Stone

Stone was a hard material. It had multiple applications, such as being used as a building material and to make weapons and household items.

Description

Stone was a hard, naturally occurring material that came in a variety of colors including black,^[11] dark brown,^[6] dark gray,^[7] dark green, tan,^[8] and white.^[7]

While a hard material, stone could be cut through with devices such as a vibroblade.^[6] In addition to being naturally-occurring, synthetic stone was also known to exist.^[11]

Referring to a civilization as "stone level" was an Imperial bureaucratic classification to describe the technology level of a planet. Stone level civilizations had a loosely-knit culture and basic social structure, used stone tools and had developed primitive agriculture.^[9]

Uses

Stone was a building material often used by primitive species to construct buildings.^[1] Stone was also used in the construction of household items including vases and crocks,^[11] artwork like statues,^[12] ornamentation such as gargoyles,^[13] and as tombstones.^[6] Stone was also used by more advanced civilizations, where varieties of stone were considered luxury items, such as marbled stone.^[2]

Stone could also be used to create tools^[9] and weapons. The Ewoks on the forest moon of Endor made stone arrowheads to affix to their arrows.^[10] The Lizard Warriors from Endor topped their spears with stone heads.^[14]

History

Black polished stone was used to construct the thals, shrines that were central to the Weequay religion. One stood in the center of every urban area and clan-city on the Weequay homeworld Sriluur.^[5]

The original inhabitants of the planet Simocadia built immense stone giants known as the Ardana Shadex. The species used the colossi to wage war across the planet. At some point, the creators of the giants disappeared, and the colossi went into hiding underground.^[4]

The Nulls, native to the planet Null, were considered to be master stonemasons. They constructed buildings using jagged stone from the mountains and fitted together in patterns with no need to use mortar or joinery. The building technique was a native artform, and removing one stone, known as a "keystone", would cause the entire building to collapse.^[3]

The Jostrans native to the planet Munlali Mafir in the Unknown Regions built cities out of stone. When the rogue planet Zonama Sekot entered the planet's orbit and remained for three local months, the resulting groundquakes laid waste to the stone cities.^[15]

The Anointed People of Abonshee built one-and-two storey homes out of stone and wood.^[1]

The planet Indu San produced high-quality, luxury stone items as their primary economy. They were especially known for exquisitely-patterned marbled stone, as well as granite and serpentine. Stone featured prominently in Indu San architecture.^[2]

During the lead-up to the Caamas Document Crisis, Imperial agitators began to stir up unrest against the Bothans. On the planet Dordolum, Drend Navett instigated a riot by first throwing blicci fruit at a building owned by the Solferin Shipping Company before building up to using rough stones to break windows.^[16]

In the wake of the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Reconstruction Authority moved the seat of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances back to Coruscant. As part of the relocation, the Galactic Alliance gifted the New Jedi Order a stone-and-transparisteel temple design to harmonize with the new architecture of post-invasion Coruscant.^[11]