Crait

"Crait? I've never even heard of that system.''" "''With good reason. There's nothing there&mdash;or there shouldn't be."

- Ress Batten and Leia Organa

Crait was a small mineral planet located in a remote section of the galaxy. Covered with a layer of white salt over its red-colored soil, the planet once hosted a Rebel Alliance outpost during their early rebellion against the tyrannical Galactic Empire. Many years later, the uninhabited planet became a haven for Leia Organa's Resistance, which resulted in a battle between the Resistance and the First Order on the planet surface.

Description
"Not exactly the hottest holiday spot in the galaxy, is it? Though I guess if you really want to get away from it all, this is the place."

- Ress Batten

Crait was a small, desolate and uninhabited planet located in a remote star system of the same name. The planet was rich in minerals and orbited one star. A thick crust of white-colored salt covered nearly the entire planet surface, with red-colored mineral base underneath. Dominated by large salt flats, the planet also featured mountains, canyons and deeply sunken waterways&mdash;which were possibly home to aquatic creatures. The planet had a Type 1 atmosphere&mdash;it was breathable to oxygen-breathers, such as humans. The white salt-covered surface reflected the planet's sunlight, which would be blinding at midday. The sodium-containing salt also made the planet surface slippery, hard to travel; with gusts of wind sending up flumes of white salt.

Imperial Era
"I find you in the middle of some kind of&hellip;insurgent camp, and I'm the one who has to answer questions?"

- Leia Organa, to Bail Organa

During the reign of the Galactic Empire, the early rebel movement&mdash;a loose network of rebel cells led in secret by Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan &mdash;established a secret outpost on the northern continent of the planet Crait. In the year 3 BBY, one of these rebel groups attacked Calderos Station, a large Imperial facility used as a deep-space waypoint, to weaken Imperial control and cover rebel shipment tracks to Crait. Although the rebels presumed that all data about Calderos Station was erased, Bail's adopted daughter Princess Leia Organa managed to find some old space traffic data which linked Crait and Calderos Station. To discover the identity of the attacker, Leia Organa and her guard Lieutenant Ress Batten traveled to Crait aboard the Polestar. After the ship landed on the planet surface, Leia was detained by rebel soldiers as she refused their proposal to leave Crait immediately. Upon being taken to the base, Leia found out that it was her father who was in charge of this facility, and her parents were secretly organizing a rebel movement against the Empire.

The rebel movement eventually turned into a more organized Rebel Alliance, and Crait outpost was abandoned some time before the Battle of Scarif in 0 BBY, which marked the outbreak of the Galactic Civil War. Later in the war, Rebel heroes Leia Organa and Luke Skywalker led the Rebellion to Crait in search for a new Rebel base.

First Order–Resistance war
Many years later, some time after the destruction of the Starkiller Base in 34 ABY, Crait became a haven for the fleeing forces of the Resistance, a small military force founded by Leia Organa to combat the First Order. As a result, the planet became a battleground between the two factions, which involved several Resistance ski speeders and First Order All Terrain MegaCaliber Six walkers.

Locations
"Are there any life signs?''" "''Some movement in the canyons, possibly aquatic creatures, but on the surface&mdash;we've got one tiny scratch of a settlement up here on the northern continent."

- Leia Organa and Ress Batten

Crait was a desolate and uninhabited world which had neither orbital stations, nor spaceports. Prior to 3 BBY, the early rebellion against the Empire established a secret outpost on the northern continent of the planet. The outpost was still there when the abandoned base became a haven for the Resistance some time after 34 ABY. Additionally, Crait hosted mines to extract the planet's minerals.

Behind the scenes
"It's way out there. It's very remote. It's uncharted. It's a mineral planet and so there are mines on it."

- Rian Johnson

Crait was created and developed for Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi, the upcoming eighth film in the Star Wars saga, which is scheduled for release on December 15, 2017. The planet was first mentioned in Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide, a reference guide for the 2016 film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, written by Pablo Hidalgo and released on December 16, 2016. Crait made its first appearance in Leia, Princess of Alderaan, a young adult novel written by Claudia Gray and released as part of the Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi on September 1, 2017.

First footage of Crait was revealed in the very first teaser trailer for The Last Jedi, which premiered during The Last Jedi panel at Celebration Orlando on April 14, 2017. The real-world location for Crait was Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat located in Bolivia. According to the film's writer and director Rian Johnson, Crait will "play a key role in the movie."

Crait will also be included in Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, Disney's simulator ride theme park attraction. Anthony Daniels reprised his role as C-3PO for the new sequence, which was recorded in early May 2017. Additionally, Electronic Arts has announced that Crait will be included to the upcoming video game Star Wars Battlefront II in December 2017, coincided with the release of The Last Jedi. Crait will be the subject of the upcoming Marvel Comics title Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Storms of Crait.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Battlefront II
 * Leia, Princess of Alderaan
 * Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Storms of Crait
 * Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi

Non-canon appearances

 * Star Tours: The Adventures Continue