Echo Base/Legends

Echo Base was established on Hoth as the Rebel Alliance headquarters after the Battle of Yavin.

After their success against the Galactic Empire at Yavin 4, Rebel Alliance High Command sent many expedition teams across the galaxy to scout locations for a new base, realizing that Imperial retribution would come swiftly against their base on Yavin 4. While fleeing an Imperial pursuit squadron in 0 ABY, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo fled to the icy world of Hoth. Its remote location, protective asteroid belt and low liklihood of Imperial presence made it an ideal location for the new Alliance headquarters. After escaping an attack by the smuggler Salmakk, Skywalker recommended the world to Alliance High Command, and the leaders agreed to his proposal.

Sold the location of a series of caves by an old smuggler, Major Kem Monnon, head of the Alliance Corps of Engineers, was dispatched to Hoth to plan and oversee the construction what would become Echo Base. Geothermal analysis indicated that the best location for the base was on the northern edge on the only livable temperate band near the equator. Monnon's engineers built the base under the mountains of the Clabburn Range south of the Nev Ice Flow and reinforced the natural ice caverns beneath the surface of Hoth to serve as pathways. After two standard years, Echo Base was completed in 2 ABY. Two large bay doors provided main entrances at the north and south ends of the mountain range. The hangar was one of the first segments built to allow for the steady inflow of resources. The facility included perimeter defense trenches, static anti-infantry and -vehicle emplacements, v-150 Planet Defender ion cannon, OrC-19 planetary com-scan unit, theater shield, medical facility and command center. At its height, the base housed 7,500 combat and command personnel, 350 medical personnel and 120 droids. The hangar was large enough to simultaneously house at least thirty GR-75 Medium Transports, sixty Rebel starfighters, twelve snowspeeders, the Millennium Falcon and Outrider.

The Alliance patrolled the terrain surrounding Echo Base with mounted tauntaun riders and snowspeeders, and regularly warded off wampa attacks. The perimeter of the base was dotted with scout posts labeled "Echo Stations", such as Echo Station 3-8, Echo Station 3-T-8 and Echo Station 5-7. Echo Base was the site of the Battle of Hoth, between the Empire and the Alliance in 3 ABY. The Empire sent powerful assault units to Hoth to crush the Alliance base. The Rebels fought a delaying action to allow time for Code 1-5 &mdash; the evacuation of the base. But the Imperial Blizzard Force eventually destroyed the base's power generator and deployed Snowtroopers into the base. In the brutal room-to-room fighting that ensued, many remaining personnel were killed. As the last Alliance transports lifted off, the ion cannon was set to self-destruct to collapse Echo Base.

In 11 ABY, an Imperial Remnant force reoccupied the ruins of Echo Base. Hoping the discover the location of Dagobah in the working segments of the Alliance computer core, the Sith devotees of the cult of Ragnos and their Imperial subordinates dug undernearth the hulk of a fallen AT-AT. Their activities were discovered by Jaden Korr. The young Jedi destroyed the force of snowtroopers and AT-ST walkers, and chased off the Sith acolytes.

When Skywalker and Callista returned to Hoth a year later in 12 ABY, and encountered a band of desperate wampa-pelt hunters holed up in the deserted Base while their hungry quarry waited outside. Though the two Jedi tried to rescue the group, the wampas demonstrated their uncanny ability to work together as a killing team. Luke and Callista barely escaped from Hoth with their lives.

Known Personnel

 * 2-1B
 * Cal Alder (Scout who patrols outer perimeter of Echo Base)
 * Jess Allashane
 * Wedge Antilles
 * Areta Bell
 * Berec Tanaal
 * Vildar Blin
 * Trey Callum
 * Beryl Chiffonage
 * Major Bren Derlin (Head of base security)
 * C-3PO
 * Chewbacca
 * EG-4
 * F4-7
 * Toryn Farr
 * Ledick Firest
 * Fixit
 * Nala Hetsime
 * Reye Hollis
 * Tigran Jamiro (Senior logistics officer)
 * Wes Janson
 * Jobin
 * K-3PO
 * Kensaric
 * Derek Klivian
 * Kira Lar
 * Maer
 * Pharl McQuarrie
 * Lag Mettier
 * Voren Na'al
 * Romas Navander
 * Kesin Ommis
 * Corman Quien
 * R2-D2
 * R-3PO
 * R5-M2
 * Tamizander Rey
 * Carlist Rieekan
 * Vyn Rolado
 * Wyron Serper
 * Commander Luke Skywalker
 * Han Solo
 * Palo Torshan
 * Shawn Valdez
 * Jeroen Webb

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Battlefront
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Entrenched
 * Shadows of the Empire video game
 * Darksaber
 * Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy