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Sujimis Sector

Orto Plutonia

Location: Pantora System, Sujimis Sector, Outer Rim Territories

Native species: Talz

Native fauna: Narglatch

Orto Plutonia was an icy planet that the Pantorans believed to be uninhabited, until the disappearance of the personnel of a Republic military base led to contact with the Talz.

Single-Biome Planet: It is an ice planet in the tradition of Hoth, being almost wholly covered in snow, glaciers, and snow-covered glaciers.

Talz

The Talz are a species of four-eyed, white-furred humanoids native to Orto Plutonia and Alzoc III.

Adaptational Dumbass: In Legends, the Talz (at least those from Alzoc III) had already made contact with the Republic thousands of years before the Clone Wars and had access to modern technology, with at least one of them even becoming a Jedi. In canon, while not necessarily stupid, the Talz are a mostly unknown-to-the-galaxy-at-large Stone Age level society, and if a Talz is seen anywhere other than Orto Plutonia or Alzoc, they got there either through slave trades or other mysterious reasons.
Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Talz basically look like four-eyed, fly-mouthed yetis. In Muftak's case, he's treated as being mysterious as a yeti since Talz are rarely seen (or even known) off of Orto Plutonia, with most people in Mos Eisley just calling him "The Muftak".
Combat Pragmatist: Against more technologically advanced invading parties, they frequently use ambush tactics such as hiding in snow to gain the advantage.
Extra Eyes: They have a total of four eyes.
Homefield Advantage: During their conflict against the Separatists, Republic, and Patorans, the Talz have a key advantage aside from superior numbers; they clearly know how to use their environment to their advantage, positioning their mounted warriors high on cliffs while individual Talz hide in snowbanks, both of which allow them to get the jump on their foes.
Low-Tech Spears: The Talz are a pre-spaceflight race organized into tribes led by chieftains, are heavily indigenous-coded, and are initially considered little more than unintelligent savages by the Pantorans who've come to colonize their planet. As part of that image, their primary weapons are wooden spears with bone tips.
Mix-and-Match Critters: They look like a yeti with the eyes of a spider and the mouth of a fly.
Rock Beats Laser: Their technological development is currently at Stone Age level, often using throwing spears, but that doesn't make them less dangerous against more technologically advanced enemies. In fact, they got the edge over both the Republic and Separatist outposts on Orto Plutonia through both overwhelming numbers and ambush tactics, and may have slaughtered the rest of the Republic forces if not for Senator Chuchi choosing to make peace with them.

Thi-Sen

Species: Talz

Homeworld: Orto Plutonia

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

Appearances: The Clone Wars

Thi-Sen was the leader of a tribe of Talz on Orto Plutonia, who came into conflict with the Pantorans who claimed the planet.

Extra Eyes: As a Talz, he has two pairs of eyes.
Frontline General: He personally leads his warriors against the Pantoran and Republic forces and, despite being outgunned, manages to inflict heavy casualties on them.
Humanoid Alien: He has the basic human body shape, but has a distinctly alien appearance.
Reasonable Authority Figure: All he wants is peace, and he tries his hardest to negotiate with the racist and irrational Chairman Chi Cho. However, he won't stand by and allow his people to be massacred and fights back against Chi Cho's aggression, later stopping the war when Senator Riyo Chuchi takes over the negotiations and forges a truce.
The Unintelligible: He doesn't speak Basic, forcing Obi-Wan and Anakin to communicate with him by drawing on animal skins. During negotiations with the Pantorans, C-3PO provided translations for both sides.

Pantora

Location: Orbit of Orto Plutonia, Pantora System, Sujimis Sector, Outer Rim Territories

Native species: Pantoran

Immigrated species: Aqualish, Bith, Gotal, Gran, Rodian, Sullustan, Volpai

The inhabited marshy moon of Orto Plutonia. It was the homeworld of the Pantoran people and the site of several conflicts during the Clone Wars, during which it was a loyal member of the Republic. The planet was governed by the democratic Pantoran Assembly, which was headed by an elected Supreme Chairman. In addition to its native Pantoran population, the moon was a highly diverse and cosmopolitan society, with numerous other species finding a home amongst its towering cityscapes.

Pantoran

Pantorans

The native species of Pantora, the Pantorans were near-humans with blue skin. They were a common sight throughout the galaxy.

Adaptation Name Change: While the species existed since Revenge of the Sith, the Pantorans did not get the name they go by now until The Clone Wars. Before that, they went by the name "Wroonian". While the Wroonians as a species continued to loosely exist in Legends as a separate species from Pantorans after their establishment, they've been all but omitted from canon.
Ambiguous Situation: According to Phasma, Vi Moradi's brother is a dignitary stationed at Pantora sometime before the events of The Force Awakens, suggesting that Pantora is either a member of the New Republic (which at the time was in a political gridlock of Populists vs. Centrists) or an independent and sovereign world allied with the New Republic (like Ryloth). The Schrödinger's Canon trope below may also be taken in account.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Pantorans have South African accents, and Chairman Cho's Fantastic Racism of the Talz.
Facial Markings: Most Pantorans have yellow facial markings to show family or clan relations, along with status in society. Individuals who had no loyalty to any family or faction would forgo having markings.
Rubber-Forehead Aliens: They look like humans with blue skin and and sometimes pastel-colored hair.
Schrödinger's Canon: According to the Legends Endless Vigil sourcebook for the Star Wars: Roleplaying Game, after the rise of the Empire, Pantora became isolationist. As a result of this choice, the Pantoran Assembly split into three factions: the Appeasers, who wanted Pantora to join the Empire in the name of safety and economic security; the traditional Republicans, who believed the Empire stands against every core principle and value of Pantoran culture; and the unpopular and minority group of the Expansionists, who wanted to forge treaties with local old slaving and spice trade worlds.
- Either way, careful to avoid attention from the Empire, the Assembly gathered a volunteer navy to expand their work. Rogue Assembly members began to hire mercenaries and turned to less scrupulous & more unofficial methods of gathering information.
- Fortunately, while Orto Plutonia was full of raw material the Pantorans were looking for, Senator Chuchi's Treaty from the Clone Wars continued to hold up and thus the Talz remained uninterrupted per the treaty. While many members of the Assembly are fine with this and wished to respect the Treaty, others wanted to educate the Talz in hopes of integrating their two societies and sharing resources.

The Pantoran Assembly

Chi Cho

Chairman Chi Cho

Species: Pantoran

Homeworld: Pantora

Voiced by: Brian George

Appearances: The Clone Wars

"I have led our people since before you were born. I've seen a hundred planets rise and fall through force of arms. If it's not the Separatists out there, then it is an aggressive and malevolent enemy nonetheless, and I will not let whoever it is jeopardize the security of the people of Pantora."

Chi Cho was the Chairman of Pantora at the start of the Clone Wars. While loyal to the Republic and dedicated to his people, his aggressiveness triggered a conflict with a tribe of Talz living on Orto Plutonia, a planet under his governments control.

Alliterative Name: Chi Cho.
Amoral Afrikaner: The Star Wars equivalent of one, given his Evil Colonialist tendencies and the fact that he was voiced with a South African accent.
Control Freak: He wastes zero time throwing his weight around others, rebuffs the advice of the Jedi and his own Senator, and wages war on an indigenous species to hold onto a planet within Pantoran territory, even if said planet yields no strategic benefit.
Despair Event Horizon: He crosses it moments before his death, being informed that the Assembly have declared his actions out of order, his authority has been revoked, and they will make peace with the Talz. He is horrified to realise that rather than dying a martyr of his people like he believed, he will be unavenged and his legacy will be viewed with disdain.
Cho: No... Impossible! Peace? Never! I died for our... people.
Entitled Bastard: Despite outright denying the authority of the Jedi and the Republic when it comes to the "situation" with the Talz, he completely expects them to fall in line and obey his orders. This is best shown with his interaction with a squad of clone troopers sent to keep him from getting himself killed.
Chi Cho: Here they are. Fire when you're in range.
Rex: Sir, with all due respect, we're only here to protect you.
Evil Colonialist: Has shades of this, as a racist warhawk who insists on Pantora's rule over Orto Plutonia regardless of the feelings of the native population, whom he insists are "trespassers" on a world he has claimed.
Fallen Hero: The Featurette for "Trespass" implies there was a time when Cho's fervent nationalism and aggressive policies were more positive for his people, but with Pantora shifting into a more diplomatic approach, Cho's incapable of keeping with the times and takes his aggressive, warmongering ways with him to the grave.
Fantastic Racism: He derides the Talz as "animals" and "savages", and refuses to recognize them as sentient beings.
Fatal Flaw: His patriotism. He values the sovereignty of his people above all else, to the degree he will trample on the native Talz and refuse to recognize them as sentient beings.
Flat Character: About as one dimensional as the paper he was drawn on, though that would be insulting to the paper. His only characteristics are his overzealous patriotic fervor and Warhawk attitude.
Hate Sink: An arrogant, bigoted war-hawk who refuses to recognize the Talz as a sentient race and belittles everyone he interacts with. His only redeeming quality is his unyielding desire to protect Pantora, which is unfortunately another cause for his turf war with the Talz.
In the Back: His death comes from being fatally wounded when a Talz spear hits him in the back.
Jerkass: On top of being an arrogant bigot, he belittles Senator Chuchi, the Jedi and the clones. He's all-around rude in general.
Knight Templar: For all his antagonism, Cho seemed to genuinely believe that destroying the Talz was in the best interests of Pantora.
Last Request: Cho, knowing he's dying, orders Chuchi to destroy the Talz. She tells him she can't do that as she's been given the authority to negotiate peace.
Patriotic Fervor: Deconstructed. His main motivation for insisting on maintaining an outpost on Orto Plutonia is because it's within Pantoran territory, so he considers it property of the Pantoran government and he advocates to wipe out a native Talz tribe to "protect" the Pantoran people from them and reclaim their territory. Orto Plutonia is a tundra planet that makes Hoth look hospitable and provides no tactical advantage or resources, meaning his only reason for both the outpost and the war with the Talz was because of patriotism taken to horrifying extremes.
- This is also the cause of his refusal to believe that the Talz are native to Orto Plutonia. The Pantoran government was never able to find them. Therefore, they're not natives. They're trespassers.
President Evil: Less "evil" more "incredibly racist and bull-headed". He's the overall leader of the Pantoran people and is also a territorial, aggressive war-hawk. It's implied that he is an old-guard leader from a different time on Pantora, no longer in step with the realities of today. His aggressive attitude towards discovering a native tribe of Talz on a previously thought to be uninhabited world and subsequent igniting of a short-lived war due to his desire to wipe them out leads to him being ousted by the rest of the Assembly.
Too Dumb to Live: He declares his intentions to exterminate a race that was willing to make peace with him, but had shown themselves to be a tad kill-happy in the past, and does it to their face. He then personally leads an attack against a numerically superior force that is lying in wait on their own territory without any military support of his own. It seems like he is actively attempting to earn the trope.
War Hawk: Upon hearing the base has gone silent, Chairman Cho's first assumption is that it's Separatists who need to be fought. When he finds out it's the Talz, he immediately demands that they go to war with them and overrules any effort to make peace with them, before taking to the front lines himself.

Notluwiski Papanoida

Chairman Notluwiski Papanoida

Species: Pantoran

Homeworld: Pantora

Portrayed by: George Lucas

Voiced by: Corey Burton

Appearances: The Clone Wars | Revenge of the Sith

Papanoida was the successor to Chairman Chi Cho. He resisted efforts by the Trade Federation to force his world to side with the Separatists by blockading it.

Action Dad: When his daughters are kidnapped, instead of leaving the matter to the obviously inept local police, he starts his own investigation, catches the kidnapper, shoots up a bar, and rescues one of them himself.
Ascended Extra: Papanoida appeared in Revenge of the Sith as a peripheral member of the Galactic Senate with small screen time and zero lines. He receives a fleshed out expanded role in The Clone Wars.
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Corey Burton vocally based his performance on Orson Welles.
Creator Cameo: He had a cameo appearance in Revenge of the Sith, where he was played by George Lucas himself. However, George did not reprise this role in The Clone Wars.
Guns Akimbo: He uses two blasters in the bar fight to save his daughter.
Mysterious Past: He has a number of skills that are... unusual for a politician, including obvious experience with knives and blasters and a surprising familiarity with the criminal element. He also mentions to Jabba that they are "friends", though that may have been merely a negotiation tactic.
Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: Subverted. Greedo and his pals captured him and his son with blasters, only for Papanoida to take Greedo hostage by holding a knife to his throat.
Papa Wolf: Threatening his children is a very bad idea, as Greedo learned.
Reasonable Authority Figure: He's a far more levelheaded and reasonable person than his predecessor as Chairman.
Rubber-Forehead Alien: He's a Pantoran.
Shout-Out: Corey Burton based his vocal performance of Papanoida on Orson Welles' role as Harry Lime in the film The Third Man.
Tuckerization: Befitting the Creator Cameo, his first name (which was originally his whole name during production of Revenge of the Sith) is loosely derived from "Not Lucas".

Citizens

Chi Eekway Papanoida

Species: Pantoran

Homeworld: Pantora

Portrayed by: Katie Lucas

Voiced by: Nika Futterman

Appearances: The Clone Wars | Revenge of the Sith

Chi Eekway Papanoida was one of Chairman Papanoida's daughters. Towards the end of the Clone Wars, she replaced Riyo Chuchi as Senator in the Galactic Senate and was one of the many senators in the Delegation of 2,000.

All There in the Manual: Most of the scenes depicting her involvement with the Delegation of 2000 in Revenge of the Sith were deleted, but are still considered canon according to expanded material.
Benevolent Conspiracy: She was a member of the Delegation of 2000, meeting with other likeminded senators to try and curb Chancellor Palpatine's growing power near the end of the Clone Wars.
Creator Cameo: In a roundabout way. She had a cameo appearance in Revenge of the Sith, where she was played by George Lucas' daughter Katie Lucas, who wrote the episode they appeared in (and based Papanoida's two other children on her sister Amanda and brother Jett).
Damsel in Distress: Unlike her sister, she doesn't get to participate in her rescue.

Che Amanwe Papanoida

Species: Pantoran

Homeworld: Pantora

Voiced by: Meredith Salenger

Appearances: The Clone Wars

Che Amanwe Papanoida was Chairman Papanoida's other daughter.

Damsel out of Distress: She gets kidnapped by bounty hunters, but once a gunfight breaks out between her captors and her father and brother, she easily gets her cuffed hands on a blaster to help her family.

Ion Papanoida

Species: Pantoran

Homeworld: Pantora

Voiced by: Seth Green

Appearances: The Clone Wars

Ion Papanoida was Chairman Papanoida's son.

Badass Normal: Like his father he is a normal Pantoran with no special abilities or training, yet he proves to be a highly capable combatant who can quickly gun down several mercenaries while rescuing his sister.
Distinction Without a Difference: When his sisters go missing, he says he doesn't think it was a kidnapping. He thinks they were held as hostages.
Ink-Suit Actor: He closely resembles Seth Green, mixed with George Lucas' son Jett Lucas.

Moregi

Species: Volpai

Appearances: Dark Disciple

"I'm not the villain here. Can't you see? I was just trying to do what's best for my family. For my child!"

Moregi was a male Volpai living on Pantora with his Rodian wife and her child. During the Clone Wars, his family was struggling in their financial situation, causing him to turn to embezzling funds from the Rang Clan. In retaliation, the Rang Clan placed a 25,000 bounty on his head. This led to his capture by the combined efforts of undercover Jedi Master Quinlan Vos and Asajj Ventress, who had become a bounty hunter.

Interspecies Romance: He's a Volpai and his wife is a Rodian. Their child is from a previous relationship of Moregi's wife.

Pantorans on Other Pages

Senator Riyo Chuchi on the Galactic Republic Senate page.
Lassa Rhayme on the Criminals page.

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