Dilonexa XXIII, a significant agriworld, was situated within the Centrality sector of the Outer Rim Territories'. This planet was a major exporter, shipping out billions of tons of agricultural goods each year, effectively acting as the Centrality's primary foodstuffs provider. To combat the city-sized tornados common on the planet, orbital weather-control satellites were employed. The native inhabitants, the Dilonexicans, suffered from an allergic reaction to foods containing high levels of trace metals, a consequence of the planet's geological composition lacking heavy metals.
By the time of the Galactic Republic, the planet had already been settled. Violia, a Jedi Initiate, was stationed there as part of the Jedi Order's AgriCorps. Over a century later, Lando Calrissian, a freighter captain, attempted to trade wintenberry jelly, mountain bollem hides, and tinklewood fishing poles on Dilonexa XXIII. However, Bernie, the Dilonexican customs inspector, informed Calrissian of his slim chances of success. Simultaneously, an agent of Rokur Gepta, a sorcerer seeking revenge against Calrissian, planted two bombs aboard Calrissian's starship, the Millennium Falcon, while it was being refueled. Calrissian then left Dilonexa XXIII after receiving an invitation to a sabacc game in the Oseon system.
Dilonexa XXIII, sometimes shortened to Dilonexa, was a terrestrial planet within the Dilonexa system, which was located in the Centrality sector of the Outer Rim Territories, specifically within the Slice. It was positioned along the Falko Run hyperlane, providing connections to the Ringneldia and Ua systems. Dilonexa XXIII orbited in the twenty-third orbital slot around its giant blue-white sun.
The planet was quite large, measuring nearly twenty-five thousand kilometers in diameter. However, the absence of heavy metals maintained a manageable surface gravity for the Dilonexans. Dilonexa XXIII was a fertile agriworld with a temperate climate, allowing for year-round crop cultivation. Before the introduction of weather control technologies, city-sized tornados roamed freely across the planet.
The planet's surface was predominantly covered by fields, plains, and prairies. Among the crops cultivated on Dilonexa XXIII was grain that, while inedible for the Dilonexicans, served as feed for herds of native bovine. According to the Dilonexican Bernie, the planet lacked surface water reservoirs larger than a bathtub due to the inhabitants' prioritization of [agriculturally](/article/farm-legends] usable land. The limited surface water was inhabited by a local type of fish that, according to Bernie, tasted "terrible" due to their supposed lack of trace metals.
Dilonexa XXIII had been settled by the time that the Galactic Republic was in power. The early settlers believed that the rich resources of the planet, the only habitable world in the Dilonexa system, compensated for the harsh conditions of the rest of the system. Around 103 BBY, Violia, a Jedi Initiate, was assigned to the AgriCorps of the Jedi Order and stationed on Dilonexa XXIII. Her friend, Thame Cerulian, a Jedi Padawan, later wrote in his copy of The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force, a guidebook, that he could visit Violia on Dilonexa XXIII if his Master, Unskette, ever needed to travel there.
Sometime between 3 BBY and 2 BBY, Lando Calrissian, a gambler and freighter captain, arrived on Dilonexa XXIII aboard his light freighter, the Millennium Falcon. He intended to sell a cargo consisting of hundreds of crates of wintenberry jelly, a thousand stacks of mountain bollem hides, and expensive tinklewood fishing poles. However, upon landing, the local customs inspector, Bernie, informed Calrissian that selling these items on Dilonexa XXIII was highly unlikely due to high import tariffs. Bernie also gave Calrissian a coded chip containing a message from Lob Doluff, the Administrator Senior of the Oseon system.
While Calrissian was speaking with Bernie, a Dilonexan ground crew was fueling the Millennium Falcon. Unbeknownst to both the starship's captain and his [copilot](/article/pilot-legends], the droid Vuffi Raa, an agent of the sorcerer Rokur Gepta, secretly attached a pair of bombs to the vessel. Gepta sought revenge on Calrissian for interfering with his previous schemes. He had also orchestrated Doluff's message, inviting the gambler to a sabacc game on the asteroid Oseon 6845.
After reviewing the message aboard the Falcon, Calrissian decided that he could recover his losses from interstellar freight hauling by gambling and that he only needed a small stake to enter the game in the Oseon system. He asked Vuffi Raa to help him dispose of the hides and wintenberry jelly by feeding them into the ship's waste disposal system, intending to sell the waste to the local farmers. Calrissian remained determined to sell the fishing rods, but his efforts failed, and he and Vuffi Raa soon left Dilonexa XXIII.
To save credits, Calrissian waited until the Falcon had exited the planet's atmosphere before responding to Doluff's invitation using his own communications equipment. Later, while in transit to the Oseon system, one of the bombs exploded, leading Calrissian and Vuffi Raa to realize that the explosives must have been planted during refueling. This realization prompted the captain to wonder if the Dilonexicans had discovered that they had received waste containing recycled wintenberry jelly.
The people who lived on Dilonexa XXIII were called Dilonexicans. They raised the local bovine for meat and, due to the planet's geology, developed an allergic reaction to foods with high levels of trace metals. Consequently, a 105% import duty was placed on off-world goods rich in trace minerals, such as wintenberry jelly, which once caused Shirley, a fourth-generation Dilonexican, to contract the gosharooties. A large percentage of the Dilonexican population was also overweight.
The Dilonexicans were mainly farmers who prided themselves on their agricultural lifestyle. They typically wore bib overalls and, according to Bernie, rarely engaged in fishing, resulting in a 75% import tax on fishing poles and related recreational equipment. Additionally, the abundance of leather from bovine hides led to a 65% import duty on hides from other worlds.
Receiving interstellar messages incurred an import fee of 1,350 credits, while not receiving them resulted in a penalty of 2,000 credits. Bernie explained that this was because the locals believed in being content with their own planet's resources and that leaving messages undelivered was considered "not neat." Conversely, the Dilonexicans were willing to pay well for the contents of a starship's waste-cycling system.
Almost all metal products had to be imported to Dilonexa XXIII. However, each year, the planet exported billions of tons of agricultural products, serving as the primary source of foodstuffs for the Centrality, as well as producing plastics and fuels. Agrirobots performed most of the work on Dilonexa XXIII, and the locals valued droids more highly than human laborers due to their tireless and complaint-free work ethic. Dilonexa XXIII eventually became prosperous, and its inhabitants developed a taste for luxury. Lando Calrissian later speculated that the existence of a scheduled tax on fishing poles implied a small market for such items, even though he failed to sell them.
Dilonexa XXIII featured buildings with leather awnings and ferrocrete aprons suitable for landing light freighters like the Millennium Falcon. Giant weather-control satellites equipped with powerful, energy-based proprietary tornado disruptors were positioned in orbit. These satellites' weaponry was also used to deter smugglers and those attempting to leave the planet without paying their debts.
Dilonexa XXIII first appeared in Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon, the second novel in The Lando Calrissian Adventures trilogy by L. Neil Smith, published in 1983. Its name was mistakenly written as "Dilonexia XXIII" in "A Campaign Guide to the Centrality," a roleplaying game source article for Wizards of the Coast written by Michael Kogge and published in Star Wars Gamer 5 on July 24, 2001. The Essential Atlas, a reference book by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry published in 2009, introduced a shortened version of the planet's name and placed it in grid square U-8.