The look of Orto Plutonia drew inspiration from early Ralph McQuarrie concept art that explored the ice planet Hoth. McQuarrie's initial concept paintings featured intensely saturated blue tones, a color scheme not found in the Norway location as shot for Empire .
Theirs is an influential world, able to request and receive a Republic outpost within its system as a measure of protection against the Separatists during the Clone Wars.
Though democratically elected, this vindictive and power-hungry despot ruled his homeworld of Pantora with an iron fist. Using whatever means necessary, Chairman Chi Cho always got his way.
They are used as mounts by the primitive Talz, who ride the sure-footed beasts across the ice and into battle. Though strong and fierce, these creatures can easily be felled by blaster fire.
These repulsorlift vehicles are distinctive in that they possess an integrated windscreen to deflect the blowing snow and chilling air of their operational environment.
A flamboyant and heartless weapons developer, some say if Lok Durd could make half the noise on the battlefield that he does in the war room, then the Separatists would have won the war.
When the Lurmen elder, Tee Watt Kaa, expelled the a group of marooned Jedi from the village, the elder's son Wag Too disagreed with his father's extreme views. Wag Too secretly dispatched scout Tub to keep an eye on the Jedi.
