Dantooine

"Dantooine. They're on Dantooine."

- Leia Organa, lying about the location of the Rebel base

Dantooine was a planet within the Galactic Republic and later the Galactic Empire.

History
At one point during the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Mace Windu led a battle on Dantooine; however, many of his troopers were injured. Windu's forces sent out a distress signal and awaited a delivery of medical supplies from Padawans Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee.

During the early Galactic Civil War, the Rebellion briefly used the planet as the location of a base, which had been abandoned by the time of the Battle of Yavin.

When Princess Leia Organa was on the Death Star, the Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin threatened to destroy Leia's home planet of Alderaan if she did not provide him with the location of the Rebellion's secret base. Leia then named this planet as the location of the base, but Tarkin nevertheless ordered that the destruction of Alderaan go forward, as, in his words, Dantooine was "too remote to make an effective demonstration." Tarkin relayed Leia's information to other Imperial forces, who visited the planet only to find the abandoned Rebel base. Upon learning this, Tarkin ordered Leia's immediate execution.

Behind the scenes
Dantooine was first mentioned in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope as a former location for a Rebel base and has since been only briefly mentioned in passing in canon. Stories from the Expanded Universe, later re-branded as Star Wars Legends, particularly the Knights of the Old Republic and The New Jedi Order, provided extensive details both about the planet's composition and history, within the Legends context.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope