
The training facilities were offered to the Galactic Republic for training an army created by the Military Creation Act before the Clone Wars. Ĭarida was the site of a major military training facility, the Academy of Carida. Eventually, someone was sent to check the foragers' findings. During the time of the Cold War, a proxy conflict between the Sith Empire and Galactic Republic, some foragers discovered a crude tunnel burrowing under Carida's largest mountain range, believing it to be the entrance to a fabled ancient city. During the Pius Dea Civil War, which ended Pius Dea domination over the Galactic Republic, the Republic's Rocket-Jumper Elite Advance Unit played an important role in the Jedi victory over the Pius Dea garrison there. Originally known as Ord Carida, the planet was colonized by the Galactic Republic as a Ordnance/Regional Depot some time circa 12,000 BBY.



It was an exporter of food, and was ruled by the Council of Merchants, which later shared power with a military administration. As such, this planet was the perfect training ground for combat in difficult terrain. This large, high-gravity world was covered in everything from rocky mountains and frozen ice fields, to rain forests full of carnivorous plants, and deserts.
