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Hoth

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Hoth
Region Outer Rim
Sector Anoat Sector
System Hoth system
Suns 1: Hoth
Moons 3
Native Species None; formerly: Humans, Mon Calamari, etc.
Other Species {{{otherspecies}}}
Population Varies, no permanent population
Official Language Basic
Primary Terrain Ice Caves, frozen plains, mountain ranges
Major Cities {{{cities}}}
Points of Interest Echo Base, Moorsh Morraine, Clabburn Range, Cirque Glacier, Hanging Valley, North Ridge, Mt. Ison, Lnteel Glacier, Nev Ice Flow, Kerane Valley, South Ridge, Ceyan Range, Beta Outspost
Affiliation New Sith Empire, Rebel Alliance, Empire Reborn
This article is about the planet Hoth. For the New Sith Wars-era Jedi, see Hoth (Jedi); for the Star Wars Tales comic, see Hoth (Star Wars Tales story)
"There isn't enough life on this ice cube to fill a space cruiser."
—Han Solo

Hoth was the sixth planet of the remote Hoth system. Located in the Granita Cluster, in the Hoth Quadrant of the Anoat Sector, along the Ison Corridor, Hoth orbited the blue-white star Hoth on a wide elliptical orbit. It was possibly named after the Jedi Hoth. Its orbit and axial tilt resulted in consistently icy weather patterns. Beyond Hoth was a large asteroid belt, known as the Hoth Asteroid Field, from which small asteroids regularly broke off, crashing into Hoth’s icy surface as meteorites.

Daytime temperatures reached levels unbearable to most species. The gale force winds and intense snowstorms that regularly wracked the windswept tundra magnified the extreme cold of Hoth. Massive oceanic movements beneath the southern hemisphere and the tidal pull of Hoth’s three moons caused regular seismic activity, resulting in a constantly shifting landscape of caves and tunnels. Buried deep in Hoth’s equatorial region was a fissure range where lumni-spice grew. The frigid biosphere included a minimal food chain: the predator wampas, the omnivore tauntauns, Hoth hogs, a few rodent species, ice worms and lichens.

Before Hoth’s use by the Rebel Alliance, the planet was relatively unknown and unvisited. A few pirates and smugglers, such as Raskar, attempted to liberate the valuable lumni-spice, but were unsuccessful. Salmakk had a smuggling base on the planet in the caves that later became Echo Base.

When Luke Skywalker accidentally discovered Hoth while fleeing Imperial forces shortly after the Battle of Yavin, he recommended the ice world to Alliance High Command as a location for their new base. The asteroid belt provided a difficult barrier, the remoteness and near unbearable temperatures made it an unlikely candidate for Imperial probing, and the ever shifting caverns meant that it would be easy to move the base within the planet. After defeating the forces of smuggler Salmakk, the Alliance established Echo Base on Hoth. The base was built on the northern edge on the only livable temperate band near the equator. However, it was not long before Darth Vader’s Death Squadron discovered the Rebels and the Battle of Hoth ensued between Rebel and Imperial forces. The debris of the battlefield attracted the scavenger Arns Grimraker.

After the ground battle in 3 ABY, Hoth returned to a world of obscurity, visited mostly by poachers, smugglers, xenobiologists, and the occasional tourist. However, Kyle Katarn and Jaden Korr later located an Empire Reborn base on the planet.

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