Dagobah/Legends

"Mudhole?! Slimy?! My home this is!"

- Yoda

Dagobah was an Outer Rim planet in the Dagobah system. A remote world of swamps and forests, it served as a refuge for Jedi Grand Master Yoda during his exile, but otherwise had no notable intelligent life.

Geography
"Yes! I'm sure it's perfectly safe for droids."

- Luke Skywalker to R2-D2

Dagobah was a harsh, humid, swampy planet, mostly covered in shallow marshland, interspersed with stifling forests. There were very few truly open bodies of water on the planet: the water supply was thinly invested throughout the planet's main habitat, swampland, although there were vast expanses of mud fields. Dagobah was home to many creatures, such as bogwings, dragonsnakes, nudj, sleens, vine snakes, and swamp slugs. Examples of flora included the Gnarltree and Meat flower. The planet was devoid of any advanced civilization, although the primitive Hepsalum Tash managed to eke out a living in the bogs.

History
"I'm not picking up any cities or technology. Massive life-form readings, though. There's something alive down there."

- Luke Skywalker

Discovery and Surveys
The first official Republic survey of Dagobah occurred in 39 BBY. In 38 BBY, forty Humans crashed on Dagobah, and were forced to raise their children as cannibals.

Prior to the Clone Wars, a Republic research team under Halka Four-Den was stationed on Dagobah to research the native flora and fauna. Unfortunately, Halka Four-Den and her research team later died on Dagobah before they could be retrieved, due to the neglect of their superiors.

At the outbreak of the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Yoda was quick to recall Master Kenobi's search for Kamino, a lost planet beyond the Outer Rim. He knew that if Kamino was deleted from the Jedi Archives, other such planets must exist. He discovered thirty-seven such worlds, Dagobah one of them. He passed over it, but not before considering it as a refuge. He also might have remembered the time he spent on a similar swamp planet long before in his past.

Yoda returned to the planet in pursuit of a Dark Jedi from Bpfassh, who was fleeing to the backwater world with kidnapped smuggler Jorj Car'das. In a battle that waged across the swamps over several days, Yoda killed the Dark Jedi, and thereafter healed Car'das.

Yoda's Exile
"Failed, I have. Into exile, I must go."

- Yoda

Near the beginning of the Great Jedi Purge, Yoda entered into exile in the swamps of Dagobah after facing Darth Sidious. He had decided long before, that in case  his failure  became a reality, he would go there. By choosing a world that "didn't exist" and living on a planet writhing with the Living Force, Yoda remained completely undetectable. He made his dwelling near the cave where he had slain the Bpfasshi Dark Jedi, which further negated his light side presence.

Tash Arranda and Zak Arranda met Yoda on the planet, but he chose not to train them in the Jedi ways at that time, explaining to them he was awaiting a different student. Afterwards, the Arrandas assisted in the rescue of the descendants of the survey team dispatched in 38 BBY, thus ridding Dagobah of the closest thing to an "advanced civilization" it had probably ever boasted. While on Dagobah, Yoda also met, healed, and redeemed the smuggling kingpin Jorj Car'das.

The next Skywalker
"You will go to the Dagobah system. There you will learn from Yoda, the Jedi master who instructed me."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker

In 3 ABY, during the Galactic Civil War, Luke Skywalker was visited on the ice planet Hoth by the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi, who instructed him to seek Yoda on Dagobah in order that he might be trained in the ways of the Jedi. Skywalker traveled to Dagobah in his T-65 X-wing, along with R2-D2, after the end of the Battle of Hoth. Due to a bumpy landing, Luke's X-wing ended up being half-buried in the swamp, and a grumpy and irritable Luke met a strange creature that turned out to be Yoda. During his grueling training, Luke learned control and power in the Force. Many of the teaching methods he learns here are later applied at his Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4. He also entered the cave where Yoda had defeated the Dark Jedi to test himself and experianced a vision where he fought a version of Darth Vader with Luke's face underneath his mask, hinting at both Vader's identity as his father and his own later involvement with the dark side. Later in his training, Skywalker had a vision of his friends Han Solo, Leia Organa, and Chewbacca suffering on Bespin. As a result, he left his training early, promising Yoda that he would return to complete it.

He did return in 4 ABY, but only in time to have one final conversation with Yoda before his death. Afterwards, he spoke extensively with Obi-Wan Kenobi about the conflicting stories of Luke's parentage.

Jedi Involvement
The New Republic established a base on Mount Yoda in 5 ABY.

Luke Skywalker would return to Dagobah in 9 ABY, this time seeing a vision of the past in the cave and finding the Dark Jedi's beckon call. He would return again in 13 ABY with his then-love Callista, trying to re-establish her connection to the Force.

In 22 ABY, Anakin Solo along with Ikrit, Tahiri Veila, Uldir Lochett, Peckhum and R2-D2 returned to Dagobah because Anakin had been troubled by visions of himself as a Dark Jedi; this was due to his heritage as the grandson of Anakin Skywalker, who had become the infamous Darth Vader. After surviving encounters with the planet's dangerous fauna, Anakin and his companions finally reached the same cave to which Luke had gone years before. There, Anakin faced the manifestations of his own doubts, but emerged victorious.

In 36 ABY, Grand Master Luke Skywalker sent Jedi Knights Tahiri, Lowbacca and Tesar Sebatyne to Dagobah to meditate in exile. They had been deemed a threat to Jedi security due to the three Joiners passing Jedi information to Aryn Dro Thul during the Swarm War. Luke told them that he would call them once he felt they were ready to rejoin the order, and that they were not to leave until they felt that call.

Fauna

 * Accipiptero
 * Bogwing
 * Butcherbug
 * Dagobah python
 * Dragon snake
 * Jubba bird
 * Knobby white spider
 * Leaf-tail
 * Lobel
 * Morp
 * Nharpira
 * Nudj
 * Scrange
 * Sleen
 * Spade-headed smooka
 * Spotlight sloth
 * Swamp slug
 * Vine snake

Behind the scenes

 * Dagobah is the name of a container used to hold a Buddha's relics.
 * Slated to appear in one scene in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the planet was cut from the final film, leaving it for the DVD release.
 * In Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Luke notes that the environment looks familiar to him. This may have been hinting at an unknown earlier connection of Luke's youth with the planet; since nothing like that has been revealed yet, Luke probably refers to Force visions he had in dreams.

Appearances



 * Heart of Darkness
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * "Chapter 21"
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * What They Called Me
 * The Hidden
 * Star Wars: Empire at War
 * Star Wars Empire: Darklighter
 * Vader's Quest
 * Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
 * Star Wars: Demolition
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
 * Galaxy of Fear: The Hunger
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (novel)
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Slippery Slope
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * The Glove of Darth Vader
 * Mission from Mount Yoda
 * Heir to the Empire
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
 * Darksaber
 * Junior Jedi Knights: Anakin's Quest
 * Junior Jedi Knights: Vader's Fortress
 * Star by Star
 * The Final Prophecy
 * Dark Nest III: The Swarm War
 * Tempest

Non-canon appearances

 * Yoda Stories
 * Return of the Ewok
 * LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II