Mustafar
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Released with the expansion, Trials of Obi-Wan, Mustafar is the legendary planet where Darth Vader had battled Obi-Wan Kenobi in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It is almost completely uninhabitable, with rivers of lava and volcanoes scattered across the planet.
Unfortunately, players are unable to fly to Mustafar in their own ships. They must first travel to Corellia or Talus and then purchase a ticket to Mustafar. Once on Mustafar, travel is difficult due to the large amount of volcanic activity. Only with certain mounts or vehicles can you travel across lava. If you try traveling with anything but a Lava Flea, Transport Skiff, Lava Skiff, or a Jetpack, your character may be killed by heat damage. There are ways to access most areas in Mustafar via small land bridges for players who do not have a way to safely travel over lava.
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[edit] Planetary Data
[edit] Cities (NPC)
[edit] Cities (Player, by server)
Players cannot place houses or harvesters on this planet.
[edit] POI's
- Crash Site Excavation
- Mensix Mining Facility (Starting point)
- Old Mining Facility
- Mining Camp On Strike
- Old Research Facility
- The Burning Plains
- Crystal Flats
- Berken’s Flow
- Mining Fields
- Tulrus Nesting Grounds
- The Central Volcano
- The Smoking Forest
[edit] Quests
- A Collector's Business
- A Hidden Treasure?
- A History Lesson
- A Moral Choice
- A Strange Gem
- A Whole Pack of Trouble
- An Archeologist's Problem
- Beasts From the East
- Being A Good Samaritan
- Calypso (Music)
- Champion of Mustafar
- Clear Out Beetle Nest
- Exploration of Mustafar
- Fate of the Galaxy
- Fragments of the Past
- Hunter Becomes the Hunted
- Lava Flea Hunt
- Miner Madness
- Peiyi (Dance)
- Sickness of the Storm Lord
- Skin the Blistmoks
- Skull of the Jundak
- Symbiosis
- Symbols of Chu-Gon Dar
- The Cursed Shard
- The Deadly Raptors
- The Jagged Teeth
- The Jedi's Guard Dog
- The Man-eater
- The Mining Field Markers
- The Serpent Shard
- The Strike
- The Tasty Tanray
- Unlocking the Secrets
[edit] Sights to see
[edit] Instances
These are places on Mustafar that "transport" players to an instance where only they (and their group) are present. All these places require taking a quest or an item to access. Instances that require a quest to access will usually allow the player to access the instance multiple times. All instances have a lock-out timer that will not allow players to enter the instance for a certain period of time. And all instances also have a timer that will only allow players to be in them for a certain period of time.
- Beetle Cavern
- Crater of the Volcano
- Droid Factory
- Koseyet Mining Camp
- Old Research Facility
- Sher Kar Cave
- Fate of the Galaxy Crystal Cave
[edit] Wildlife
[edit] Gaming Notes
Due to the large amount of graphical detail on Mustafar, many players have been experiencing large amounts of lag. Players can adjust their in-game video settings to try to lessen the lag. It is recommended that players traveling to Mustafar turn off the "Heat Shimmer" option under the graphics tab.
Unlike other planets, traveling to the POI's on Mustafar will not give you a Badge. You must take a quest, such as The Mining Field Markers or Exploration of Mustafar, or find an item in the area to get the Badge.
The planet Mustafar had appeared in the game as of Publish 24, but characters were not allowed to travel there until the release of Trials of Obi-Wan. Of course, characters of players whom do not buy the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion pack will not be allowed to travel there. Players whom pre-ordered Trials of Obi-Wan were able to travel to Mustafar a week early on October 25, 2005.
[edit] Star Wars Lore
From the OS Databank.
[edit] The Movies
Located in the Outer Rim, the tiny planet of Mustafar is a fiery world where lava is mined like a precious natural resource. Its bleak landscape is a visual assault of jagged obsidian mountains with towering fountains of fire and lava blasting from beneath the surface. This lava also streaks the blasted landscape in huge winding rivers and plunging cataracts. Mustafar's skies are obscured by choking black clouds of ash, smoke and tephra. The intense geological activity creates natural scanning interference that has kept prying eyes away from Mustafar for most of its history.
These inhospitable features made Mustafar an ideal sanctuary for the ever mobile Separatist Council that led the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars. After repeated setbacks, General Grievous was ordered by Darth Sidious to secure the Council on Mustafar, where they would await further instructions. An enormous cliff-side industrial facility served as headquarters to the commerce baron war chiefs. Neimoidian soldiers and battle droid infantry provided security, while shimmering deflector shields protected the structure from the volatile surroundings.
Upon his ascendancy to Galactic Emperor, Darth Sidious had no further need of the Separatists. He dispatched his new apprentice, Darth Vader, to dispose of his wartime collaborators on Mustafar. Upon arrival, Vader silently stalked into the inner chambers of the mining facility. His lightsaber blade made short work of the Separatists, cutting them down and effectively bringing an end to the Clone Wars.
Amongst this apocalyptic landscape of erupting volcanoes, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi confronted Darth Vader, his former apprentice. The two entered into a spectacular lightsaber duel that worked its way through the Mustafar collection complex. Through the course of their battle, the protective shields were deactivated, and the facility was exposed to the planet's full geological fury.
A geyser of lava erupted, dropping molten rock on one of the outrigger collection arms of the facility where Obi-Wan and Vader dueled. The arm collapsed under the heat and strain, plunging into the lava river. Before the severed collection arm succumbed to the pull of a lavafall, Vader and Kenobi leapt from the doomed structure onto a nearby worker droid and harvesting platform, respectively. Their duel continued on these cooled repulsorlift surfaces before ending abruptly on the black sand shores of the lava river.
Kenobi bested Vader, leaving the Dark Lord to die on the Mustafar river banks. Darth Sidious sensed Vader's anguish, and arrived in time to rescue his fallen apprentice. Maimed and mortally wounded by lightsaber and fire, Vader was reconstructed as a cyborg and encased in a black protective life supporting suit.
Despite the hellish nature of its environment, Mustafar has nonetheless produced native life capable of surviving in the fiery extremes of the planet. The sentient Mustafarians -- of which two notable subspecies exist -- paid little heed to the galactic events that culminated on their world. They went about their business, gathering precious minerals and energy from the lava streams, riding their massive lava fleas across the stygian lands.
[edit] Expanded Universe
The planet of Mustafar was not always the volcanic hell it is now. Thousands of years ago, it was lush and home to a large chapter of Jedi Knights. The planet was a center of Jedi information and artifacts, which attracted the vicious Sith.
The Jedi on Mustafar uncovered a magnificent crystal of unknown origin. It was as tall as a tower, and the Jedi quickly discovered that it was attuned to the Force within them. When news of an impending Sith invasion reached them, they desperately began to experiment with the crystal, hoping to find a way to use it in their defense.
The Jedi believed they could channel their powers through the crystal and dampen the Sith's powers while strengthening their own. As the Sith warships pierced the atmosphere, the Jedi Masters began channeling the Force through the crystal while the younger Jedi led the troops in battle.
At first, it worked perfectly. The Sith could barely use their powers at all, while the young Jedi in the field could wield more power than ever. But, they hadn't had time to do enough research on the crystal and it's limits, and as the battle went on, it began to crack. Close to victory, the Jedi could have stopped using it and would have still won the battle.
It is not entirely known why, but some believe that the Sith Lord, facing certain defeat, somehow corrupted the vulnerable Jedi Masters as they were channeling. The results was catastrophic. Then the crystal exploded, it sent the planet itself out of its orbit and wiped out all of the Sith and Jedi.
Since then, the young world of Mustafar is literally being torn in opposing directions, caught in a gravimetric tug of war that keeps it from becoming the moon of a nearby gas giant. Despite the close proximity of massive Jestefad, Mustafar keeps to its erratic orbit, pulled by the distant influence of another giant, Lefrani. The tidal strain heats up Mustafar's molten core, resulting in spectacular geological activity across the entire planet.` The Techno Union owns Mustafar, having laid claim to the planet over 300 years ago. Scouts from that organization discovered the unique and valuable mineral allotropes that permeated Mustafar's crust and mantle. Though the Mustafar lava is hot -- a searing 800 degrees standard -- it is cool enough to be harvested by specialized equipment.
Techno Union officials signed a treaty with the provincial Mustafarian primitives, who benefited from the most basic and inexpensive of offworld items. In exchange, they guided Techno Union builders as they constructed massive harvesting facilities on the planet to exploit the mineral riches flowing in the lava streams.
The Mustafar collection facilities employ tractor beam and electromagnetic harvesting techniques to stir the valuable minerals within the lava flow. Roiled to the surface, the deposits are then scooped up by worker droids or rugged Mustafarians lifting heavy cauldrons by hand. Baskets of molten rock and metal are then returned to the facilities where they are processed and refined for distribution. Since lava-proof armor is more costly than energy-based deflector shields, the collection facility was sheathed in energy to protect it from the incredible temperatures.
After the destruction of the Separatist Council and the Imperialization of the Techno Union, Mustafar was largely forgotten. A Separatist stalwart, the fugitive Geonosian Gizor Dellso, holed up on Mustafar during the early days of the Galactic Empire, requiring the attention of the loyal 501st legion of troopers to storm the hellish world.
