierarchy, the wingless drone caste are the basic mooks.
- Night of the Living Mooks: There are undead Geonosians controlled by brain parasites in "Legacy of Terror".
- Racial Remnant: After the Clone Wars, the Empire proceeded to bomb the planet from orbit, wiping out nearly all the planet's queens and hives. At least two survived, Klik-Klak and a Geonosian Queen egg, which hatched into the next Karina the Great seen in Darth Vader, building a new race of Geonosian battle droids.
- Ray Gun: They carry sonic blasters, which fire sonic waves of energy.
- Screams Like a Little Girl: They let out a high-pitched shriek before getting killed.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Despite being only fought once by Iskat Akaris and her master, a Geonosian killing Fvorn in an ambush during one part of the Jedi strike team's venturing through the tunnel causes Iskat to see and feel through the Force her first experience of death. In addition, another one killing Sember Vey during the First Battle of Geonosis causes Iskat to be without a Jedi Master, which fuels her uneasiness and anger, leading her to turn to the Dark Side by the Clone Wars' end and become the Thirteenth Sister.
- Starfish Language: The Geonosian language is heavy on insect-like sounds such as clicking and buzzing.
- Took a Level in Badass: In The Clone Wars, they are shown to be much more dangerous than they were back in Attack of the Clones due to being intelligent creatures instead of mindless automatons like most Separatist military (a practice later repeated with the Umbarans). This also contributed to the infamously high clone body count in "Landing at Point Rain".
- Wallpaper Camouflage: During the events of Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade, a couple Geonosians blended in with their surroundings to get the drop on Sember Vey, her Padawan Iskat Akaris, and a couple other Jedi, after killing Fvorn.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once the Empire decides to move the Death Star's construction site away from Geonosis, they proceeded to "sterilize" the planet, partially because the Geonosians are no longer essential for a work force but mostly because they want to keep the Death Star a secret.
- Zerg Rush: Their combat tactics amount to swarming their enemies.
Karina the Great
Queen Karina the Great
Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker
The true leader of the Geonosians during the Clone Wars, Karina resided beneath the Progate Temple, where she laid eggs and issued orders to public leaders like Poggle the Lesser. After the sterilization of Geonosis, another recently hatched but infertile queen took the name.
- Adipose Rex: Although, unlike most examples, it's only due to having a bloated egg sac instead of being obese.
- Aliens Speaking English: Unlike most Geonosians, the Geonosian queens are the only ones that have been seen speaking Basic. However, it's incredibly broken Basic. The second Karina apparently learned to speak Basic from the Separatist droids around her.
- Explosive Breeder: Like all insect queens, Karina the Great can lay an egg every eight seconds. Nearly all of the Geonosian queens, however, lost their ability to breed thanks to the Empire's sterilization of the planet.
- Hive Queen: Of the Geonosian Hive. This Hive Mind can also extend to non-Geonosians and dead Geonosians through the use of parasitic brain worms.
- Large Ham: It seems every Geonosian queen speaks in an over the top manner, despite their scratchy voice and broken Basic.
- Legacy Character: Every Geonosian queen is called Karina the Great, according to
Pablo Hidalgo. This explains the seemingly Unexplained Recovery of Karina between The Clone Wars and Darth Vader. They were two different queens. On the other hand, Word of God also implies that the second Karina is only going by that name as a result of losing her sanity. - Rapid Aging: Geonosian queens can grow from a larva to a full-grown adult within the span of two galactic standard years if they are supplied with enough oil jelly.
- You No Take Candle: Because Geonosians don't normally speak Basic, the queens' attempts at speaking it amount to this.
Tropes applying only to Karina the Great from the Clone Wars era:
- Blinded by the Light: She hates bright lights and the clone troopers use this to momentarily stun her.
- Buried Alive: The clone troopers destroy the infrastructure of the Progate Temple, causing the catacombs to collapse on her.
- Mind Control: She had plans for assimilating Jedi into her Hive Mind through brain worms.
- Necromancer: She's able to control undead Geonosians, but instead of through typical necromancy, it's through brain parasites (whether they can reanimate the corpses of other species remains a mystery).
- Orcus on His Throne: Justified. Not only is she a Hive Queen, her egg sac keeps her from even moving from her spot. This was also a contributing factor in her demise when the Progate Temple collapsed around her.
- Puppeteer Parasite: Her brain worms, which she can use to enslave the minds of dead Geonosians and other species (but dead members of other species is ambiguous). They start looking for new hosts after Karina was buried, taking over a medical frigate's clone crew.
- Shadow Dictator: Played with. The Geonosians know she exists, but until the events of "Legacy of Terror", the Geonosians having a queen was only a rumor to off-worlders.
Tropes applying only to Karina the Great from the Galactic Civil War era:
- The Caligula: Thanks to being born infertile, she's not quite right in the head. She's decided to substitute battle droids for natural offspring and a substitute for the Geonosian species as a whole when in reality, she doesn't have much of an empire left to rule. Word of God implies that she calls herself "Karina the Great" because she's gone insane and is only working with the very little knowledge she has of Geonosis prior to the sterilization since she was born after it, and not just the initial assumption that every queen was called "Karina the Great".
- Cyborg: Due to her infertile status, she's replaced her giant egg sac with a giant droid factory womb.
- Last of Her Kind: She hatched from the last queen egg that survived the sterilization of Geonosis, under the care of Klik-Klak. And since she cannot reproduce naturally without a droid womb factory, she will likely be the last Geonosian Queen as well as the last Geonosian in general.
- Replacement Goldfish: The Geonosian battle droids are seen as her "children", not machines, no doubt to cope with the fact that she cannot reproduce.
- Vestigial Empire: She calls her Geonosian battle droid "children" the future of Geonosis, when the Geonosian species is endangered and she's an infertile queen.
Archduke Poggle the Lesser
Archduke Poggle the Lesser
See his entry on the Separatist Alliance page.
Klik-Klak
Klik-Klak
Voiced by: Matthew Wood
Appearances: Rebels
Klik-Klak is a male Geonosian living in the depths of an old temple on Geonosis, controlling a leftover droid army. He is one of the last of his kind, but protects a queen egg in hope of resurrecting his species.
- Badly Battered Babysitter: For the last queen egg, thanks to Saw's cruelty.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: While still an insect, Klik-Klak has a much cuter design than most of his people, and a much sweeter variant of the Geonosian language, due to his sympathetic portrayal.
- The Caretaker: He protects and guards the last queen egg.
- The Engineer: Due to presumably being a worker, he has kept a shield generator and small droid army up and running for protection.
- Expy: As a Geonosian reactivating a droid factory to build an army that comes into conflict with the protagonists years after the end of the Clone Wars, he fills a similar role to Gizor Dellso from the 501st campaign in Star Wars: Battlefront II.
- Last of His Kind: Perhaps the last Geonosian worker drone on the planet, as Ezra could not detect any kind of sentient life when he first came to Geonosis. He did have a shot of not being the last one by taking care of the last queen egg in order for her to repopulate the planet, but it is ultimately revealed in Darth Vader that the queen is sterile and could only reproduce battle droid mockeries with a womb factory, making him possibly the last natural Geonosian left.
- Non-Malicious Monster: Ezra points out that he was just protecting himself from Saw's men, as they had come there with weapons and as the apparent Sole Survivor he has reason to be afraid.
- Only Known By His Nickname: Klik-Klak is named for the first thing he said to Ezra, as he isn't capable of speaking Basic.
- Rogue Drone: Donwplayed. Due to his queen being an egg, he is very independent for a member of the drone caste, but is making sure that his race survives.
- Running on All Fours: Klik-Klak is capable of doing so in order to move faster, and is able to outrun Ezra this way.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: His protection of the last queen egg to bring back the Geonosian race amounts to this when Word of God reveals that the egg will hatch into the sterilized mad queen from Darth Vader.
- Shout-Out: The prawns from District 9 were cited by Word of God as being an inspiration to Klik-Klak and his ordeal. Both the prawns and the Geonosians were powerful civilizations, but are reduced to being fugitive survivors that meet abuse from people they run into due to Fantastic Racism and What Measure Is a Non-Human?(-oid). All they want to do is live.
- Sole Survivor: Of the Geonosian sterilization along with the unhatched queen egg. However, Word of God suggests that the deeper underground tunnels may have spared several more from the sterilization.
- The Unintelligible: Due to his species not speaking the language, though he can clearly understand Basic. Unfortunately due to this, his attempts to tell them about the Death Star his people built are confused for first the egg, and then the poison canisters that killed his people.
Tatooine
See its own page.
Trask
Location: Kol Iben System, Arkanis Sector, Outer Rim Territories
Immigrated species: Quarren, Mon Calamari, "Frog"
An estuary moon in the same system as the gas giant Kol Iben. Much of the population consists of aquatic species, including many Mon Calamari and Quarren who settled on the moon to escape the politics of their homeworld.
- Black Market: The moon is mostly known for being a black market port.
- Single-Biome Planet: Most of the moon is covered in water, with the settlements being on platforms built on top of the ocean.
The Frog Lady
"The Frog Lady"
Species: "Frog"
Portrayed by: Misty Rosas
Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker
Appearances: The Mandalorian
A humanoid amphibian that barters passage with the Mandalorian in exchange for the whereabouts of a Mandalorian covert.
- Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: Invokes this, once the ice spiders start advancing. There is precisely one shot between her grabbing her clothes and being fully dressed.
- Death Glare: More like a "don't even think about it" look, but she gives a stern look to Grogu at the end of "The Passenger" when she notices him eying her eggs.
- Easily Forgiven: She is implied to have realized that Grogu has been feasting on her eggs, but in the following episode she's such a puddle of love that she doesn't mind babysitting him for a few hours, and even lets him play with her newborn children. Grogu is just another baby, after all.
- Failed a Spot Check: Despite how precious they are to her and the fact that getting them to safety so they can be fertilized by her husband is the reason she asked for Mando's help, she doesn't seem to notice that several of her eggs went missing after Grogu ate them.
- Hidden Depths: She has a holdout blaster and knows how to rewire a translator from a dead protocol droid to use to talk to Mando.
- Hot Springs Episode: A downplayed version in that it's relegated to a single scene; the frog lady locates some hot springs to warm both herself and her eggs from the freezing cold.
- Language Barrier: Mando doesn't know how to speak her language and she can't speak anything other than her own, so it takes a while for them to understand each other until she rewires Zero's head for use as a translator.
- Mama Bear: She's determined to get her last clutch of eggs to her husband in time to be fertilized. When Mando tries to put off escaping the ice planet she rewires Zero and uses him to give Mando an earful so he'll get moving again. She also takes up arms to help fight off the spider swarm and protect Grogu.
- No Name Given: The subtitles and credits only call her "the Frog Lady", and she's otherwise known as the titular character of "The Passenger".
- Overly-Long Tongue: To be expected of an archetypical frog-like species. She uses it to lash at and grab things from afar.
- Running on All Fours: She usually walks on two legs but when she needs to move at speed she drops to all fours and leaps around.
- Translation: "Yes": Barely a second of croaking translates to "the precious cargo is my spawn, I need my eggs fertilized by the equinox or the last eggs I can lay will die, jumping into hyperspace will kill the eggs, my husband has settled on the moon of Trask in the system Kol Iben".The Mandalorian: She said all that?Peli: I paraphrased.
The Frog Man
"The Frog Man"
Species: Frog
Portrayed by: John Cameron
Appearances: The Mandalorian
The husband of the Frog Lady, who sought out a place habitable for their species and found a home on Trask.
- Nice Guy: He graciously thanks the Mandalorian for escorting his wife to him, and the couple babysit the Child while he goes on a mission and let the Child play with their newborn tadpoles.
- No Name Given: The subtitles and credits only call him "the Frog Man".
