Hoth asteroid field

"They'd be stupid to follow us, or make it!"

- Han Solo.

The Hoth Asteroid Field was located in the outermost orbit of the Hoth system.

Billions of years before the Rebel Alliance established a base in the system, two planets here collided, creating an extremely dangerous asteroid field; the odds of navigating it successfully were said to be 3,720 to 1.

The belt was rumored to be hiding an asteroid of pure platinum, which was supposedly sighted by a prospector called Kerane, who left the system to verify its purity only to discover that he could no longer find the asteroid. It became known as "Kerane's Folly".

Some of the asteroids were large enough to maintain a thin atmosphere, which allowed crystal ferns to grow or support giant space slugs. The larger asteroids were also used by smugglers and pirates, such as Clabburn, to establish hidden bases.

Han Solo, with C-3PO and Leia Organa onboard stumbled into this asteroid field, being chased by the Imperial Star Destroyer Accuser and a handful of its TIE Fighters. There they had an unfortunate encounter with a space slug.

Dash Rendar fled from Echo Base in his ship The Outrider along with his assistant droid, LE-BO2D9. They also took a shortcut through this system and were chased by probably the same Star Destroyer's TIE Fighters and TIE Bombers.

It was the Hoth asteroids that Durga the Hutt chose to mine while constructing his Darksaber weapon. New Republic forces discovered the plot, however, and the Darksaber was eventually crushed by two colliding planetoids.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Shadows of the Empire
 * Darksaber
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader