A small, dense world whose inhospitable nature prevents it from truly flourishing as part of the galactic community, Quarzite avoided the battles that ravaged many planets during the Clone Wars. The world's surface is strained by incredibly strong atmospheric pressure that can crush starships and flatten beings. Underneath the surface, though, are immense crystalline cave networks of equalized pressure, where life can exist. For transit to and from the planet, an immense turbolift speeds people to an orbital space station. For travel beneath the surface, the locals rely on a subtram.
A Belugan tyrant, Otua Blank ruled the pressurized planet with an iron fist. He lived within a crystalline fortress deep in the underground caves.
Major Rigosso was Otua Blank's henchman and intermediary. Rigosso met with an elite team of bounty hunters hired by Blank aboard the orbiting space station skyhook tethered to the planet's caverns by means of super-fast turbolifts.
Prowling the crystalline caverns are the Kage Warriors -- highly skilled martial artists determined to defend the Kage people.
Boba Fett came to Quarzite when he was a teenager just starting to make a name for himself in the bounty hunting profession. He led a team of six elite bounty hunters on a mission arranged by Otua Blank.
Asajj Ventress, new to the bounty hunting profession, was a member of Boba Fett's team. She defended Otua Blank's cargo as per her assignment, but had a change of heart when she discovered that the cargo was a captive girl.