Name: Chandrila
Type: Terrestrial
Temperature: Temperate
Atmosphere: Type I (Breathable)
Hydrosphere: Dry
Gravity: Standard
Terrain: Rolling Hills, Plains, Forests, and Calm Oceans
Length of Day: 20 Standard Hours
Length of Year: 368 Local Days
Sapient Species: Jawa, Human, Mon Calamari, Pantoran, Rodian, Trandoshan, Twi’lek
Starport: Stellar Class
Population: 1.2 billion
Planet Function: Agriculture
Government: Participatory Democracy
Tech Level: Space
Trade Routes: Hydian Way, Perlemian Trade Route
Major Exports: Foodstuffs
Major Imports: High Tech
Settlements: Hanna City
Points of Interest: Hanna Institute of Antiquities, The Silver Sea, Crystal Canyons, Gladean State Parks, Brionelle Memorial Military Academy, Lake Sah’ot
Flora: Balmgrass, Cedar, Garren tree, Orcanthus, Shield of Andrasha geranium, Tintolive tree
Fauna: Bulabird, Marmal-fish, Pearlshell, Preepnob, Priprak, Skor-fin, Starleg
System Data
Region: Core Worlds
Sector: Bormea sector
System Name: Chandrila system
Star Name: Chandrila
Star Type: White Giant
Moons: Chandra, Chandrakant, and Unnamed moon
Background: Chandrila was a small blue-green planet with calm seas and rolling hills. It had mild seasonal weather and rarely experienced dangerous weather conditions.
The planet’s capital city was Hanna City which hosted the Chandrila Senate house; the site of the New Republic’s Galactic Senate in the months following the Battle of Endor. Other known locations on Chandrila included the Old Gather-House, the Senate Plaza, and the Silver Sea. The settlement Junari Point was located a few klicks outside Hanna City and hosted a bar.
In ancient times, Chandrila was settled by settlers who built the Old Gather House. Chandrila was a member of the Galactic Republic and was one of the Core Founders. During the late Republic Era, Mon Mothma served as Chandrila’s senator in the Galactic Senate. The Trade Federation megacorporation made a point to not anger Chandrila, which granted Mothma a degree of leverage over the corporation.
During the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire, Chandrila was listed as an Alliance to Restore the Republic safe world. A map of the galaxy with a legend listing the various Alliance safe worlds, starfighter hubs at level five or higher, rebel operations sectors and regional headquarters, and shadow planets with deep space caches, included Chandrila. The map was later included in The Rebel Files. During the Galactic Civil War, Chandrila supported the Alliance.
By 1 BBY, Chandrila had become one of the thousands of worlds that suffered under Imperial rule. Mothma, by that time the chancellor of the Alliance, recognized her homeworld’s suffering but believed she could not let her personal biases get in the way of the Rebellion’s decision making; with thousands of worlds suffering under Imperial rule, she could not simply decide to point their resources at helping the one planet. Due to Chandrila’s support for the Rebellion, the planet was a target of the Galactic Empire’s second Death Star. Olia Choko regarded Chandrila as a small planet that was the origin point of big ideas.
Following the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, Chandrila became the capital of the restored Galactic Republic, the New Republic, the successor government to the Rebel Alliance. The reestablished Galactic Senate was based in Hanna City. Queen of the Core Network began broadcasting on Chandrila. Imperial prisoners from war zones like Coruscant and Akiva were imprisoned on Chandrila. New Republic Starfighter Corps pilots were trained at Landing Platform OB-99 near the Silver Sea. At one point, the New Republic’s Vanguard Squadron was tasked with assisting in the defense of key worlds, including Chandrila.
After Han Solo and Norra Wexley’s team freed a hundred Rebel prisoners from Ashmead’s Lock on Kashyyyk, the former prisoners were flown to Chandrila where they were accommodated in temporary housing and received medical treatment. Later, the Senate accepted Grand Admiral Rae Sloane’s offer to conduct peace talks near Hanna City. In secret, this was a pretext for Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax to launch his attack on the New Republic leadership using the former prisoners as unwilling assassins controlled with inorganic bio-chips installed in their brains. The resulting Liberation Day attacks were broadcast live on HoloNet to audiences across the galaxy. This had the result of undermining morale in the New Republic and setting the stage for the Battle of Jakku. The attack also led to calls to relocate the New Republic capital to a more fortified world. Chandrila was also attacked during Operation: Cinder.
In the final months of the Galactic Civil War in 5 ABY, the Republic began the process of relocating the Senate to the Expansion Region world Nakadia for a year cycle after an Imperial attack. However, Chancellor Mothma and several senators, including Princess Leia Organa and Tolwar Wartol still maintained offices, on Chandrila. During the Battle of Jakku, Wartol tried to assassinate Mothma by bombing her office. However, Mothma was out of her office but her Adviser Auxi Kray Korbin was killed. Shortly later, Mothma, Organa, Sondiv Sella, and Sinjir Rath Velus met with Grand Vizier Mas Amedda to sign the Galactic Concordance; which facilitated the Empire’s surrender to the New Republic. The signing ceremony took place at the crystal cliffs north of Hanna City. On the same day, Organa gave birth to her son, Ben Solo. The Imperial capitulation was followed by a week–long Festival of Liberation.
By 9 ABY, Chandrila had resumed its role as the New Republic’s capital.
In Luke Skywalker’s dream in 34 ABY on Ahch-To, in which he imagined how things were if he had not joined the Rebel Alliance and instead stayed on Tatooine and married Camie Marstrap, the Empire used the Death Star to not only destroy Alderaan but also Mon Cala and Chandrila.
Appearances: Andor