| rdfs:comment | - The Stenax were a fierce, ill-tempered, brooding, and violent race from the planet of Stenos. They fanatically followed the dictates of their god, Vol. They were responsible for the Stenax Massacres, which killed countless millions. Despite their violence, the Stenax remained a very spiritual people.
- The Maldontian homeworld, Maldont, was part of Xim's empire. Maldontians were among the empire's enslaved species. Maldont was a planet of pinnacles and plateaus, where the winged Maldontians built most of their structures. Several hundred years before the Battle of Yavin, a series of earthquakes and volcanic disturbances shook the planet. One quake buried the stone idol believed by the Stenax to be the worldly avatar of their god, Vol, and the Maldontians refused to fly until the idol was found.
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| abstract | - The Stenax were a fierce, ill-tempered, brooding, and violent race from the planet of Stenos. They fanatically followed the dictates of their god, Vol. They were responsible for the Stenax Massacres, which killed countless millions. Despite their violence, the Stenax remained a very spiritual people.
- The Maldontian homeworld, Maldont, was part of Xim's empire. Maldontians were among the empire's enslaved species. Maldont was a planet of pinnacles and plateaus, where the winged Maldontians built most of their structures. Several hundred years before the Battle of Yavin, a series of earthquakes and volcanic disturbances shook the planet. One quake buried the stone idol believed by the Stenax to be the worldly avatar of their god, Vol, and the Maldontians refused to fly until the idol was found. The Maldont capital city later became a crowded haven for criminals from various worlds. The Maldontians lived among these people but all but ignored them. Shortly after the Battle of Yavin, the Vol statue was uncovered by Rebels including Luke Skywalker. Rik Duel tricked them into finding it, only to reveal he had done so to hand it over to the planet's Imperial governor, Quorl Matrin. The Maldontians, willing to fly again once Vol had been uncovered, believed Matrin had stolen the idol and attacked and killed the governor and his stormtroopers. For the next few years, the Maldontians returned to flying to and from the old high structures of the planet, and virtally ignored any offworlders. Though many Maldontians did emigrate to a number of other planets, especially in the Gordian Reach. Ten months after the Battle of Endor, the native Maldontian population massacred the Imperials garrisoned on Maldont, as well as all non-Maldontians in what was only the beginning of what would be called the Stenax Massacres. On many planets throughout the Gordian Reach and beyond, the Maldontians brutally killed non-Maldontians and Imperials in a series of surprise attacks. The New Republic finally brought an end to the massacres place monitoring posts in orbit around Maldont to prevent any future campaigns by the Maldontians.
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