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|name=Dilonexa XXIII
|region=*[[Outer Rim Territories/Legends|Outer Rim Territories]]<ref name="TEA">''[[The Essential Atlas]]''</ref>
*[[The Slice/Legends|The Slice]]<ref name="TEA" />
|sector=[[Centrality/Legends|Centrality]]<ref name="TEA" />
|system=[[Dilonexa system]]<ref name="LCFO">''[[Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon]]''</ref>
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|diameter=Nearly 25,000 [[Kilometer/Legends|kilometers]]<ref name="LCFO" />
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*Plains<ref name="LCFO" />
*Prairies<ref name="LCFO" />
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|flora=[[Grain/Legends|Grain]]<ref name="LCFO" />
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*[[Fish/Legends|Fish]]<ref name="LCFO" />
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|demonym=Dilonexan<ref name="LCFO" />
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|exports=*[[Farm/Legends|Agricultural]] products<ref name="EGtD" />
**[[Foodstuff/Legends|Foodstuffs]]<ref name="Gamer5">{{GamerCite|5|A Campaign Guide to the Centrality}}</ref>
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{{Quote|Whaddya see out there, Mac? A zillion acres of grain crop, that's what.|Inspector Bernie, to Lando Calrissian on a Dilonexa XXIII prairie|<ref name="LCFO" />}}
'''Dilonexa XXIII''' was a large [[Agriworld/Legends|agriworld]] located in the [[Outer Rim Territories/Legends|Outer Rim Territories']] [[Centrality/Legends|Centrality]] [[Sector/Legends|sector]]. Each [[Local year|year]] the [[Planet/Legends|planet]] exported billions of [[Metric ton/Legends|tons]] of [[Farm/Legends|agricultural]] products, and it served as the Centrality's main producer of [[Foodstuff/Legends|foodstuffs]], with [[Orbit/Legends|orbital]] [[Weather control/Legends|weather-control]] [[Satellite/Legends|satellites]] helping disperse the local [[City/Legends|city]]-sized [[tornado]]s. Due to Dilonexa XXIII lacking heavy metals in its geological makeup, its inhabitants, the [[Dilonexican]]s, developed an [[Allergy|allergic]] reaction to foods that contained high quantities of trace metals.

The planet had been [[Colonist/Legends|settled]] by the [[Time/Legends|time]] of the [[Galactic Republic/Legends|Galactic Republic]], and [[Jedi Initiate/Legends|Jedi Initiate]] [[Violia]] was stationed there as a part of the [[Jedi Order/Legends|Jedi Order's]] [[Agricultural Corps/Legends|AgriCorps]]. More than a [[Standard century/Legends|century]] later, the [[Light freighter/Legends|freighter]] [[Captain/Legends|captain]] [[Lando Calrissian/Legends|Lando Calrissian]] attempted to sell a cargo hold of [[wintenberry jelly]], [[mountain bollem]] [[Leather/Legends|hides]], and [[tinklewood]] [[fishing pole]]s on Dilonexa XXIII. While the Dilonexican customs [[Inspector/Legends|inspector]] [[Bernie]] explained to Calrissian [[Gender/Legends|his]] dim prospects in that endeavor, an agent of the [[Sorcerers of Tund/Legends|sorcerer]] [[Rokur Gepta]], who held a vendetta against Calrissian, planted a pair of [[Bomb/Legends|bombs]] on the latter's [[YT-1300 light freighter/Legends|starship]], the [[Millennium Falcon/Legends|''Millennium Falcon'']], as it was being [[Fuel/Legends|refueled]]. Calrissian, having been invited to play [[Sabacc/Legends|sabacc]] in the [[Oseon system]], subsequently departed Dilonexa XXIII.

==Description==
{{Quote|In the first place, there ain't a body of water on the planet bigger'n a bathtub; we don't like to spare the land.|Inspector Bernie|<ref name="LCFO" />}}
Dilonexa XXIII, also referred to simply as Dilonexa, was a terrestrial [[Planet/Legends|planet]] located in the [[Dilonexa system]],<ref name="LCFO" /> a part of the [[Centrality/Legends|Centrality]] [[Sector/Legends|sector]] in [[The Slice/Legends|the Slice]] portion of the [[Outer Rim Territories/Legends|Outer Rim Territories]]. It was situated on the [[Falko Run]] [[hyperlane]], which linked it to the [[Ringneldia system|Ringneldia]] and [[Ua system]]s.<ref name="TEA" /> Dilonexa XXIII occupied the twenty-third [[Orbit/Legends|orbital]] position around its [[Giant star|giant]] [[Color/Legends|blue]]-white [[Unidentified star (Dilonexa system)|sun]].<ref name="LCFO" />

Dilonexa XXIII was a large planet, being nearly twenty-five thousand [[Kilometer/Legends|kilometers]] in diameter,<ref name="LCFO" /> but its lack of heavy metals kept the Dilonexan surface [[Gravity/Legends|gravity]] at a tolerable level.<ref name="CSWE Dilonexa">{{CSWECite|I|189|Dilonexa XXIII}}</ref> Dilonexa XXIII was a [[Temperature/Legends|temperate]], fertile [[Agriworld/Legends|agriworld]] with a [[Local year|year]]-round growing season.<ref name="EGtD" /> Before the planet adopted [[Weather control/Legends|weather control]] technology, [[City/Legends|city]]-sized [[tornado]]s would sweep unimpeded around its circumference.<ref name="LCFO" />

Virtually the entire surface of the planet was covered in fields, plains, and prairies. Among the crops grown on Dilonexa XXIII was [[Grain/Legends|grain]] that, although [[Diet/Legends|inedible]] by the local [[Dilonexican]]s, was fed on by<ref name="LCFO" /> herds of<ref name="CSWE Dilonexa" /> the [[Homeworld/Legends|native]] [[bovine]]. The Dilonexican [[Bernie]] claimed that there were no reservoirs of surface [[Water/Legends|water]] on Dilonexa XXIII larger than a [[Bath/Legends|bathtub]] due to the planet's inhabitants not being willing to waste [[Farm/Legends|agriculturally]] viable land. What little water did exist on the surface was home to a type of local [[Fish/Legends|fish]] that, according to Bernie, [[Foodstuff/Legends|tasted]] "terrible" due to them supposedly lacking trace metals.<ref name="LCFO" />

==History==
===Republic agriworld===
{{Quote|Violia got assigned to the AgriCorps. Maybe I can visit her if Master Unskette has business on Dilonexa.|Thame Cerulian's annotation in his copy of ''The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force''|<ref name="JP">[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|''The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force'']]</ref>}}
Dilonexa XXIII became [[Colonist/Legends|settled]] at some point by the [[Time/Legends|time]] of the reign of the [[Galactic Republic/Legends|Galactic Republic]].<ref name="JP" /> In the view of the planet's early settlers, the bountiful resources offered by the planet,<ref name="LCFO" /> which was the only world in the Dilonexa [[Star system/Legends|system]] that could support life,<ref name="CSWE Dilonexa" /> more than outweighed the extreme conditions of the rest of the system.<ref name="LCFO" /> [[Jedi Initiate/Legends|Jedi Initiate]] [[Violia]] was assigned to the [[Agricultural Corps/Legends|AgriCorps]] branch of the [[Jedi Order/Legends|Jedi Order]] and stationed on Dilonexa XXIII at some point by [[103 BBY]]. Violia's friend, [[Jedi/Legends|Jedi]] [[Padawan/Legends|Padawan]] [[Thame Cerulian]], later made a margin note in [[Gender/Legends|his]] copy of the [[Book/Legends|guidebook]] ''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''. In the annotation, Cerulian mused that he could visit Violia on Dilonexa XXIII if his [[Jedi Master/Legends|Master]], [[Unskette]], ever needed to travel to the planet.<ref name="JP" />

===Visit by Calrissian===
====Troubles of a trader====
{{Quote|There's a sixty-five percent import duty on hides, seventy-five percent on fishin' poles an' other recreational goodies, a hundred an' five on poisonous substances like that jelly you're pushin'.|Inspector Bernie, to Lando Calrissian|<ref name="LCFO" />}}
[[File:Lando-FlamewindCover.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Lando Calrissian around the time he visited Dilonexa XXIII]]
At some point between [[3 BBY/Legends|3 BBY]] and [[2 BBY/Legends|2 BBY]],<ref name="Date">''[[The Essential Reader's Companion]]'' dates the events of ''[[The Lando Calrissian Adventures]]'' novel trilogy, including ''[[Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon]]'', between [[3 BBY/Legends|3 BBY]] and [[2 BBY/Legends|2 BBY]].</ref> the [[Gambler/Legends|gambler]] and [[Freighter/Legends|freighter]] [[Captain/Legends|captain]] [[Lando Calrissian/Legends|Lando Calrissian]] traveled to Dilonexa XXIII aboard his [[YT-1300 light freighter/Legends|light freighter]], the [[Millennium Falcon/Legends|''Millennium Falcon'']], in order to sell a cargo that included several hundred crates of [[wintenberry jelly]], a thousand stacks of [[mountain bollem]] [[Leather/Legends|hides]], and expensive [[tinklewood]] [[fishing pole]]s. However, once on-planet, Calrissian learned from the local customs [[Inspector/Legends|inspector]] Bernie that it was highly unlikely he would be able to sell any of those items on Dilonexa XXIII, and that there were high import tariffs on them all. Bernie also delivered to Calrissian a coded chip containing a message from [[Lob Doluff]], the [[Administrator Senior]] of the [[Oseon system]].<ref name="LCFO" />

While Calrissian was conversing with Bernie, a Dilonexan ground crew placed [[Fuel/Legends|fuel]] elements into the ''Millennium Falcon''. Unnoticed by either the [[Light freighter/Legends|starship's]] captain or his [[Pilot/Legends|copilot]], the [[Class Two multi-phasic robot|droid]] [[Vuffi Raa]], an agent of the [[Sorcerers of Tund/Legends|sorcerer]] [[Rokur Gepta]] planted a pair of [[Bomb/Legends|bombs]] on the [[Starship/Legends|vessel]]. Gepta wished to exact vengeance upon Calrissian for the latter's role in previously foiling the former's plans, and he had also arranged for Doluff to send the message to Calrissian, in which the Administrator Senior invited the gambler to come play the [[Sabacc/Legends|sabacc]] card game on the [[Asteroid/Legends|asteroid]] [[Oseon 6845]].<ref name="LCFO" />

====Leaving for the Oseon====
{{Quote|You mean, someone just walked up and attached it back on Dilonexa, while we were refueling ''[&hellip;]''?|Lando Calrissian, to Vuffi Raa|<ref name="LCFO" />}}
[[File:MillenniumFalcon-FlamewindOfOseon.jpg|thumb|left|300px|On Dilonexa XXIII, a pair of bombs was placed aboard the ''Millennium Falcon''.]]
Calrissian, playing back the communique aboard the ''Falcon'', came to believe that he could recoup his losses from interstellar freight hauling at the gaming table and that he only needed a small stake to enter the game at the Oseon system. The captain then requested that Vuffi Raa help him chop up the hides in the cargo hold and send both them and the wintenberry jelly into the ship's waste disposal system in order to then sell its contents to the local farmers. Calrissian remained determined to sell the fishing rods on the planet, although his efforts were ultimately fruitless and he and Vuffi Raa subsequently departed Dilonexa XXIII.<ref name="LCFO" />

In order to save several hundred credits, Calrissian further waited until the ''Falcon'' had left the planet's [[Atmosphere/Legends|atmosphere]] before using his own communications equipment to reply to Doluff's invitation. After one of the bombs planted on the ''Falcon'' later exploded while the ship was still in transit to the Oseon system, Calrissian and Vuffi Raa realized that the explosive must have been planted while their vessel was being refueled. The realization prompted the ship's captain to muse on whether the Dilonexicans had discovered that they had acquired from him waste that contained recycled wintenberry jelly.<ref name="LCFO" />

==Inhabitants==
{{Main|Dilonexican}}
{{Quote|We gotta watch what we eat, us Dilonexicans, that's a fact.|Inspector Bernie|<ref name="LCFO" />}}
The colonists of Dilonexa XXIII were known as Dilonexicans. They kept the native bovine for meat and, due to their homeworld's geological makeup,<ref name="LCFO" /> over time developed an [[Allergy|allergic]] reaction to foods that contained increased quantities of trace metals.<ref name="CSWE Dilonexa" /> As a result, there was a hundred-and-five-percent import duty on off-world products that were rich in trace minerals, such as wintenberry jelly, which on one occasion caused in the fourth-generation Dilonexican [[Shirley (Dilonexican)|Shirley]] a case of the illness known as the [[gosharooties]]. A significant portion of the Dilonexican population was also overweight.<ref name="LCFO" />

Predominantly [[Farmer/Legends|farmers]], the self-consciously agrarian Dilonexicans mostly wore [[Clothing/Legends|bib overalls]] and, according to Bernie, rarely spared their time to engage in [[Fishing/Legends|fishing]], leading to a seventy-five-percent import tax on fishing poles and other equipment intended for recreational activities. Additionally, the inhabitants of the planet had access to abundant amounts of leather obtained from bovine hides, and it was reflected in a sixty-five-percent import duty on hides from off-world.<ref name="LCFO" />

[[File:Centrality.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Dilonexa XXIII served as the breadbasket of the Centrality.]]
There was also an import fee of thirteen-hundred-and-fifty [[Galactic Credit Standard|credits]] for receiving [[Star/Legends|interstellar]] messages and a penalty of two thousand credits for ''not'' receiving them, which, according to Bernie, stemmed from the locals' belief that one should be content with what was available on just one planet and that it was not "neat" to leave such messages undelivered, respectively. Conversely, the Dilonexicans were prepared to pay generously for the contents of a starship's [[Waste-reclamation unit|waste-cycling system]].<ref name="LCFO" />

Nearly everything made out metal had to be imported on Dilonexa XXIII, but in return,<ref name="LCFO" /> each [[Standard year/Legends|year]] the world exported billions of [[Metric ton/Legends|tons]] of agricultural products,<ref name="EGtD" /> serving as the chief supplier of foodstuffs for the Centrality<ref name="Gamer5" /> and also producing [[Plastic/Legends|plastics]] and fuels.<ref name="LCFO" /> Most of the work on Dilonexa XXIII was done by [[Agrirobot/Legends|agrirobots]],<ref name="EGtD" /> and the locals valued [[Droid/Legends|droids]] higher than wageworkers due to the former being able to work tirelessly without any complaints.<ref name="Gamer5" /> Dilonexa XXIII eventually became a rich world and its inhabitants acquired a taste for the finer things in life. Lando Calrissian subsequently came to speculate that the mere existence of a scheduled tax on fishing poles implied that there was indeed a small market for such items on the planet&mdash;although Calrissian was ultimately unsuccessful in selling them.<ref name="LCFO" />

==Locations==
{{Quote|Lookie here! when's the last time you saw a genuine leather awning? You got it&mdash;over on that building right there.|Inspector Bernie, to Lando Calrissian|<ref name="LCFO" />}}
Dilonexa XXIII housed a building with a leather awning as well as a [[Ferrocrete/Legends|ferrocrete]] apron on which a light freighter like the ''Millennium Falcon'' could land. Gigantic weather-control [[Satellite/Legends|satellites]] had been installed in the planet's orbit. They were equipped with potent, energy-based<ref name="LCFO" /> proprietary [[tornado disruptor]]s.<ref name="Gamer5" /> The satellites' weaponry was also used to deter both would-be [[Smuggler/Legends|smugglers]] and individuals attempting to leave the planet with unpaid bills.<ref name="LCFO" />

==Behind the scenes==
Dilonexa XXIII was introduced in ''[[Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon]]'', the [[1983]] second entry in [[Star Wars: The Lando Calrissian Adventures|''The Lando Calrissian Adventures'']] trilogy of novels by [[L. Neil Smith]].<ref name="LCFO" /> Its name was misspelled as "Dilonexia XXIII" in the [[Wizards of the Coast]] [[Star Wars Roleplaying Game|roleplaying game]] source article "[[A Campaign Guide to the Centrality]]," which was authored by [[Michael Kogge]] and was published in [[Star Wars Gamer 5|''Star Wars Gamer'' 5]]<ref name="Gamer5" /> on [[July 24]], [[2001]].<ref name="GamerDate">{{SWArchive|url=gaming/other/rpg/news20010627.html|text=''Gamer'' #5. A Domain of Evil it is.|archivedate=20080623033431}}</ref> The [[2009]] reference book ''[[The Essential Atlas]]'', authored by [[Daniel Wallace]] and [[Jason Fry]], introduced a shortened version of the planet's name and placed it in grid square U-8.<ref name="TEA" />

==Appearances==
{{Mediacat|imagecat=Images of Dilonexa XXIII}}
*''[[Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon]]'' {{1st}}

==Sources==
*{{VoyagesCite|13|Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder Where We Are}}
*''[[Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*{{EGCite|D|CD-2 Harvester}}

==Notes and references==
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