Ord Mantell was a planet of the galaxy‘s Mid Rim that served as the capital of the Bright Jewel system. It was the homeworld of the Mantellian Savrip species. Ord Mantell was colonized around 12,000 BBY by Corellian settlers during the expansion of the Galactic Republic, where it became an Ordnance/Regional Depot outpost. In the waning days of the Republic, Ord Mantell City housed a base of operations for the Black Sun crime syndicate. It later came under control of the Galactic Empire and became home to an Imperial deepdock.
Ord Mantell was the terrestrial capital planet of the Bright Jewel system at grid square L-7 on the Standard Galactic Grid, and was the second planet to orbit the blue star Bright Jewel. Orbited by at least fifteen moons, including the moon of Quantxi, Ord Mantell was 14,050 kilometers in diameter and served as the sector capital for the Mid Rim’s Bright Jewel sector, which in turn was the capital for the Bright Jewel Oversector. In close proximity to the gas giant Wynkahthu, Ord Mantell was situated in the northern New Territories portion of the Mid Rim, lying on a cross-section between the Bright Jewel, Qiilura and Dohu sectors along the Celanon Spur, Burke’s Trailing and Entralla hyperspace routes. The Burke’s Trailing hyperspace route connected the planet to the moon of Jedha in the nearby Terrabe sector.
A planet of temperate climate, Ord Mantell maintained a breathable Type I atmosphere and standard gravity, and it presented a pinkish hue when viewed from space as a result of its thick clouds, which littered its skies. On the surface, every landmass on Ord Mantell was dotted with mountain chains, but its population of four billion lived on its arid equatorial continents amid the foothills of its mountains and plains. Ord Mantell was home to many different species, with no single one representing more than five percent of the planet’s population.