Dantooine/Legends

"Dantooine is too remote to make an effective demonstration, but don't worry... we will deal with your rebel friends soon enough."

- Grand Moff Tarkin

Dantooine was a pleasant world of grasslands, rivers and lakes. The planet was an endpoint of Myto's Arrow, the other endpoint of which was in Obtrexta Sector. The planet hosted a small population spread amongst single-family settlements and small communities with large land holdings. Its sentient population consisted primarily of simple human farmers, though Dantooine was also home to the primitive Dantari race. Native wildlife included the kath hound, the iriaz, the kinrath, and the fabool.

Planetary data
A normal day on Dantooine lasted twenty-five standard hours, and a local year lasted 378 local days.

Dantooine had several continents. There was an equatorial one that was connected to a larger northern one and a south polar one by slender land bridges, as well as a disconnected north-eastern continent.

An olive, blue, and brown colored world, Dantooine is far removed from the bustle of the galactic trade routes. Two moons float in the skies above the savannas of lavender grasses.

Separated by forests of spiky blba trees, colonists maintain individual family estates largely isolated from each other.

Infinite Empire
The planet was one of the subject worlds of the Infinite Empire. The Rakata built several structures on its surface; at least one of which housed a Star Map and several Rakata-made droids, were still standing by the time of the Jedi Civil War.

Old Sith Wars
During the Old Sith Wars, the Galactic Republic began a full-scale colonization campaign on Dantooine. While the Republic by itself had virtually no military on the planet, the settlers were protected by another powerful force—the Jedi Order.

By at least 3,997 BBY, a Jedi training enclave was established by Master Vodo-Siosk Baas, although ruins of an even older Jedi structure could be found on the planet. Many great Jedi of the Sith War were trained on Dantooine. However, the Enclave on Dantooine was infamous for the number of its students who eventually fell to the dark side; among them were some of the greatest enemies of the Republic during that unstable period, such as Exar Kun, Revan, and Malak.



Forty years later, in 3,956 BBY, the leading instructors at the Dantooine Jedi Enclave were Masters Vrook, Zhar, Vandar, and Dorak. When Bastila Shan brought a mind-wiped Revan before the Dantooine council, they decided to give Revan another chance to redeem himself. Revan was trained there for a second time.

Just weeks after Revan completed his new training, the Enclave, along with many of Dantooine's other settlements, was destroyed by Darth Malak, who was obsessed with finding Revan (Malak also took special care to bombard the ancient Rakatan temple to preserve the Star Forge's secrecy, but by then it was too late). This attack sent the Dantooine farming community into decay, as the Republic, weakened by the war, could not offer its support to the remote world. Until the collapse of the Sith Empire a year later, Dantooine was occupied by the Sith, who executed almost all local leaders.

From 3,956 to 3,951 BBY, the settlers, led by Administrator Terena Adare, began to rebuild their community by constructing the outpost of Khoonda. By then, Dantooine was populated by mercenaries and scavengers, the latter trying to make a living by finding Jedi relics from the ruined Enclave and selling them.



In 3,951, the Republic nearly lost Dantooine to the Exchange, which planned to use the world as an outpost in the Outer Rim. Exchange mercenaries under the leadership of Azkul made trouble for the settlers, eventually culminating in the First Battle of Dantooine. Thanks to the efforts of Master Vrook and the Jedi Exile, the meager Khoonda militia prevailed over Azkul's forces, and Dantooine remained in the Republic. The Republic eventually sent some of its forces to protect the battered planet.

After the battle, the Enclave was rebuilt and briefly became the residence of the reformed Jedi Council (Master Vrook, Master Kavar, and Master Zez-Kai Ell), but it was abandoned shortly after, when the Council members were killed by Darth Traya. Buried beneath the deserted Enclave was a hidden facility in which the ancient Jedi Knights carried on mysterious cloning experiments.

Clone Wars
During the Clone Wars, Mace Windu won a widely publicized victory at the Battle of Dantooine. He was rumored to have single-handedly defeated an army of B-2 battle droids and a massive seismic tank, without his lightsaber for much of the battle.

Galactic Civil War


Years later, the Rebel Alliance established Dantooine as their headquarters, establishing a prefabricated base in the ruins of the old Jedi Enclave and using the planet as a staging post for starfighter strikes&mdash;most famously, the Battle of Danuta for the recovery of the Death Star plans.

After the Alliance's relocation to Yavin 4, Princess Leia tried to fool Grand Moff Tarkin into believing that the main Rebel base was still located on Dantooine, attempting to spare her homeworld of Alderaan from the destructive power of the Empire's newest weapon. Tarkin replied that Dantooine was too remote to use as an effective demonstration of the Death Star (the deciding factor here seemed to be a political and social impact rather than military necessity). Subsequently, the Empire took over the vacated Alliance base and discovered the Jedi cloning facility in the ruins, using it as a research base in an attempt to develop rapid cloning procedures.

Post-Endor era
After the Battle of Endor, Dantooine came under New Republic control, and the elite unit known as Lando's Commandos made use of a cloaked stealth fighter housed in a "museum" on the planet - though given the lack of public infrastructure on the planet, and the secret nature of cloaking technology, this may have been a euphemistic description for a military storehouse.



In the turbulent years following the reborn clone Emperor's resurrection, the New Republic relocated several refugees from Eol Sha to Dantooine. The colonist refugees did not have a chance to meet the native Dantari, since Admiral Daala dispatched an Imperial force that massacred all the refugees.

Two months after the start of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, New Republic forces, including Luke, Leia, Jacen and Anakin, landed on Dantooine to try to escape the invading Yuuzhan Vong. Eventually, though, the Yuuzhan Vong caught them in a deadlock, blocking their escape from the world. Many refugees and New Republic soldiers were killed before Admiral Kre'fey's fleet arrived and rescued them. The Yuuzhan Vong quickly conquered Dantooine, destroying the native Dantari population.

It is assumed the Galactic Alliance reclaimed Dantooine when the Yuuzhan Vong surrendered.

Fauna

 * Brith
 * Kath hound
 * Iriaz
 * Kinrath
 * Laigrek
 * Bol
 * Huurton
 * Piket longhorn
 * Quenker
 * Thune
 * Voritor lizard
 * Graul

Appearances



 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War
 * Shadows and Light
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * "Chapter 12"
 * "Chapter 13"
 * Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars: Empire at War
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Nerf Herder
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
 * Star Wars 3-D 3: The Dark Side of Dantooine
 * Galaxy of Fear: Clones
 * Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
 * Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
 * Lando's Commandos: On Eagles' Wings
 * Dark Apprentice
 * Dark Tide I: Onslaught
 * Force Heretic III: Reunion