The native insectoid species, the Flakax, lived in underground hives on the planet. After the death of King Alaric the whole sector including this planet, left the Republic and joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems. After Flax was conquered by the Empire sometime before the destruction of the first Death Star, they were declared slave workers and were put to work mining the planet's ores.
The planet was later one of the Galactic Alliance planets threatened by a possible Killik coup.