Hoth

"There isn't enough life on this ice cube to fill a space cruiser!"

- Han Solo

Hoth was a remote, icy planet that was the sixth planet in the star system of the same name. It notably hosted Echo Base, the temporary headquarters of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, until the Galactic Empire located the Rebels, initiating a major confrontation known as the Battle of Hoth.

Description
"Sir, the temperature's dropping too rapidly."

- A deck officer to Han Solo

From space, the planet of Hoth looked like a pale blue orb due to its dense snow and ice covering. Five planets existed between Hoth and its sun, while an asteroid belt surrounded the planet with meteors occasionally striking the surface. Its surface was covered with glaciers and frozen ice plains. The temperature, although always frigid, was known to drop to -60°C come nightfall. Although devoid of intelligent life, Hoth was home to fifteen species of large gray snow lizards called tauntauns and to a species of towering predators known as wampas.

History
"Com-Scan has detected an energy field protecting an area of the sixth planet of the Hoth system. The field is strong enough to deflect any bombardment."

- General Maximillian Veers

Sometime following the Battle of Yavin, Saponza's Gang established a base on Hoth.

Hoth was the arena of a battle between the Galactic Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic, which had installed its temporary headquarters, Echo Base, on the ice planet. However thanks to one of the thousands of probe droids they had dispatched throughout the galaxy, the Imperials had discovered the Alliance base within a month of the rebels habitation on the planet. Although Echo Base was evacuated in the eleventh hour, the Battle of Hoth resulted in a clear defeat for the Alliance after the elite Imperial Blizzard Force overran it.

In the months following the Battle of Hoth, scavengers established temporary base camps on the planet to scrap the AT-ATs destroyed by the Rebel Alliance during the Empire's attack.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Galactic Defense
 * Star Wars: Force Arena
 * Star Wars Battlefront II
 * Forces of Destiny: Daring Adventures: Volume 2
 * Lost Stars
 * Lost Stars webcomic
 * The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight
 * Star Wars: Battle Pod
 * Star Wars: Commander
 * Star Wars Battlefront
 * A Leader Named Leia
 * Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure
 * Battlefront: Twilight Company
 * Star Wars Adventures: Forces of Destiny: Leia
 * Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
 * The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi?
 * Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization
 * AT-AT Attack!
 * Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure
 * Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side!
 * Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior novelization
 * Aftermath
 * Star Wars: Uprising
 * Aftermath: Empire's End
 * Bloodline
 * Before the Awakening
 * Join the Resistance
 * The Force Awakens, Part II
 * Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition
 * Star Wars: The Last Jedi: A Junior Novel
 * Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition
 * Star Wars: The Last Jedi: A Junior Novel

Non-canon appearances

 * Disney Infinity 3.0
 * LEGO Star Wars Movie Short: Snowball Sight
 * LEGO Star Wars Movie Short: Wampa Woes
 * Star Wars Epic Yarns: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
 * Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
 * Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
 * Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
 * Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
 * Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
 * Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes