Tatoo I/Legends

Tatoo I, also known as G1, was one of the yellow stars at the heart of the Tatoo system. A binary star, its partner was Tatoo II.

Desrciption
Tatoo I was a bright yellow G1-type star. It had a lifespan of ten billion years. Tatoo I was a binary star, forming the Tatoo system with its sister, the G2-type star Tatoo II. The two stars shared the planets Tatooine, Ohann, and Adriana.

Tatoo I was located at the crossroads of the Triellus Trade Route and the Old Corellian Run in the Arkanis sector of the the Slice's Outer Rim segment.

Culture
Children on Tatooine would often tell stories of huge, powerful dragons that would live inside the two great suns that would shine down upon them. Smaller cousins of these dragons were to live in the fusion furnaces that powered many types of machinery and vehicles.

History
Some early explorers thought the first planet of the system to be the third star, because of it blazing light reflected by its sodium-rich deserts. Tatooine had a strong presence in the Force, which led the Infinite Empire of the Rakata to the star system of Tatoo I. The collapse of their empire in 25,200 BBY caused the system to left alone for some millennia. The Galactic Republic explored the segment of the Slice in which Tatoo I was located during the Great Manifest Period and the Indecta Era. By 1,004 BBY, the nearby region belonged to the New Sith Empire, including the Hutt Space, a large region of the known galaxy controlled by the Hutt species. After the Seventh Battle of Ruusan in 1,000 BBY the region remained in Hutt control until the reign of the Galactic Empire. During the Galactic Civil War the system changed hand several times: it's region was taken from the New Republic by the Empire during the Thrawn campaign, but was left after the Grand Admiral's death. Later the space around the Tatoo I was controlled by the Galactic Alliance, until the Sith-Imperial War 127–130 ABY, when the Fel Empire conquested much of the known galaxy, but was quickly replaced by Darth Krayt's Sith Empire.

Behind the scenes
Tatoo I was created for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but technically it appeared first in the novelization of the film in December 1976, half a year before the premiere.

Non-canon appearances

 * Old Wounds
 * The Princess Leia Diaries
 * Sandstorm
 * Falling Star
 * Skippy the Jedi Droid

Notes and references
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