Background: One thousand years before the Battle of
Yavin Serenno was governed by the six Great Houses to
which the Counts of Serenno belonged; the Counts
were amongst the wealthiest beings in the galaxy and
believed in noblesse oblige and self-reliance. Two of the
six Great Houses were Nalju and Demici. Other lesser
noble families allied themselves with the Six or were
distant relatives. Considered part of the Elder Houses,
the Great Houses of Serenno adhered to the strict
tenets adopted by the Elder Houses.
In the time of the Galactic Republic, Serenno was
home to a noble house of which Count Dooku was a
scion. Although Dooku had renounced his status to
become a Jedi Knight, he ended up leaving the Jedi
Order and came back to Serenno to reclaim his wealth
and territory. When Dooku founded the Confederacy of
Independent Systems, an alliance of solar systems who
wanted to secede from the Galactic Republic, he moved
his headquarters to a cliff-side castle on Serenno. The
hostility between the Republic and the Confederacy
turned into a pan-galactic conflict known as the Clone
Wars, and Serenno became a stronghold of the
Confederacy. Thanks to a cordon of Confederate
warships, the planet was kept insulated from the worst
of the Clone Wars battles.
Following the Clone Wars, Serenno attempted to
distance itself from Dooku's legacy, emphasizing the
honor of the Elder House line. However, many citizens
of the galaxy still view Serenno as a traitorous world,
and the other Elder Houses have considered severing
ties with the world.
