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The Smuggler’s Moon is a notorious world in Hutt space, located in the Y’toub system orbiting the world of Nal Hutta. Nal Hutta is a swampy semi-toxic world controlled by the Hutts and despite what many think and the heavy Hut presence it is not the original Hutt homeworld.
The world of Nar Shaddaa is a lawless place, dangerous and dominated by powerful crime lords and the Hutt cartels. Nothing happens on Nar Shaddaa that the Hutts do not have a piece of the action. The moon of Nal Hutta was at one time a lush jungle world with beautiful oceans, but that was so long ago that none now live that remembers the old moon. Now it is an urban environment, a vast planet-wide city built in layers several thousand meters high.
The moon has an orbital period of 413 standard galactic days and a native day period of 87 standard galactic hours; the world is homes to billions many of which are transient visitors and pretty much anything can be found and bought on Nar Shaddaa for the right price. Law and Order is generally enforced by the local gangs and the Hutt cartels if you can defend yourself then do it, otherwise you have to beseech the crime lords to act on your behalf.
If someone wrongs you, you get justice yourself, but life is hardly fair on Nar Shaddaa, important people tend to have important friends and for the right amount of credits and influence you can get away with anything, of course that means you normally owe someone for such freedom.
Hutts don’t really tax anyone but they do have fees for just about everything, from port costs to trade fees for merchants, all of these are competitive and the only rule is to not impede trade of any kind. This makes this a popular spot for corporate entities to open offices to pursue research on topics and technologies that are often outlawed in Imperial or Republic space or controlled by government entities.
The weather on Nar Shaddaa tends to hover between warm twilight if a bit muggy and miserable oily rain from the pollution choked skies, on an average day the temperature ranges from 28 to 30 degrees Celsius. The city never sleeps, never rests, and is not stopped by foul weather. When it rains it can often do so for hours and flood the lowest layers of the moon. The rain is brackish and oily and not fit for drinking for most sentient beings, the desperate collect it and drink it but without purification this is usually a bad option.
Despite the 87 hour day most people tend to operate by the standard galactic day, which works out to about 3 standard days and 15 hours to a normal Nar Shaddaa day. It should also be noted that the planet tends to be shrouded in odd state of twilight, more accurately the lighting that tends to happen in the sliver of time between day and night on other terrestrial worlds. The skies are choked with ships and speeders and the buildings have garish neon holo-signs and advertising. The walkways are crowded and everything is always happening on the Smuggler’s Moon.
Welcome to the Smuggler’s Moon and remember the Hutts are your friends.
