Byss was a planet in the Deep Core, near the center of the galaxy, discovered no earlier than 45 BBY. A local day lasted 31 standard hours and a local year lasted 207 local days. It was the endpoint of the Byss Run.
Byss itself was somewhat of a myth, seeming to be the perfect place to live.
Its eerie blue-green glow, caused by its sun, also added to the strangeness of
the world. Despite this outward appearance, however, Emperor Palpatine's dark side energies were everywhere, corrupting not only the
inhabitants, but the planet itself.
Byss was the secret throne world of Palpatine and the location of his
towering Imperial Citadel. He also kept his secret supply
of clone bodies there.
Byss was a mythic paradise world enshrouded in the dark
side of the Force, located within the isolated and nearly
inaccessible Deep Galactic Core. It was situated at the end of
the Byss Run, a heavily guarded artificial hyperlane kept open by hundreds of non-mass S-thread boosters, connecting the planet to the Core Worlds. The planet was otherwise nearly impossible to reach safely through hyperspace, due to the high density of stars in the Deep Core and the constantly
shifting patterns of the region's natural hyperlanes. Byss was the fifth planet of
the Beshqek system and orbited the star Beshqek; it was one of two habitable planets in the system, the other being Relus. The planet was orbited by five moons, which had little influence on its tides.
Byss itself was somewhat of a myth, seeming to be the perfect place to live.
Its eerie blue-green glow, caused by its sun, also added to the strangeness of
the world. Despite this outward appearance, however, Emperor Palpatine's dark side energies were everywhere, corrupting not only the
inhabitants, but the planet itself.
Byss was the secret throne world of Palpatine and the location of his
towering Imperial Citadel. He also kept his secret supply
of clone bodies there.
Byss was a mythic paradise world enshrouded in the dark
side of the Force, located within the isolated and nearly
inaccessible Deep Galactic Core. It was situated at the end of
the Byss Run, a heavily guarded artificial hyperlane kept open by hundreds of non-mass S-thread boosters, connecting the planet to the Core Worlds. The planet was otherwise nearly impossible to reach safely through hyperspace, due to the high density of stars in the Deep Core and the constantly
shifting patterns of the region's natural hyperlanes. Byss was the fifth planet of
the Beshqek system and orbited the star Beshqek; it was one of two habitable planets in the system, the other being Relus. The planet was orbited by five moons, which had little influence on its tides.
