What Is the Caamas Document?
The Caamas document is named for the planet Caamas—a world decimated by Imperial planetary bombardment in the early days of the Empire’s rule after the end of the Clone Wars. What was largely unknown to the galaxy for decades, however, was that a group of mercenary Bothan agents—eventual allies of the Rebel Alliance, and by the time of the Crisis in 19ABY, a steadfast member world of the New Republic—had shut down the Caamasi’s planetary shielding to allow the Imperial Navy’s assault to begin.
Leia Organa discovered the evidence tying the Bothans to Caamas’ almost total destruction when she recovered a datacard within the deceased Emperor’s vaults on the planet Wayland at Mount Tantiss—which itself had been the hub of Thrawn’s forces during his battles against the New Republic a decade earlier. Leia’s evidence went far beyond just Bothan aid, however: it implicated some of Bothawui’s most powerful and influential clans in directly aiding in the genocide of the Caamasi.
