Dagobah

Dagobah has been described as a "slimy mudhole," and indeed Dagobah's most notable features—steamy humidity, stinging insects, and boot-sucking sogginess—are qualities that most humans hate. It is fortunate for humans that so few of them have ever been there.

Grid Location: M-19
Terrain: Swamps, bogs
Diameter: 14,410 km
Length of Day: 23 standard hours
Length of Year: 341 local days
Population: None
Sentient Species: None
Species Mix: Not applicable
Language: None
Government: None
Major Exports: None
Major Imports: None
System/Star: Dagobah/Darlo

Planets in the System:

Planets	Type	Moons
Ness	Molten rock	0
Dagobah	Terrestrial	1
Undar	Airless ball	2
Bubok	Ice ball	3
Sty	Gas giant	55

"It has been described as a "slimy mudhole," and indeed Dagobah's most notable features—steamy humidity, stinging insects, and boot-sucking sogginess—are qualities that most humans hate. It is fortunate for humans that so few of them have ever been there..."

Detailed History

Dagobah sits in the Sluis sector not far from the Rimma Trade Route, but the planet is reachable only via obscure hyperspace traces. In fact, for much of its history Dagobah didn't appear on star charts at all. This curious lack of cartographic permanence caused Dagobah to be scouted on more than one occasion, often ending with unpleasant consequences for the explorers. One Alderaanian expedition saw all its members eaten by local wildlife; another failed mission prior to the Clone Wars found its stranded scouts forced to resort to cannibalism.

Permanent settlements have never taken root on Dagobah, but the planet is rich in living things. Its swampy surface is perpetually choked in shadow beneath a dense tree canopy. Its eat-or-be-eaten ecosystem ranges between microscopic schools of silverfish and colossal, vacuum-feeding swamp slugs. The planet's more notable life-forms include sharp-clawed dragonsnakes, airborne bogwings, and gigantic spider-like hunters that calcify into immobile root systems as they enter the second phase of their lives.

Dagobah is perhaps best known as the place of exile for Jedi Master Yoda following his failure to kill Emperor Palpatine in 19 BBY. Yoda chose the location after noting it was one of thirty-eight systems apparently dropped from the Jedi Archives. For over two decades the Jedi Master lived in a simple mud hut, shielded from the Emperor's attention by a dark side cave—the residual energy left by a Dark Jedi from nearby Bpfassh—that counterbalanced Yoda's light-side signature. Yoda trained Luke Skywalker in 3 ABY, but the Jedi Master died less than a year later at the age of nine hundred.

An effort to use Dagobah's isolated yet strategic location to shelter a military intelligence outpost after the Battle of Endor met a swift end, and no attempts at settlement have been made since. Instead, Dagobah has become a place of pilgrimage for students of the new Jedi Order, who use the dark side cave to trigger Force-inspired vision quests.