Bandomeer

Bandomeer was a planet known for its ionite and the Ionite Miners' Union.

Description
Bandomeer was home to native Meerians who worked as miners, excavating ionite as part of the Ionite Miners' Union. The planet was ruled by an elected government and had a planetary defense force.

History
"HoloNet News was just showing footage from the IMU strike on Bandomeer against the First Order. Now, constant readers will know, I'm a businessman at heart, but I've always given my workers a fair shake."

- Lando Calrissian, recording the Calrissian Chronicles

Immediately after the Clone Wars, Meerian ionite miners launched an uprising. The attempt failed, and many miners were arrested and deported by the Galactic Empire, sent to the spice mines of Kessel. Numerous Meerian miners worked in spice mine K-77 as slave laborers, excavating glitterstim veins. One attacked Moruth Doole during a tour of the facility for Dryden Vos and Qi'ra of Crimson Dawn, who observed the miner struggling with a Pyke Sentinel.

In the wake of the Battle of Starkiller Base, the local planetary defense force overthrew the elected government to declare allegiance to the First Order. The Ionite Miners' Union posed the only opposition to the coup, though the "union dispute" attracted the attention of Maz Kanata, who assisted the miners. She contacted Sidon Ithano to deliver weapons to Bandomeer, whose crew smuggled arms from Borleias to the miners with help from Danielle Kieran and Omad Kaeg aboard the Century Hawk. Kanata fought off scabs and strikebreakers to help supply the uprising, but took a moment to assist the Resistance by directing them to her old flame, the Master Codebreaker.