Qui-Gon Jinn's homeworld

"I found it years ago. When I was no older than you are now. I found it in the River of Light on my home planet."

- Qui-Gon Jinn, handing Obi-Wan Kenobi a stone from the River of Light

A terrestrial planet was the homeworld of Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. Though he left the world as an infant to become a Jedi, he was known to have visited it later in life. The planet had running surface water and an atmosphere that was suitable for Humans. A type of Force-sensitive stone, one of which Jinn obtained from the River of Light and kept as a memento, was found on the world.

Description
The planet was terrestrial and had a Type I atmosphere that could support Human life. The world had running surface water, including rivers such as the River of Light. A type of stone sensitive to the Force was found in the River of Light. It was shiny black in color, with veins of deep red visible when viewed in bright light. The stone was warm to the touch and emitted crystalline glow in the dark.

History
In 92 BBY, the male Human Qui-Gon Jinn was born on the planet. Not long after, the Jedi Order discovered Jinn's Force-sensitivity and he was taken to the Galactic Republic capital of Coruscant to receive Jedi training. Though most Jedi of the era left their old lives completely behind once they were accepted into the Order, Jinn kept some ties with his planet of birth. During a visit there around 79 BBY at age thirteen, he obtained a Force-sensitive stone from the River of Light. Keeping it for over thirty years as a reminder of his homeworld, Jinn, by then a Jedi Master, eventually handed the stone to his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi when he turned thirteen in 44 BBY. Kenobi in turn gave the stone to his apprentice Anakin Skywalker on his thirteenth birthday in 28 BBY. Knowledge of the existence of Force-sensitive river stones survived into the days of the New Jedi Order; following the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War in 29 ABY, Jedi Knight Tam Azur-Jamin mentioned them in his essay Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena, which discussed the emergence of the Force in inanimate objects and technological devices.

Behind the scenes
Qui-Gon Jinn's homeworld was first mentioned in The Hidden Past, the third installment in the Jedi Apprentice series. Written by Jude Watson and published in 1999, the young reader novel remains the planet's only in-universe mention. Jinn's homeworld has since been referenced in The New Essential Guide to Characters (2002) and The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia (2008). The planet has not been officially named; The New Essential Guide to Characters lists Jinn's homeworld as "unknown," as did Databank, predecessor of StarWars.com's Encyclopedia feature.

The 2005 Hyperspace-exclusive article Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena, written by Abel G. Peña, mentions the Force being found in "lifeless rocks like river stones." In the article endnotes published at his StarWars.com blog, Peña specified that this was meant as a reference to the stones found on Qui-Gon Jinn's homeworld.

Appearances

 * Jedi Apprentice: The Hidden Past