50 Fun Facts About Star Wars Planets

Canto Bight on the planet Cantonica was filmed in which real city?

The Croatian old town stood in for the casino resort in The Last Jedi.

What is the name of one of the galaxy's companion dwarf galaxies?

The satellite galaxies are very lightly settled; the secret cloner world of Kamino sits in one of them.

What XYZ coordinates does the capital planet hold on the galactic map?

Standard galactic time is also keyed to its local day and year.

What lies at the centre of the Deep Core, making it thinly settled?

High radiation and a lack of stable hyperspace routes keep most settlers out.

Which galactic region contains Naboo?

The Mid Rim is industrialised but unimportant: more developed than the Outer Rim frontier, far less than the Core.

Which planet does The Force Awakens place in the Western Reaches?

The Western Reaches border the largely unexplored Unknown Regions on the galaxy's "west" side.

Which Unknown Regions planet became Starkiller Base?

The same region hides the first Jedi temple and the Chiss Ascendancy into which Thrawn was born.

Where do Sidious's Sith forces secretly rebuild, unknown even to the First Order?

The Imperial remnant had retreated into the Unknown Regions after Endor to become the First Order.

NASA compared the ocean world Kepler-22b to which Star Wars planet?

Kepler-452b was matched to Coruscant and the molten Kepler-10b and 78b to Mustafar.

In Lucas's early treatment, the story opened on the fourth moon of which planet?

Its hero was a young warrior called Annikin Starkiller; the desert later became Aquilae, then Utapau again.

Which countries did Lucas first want to shoot Tatooine in before Fox refused?

Antonioni's The Passenger had inspired the Algeria idea; Tunisia won after a scouting trip to Djerba.

Which Matmata hotel served as the Lars homestead interior?

The troglodyte dwelling sits in a large hole in the ground; shooting there added a day to the schedule.

What disrupted the opening day of desert filming on March 22, 1976?

Not ideal for an arid desert planet.

Tatooine takes its name from a town in which country?

Tataouine is in the south; the planet's name is never actually spoken in the final 1977 screenplay.

Why were the Anchorhead scenes with Biggs Darklighter cut from the original film?

Editor Richard Chew cut them to improve the pace; Luke's mention of Tosche Station is all that survives.

In whose style did John Williams write the Mos Eisley cantina band's music?

Unusual instrumentation gave the swing tune an other-worldly sound.

What are the names of Tatooine's two suns?

They are binary G-type stars; the planet's population is under 100,000.

In which 1991 novel was Coruscant first named?

Timothy Zahn's book gave the capital its name; the screen debut came in the 1997 Return of the Jedi re-release.

How many levels does the city of Coruscant have?

The wealthiest live on top; new blocks were simply built over old ones for centuries.

What was Coruscant renamed under the Galactic Empire?

Triple Zero was its Clone Wars code name; Yuuzhan'tar came with the Vong invasion in the novels.

In-universe, Coruscant is named after what?

The city lights seen from space were said to glitter like corusca gems.

What was the Empire's sprawling city-homeworld called in early Return of the Jedi drafts?

It was abandoned as impossible to realise at the time; the name later went to a mythic Deep Core planet in the comics.

Which 1927 film partly inspired Coruscant's streams of flying traffic between skyscrapers?

For the street level in Attack of the Clones, Doug Chiang turned instead to Blade Runner.

What is the most intelligent creature native to Hoth?

The planet is the sixth in its system and has three moons.

Near which Norwegian village was Hoth filmed?

The Hardangerjøkulen glacier doubled for the ice planet in subzero temperatures.

What mimicked snow on the miniature set for the Battle of Hoth?

Echo Base itself was set partly in caves formed by giant ice bubbles.

What do Ewoks call the gas giant their forest moon orbits?

The Ewoks cartoon even gave the system two suns, which the Databank puts down to Ewok myth.

On which ocean moon does the second Death Star's wreckage lie in The Rise of Skywalker?

It orbits the same gas giant as the forest moon, one of nine moons in all.

What happened to the Endor forest location shortly after filming?

The private logging land near Smith River, California, was felled; the speeder chase used Cheatham Grove.

Dagobah is said to resemble Earth during which geological period?

Its wet season brings violent lightning, dense fog and torrential rain; the dry season bakes the uplands.

Which novel's fog-shrouded swamp planet Mimban may have inspired Dagobah's design?

Alan Dean Foster's book appeared between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.

Why did Lucas cut the Revenge of the Sith scene of Yoda arriving on Dagobah?

It was released on the DVD as "Exile to Dagobah".

What did the New Republic name the mountain base it founded on Dagobah?

The planet's carnivorous gnarltrees start life as spiderlike mobile creatures before rooting.

Besides Leia, which Mandalorian character is from Alderaan?

Moff Gideon reveals the former Republic shock trooper's origin, which she later confirms.

Which Swiss location was composited into Alderaan's snowy backdrop in Revenge of the Sith?

Bail Organa lands among the mountains to bring the newborn Leia to Queen Breha.

Which star does Geonosis orbit?

The red-desert planet is one of six in its system and is ringed by asteroids.

Geonosis's landscapes were inspired by which real region?

It appears in only one film, Attack of the Clones, with actors shot against blue screen.

Where on Geonosis do Obi-Wan, Anakin and Padmé face three beasts?

The beasts are an acklay, a nexu and a reek; the Stalgasin Hive is the planet's most important.

Which lone Geonosian survivor tries to warn Saw Gerrera about the Death Star in Rebels?

He draws the station on the ground but is not understood.

Which Mayan site stood in for Yavin 4 in A New Hope?

Lucas spotted the Guatemalan ruins on a travel-agency poster in England; UNESCO listed the site two years after filming.

How many natural satellites does the gas giant Yavin have?

The fourth is the jungle moon with the Massassi temples that became the Rebel base.

Why is Poe Dameron from Yavin 4?

Isaac asked for the birthplace so he would feel closer to the character, before The Force Awakens was even out.

In Legends, which Sith Lord fled to Yavin 4 around 5000 BBY and inspired its temples?

Exar Kun later enslaved the Massassi and hid his spirit in a temple for millennia.

Where were Rogue One's Yavin 4 scenes shot?

The set ran about 107 metres by 61, with matte paintings extending it.

Which forested planet is the Wookiee homeworld?

Lucas based Chewbacca on his Alaskan Malamute, Indiana, who later lent his name to another hero.

Which furry species lives on the forest moon of Endor?

The moon also hosts Duloks and Yuzzum, and is the site of Darth Vader's funeral pyre.

Which Jedi Master chose Dagobah as his place of exile?

The planet is strong in the living Force, which masks his presence from the Empire.

What blankets the entire surface of Hoth?

The climate is habitable but mostly too cold for intelligent life to develop.

Which Hutt dominates Tatooine's underworld until Return of the Jedi?

The Empire kept only a token presence, so his reign went unchallenged until his death.

On whose orders is Alderaan destroyed by the Death Star?

Peter Cushing's Tarkin calls it both a full-power test and a message to the galaxy.