Hoth/Legends


 * This article is about the planet Hoth. There was also a Jedi by the name of Lord Hoth.

Hoth is the sixth planet of the remote Hoth system. Located in the Anoat Sector along the Ison Corridor, Hoth orbits the blue-white star Hoth on a wide elliptical orbit. Its orbit and axial tilt results in consistently icy weather patterns. Beyond Hoth was a large asteroid belt, known as the Hoth Asteroid Field, from which small asteroids regularly broke off, crashing into Hoth’s icy surface as meteorites.

Daytime temperatures reach levels unbearable to most species. The gale force winds and intense snowstorms that regularly wrack the windswept tundra magnifies the extreme cold of Hoth. Massive oceanic movements beneath the southern hemisphere and the tidal pull of Hoth’s three moons cause regular seismic activity, resulting in a constantly shifting landscape of caves and tunnels. Buried deep in Hoth’s equatorial region is a fissure range where lumni-spice grows. The frigid biosphere included a minimal food chain: the predator wampas, the omnivore tauntauns, Hoth hogs, a few rodent species, ice worms and lichens.

Before Hoth’s use by the Rebel Alliance, the planet was relatively unknown and unvisited. A few pirates and smugglers, such as Raskar, attempted to liberate the valuable lumni-spice, but were unsuccessful.

When Luke Skywalker accidentally discovered Hoth while fleeing Imperial forces shortly after the Battle of Yavin, he recommended the ice world to Alliance High Command as a location for their new base. The asteroid belt provided a difficult barrier, the remoteness and near unbearable temperatures made it an unlikely candidate for Imperial probing, and the ever shifting caverns meant that it would be easy to move the base within the planet. After defeating the forces of smuggler Salmakk, the Alliance established Echo Base on Hoth. The base was built on the northern edge on the only livable temperate band near the equator. It was not long before Darth Vader’s Death Squadron discovered the Rebels and the Battle of Hoth ensued between Rebel and Imperial forces.

After the ground battle in 3 ABY, Hoth returned to a world of obscurity, visited mostly by poachers, smugglers, and the occasional tourist. However, Kyle Katarn and Jaden Korr later located an Imperial Remnant base on the planet.