Editing Star Wars Setting (section)

== Significant Worlds ==

{{Topquote|I sense a great disturbance in the Force. (...) How else can so many worlds be totally covered with only one terrain type without regard to latitudinal variations?|Darth Vader, Irregular Webcomic!, Issue 87}}

There's a fuckton of planets in the Star Wars Galaxy, so we'll limit this list to the more noteworthy ones (mostly the ones that show up in films). As a whole, the franchise is famous for its love of the "Single Biome Planet" trope, to the point that it's been poked fun at multiple times (including ''within the franchise itself''), though given that planets with a single biome exist in real life, this aspect isn't as unrealistic as it sounds.

* '''Tatooine''': A run down desert world orbiting a binary star system on the outer rim of the galaxy. Its close proximity to major hyperspace routes and its location in Hutt space makes this otherwise unremarkable planet relatively strategic for illicit trade (ie: Space Juárez). It has a few dingy little cities, towns and farms home to a collection of criminals, smugglers, people scraping by and slaves with some basic order imposed by Hutt Crime families. The oral history of the native sand people suggests that it was considerably more lush before its inhabitants pissed off the Rakata, but the source for that notes oral histories are generally inaccurate. Surprisingly it is the most visited world in the franchise, showing up in every one of the six original films but ''Empire Strikes Back'' ''and'' appearing in countless other works due to the Skywalker family's connection to this craphole. This has actually become something of a point of criticism in recent years, with lots of critics and even some fans complaining about how often Tatooine shows up in Star Wars products. But hey, desert scenes are cheap and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yP7glaCT1M people still like Space Westerns].  

* '''Naboo''': Lush planet between the Mid rim and outer rim, shared by both humans and gungans. Naboo's settlers are descended from Alderaaneans (Leia's home planet), so their culture and politics are extremely similar with a strong emphasis on pacifism, philanthropy, and high art (and ironically, early supporters of the Rebellion). Interestingly, the planet core is connected to the planet's oceans, though travel through the core is quite dangerous due to the leviathans living there. The planet hadn't been terribly important right up until the Trade Federation came knocking to demand tax payments over its trade routes (though in reality Naboo had ''massive'' untapped plasma reserves, and the Tradies wanted free reign to drill), which began a series of conflicts culminating in the Clone Wars. Relatively close to Tatooine, which is how the Jedi end up discovering Anakin Skywalker during the conflict when they're forced to evacuate the Queen of Naboo.

* '''Coruscant''': The Capital of the Republic and the Empire, a Ecumenopolis in which basically every square meter of it's surface is covered in a multi-kilometer thick cityscape. <s>So, Trantor.  It's fucking Trantor.</s> Several sources claim it to be humanity's homeworld, or else where humanity initially expanded from since their enslavement by the Rakata. Originally found in George Lucas's notes as "Imperial Center", [[Timothy Zahn]] named it Coruscant (pronounced chorus-saunt and is similar to Coruscate, which is a fancy way of saying to sparkle) in the Thrawn Trilogy (as Imperial Center was clearly not the original name) and Lucas was convinced to keep the name when it came time to make the prequels. Before the prequels, pronunciation in audio books was all over the place. Descriptions of the city are not unlike your typical [[Hive city|Hive City]] (if not as extreme), where the elites live in the  upper levels where the sky is still visible, while the lower class live in the dark, crumbling foundations, but with a more Art Deco vibe rather than Gothic.  The actual planet surface is mostly landfill now, and the lower levels got increasingly uninhabitable after the Yuuzhan Vong terraformed the planet and later the Force-Cthulhu Abeloth made some new volcanoes.  Not much is shown of Coruscant in the Disney canon after the prequel era, and its not even the capital of the New Republic. Supposedly J.J. Abrams wanted to blow the planet up but was told "no" by literally everyone.

* '''Yavin IV''': Jungle moon of the gas giant Yavin. The temples on this moon used to house a warrior race that had been enslaved by the Sith before being driven to extinction; it then became the secret base of the Rebel Alliance, which became the staging area for the Alliance's battle against the first Death Star. After the superweapon's destruction, the Empire launched a conventional attack and the Alliance was forced to relocate to Hoth. After the Thrawn Campaign, it became the site of Luke's new Jedi Academy which, after a brief incident with a Sith wraith haunting the place, flourished until yet another galactic war forced them to relocate.

* '''Hoth''': An obscure snow world devoid of any intelligent life, and seemingly named after a legendary Jedi master of old. It became the new headquarters for the Rebel Alliance after the fall of Yavin Base. It was established ''way'' back in the Newspaper comic that it was chosen by the rebels after Luke crash landed on it and encountered a pair of malfunctioning [[Android|Replica Droid]] prototypes fleeing from their creators. Further sources have expanded on its reasons for being chosen to include the fact that it's just off of a major trade route, which concealed supply runs (and is why Bespin is within backup drive distance).

* '''Bespin''': Gas giant with a breathable upper atmosphere. Home to Cloud City, an independent city that makes its income through mining Tibanna gas (used in blasters). Bespin's independence was used as political leverage when Vader arrived and extorted Lando Calrissian into betraying the rebels to him. After Vader double crossed Lando, the Rebels would later liberate Bespin from the Imperials.

* '''Kamino''': Ocean planet that technically exists outside the Galaxy proper, in between it and what is known as the "Rishi Maze," which was why it was a bitch to find. The inhabitants are expert geneticists, and the place is really hard to get to without knowing exactly what you're doing, making it the ideal location for growing the Republic's clone army. Kamino's cities were destroyed by the Empire shortly after the Clone Wars, as they had decided to switch to recruited soldiers; we don't know much about what became of the Kaminoans themselves other than some were forcibly recruited into more specialized cloning programs. Legends had a revolt break out by the Kaminoans making their own Fett clones which was put down and the planet was irrelevant afterwards.

* '''Geonosis''': Desert world inhabited by bug people. Was used by the separatists to build their armies and strategize, eventually becoming the site of the first battle of the Clone Wars. Geonosis is actually even more of a creepy hellhole than Episode II suggests, as the Geonosian Queen can use worms to turn corpses into zombies and mind control living hosts. During the Clone Wars, Geonosis was the first construction site for the Death Star, since it was technically the Geonosians who made the schematics in the first place. Most Geonosians were wiped out by the Empire when the Death Star was moved for completion.

* '''Utapau''': Temperate planet characterized by its massive sinkhole cities. General Grievous tried to rally the Seperatists here after Dooku's death, but was killed by Obi-Wan in the ensuing battle.

* '''Kashyyyk''': Forest/jungle planet and home to the wookies, who live in gigantic tree houses connected by enormous suspension bridges. The interior of the jungle, known as the Shadowlands, is full of a wide variety of dangerous lifeforms, so the wookies stay close to the canopy; the only time they enter the shadowlands is to hunt, in initiation rites, or to live in exile. In Kashyyk’s ancient history, the Rakata used dark-side powered technology to speed up Kashyyk’s evolution so that it could be used as an Agri-world for the empire; while the Rakata have long since disappeared, this machine is still active and is responsible for the many dangerous and twisted creatures that live on the planet. During the Republic it was an important trade world due to its location at the junction of several trade routes, highly prized resources, and the expert craftsmanship of the wookies. Despite their loyalty, during the Empire the wookies were severely subjugated and enslaved (with the help of Trandoshans) and their trees were chopped down for the valuable wood and sap. The Empire never truly took it over but did manage to pollute it to all hell.

* '''Mustafar''': Lava planet and the last holdout of the Separatists. Darth Vader makes his base here after he is forced to don his iconic armor, proving that he did have [[Meme|the high ground]] by plonking a gigantic black tower on the surface. The planet has a strong affinity with the Dark Side, attracting various Sith cults in its history.

* '''Ilum''': Small alpine planet covered in ice and snow and by the time of the prequels the galaxy's only known significant source of Kyber crystals, the core ingredient in a little thing we like to call "the lightsaber". Traditionally a place for Jedi to do pilgrimage to find their own Kyber crystal at, as Jedi initiates find that the only crystal visible to them in the caves is the one they're destined to use. 
** In Disney canon, the Empire turned one half of the surface into a gigantic strip-mine several hundred kilometers down into the crust. It was eventually rediscovered by the First Order and turned into an actually moon-sized laser cannon called Starkiller Base (This is poorly explained within the films; its not even identified as Ilum except in side stories. The idea is that like the original Death Star, the superlaser is powered by gigantic kyber crystals, and Ilum happens to be well inside the Unknown Regions yet its location and route were still known thanks to Jedi pilgramages).

* '''Dathomir''': [[Death World]]-style hellhole and home of Darth Maul. Filled with gigantic brambles, noxious swamps, poisonous critters and savagely insular tribals. The native inhabitants use the planet's natural Dark Side energy to do all sorts of creepy and arcane shit, including necromancy. Nearly all of its magick-using females were wiped out by the end of the Clone Wars, leaving the planet to decay.

* '''Malachor V''': The last battlefield of the Mandalorian Wars, which blasted the entire planet into a Mars-like wasteland thanks to a superweapon deployed, ironically, by the Jedi.  The Jedi, Sith, and Mandalorians all regard it as perhaps the most critical place and moment in their respective histories despite it being a lifeless desert littered with crumbling temples and the rusting armor of countless thousands of fallen warriors.  The general takeaway is this: Nobody EVER wins on Malachor.  It is a tomb-world, a monument to the devastation wrought by pursuing raw power to beat your enemies.

* '''Dagobah''': Uncharted swamp planet where Yoda went to live in exile. Noteworthy for the Dark Side cave, a naturally-occurring phenomenon where the dark side would tempt anyone who entered. Briefly the EU made the cave a remnant of a random dark force user Yoda fought there, but this was retconned away when it was implied Yoda had never visited the place before his exile, then the Clone Wars series made it so Yoda ''did'' visit Dagobah before his exile. This would just be a random detail if not for a significant character having his backstory linked to this event.

* '''Endor''': A gas giant also known as Tana at the end of the Outer Rim before Wild Space (and it probably was in Wild Space before one of the most significant events in Galactic History took place there). The Empire built the second Death Star in its system.
** '''Sanctuary Moon''': Better known than the planet itself is its forest covered moon that the Empire build the shields for the under-construction Death Star 2 on. It's home to the short, furry and deadly Ewoks. It was the nominal capital of the interim Alliance of Free Planets and New Republic for two years till the capture of Coruscant.
** '''Kef Bir''': Ocean moon of Endor. Despite the Death Star II being in orbit of the Forest Moon, Disney decided that the wreckage landed on Kef Bir because JJ wanted an ocean setpiece. No explanation is given other than "wibbley-wobbly hyperdrivey-wimey." The LEGO Skywalker Saga game even takes a bit of a shot at it.

* '''Death Star''' & '''Death Star II''': We're fudging the definition of world here, but its not an exaggeration to say this thing is the size of a small moon and has a very sizeable population. While the Death Star II was incomplete, it was substantially bigger and more deadly. Its main purpose was the protection and operation of a garguantuan superlaser capable of blowing up an entire planet in a singular shot. This thing was able to get around with a battery of hyperspace engines, but still took a fair amount to time to get around in order to get within firing range. Curiously enough, the idea for the superweapon came from Tarkin, but was designed by the Geonosians of all people, which then terrified the pants off the Republic that the Separatists had a superweapon prompting them to start reverse-engineering the design ([[Just as planned]] as far as Palpatine was concerned). Its design ties back to their Genosian origins, who where insectoids living in large anthills with little regard for the concept of "up" or down". As a result, the Death Star became notoriously awful as a posting among its crew, many of which had problems with orientation and becoming nauseaous.  

* '''Alderaan''': A perfect pacifist planet until the Death Star blows it up. The planet Leia was raised on by the Organas, and actually shown to have been very nice prior to its destruction, with lush forests and snow-capped mountains. 

* '''Felucia''': Another jungle-world, but this one looking like something conceived by either Dr. Seuss or someone from the 60s who got a hold of the good stuff. Rancors can be found here, and some have been tamed by the natives, truly bizarre-looking beings that look a bit like tye-dye, technicolor tree-people who are all Force-Sensitive. 

* '''Taris''': Ostensibly an Outer Rim version of Coruscant, in that the planet is a big city that really leans into the whole "what most people think of when they think of a far future city" aesthetic, beneath the shiny exterior is actually a pretty shitty society. Basically, it's society is like Pre-Civil Rights America in space (with aliens as stand-ins for out-groups), and that's before the Sith show up and put the whole planet under quarantine. Beneath the Upper City is the Lower City, which is a slum that gangsters constantly fight over and with shitty apartments that are more likely to house crazed killers or the aforementioned gangsters than honest citizens, as well as looking like they've been abandoned for years. Beneath ''that'' is the Undercity, which is where the descendants of Taris' failed <s>proletariat</s> uprising are consigned. Them, and Rackghouls, who, as the name implies, are basically Ghouls in Star Wars, but as there are no Elves, no one's immune (unless you have some handy Rackghoul serum). So to recap, its a planet that hates aliens, has crime-filled lower levels, and is much more [[Grimdark]] in its overall set-up than the average Star Wars planet. The Imperium would be proud...or would be, if Malak hadn't then bombed the hell out of it. Even thousands of years later, much of the planet is said to still be in ruins.

* '''Telos''': A mix of futuristic cities and natural environments, so unlike Coruscant and Taris it isn't all one big city. A major Republic world, and then Malak bombed it, leaving it badly scarred. As such, the Republic launched a restoration project to try and get the planet back on its feet. Or, in the words of Atton Rand, "a dying world the Republic is trying to breath back to life". Also houses a secret (and defunct), Jedi academy in its polar region, where ultra-bitch Atris and her similarly obnoxious handmaidens reside.

* '''Dantooine''': Farm planet. Fairly idyllic by all appearances, enough so that the Jedi in Legends had an Enclave here for a time...until Malak bombed it (you may be noticing a pattern by now). Even after this bombing though, the planet remains a major agricultural center up to the Clone Wars and beyond. First mentioned in A New Hope as a location Leia gives for the Rebel base to try and save Alderaan (it doesn't work). One of the Star Maps is located here.

* '''Kuat''': Earth-like world encircled by an orbital ring station; until the Death Stars came along the Kuat Drive Yards were the largest space structure definitely built by humans (and still might be depending on how you want to measure).  The Kuati are rich as fuck from selling giant angry triangle starships to whoever appears to be the ruler of the galaxy at that moment, which they have been doing since forever.

* '''Manaan''': Water-world, but a lot less rainy than Kamino. Source of Kolto, the top healing substance in the Galaxy prior to Bacta. Once that stuff got on the market, Kolto became obsolete, and Manaan and its fish-folk inhabitants fell into decline something fierce. One of the Star Maps is located here.

* '''Korriban / Moraband''': The homeworld of the Sith, and as to be expected, a place that tends to scream "this is an evil location". A ton of Ancient Sith Lords are entombed here, as is a Star Map (in Legends anyway). The Sith also naturally had an academy here too, which was basically a Hogwarts for sociopaths before it became abandoned. So saturated with the Dark Side that its affected the local wildlife, making most of them vicious, fearsome looking monsters (though who knows what they eat with no apparent herbivores or plant life around). 

* '''Jakku''': The Sequel Trilogy's absolutely shameless Tatooine clone (such that when the first trailer dropped, a lot of people thought it ''was'' Tatooine). Where the war between the Rebels and Empire ended in the Disney Canon, being the site of the latter's last stand and with ruined Star Destroyers and other wreckage still littering the place. As such, its mostly populated by scavengers, but in a feeble effort to convince you that it isn't a ''complete'' Tatooine clone, they aren't all Jawas this time. 

* '''Hosnian Prime''': The Sequel Trilogy's absolutely shameless Coruscant clone (and again, folks initially thought it ''was'' Coruscant). Gets the Alderaan treatment from Starkiller base, meaning it rips off of two previous planets for the price of one (still better than actually destroying Coruscant though, which according to rumor is what JJ ''really'' wanted to do).

* '''Ach-To''': The planet Luke Skywalker flees to in the Sequel Trilogy. Apparently the planet where the Jedi originated (which is Tython in Legends). Mostly a lot of water, with at least one big landmass that's where Luke's holed up. Rey goes there to get training from him, but that clashes with Luke's whole "I don't want to be a Jedi anymore" bit. Briefly reappears in Episode IX when Rey considers doing what Luke did before his ghost talks her out of it. Also home of the [[Skub|"love 'em or hate 'em"]] Porgs.

* '''Canto Bight''': A mostly barren planet that hosts a giant casino where rich bastards can go. Seems to be a general dress code of only black and white allowed, and filled with wholesome activities like gambling, arms dealing, child labor, and war profiteering. So a lot of glitz and glamor standing side by side exploitation and "rich people are jerks" stuff. So basically Pre-Revolution Cuba in space. Generally considered to be where a bunch of largely unnecessary stuff happened, even by folks who ''didn't'' hate Episode VIII.

* '''Crait''': Site of an abandoned Rebel base that the Resistance remnants flee to at the end of Episode VIII, leading to a vaguely "Battle of Hoth" esque fight involving the First Order's own version of AT-ATs. As one Youtube LEGO video aptly put it, the ground is white but the dirt is red for no real reason other than that it looks "cool". Also, apparently its salt and not snow. So like, a salt-Hoth. Or something.

* '''Exegol''': A world shrouded in darkness and perpetual lightning storms that is where Palpatine and his cronies have been hiding out since losing the Galactic Civil War. How such a large number of people existed or thrived on such a dead world is never explained, but it does manage to give the other Sith world Korriban a run for its money in the whole "obviously evil death world" department.

* '''Rakata Prime / Lehon''': Home of the Rakatans, and where the species has become trapped ever since their empire fell. Actually a pretty lush and scenic place, though as Rakatan tribes and small-but-still-deadly Rancors roam about here, one vacations here at their own risk. That, and the same thing keeping the Rakatans from leaving (the Star Forge), also causes ships that get too close to crash-land, making it a ship's graveyard. By the time of Darth Bane, the planet seems to have become deserted, the Rakatans having apparently gone extinct.

* '''The Maw''': Bears mentioning for being one of the more unique places of the EU. An unusually dense cluster of black holes near Kessel whose gravitational anomalies make it the ideal backdrop for risky hyperdrive spice smuggling operations. Strongly implied to be the work of an unknown precuror civilization, the Maw was considered to be largely impassible, if not for the work of top secret scouting operations that the Empire undertook to find a place to house a big R&D facility kept from the public eye. Within the Maw station, developments like the prototyping of the first Death Star and several other imperial superweapons took place, protected by a small flotilla consisting of four Imperial Star Destroyers.