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Cala have lived on Calan for only 500 years, but there is evidence among their oral histories and corroborating archaological evidence to suggest the Cala have lived in hundreds of star systems throughout a history that spans easily 5,000 years. Oral histories indicate Dantooine, Naboo, and Alderaan among planets once settled by the Cala. Why they left is not known, but the Cala on Calan are not believed to be a colony of a larger populous. They are the entire population of the Cala people.

The Cala live in a peacful commune, sharing the efforts of all within their community. Farming, child-rearing, and all property ownership are shared evenly. The efforts of the Calanic community are overseen by the Calanic Monks, a group of spiritual guides rumored to have roots in ancient Jedi teachings. The Cala are pacifists, desiring neither to commit aggressive acts nor to resist in defense of themselves.

The settlement of the Cala on Calan coincided with a zenith period in Cizerack hegemony in the Raashaala sector. Having recovered fully from the effects of the Battle of Syragor, the Cizerack at last fully colonized the last of the colony worlds in the Cluster, and turned to Calan as it's next acquisition. Following the letter (but not the spirit) of the Treaty of Syragor, the Cizerack declared that Calan should be placed into their receivership, as the world lie within the boundaries of the Carshoulis Cluster. This interpretation has been contested, as the orbit of Calan effectively bisects the star map boundaries of the Carshoulis Cluster. Most legal experts place the status of Calan as being outside of the Carshoulis cluster, but enough ambiguity exists to grant limited legitimacy to the Cizerack claims. As the Cala began to colonize the planet, the Cizerack regularly blockaded it, each time being turned back, at first by the Republic, and later, the Empire. Unwilling to risk war over the planet, the Cizerack blockade the planet periodically as more of a symbolic protest than any overt action to conquer the planet.