Videos & Audio - Empire at War Expanded: Thrawn's Revenge mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption

Credits: Keelhaul

After escaping the Yevethan genocide of his homeworld, Polneye, Plat Mallar took a TIE Interceptor and continuously broadcast footage of the genocide, along with a plea for help, over subspace as he headed for the nearest system outside of the Koornacht Cluster. He would have died in deep space, had he not been picked up by New Republic stealth operatives who had been spying on the Yevethans. The New Republic initially thought it wise to keep Plat's footage a secret from the public, though it was soon leaked to the journalist Cindel Towani (the girl from the Ewok Adventure movies grown up - yes, really), causing public outrage to turn against the Yevethans.
However, Plat's original subspace message also eventually reached the closest inhabited planet outside the Koornacht Cluster - the Fian of Galantos. A Fian councilor representing Galantos immediately rushed to Coruscant, bringing a belated warning, a plea for protection. Galantos would be fleshed out more fully in sourcebooks, where it was said to be a planet covered in a pale green gelatinous slime that brought nutrition and life to the world. Though not harmful on its own, the gelatin had a tendency to create "gelquakes" across the planet, and the harbors and spaceports designed for outsiders had to be made to withstand these frequent eruptions. I chose to base the layout of Galantos on the city of Kugane from Final Fantasy XIV, which is very blatantly based on the treaty ports Japan had while it was still largely closed to outsiders some few hundred years ago. Like Japan at that time, most of Galantos was inaccessible to outsiders (though, in Galantos' case, this was on account of the slime, not the laws), and so ports specifically made for outsiders had to be constructed that could withstand quakes. So while the two settings are very different, they actually paired rather nicely.

-Keelhaul