Keravos

Keravos was a planet in the Outer Rim Territories, the homeworld of the Near-Human Kerav species. Uninhabited by sentients until around 3700 BBY, the planet became host to a splinter group of Chiss colonists just before the Galactic War. Because it was out of the way of most major hyperspace lanes, Keravos was passed over by the war, and remained in relative peace. At some point within a century after its establishment, Humans settled on Keravos. The planet's relative isolation caused the Kerav species to develop out of the Human and Chiss colonists. By 100 BBY, the planet's sentient inhabitants consist almost exclusively of Kerav, and were ruled by the Noble Houses of Keravos under a single Monarch. Keravos had also become part of the Galactic Republic and given representation on the Galactic Senate.

Two years before the onset of the Clone Wars, an earthquake causes massive amounts of toxic gases to break through the planet's crust, killing about a quarter of the population. The Republic refused to send considerable aid to the system until vast reserves of Illerium were found by Republic operatives. This crisis caused a lack of trust in the Republic, and prompted the system to be one of the first to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems after the Clone Wars broke out.