Star Wars category
Planets
10 entries tagged Planets, 10 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Coruscant and Tatooine.
- BespinBespin was a gas giant in the Outer Rim Territories, mined for valuable Tibanna gas from the floating metropolis of Cloud City. Long unaffiliated, it was seized by the Empire during the Galactic Civil War.
- CoruscantCoruscant was a city-covered world in the Core, the political heart of the galaxy for thousands of years. Capital of the Galactic Republic, the Empire, and for a time the New Republic, it was home to the Galactic Senate and the Jedi Temple, with a teeming underworld buried beneath its towers.
- DagobahDagobah was a remote, swamp-covered world in the Outer Rim Territories, strong in the Force and home to a cave saturated with the dark side. It served as the hiding place of the Jedi Master Yoda and the site of Luke Skywalker's training.
- EndorEndor was a forested moon in the Outer Rim Territories, home to the Ewoks and other native species. It became the site of the climactic Battle of Endor, where the Rebel Alliance destroyed the second Death Star and the Galactic Empire fell.
- GeonosisGeonosis was a harsh, rocky planet in the Outer Rim, home to the insectoid Geonosians and their vast droid foundries. It was the hub of Separatist industry and the site of the battle that opened the Clone Wars.
- HothHoth was a remote ice planet in the Outer Rim Territories where the Alliance to Restore the Republic built Echo Base. It is best known for the crushing Imperial assault that drove the rebels from the world during the Galactic Civil War.
- KaminoKamino was a remote, ocean-covered planet in Wild Space, home to the cloner Kaminoans. There the Grand Army of the Republic was bred, and there the Galactic Empire later destroyed Tipoca City in an orbital bombardment.
- MustafarMustafar was a young volcanic planet of lava seas in the Outer Rim, mined for rare minerals and steeped in the dark side. It was the place of Anakin Skywalker's fall and the site of Fortress Vader.
- NabooNaboo was a lush, pastoral planet in the Mid Rim shared by two peoples, the human Naboo and the amphibious Gungans. Birthplace of Sheev Palpatine and home of Padme Amidala, it was the site of a Trade Federation invasion that launched Palpatine toward supreme power.
- TatooineTatooine was a harsh, twin-sunned desert planet in the Outer Rim, homeworld of the Jawa and Tusken Raider species. Ruled by Hutt crime lords and largely beyond the reach of central government, it became the hiding place of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the boyhood home of Luke Skywalker.