Dantooine/Legends

Dantooine is a fictional planet from the Star Wars universe.

Dantooine was mentioned only once in the Star Wars films. In A New Hope, Princess Leia tries to fool Grand Moff Tarkin into believing that the Rebel base is located there. Tarkin replies that Dantooine is "too remote" to use the Death Star on (the deciding factor here seems to be a political and social impact rather than military necessity).

What we know about Dantooine comes from the Expanded Universe. It is a pleasant world of grasslands, rivers, and lakes, very much like the savanna of Africa. It hosts a small population spread amongst single-family settlements and small communities with large land holdings. Native creatures include the kath hound, the iriaz, the fabool, and the sentient Dantari people.

Dantooine was one of the subject worlds of the Infinite Empire, and a Star Map containing data about the Star Forge could be found in an underground structure there. Dantooine also boasts the complex in which the ancient Jedi Knights carried on mysterious cloning experiments.

A Jedi training enclave established by Master Vodo-Siosk Baas was in operation on Dantooine during the Great Sith War, but was destroyed by Darth Malak, along with many of the planet's other settlements, forty years later.

The planet is seen in the Cartoon Microseries Star Wars: Clone Wars, where Mace Windu defeats a Separatist army poised to reinforce the Confederacy on nearby Muunilinst.

In modern times, civilization can only be found on a few isolated ranches on the planet's surfacce.

Kath hound
Kath hounds are creatures indigenious to the planet. They are about the size of a large dog or small horse. They are generally not very hostile unless provoked. When Darth Revan was being retrained as a Jedi, one of the tasks Dantooine's Jedi academy council ordered him to complete was to remove a dark side taint which has made the kath hounds more violent. There is also a larger variation of the kath hound called a horned kath hound, which has two husks and is slightly larger and tougher.