Mustafar
Mustafar is a planet that features in Star Wars.
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History
Mustafar was a volcanic world that was situated in the Outer Rim which existed a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
During the Clone Wars, the Mustafarians aligned themselves with the Confederacy of Independent Systems. However, they were not fanatically committed to the cause, having only joined to secure themselves Separatist contracts, and life continued much as it had before.
As the war's end drew nearer, Darth Sidious instructed the Separatist Council to retreat to their facility on Mustafar, and they gathered at the Techno Union's Klegger Corp Mining Facility under the leadership of Viceroy Nute Gunray. Soon afterward, the Jedi Anakin Skywalker made a pact with Sidious, becoming his new Sith apprentice, Darth Vader; the Jedi-turned-Sith was desperately hoping to gain the power to save his lover and wife, Republic Senator Padmé Amidala, from dying. Darth Vader's first mission was to eliminate Separatist leaders on Mustafar.
Padmé Amidala had been rushing to Mustafar in the hope of saving her husband from falling further to the dark side. She arrived on the volcanic world shortly after the slaughter of the Separatist leaders, and Vader met her embrace at the Techno Union facility. Her pleas fell on deaf ears, however, when Vader spotted his former Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, emerging from Amidala's ship. In his anger, Vader incorrectly assumed that her lover had betrayed him to Kenobi and strangled her via the Force; Amidala thus realized that Anakin Skywalker had been consumed by his lust for power and was truly corrupted by the dark side. Darth Vader then gave his old master and former friend an ultimatum: either he was with him or against him. Plagued by self-doubt and his inability to let go of his assumptions, Vader attempted to murder Kenobi. As the two engaged in a lightsaber duel, Vader bathed the remnants of his Jedi self in the dark side that echoed from Mustafar's Sith sanctum, and amid the chaos, the shields protecting the mining facility were shut down. Parts of the building as well as the Lapiz Cutter—the late Nute Gunray's personal shuttle—were destroyed. Forced to fight across the lava streams, Vader was fueled by hatred and, in his hubris, attacked without regard to his own limitations, and fell victim to Kenobi's blade beside a lava river. As the Sith Lord lost himself to the dark side's corruption, his remaining limbs were severed and his entire body was incinerated by Mustafar's lava.
In 9 BBY, Darth Vader conferred from Fortress Vader with the Third Sister via hologram regarding their hunt for Obi-Wan following a failed attempt to capture him. Kenobi later infiltrated Fortress Inquisitorius on the nearby moon Nur using intelligence from the Hidden Path rebels, who further found that Vader was not in the Mustafar system at the time, instead being aboard his vessel elsewhere. The hunt was ultimately a failure, and from his castle, Vader was instructed by Darth Sidious via hologram to abandon his obsession with Kenobi. In 4 BBY, the Jedi Kanan Jarrus of the rebel cell named the Spectres was detained aboard the Imperial Star Destroyer Sovereign, the flagship of Wilhuff Tarkin, Grand Moff and Governor of the Outer Rim. The vessel entered Mustafar's orbit after the Empire's capture of the Jedi on the Outer Rim planet Lothal, where the Spectres were based. Escorted by a fleet of three other Star Destroyers and support vessels, the Sovereign bore witness to the Grand Inquisitor's interrogation of Jarrus for information about the rebellion and the informant named 'Fulcrum' who was secretly the former Jedi Ahsoka Tano. Hera Syndulla led her Spectres crew on a rescue mission over Mustafar. Using a stolen Imperial Gozanti-class cruiser and TIE fighter to infiltrate the Sovereign, the Spectres freed their captive Jedi from the Grand Inquisitor. The latter's lightsaber was bisected during lightsaber combat against Jarrus and his Padawan, Ezra Bridger, and fell into the Sovereign's reactor, dooming the Star Destroyer. The Inquisitor himself chose to fall to his death rather than suffer for his failures.
With the aid of Phoenix Cell, a resistance group affiliated with 'Fulcrum' in a growing network of rebels formed by Senators Bail Organa and Mon Mothma, the Spectres successfully fled the Mustafar system and joined the larger Phoenix Cell. Grand Moff Tarkin also evacuated from his flagship, which crashed into Mustafar's lava fields in a defeat that embarrassed Tarkin and displeased Emperor Palpatine. The skirmish over Mustafar marked one of the earliest rebel victories in the Galactic Civil War against the Empire and heightened rebellious activity in the Outer Rim, with unrest occuring on Lothal that Imperial Security Bureau Agent Alexsandr Kallus attributed to some Lothalites perceiving the Empire as vulnerable following rumors of the Empire's show of weakness at Mustafar. Mon Mothma wrote in documents assembled in The Rebel Files that the action at Mustafar was but a short-term success, considering that the rebels had revealed the naval capacity of their sector fleet to the Empire. Indeed, the Emperor sent Darth Vader to personally handle the rebel group.
Overview
In appearance, Mustafar was a volcanic world that was located in the Outer Rim of the galaxy.
Locations on the planet included:
- Klegger Corp Mining Facility :
- Fortress Vader :
Life forms native to the planet included:
- Lava flea :
- Roggwart :
- Sher Kar :
- Mustafarians :
Inhabitants
- Eye of Webbish Bog :
- Darth Vader :
- Vaneé :
Notes
- Mustafar was created by George Lucas where it featured in the setting of the Star Wars universe.
Alternate Versions
- In Star Wars Legends, Mustafar appeared in the setting of the former Star Wars Expanded Universe.
In other media
Video games
- In Star Wars: Battlefront II, Mustafar appeared as a battlefield in the setting of the 2005 video game.
- In Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series, Mustafar appeared in the setting of the 2019 VR video game.
Appearances
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith:
- Rogue One:
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