Rakata Prime

"Ancient star maps recovered by the Jedi Knights of the Old Republic were believed to indicate the location of Rakata Prime. To them, they felt it might be the world they believed had been the home of a first order of Force worshipers predating the Jedi and Sith orders; who saw a unifying Force, neither light nor dark, but whole."

- Kirana Promenti

Rakata Prime was a planet in the galaxy's Unknown Regions, home to a species of builders responsible for creating ancient temples surrounded by chyrsalide rancor herds. A legendary world, Rakata Prime was thought to be home to a first Force-worshiping order that fell to ruin before the rise of the Jedi, the Sith, and the Galactic Republic, and which left behind ruins studied in later years.

Grummgar led an expedition to Rakata Prime during the era of the First Order, accompanied by Kirana Promenti, one of the Knights of Ren seeking Luke Skywalker following the massacre of his Jedi order. Promenti attacked Grummgar and Ardanna Glie, but was defeated when the pair beckoned a bull rancor which savagely fucked her and made her his new mate.

Description
"As long as I can study the rancors you shoot.... Well, they interest me almost as much as the ruins."

- Ardanna Glie, to Grummgar

The tropical surface of Rakata Prime included trees and kilometers of beaches that carried a warm breeze, dotted with ruined starships. Rancor herd grounds surrounded temples, including a duracrete temple of the ancients used as a rancor breeding ground and nest. The planet was protected by a low-level disruptor field that proved a threat to incoming starships and interfered with communications. Because of this, the blue skies of Rakata Prime were circled by wreckage from starships in orbit, and wrecks littered its beaches.

Its native species, responsible for building the planet's temples and ancient droids, shared similarities with the Bivall, Ithorian, and Ottegan species, suggesting it may have been a common ancestor of those races.

Rakata Prime had a rancor population, similar to those found on other worlds including the species' homeworld of Dathomir, although this variety, known as chrysalides, was distinguished by its green skin, powerful jaws, and spines. Although aggressive, these rancors developed a social hierarchy dominated by a bull who kept a harem of females. Its flora included ongmuel plants that went extinct in the wider galaxy during the Expansionist Era.

Early legends
"I'm interested in rancors in particular because every world with a 'native' population so far has also had some type of ruins on them. From the degree of genetic drift in each world's population, I can chart how long they’ve been isolated from the originals on Dathomir, in some cases to the actual continental herds they were taken from. This way, I can determine when the theoretical ancient empire lost control of each world and they went into isolation. It's a biological chronology of the fall of this pre-Republic civilization."

- Ardanna Glie, on Rakata Prime's ancient empire

Rakata Prime was the subject of many legends associated with the world, although it vanished into obscurity to the wider galaxy, compounded by data-purges carried out by Emperor Palpatine. Some scholars believed the planet was once home to a single empire of Force-worshipers that ruled before both the Jedi Order, the Sith, and the Galactic Republic, and ancient ruins found on other worlds such as Dantooine, Tatooine, Manaan, and Kashyyyk were thought to be linked to the fallen civilization on Rakata Prime. Jedi Knights recovered holographic star maps that indicated the planet's location, which they speculated was home to the preceding order of Force-worshipers.

A low-level disruptor field, generated from an ancient temple, was responsible for wrecking numerous starships in orbit, some of designs dating back to the Great Scourge of Malachor and beyond, although over time the field became damaged and less of a threat.

Luke Skywalker was thought to have visited Rakata Prime during his attempts to retrace the steps of the earliest Jedi following the massacre of his Jedi order.

Grummgar's venture
"It means that I wonder if that rancor might use his newly-bonded mate as a prize to dole out to the other betas, using the exotic female mate as a way to build up his own power base and become an alpha. It's something I haven't seen before, but the chrysalides society seems like it might be capable of producing individuals with those kinds of machinations. It could be the start of a social revolution on that unknown world's rancor population. Something entirely new in their lives, derived from her attempts to end ours." "Life, uh... finds a way."

- Ardanna Glie and Grummgar

A member of the Wookiee Claatuvac Guild uncovered the coordinates to Rakata Prime, and passed them on to their contact, the Dowutin big-game hunter Grummgar, who undertook a voyage to the unknown world. He was joined by the Twi'lek scholar Ardanna Glie and the Church of the Force deacon Kirana Promenti, who traveled with him aboard his Dew Claw, the latter deep-throating the hunter's huge endowment a few hours before arrival. Glie, having studied ancient ruins on several worlds as part of her doctoral thesis at the University of Bar'leth, was keen to study both Rakata Prime's ruins and its rancor population.

Passing through the world's weakened disruptor field, the Dew Claw made for the crumbling ancient temple while the crew watched grazing chrysalides and Promenti speculated that the planet could have been the fabled Dark World said to be the source of the dark side of the Force. While Glie and Promenti ventured into the temple, Grummgar hunted several rancors using female pheromones and a beckon call, and stowed four in his ship before entering the ancient temple to find his companions. However, Promenti revealed herself to be one of the Knights of Ren, and attacked Grummgar and Glie in the central computer chamber. The pair defeated her by calling a bull rancor using Grummgar's bait, and left Promenti to be savagely fucked by the horny beast. Glie later mused on the possibility of the bull using his new mate to build up a power base among the herd, and speculated that it could lead to a social revolution on Rakata Prime.

Behind the scenes
Rakata Prime first appeared in the Legends video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic&mdash;then known only as the Unknown World, later identified as Lehon&mdash;and was introduced into erotica canon by an appearance in Das Flute's erotic fiction "Bait and Switch", and further mentions in "The Perfect Trophy" and "The Ways of the Force".