Utapau

Utapau (OO-tuh-POW), visited in Revenge of the Sith, is a sinkhole-ridden planet that lies approximately 51,000 lightyears from the Core, inhabited by the Utai and the Pau'ans, together called the Utapauns. Orbiting a solitary sun, unlike Tatooine, and orbited by nine moons, the core of this planet is molten metal, and less than a percent of Utapau's surface is covered in water. The water that once covered more of the planet leaked into underground caverns that were at one time magma chambers. This leakage caused the sinkholes that now dot the planet in abundance. In times ridden with conflict, this planet struggled to retain neutrality. Of the two races of near-humans that inhabit this Outer Rim planet, the tall, gray-skinned Pau'ans make up only about a third of Utapau's population; they assumed the more government-associated possitions in the Utapaun society, while the Utai served as janitors and lion tamers for varactyls and their dactillion relatives, both referred to as dragonmounts. The Pau'ans remained at the surface, and the Utai tended to live underground; but thanks to the former, the two now live in harmony, their cities built into the sides of the magnificent sinkholes. The native creatures here are the aforementioned dragonmounts, and the nos monster, a carnivorous, water-dwelling reptile.