Hoth

Systems like Hoth are all too common in the galaxy: a collection of barren worlds and whirling rocks, devoid of apparent wealth and marginally habitable only by the desperate. Hoth has a brutal climate, a remote location, and is bombarded by frequent meteor showers. Its most habitable area lies along the equator, where a deep fissure provides access to a network of caverns blasted out of ice and rock by steam from the planet's still-active core. The rest of Hoth's southern hemisphere hides a massive ocean; the tidal pull of Hoth's moons occasionally cracks this ice sheet, sending great geysers of salt water into the air, where they soon freeze into spires and arches.

Grid Location: K-18
Region: Outer Rim Territories
Terrain: Frozen plains, mountains
Diameter: 7,200 km
Length of Day: 23 standard hours
Length of Year: 549 local days
Population: No permanent population
Sentient Species: None
Species Mix: Not applicable
Languages: None
Government: None
Major Exports: None
Major Imports: None
System/Star: Hoth/Hoth

Planets in the System:

Planets	Type	Moons
Shron	Volcanic	0
Biosk	Barren rock	0
Nuslkh	Methane sea	4
Jhas	Gas giant	24
Ordaj	Gas giant	17
Hoth	Terrestrial	3

"Systems like Hoth are all too common in the galaxy: a collection of barren worlds and whirling rocks, devoid of apparent wealth and marginally habitable only by the desperate..."

Detailed History

But life can find purchase in the most inhospitable places: herds of tauntauns wander Hoth's frozen plains, hunted by vicious wampas. Ice scrabbles and Hoth hares scavenge for whatever nutrition they can find, and ice worms carve their way through the frozen crust in search of trapped algae. Rumors have it that great dragon-slugs lurk in the equatorial fissures, feeding on valuable lumni-spice.

Luke Skywalker and C-3PO stumbled across Hoth after the Battle of Yavin, and the Alliance decided it made for a perfect base: It was near the Corellian Trade Spine, yet very rarely visited. The Rebels were just the latest fugitives hoping to use the icy planet as a bolt-hole. Innumerable smugglers, pirates, and others had done so before. (In fact, Echo Base was an expansion of a hideout once used by the Mon Calamari pirate Salmakk.) The Rebels stayed little longer than previous inhabitants—Echo Base was discovered by an Imperial probe droid, and the Alliance fled Hoth after taking significant casualties against Imperial snowtroopers and AT-ATs.