Hutt Cataclysms

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Concurrent

Hutt Cataclysms

End

15,000 BBY

Place

Hutt Space

Outcome

The Hutts relocate to Evocar
Destruction of Evona
Devastation of Varl
Fall of the Hutt Empire

Major battles

Battle of Hosko^[1]
Devastation of Varl

Combatants
Hutts	Hutts

"Once upon a time, the Hutts did not live on Nal Hutta, or on its moon Nar Shaddaa. They lived on planet called Varl, and it was a terrible place, perfect for the Hutts. The world orbited two stars, Evona and Ardos, whom the Hutts said were gods and lovers. Evona was consumed by darkness, and Ardos, in rage, exploded, destroying all the other worlds of their system and blasting the very atmosphere from Varl itself."

―Reen Irana, to Mander Zuma^[2]

The Hutt Cataclysms was a Hutt civil war that ended around 15,000 BBY. The cause of the war is unknown but it tore through Hutt Space, leaving the Hutt homeworld of Varl and other ancient Hutt colonies lifeless wastes. The Hutts established a Council of Elders to prevent clan rivalries from erupting into open warfare and instituted a new philosophy, called the kajidic, which taught that fierce competition between the clans was how the weak were winnowed from the species.

It was a philosophy that rejected outright war and territorial conquest as methods used by lesser species. Instead of deploying their slave armies to conquer the Humans as before, the Hutt would rule humanity from within, in favor of enslavement of minor species. The Hutt relocated to Evocar, which they renamed Nal Hutta, where the Council of Elders was established to represent the Hutt clans. Its decisions bound any Hutt that claimed clan rights, thereby preventing any inter-Hutt rivalries from becoming too destructive.^[3]^[4]