Essowyn is a valuable, but battered world that is home to the Saurton, a sturdy species of hunters and miners. The world has become a base of operations for many mining companies, exporting metals and minerals to manufacturing systems throughout the Trax Sector.
Due to the continual meteorite impacts upon the surface of the world, these people have developed an entirely subterranean culture. The underground Saurton cities are dangerous, overcrowded and a health hazard to all but the Saurton. Most cities were established thousands of years ago, and grew out of deep warrens that had existed for many more centuries before then. The cities are breeding grounds for many dangerous strains of bacteria because of the squalor and filth that the Saurton are willing to live in.
With the abundance of metals, the Saurton have developed advanced technology, including radio-wave transmission devices, projectile weapons and advanced manufacturing machinery. Since being discovered by an Old Republic mining expedition several centuries ago, they have adapted more advanced technologies, and are now on par with most galactic civilizations.
Because of the high population density and the warlike tendencies of the Saurton, there has arisen a semmingly irreconcilable conflict between two groups of people: the Quenno(back-to-tradition) and the Des'mar(forward-looking). The planet is on the brink of civil war. | 
