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{{Youmay|a junk world planet from ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series)|The Clone Wars]]''|the planet [[Lothal]] from ''[[Star Wars Rebels]]''}}
 
 
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{{Quote|That's ''Lotho Minor'' down there. The ''Junk World''. No one comes to Lotho Minor. ''No one''.''"<br />"''You're right, kid. No one comes to Lotho Minor&mdash;not unless they're crazy.|Brennar and Captain Spikewheel|Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle 1}}
'''Lotho Minor''', also known as the '''Junk World''', was a neutral [[planet]] located in the [[Outer Rim Territories]] that was used as a dumping ground for [[The galaxy|the galaxy's]] garbage. The [[homeworld]] of both the [[Anacondan]] and [[Junker]] [[species]], its surface was covered with junk and trash amassed over a number of generations, which brought salvage operations to the planet to find junk that could still be used. Following [[Sexes|his]] defeat during the [[Battle of Naboo]], the [[Sith Lord]] [[Darth Maul]] went into exile in the bowels of Lotho Minor, where he lost his mind until being rescued by his brother, [[Savage Opress]], over a decade later.
 
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'''Lotho Minor''', also known as the '''Junk World''', was a ruined [[planet]] in the [[Outer Rim Territories]] that was the [[homeworld]] of the mysterious [[Junker]] [[species]]. As one of [[the galaxy]]'s dumping grounds, Lotho Minor's surface was covered with [[mountain]]s of trash amassed over untold generations, which brought [[Scavenger|salvage]] operations to the planet in search of machinery that could still be repurposed.
   
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Following [[Sexes|his]] defeat at the [[Battle of Naboo]], with his body shattered, the [[Dark Lord of the Sith|Sith Lord]] [[Maul|Darth Maul]] went into [[Exile (punishment)|exile]] in the bowels of Lotho Minor, where he lost his mind. To escape the planet, he sent out a transmission, offering a great sum of [[credit]]s for capture of himself in hopes of luring a [[starship]] that he could escape in. The transmission was intercepted by the [[droid]] [[Captain]] [[Spikewheel]] and her crew of scavenger hopefuls; however, Maul's attempt to flee the planet failed.
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The crazed [[Sith]] was eventually found by his brother, [[Savage Opress]], over a [[Standard decade|decade]] after the former's defeat on [[Naboo]]. During the [[Galactic Civil War]], the [[Duros]] [[Akar Duel]] ruled over a collection of [[monster droid]]s built from Lotho Minor's scrap and claimed the planet as his own, but his servants turned against him and gained their freedom after encountering the [[Alliance to Restore the Republic|Rebel Alliance]] [[3PO unit|droid]] [[C-3PO]].
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==Description==
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{{Quote|We've got everything here!|Morley, in reference to Lotho Minor's junk fields|audio=Lotho_Minor_2.ogg|Brothers}}
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[[File:LothoMinorJunk-TCW.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The junk fields of Lotho Minor]]
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A stormy, desolate terrestrial [[planet]]<ref name="Vader's Castle 1" /> located in the [[Outer Rim Territories]],<ref name="USW" /> Lotho Minor had a surface covered with enormous [[mountain]]s of trash piled over countless generations.<ref name="Lotho Minor-DB" /> The gutted and rotting [[hull]]s of ancient [[starship]]s poked through the more recent garbage, lending its landscape the eerie feel of an industrial graveyard. Foul-smelling fog limited visibility,<ref name="Lotho Minor-SWE" /> while huge pools of toxic sludge and periodic bursts of<ref name="Lotho Minor-DB" /> [[Death|deadly]]<ref name="The Secret Academy">''[[Servants of the Empire: The Secret Academy]]''</ref> [[acid rain]] made the<ref name="Lotho Minor-DB" /> [[Temperature|hot]], caustic<ref name="Lotho Minor-SWE" /> planet's ruined ecosystem one of the most dangerous in [[the galaxy]].<ref name="Lotho Minor-DB" /> A mechanical debris field known as the [[Wreck Belt]] [[orbit]]ed Lotho Minor.<ref name="Misadventures" />
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The planet also contained pits, which were the subject of [[List of phrases and slang|slang]] used as an interjection for surprise: "What in the pits of Lotho Minor?" The [[smuggler]] [[Han Solo]] uttered this phrase upon confronting infant [[sarlacc]]s that could move during the [[Imperial Era|reign]] of the [[Galactic Empire]].<ref name="GE 1">[[Galaxy's Edge 1|''Galaxy's Edge'' 1]]</ref>
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==History==
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===Galactic dumping ground===
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{{Quote|Fire-breathers. They'll getcha!|Morley, to Savage Opress|audio=Lotho_Minor_5.ogg|Brothers}}
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[[File:Firebreather_Lotho_Minor.jpeg|thumb|right|250px|Enormous "fire-breathers" incinerated the mountains of scrap on Lotho Minor.]]
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For [[time]] immemorial, Lotho Minor served as an industrial dumping ground for neighboring worlds. [[Freighter|Cargo ships]] routinely dropped holds of garbage onto the planet with little concern for what became of it. Long before the [[Clone Wars]], immense [[refuse incinerator droid]]s were [[Programmer|programmed]] to incinerate Lotho Minor's garbage.<ref name="Fire-breather">{{Databank|fire-breather|Fire-breather|archivedate=20191015235343}}</ref>
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By the [[Standard year|year]] [[20 BBY]],<ref name="Brothers date">''[[Star Wars: Galactic Atlas]]'' dates the events of the [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series)|''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'']] episode "[[Brothers]]," which features the [[Refuse incinerator droid|fire-breathers]] on Lotho Minor, to [[20 BBY]].</ref> these enormous machines continued to labor among the mountains of garbage. Those unfortunate enough to live on Lotho Minor did not know the [[droid]]s' origins and referred to them simply as "[[fire]]-breathers."<ref name="Fire-breather" /> [[Scavenger|Salvage]] operations also dug through the planet-wide junkyard, looking to reclaim and recondition reusable or obsolete machinery, and Lotho Minor came to be known as the Junk World.<ref name="Lotho Minor-DB" />
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===Darth Maul's exile===
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{{Quote|This is where you live? How long have you been here?''"<br />"''Years and years and years.|Savage Opress and Darth Maul|audio=Lotho_Minor_3.ogg|Brothers}}
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[[File:LothoTrial.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Captain Spikewheel stranded a group of recruits on Lotho Minor to capture Darth Maul.]]
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After [[Sexes|his]] defeat at the hands of the [[Jedi]] during the [[Battle of Naboo]]<ref name="Darth Maul" /> in [[32 BBY]],<ref name="GA">''[[Star Wars: Galactic Atlas]]''</ref> the shattered body of [[Maul|Darth Maul]], a [[Dathomirian]] [[Zabrak]] [[Dark Lord of the Sith|Sith Lord]], was dumped amid Lotho Minor's junk.<ref name="Darth Maul" /> Maul lived in [[Exile (punishment)|hiding]] for more than a [[Standard decade|decade]]<ref name="Lotho Minor-SWE" /> in the [[cave]]s beneath Lotho Minor's surface, subsisting off trash<ref name="Morley-SWE">{{SWE|characters|morley|Morley|archivedate=20140222214310}}</ref> and vermin,<ref name="Darth Maul" /> but his driving desire to cling to life pushed him to rebuild himself<ref name="Lotho Minor-SWE" /> with [[spider]]-like [[Limb|legs]] in place of his [[Dismemberment|severed]] ones.<ref name="Darth Maul" /> An [[Anacondan]] known as [[Morley]] cut a deal with Maul in order to survive,<ref name="Morley-DB">{{Databank|morley|Morley|archivedate=20191016014452}}</ref> agreeing to lure unwitting prey into Maul's clutches in return for his leftovers.<ref name="Brothers" />
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At some point, Maul attempted to escape Lotho Minor by sending out a transmission, offering a great sum of [[credit]]s for capture of himself in hopes of luring a starship that he could escape in. The transmission would eventually be heard by [[Spikewheel]], the droid [[captain]] of the starship ''[[Salvage-1]]'', who traveled to the planet a [[Standard week|week]] later. She stranded the [[Kadas'sa'Nikto|Nikto]] [[Gritz]], who aspired to become the droid's [[First Mate|first mate]] and was tasked with capturing Maul, along with three other crew member hopefuls&mdash;the [[human]] [[Brennar]], the [[Theelin]] [[Riki]], and the [[Roonan]] [[Seles]]&mdash;to serve as bait. Not long after Spikewheel left the group on the planet surface, they fell into Maul's [[Darth Maul's lair|subterranean lair]] subsequent to a quick scuffle with each other.<ref name="Vader's Castle 1" />
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[[File:MaulHunts.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Seles is captured by Maul in the latter's lair.]]
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Trying to find their way within the dark labyrinth, Maul quietly grabbed Seles and separated him from the rest of the group, but Brennar soon found both Maul and the captured Roonan. Although the duo was about to be killed by the insane Zabrak, Gritz managed to ensnare Maul in an [[Stun net|electronet]] and save them. The recruits later returned to Spikewheel with the captured Zabrak aboard the ''Salvage-1''. Before the ship could leave the planet's [[atmosphere]], Maul freed himself and attacked the scavengers, splitting the droid captain in half. Riki subsequently opened the ship's rear hatch to ditch Maul; however, Gritz and the remains of his captain also fell from the ship during the process, leaving the hapless [[Nikto]] only to be killed by Maul. Years later, [[Vaneé]], the [[Sith Lord]] [[Anakin Skywalker|Darth Vader's]] [[Aide|attendant]], told the story of the salvagers to scare his [[prisoner]], [[Alliance to Restore the Republic|rebel]] [[Lieutenant]] [[Thom Hudd]], at [[Fortress Vader|Vader's castle]].<ref name="Vader's Castle 1" />
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===Brothers reunited===
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{{Quote|The cargo you just dropped off, what planet did it come from?''"<br />"''The junk fields on planet Lotho Minor!|Savage Opress and a cargo hauler|audio=Lotho_Minor_1.ogg|Brothers}}
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[[File:MaulsLair-Brothers.png|thumb|left|250px|Savage Opress finds his lost brother, Darth Maul, beneath the surface of Lotho Minor.]]
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Lotho Minor remained neutral during the Clone Wars.<ref name="Lotho Minor-SWE" /> In 20 [[Galactic calendar|BBY]],<ref name="Witches date">''[[Star Wars: Galactic Atlas]]'' dates the events of the [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series)|''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'']] episode "[[Witches of the Mist]]" to [[20 BBY]].</ref> [[Mother (title)|Mother]] [[Talzin]] of the [[Dathomir]]ian [[Nightsisters]] tasked [[Savage Opress]] with finding Maul, his long-lost brother, and gave him a [[magic talisman]] to aid in his quest.<ref name="Witches">{{TCW|Witches of the Mist}}</ref> On the planet [[Stobar]], the talisman guided Opress to some dust clinging to an assortment of cargo crates that were being [[transport]]ed by a [[Unidentified Sakiyan cargo hauler|Sakiyan cargo hauler]]. Opress learned that the [[Sakiyan]]'s [[Goji-DF|Turtle Tanker]] had recently visited Lotho Minor and forced the hauler to take him there. When they arrived, Opress dropped the Sakiyan out of the ship in mid-air.<ref name="Brothers" />
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While [[Mission to Lotho Minor|scouring]] the planet's endless garbage wastes for his brother, Opress encountered Morley, who guided him past such threats as the enormous fire-breathers<ref name="Brothers" /> and a tribe<ref name="Junkers-SWE">{{SWE|groups|junkers|Junkers|archivedate=20140529112649}}</ref> of territorial [[Junker]]s. Morley lured Opress into Maul's lair, believing Lotho Minor's newest guest would be their next meal. At first, the two brothers wrestled with each other in the dark labyrinth of garbage, but Opress quickly recognized Maul and saw that his brother's mind had been shattered by his long-ago defeat. When Morley interrupted them to check on the status of their meal, Opress strangled the Anacondan to death for his treachery. At Opress's prodding, Maul soon remembered himself and vowed revenge on the Jedi.<ref name="Brothers" /> The brothers then traveled back to Dathomir, where Talzin repaired Maul's body and mind.<ref name="Revenge">{{TCW|Revenge (episode)|Revenge}}</ref>
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===Planet of misfit droids===
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{{Quote|I was going to say, your ship is junk&mdash;magnificent, beautiful junk. And on this planet&mdash;''my'' planet&hellip;we crave junk. We must have it.|Akar Duel appreciates the ''Millennium Falcon''|Flight of the Falcon, Part 2: The Planet of Misfit Droids}}
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[[File:Lotho_Minor_rebels.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Akar Duel and his droids confront the rebels.]]
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By the time of the [[Galactic Civil War]] between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, a [[Duros]] named [[Akar Duel]] had come to consider Lotho Minor his own planet. He created many [[junk droid]]s from the droid parts he collected on the planet and used [[restraining bolt]]s to force them into his service. Sometime after the [[Battle of Yavin]], a [[Leia Organa's team|team]] of rebels consisting of [[Luke Skywalker]], Han Solo, [[Leia Organa]], [[Chewbacca]], and the [[3PO unit|protocol droid]] [[C-3PO]] traveled to Lotho Minor aboard the [[YT-1300 light freighter|starship]] ''[[Millennium Falcon]]'' in search of a suitable location for a new base. [[Doc (droid)|Doc]] and [[Teetee]], two of Duel's droids, attempted to warn the rebels about Duel, but the Duros had already noticed their arrival.<ref name="Misfit Droids" />
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Surrounding the rebels with his conscripted droids, Duel wanted to [[Thief|steal]] the ''Millennium Falcon''; however, the droids turned against their master upon learning that C-3PO was allowed to have free will, unlike themselves, and they eventually gained their freedom. The rebels then quickly fled Lotho Minor, giving up the idea of establishing a base there. Sometime later, after leaving the planet themselves, Doc and Teetee told their story to [[Bazine Netal]], a [[spy]] who was searching for the ''Millennium Falcon''.<ref name="Misfit Droids" />
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==Inhabitants==
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{{Quote|Trust me! Not everything on this planet is junk.''"<br />"''It's not?''"<br />"''There are things like me. Things that live and breathe.|Morley and Savage Opress|audio=Lotho_Minor_4.ogg|Brothers}}
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[[File:Junkers.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Lotho Minor's native Junkers survived on the planet's scrap and augmented their bodies with cybernetic enhancements.]]
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Lotho Minor was the [[homeworld]] of the mysterious Junkers.<ref name="Junker-DB" /> These tribal<ref name="Junkers-SWE" /> denizens appeared to be a strange hybrid of organic life and mechanical debris, and no one was quite sure of their origin. Lotho Minor's role as a [[Galaxy|galactic]] dumping ground and the Junkers' violent territoriality discouraged any deep exploration into their culture or biology. The Junkers lived off the scrap found on their homeworld's surface, augmenting their strange and twisted bodies with [[Cybernetics|cybernetic]] enhancements. They had lived on Lotho Minor for so long that it was impossible to tell where their bodies ended and the garbage began.<ref name="Junker-DB" />
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The Junk World was also the homeworld of the cunning Anacondan Morley during the Clone Wars.<ref name="Morley-SWE" /> This [[Snake|serpentine]] creature slithered through the mountains of trash and survived by delivering sustenance to [[Darth]] Maul in exchange for the exiled [[Sith]] [[Lord]]'s scraps.<ref name="Brothers" />
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During the reign of the Empire, the Duros Akar Duel also lived on Lotho Minor and regarded himself as the planetary ruler. He employed many junk droids by force, including Doc, Teetee, and [[Unidentified junk droid (EV unit)|another droid]] with the head of an [[EV-series]] unit. In a life-changing moment for all the droids on Lotho Minor, Duel's servants revolted against their master and gained their freedom.<ref name="Misfit Droids" />
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{{Quote|There's a ''haunted labyrinth'' beneath all that scrap.|Captain Spikewheel|Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle 1}}
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Beneath the enormous piles of trash on the Lotho Minor's surface, the Sith Lord Darth Maul lived in a cavernous lair during his exile. Accessible through a deep pit inside a shelter on the surface, Maul's lair consisted of deep tunnels in the junk.<ref name="Brothers" />
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==Behind the scenes==
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{{Quote|I was a huge fan of the ''Clone Wars'' series long before I got this project, and I was familiar with the look of planet Lotho Minor, but for the story I went back to closely examine the world as it's depicted in the episode 'Brothers.' To keep the junkyard setting from overpowering the characters and their action, I took a cue from the series' design choice to show the piles of junk and debris as vague, jagged shapes. It doesn't really take a lot of detail to suggest that these are mountain ranges made up of years and years of garbage pileup, ready to topple over on themselves or crush anyone who disturbs them.|Megan Levens|url=https://www.starwars.com/news/behind-the-spooky-scenes-of-idws-return-to-vaders-castle-1-exclusive}}
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[[File:Lotho_Minor_Spirit_Of_B.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lotho Minor environment design illustration by Pat Presley]]
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Lotho Minor was originally created for "[[Brothers]]," the twenty-first episode in the [[The Clone Wars: Season Four|fourth season]] of the [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series)|''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'']] animated television series, which first aired on [[March 9]], [[2012]].<ref name="Episode Guide">''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Episode Guide]]''</ref> Several "spirit of" designs for Lotho Minor were illustrated by [[Kilian Plunkett]] and [[Pat Presley]], and the planet was referred to as "Lamoth" in some pieces of concept art.<ref name="Concept Art Gallery">{{SW|url=series/clone-wars/brothers-concept-art-gallery|text=Brothers Concept Art Gallery|archivedate=20191015235925}} {{C|Slides 5, 6, 9, and 10}}</ref> The [[StarWars.com]] [[Encyclopedia (StarWars.com)|Encyclopedia]] entry for Lotho Minor introduced the nickname "Junk World."<ref name="Lotho Minor-SWE" />
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The planet later appeared in a story dubbed "The Horned Devil!" in the [[2019]] [[Star Wars comic books|comic book]] [[Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle 1|''Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle'' 1]], which was written by [[Cavan Scott]] with art by [[Megan Levens]]. Levens stated that as a preparation for her task, she examined Lotho Minor's depiction in "Brothers," patterning her illustration on the episode's design choice to show the planet's piles of junk and debris as vague, jagged shapes, suggesting that they consisted of unsteady garbage piled up over many years. She also indicated that she imagined the environment of the sinkhole and tunnels beneath the surface of Lotho Minor as the carcass of an old structure or ship that had decayed under centuries of heavy garbage and environmental stress, designing the tunnels as they were either former corridors or giant ducts.<ref name="Vader's Castle BTS">{{SW|url=news/behind-the-spooky-scenes-of-idws-return-to-vaders-castle-1-exclusive|text=Behind the Spooky Scenes of IDW's ''Return to Vader's Castle'' #1 &ndash; Exclusive|archivedate=20191014043904}}</ref>
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Lotho Minor was first introduced in the [[Star Wars Legends|''Star Wars'' Legends]] continuity via the young-adult novel ''[[The Wrath of Darth Maul]]'', written by [[Ryder Windham]]<ref name="The Wrath of Darth Maul">''[[The Wrath of Darth Maul]]''</ref> and released in [[January]] 2012. This story referenced the events of the ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' episode "Brothers"<ref name="TERC">''[[The Essential Reader's Companion]]''</ref> prior to its television debut.<ref name="Episode Guide" />
   
 
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*{{TCW|Witches of the Mist}} {{1stm}} {{Imo}}
 
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*''[[Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes]]''
 
*{{TCW|Brothers}} {{1st}}
 
*{{TCW|Brothers}} {{1st}}
 
*{{TCW|Revenge (episode)|Revenge}} {{Flash}}
 
*{{TCW|Revenge (episode)|Revenge}} {{Flash}}
 
*{{TCW|Revival (episode)|Revival}} {{Flash}}
 
*{{TCW|Revival (episode)|Revival}} {{Flash}}
 
*''[[Servants of the Empire: The Secret Academy]]'' {{Mo}}
 
*''[[Servants of the Empire: The Secret Academy]]'' {{Mo}}
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*[[Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle 1|''Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle'' 1]] {{Flash}}
*"[[The Misadventures of Triple-Zero and Beetee]]"
 
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*{{Shortstory|story=The Misadventures of Triple-Zero and Beetee|book=Darth Vader 20|bformatted=''Darth Vader'' 20|manual=1}}
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*{{IDWAdventuresCite|15|[[Flight of the Falcon, Part 2: The Planet of Misfit Droids]]}} {{Flash}}
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*[[Galaxy's Edge 1|''Galaxy's Edge'' 1]] {{C|Mentioned only, in flashback}}
   
 
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*{{SW|url=tv-shows/clone-wars/brothers|text="Brothers" Episode Guide}}
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*{{SW|url=series/clone-wars/brothers-episode-guide|text="Brothers" Episode Guide - The Clone Wars|archivedate=20191010232319}}
*{{SWE|technology|firebreather|fire-breather}}
 
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*[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars The Complete Season Four|''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' The Complete Season Four]]
*{{SWE|groups|junkers|Junkers}}
 
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*{{SWE|characters|darthmaul|Darth Maul|archivedate=20140701141524}}
*{{SWE|locations|lothominor|Lotho Minor}}
 
 
*{{SWE|technology|firebreather|fire-breather|archivedate=20140502064503}}
*{{SWE|characters|morley|Morley}}
 
 
*{{SWE|groups|junkers|Junkers|archivedate=20140529112649}}
*''[[Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know]]''
 
 
*{{SWE|locations|lothominor|Lotho Minor|archivedate=20140218210039}} {{1stID|Junk World}}
*{{Databank|anacondan|Anacondan}}
 
 
*{{SWE|characters|morley|Morley|archivedate=20140222214310}}
*{{Databank|darth-maul|Darth Maul}}
 
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*''[[Ultimate Star Wars]]''
*{{Databank|fire-breather|Fire-breather}}
 
 
*''[[Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know]]''
*{{Databank|junker|Junker}}
 
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*''[[Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia]]''
*{{Databank|lotho-minor|Lotho Minor}}
 
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*''[[Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded]]''
*{{Databank|morley|Morley}}
 
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*{{SW|url=news/return-to-vaders-castle-1-preview|text=It's Time for More Creepy Tales from Mustafar in ''Return to Vader's Castle'' #1 &ndash; Exclusive|archivedate=20191004022152}}
*{{Databank|savage-opress|Savage Opress}}
 
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*{{SW|url=news/behind-the-spooky-scenes-of-idws-return-to-vaders-castle-1-exclusive|text=Behind the Spooky Scenes of IDW's ''Return to Vader's Castle'' #1 &ndash; Exclusive|archivedate=20191014043904}}
*{{Databank|turtle-tanker|Turtle Tanker}} {{Po}}
 
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"That's Lotho Minor down there. The Junk World. No one comes to Lotho Minor. No one."
"You're right, kid. No one comes to Lotho Minor—not unless they're crazy."
―Brennar and Captain Spikewheel[src]

Lotho Minor, also known as the Junk World, was a ruined planet in the Outer Rim Territories that was the homeworld of the mysterious Junker species. As one of the galaxy's dumping grounds, Lotho Minor's surface was covered with mountains of trash amassed over untold generations, which brought salvage operations to the planet in search of machinery that could still be repurposed.

Following his defeat at the Battle of Naboo, with his body shattered, the Sith Lord Darth Maul went into exile in the bowels of Lotho Minor, where he lost his mind. To escape the planet, he sent out a transmission, offering a great sum of credits for capture of himself in hopes of luring a starship that he could escape in. The transmission was intercepted by the droid Captain Spikewheel and her crew of scavenger hopefuls; however, Maul's attempt to flee the planet failed.

The crazed Sith was eventually found by his brother, Savage Opress, over a decade after the former's defeat on Naboo. During the Galactic Civil War, the Duros Akar Duel ruled over a collection of monster droids built from Lotho Minor's scrap and claimed the planet as his own, but his servants turned against him and gained their freedom after encountering the Rebel Alliance droid C-3PO.

Description

"We've got everything here!"
―Morley, in reference to Lotho Minor's junk fields — (audio) Listen (file info)[src]
LothoMinorJunk-TCW

The junk fields of Lotho Minor

A stormy, desolate terrestrial planet[2] located in the Outer Rim Territories,[1] Lotho Minor had a surface covered with enormous mountains of trash piled over countless generations.[3] The gutted and rotting hulls of ancient starships poked through the more recent garbage, lending its landscape the eerie feel of an industrial graveyard. Foul-smelling fog limited visibility,[9] while huge pools of toxic sludge and periodic bursts of[3] deadly[10] acid rain made the[3] hot, caustic[9] planet's ruined ecosystem one of the most dangerous in the galaxy.[3] A mechanical debris field known as the Wreck Belt orbited Lotho Minor.[5]

The planet also contained pits, which were the subject of slang used as an interjection for surprise: "What in the pits of Lotho Minor?" The smuggler Han Solo uttered this phrase upon confronting infant sarlaccs that could move during the reign of the Galactic Empire.[11]

History

Galactic dumping ground

"Fire-breathers. They'll getcha!"
―Morley, to Savage Opress — (audio) Listen (file info)[src]
File:Firebreather Lotho Minor.jpeg

Enormous "fire-breathers" incinerated the mountains of scrap on Lotho Minor.

For time immemorial, Lotho Minor served as an industrial dumping ground for neighboring worlds. Cargo ships routinely dropped holds of garbage onto the planet with little concern for what became of it. Long before the Clone Wars, immense refuse incinerator droids were programmed to incinerate Lotho Minor's garbage.[12]

By the year 20 BBY,[13] these enormous machines continued to labor among the mountains of garbage. Those unfortunate enough to live on Lotho Minor did not know the droids' origins and referred to them simply as "fire-breathers."[12] Salvage operations also dug through the planet-wide junkyard, looking to reclaim and recondition reusable or obsolete machinery, and Lotho Minor came to be known as the Junk World.[3]

Darth Maul's exile

"This is where you live? How long have you been here?"
"Years and years and years."
―Savage Opress and Darth Maul — (audio) Listen (file info)[src]
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Captain Spikewheel stranded a group of recruits on Lotho Minor to capture Darth Maul.

After his defeat at the hands of the Jedi during the Battle of Naboo[6] in 32 BBY,[14] the shattered body of Darth Maul, a Dathomirian Zabrak Sith Lord, was dumped amid Lotho Minor's junk.[6] Maul lived in hiding for more than a decade[9] in the caves beneath Lotho Minor's surface, subsisting off trash[15] and vermin,[6] but his driving desire to cling to life pushed him to rebuild himself[9] with spider-like legs in place of his severed ones.[6] An Anacondan known as Morley cut a deal with Maul in order to survive,[16] agreeing to lure unwitting prey into Maul's clutches in return for his leftovers.[4]

At some point, Maul attempted to escape Lotho Minor by sending out a transmission, offering a great sum of credits for capture of himself in hopes of luring a starship that he could escape in. The transmission would eventually be heard by Spikewheel, the droid captain of the starship Salvage-1, who traveled to the planet a week later. She stranded the Nikto Gritz, who aspired to become the droid's first mate and was tasked with capturing Maul, along with three other crew member hopefuls—the human Brennar, the Theelin Riki, and the Roonan Seles—to serve as bait. Not long after Spikewheel left the group on the planet surface, they fell into Maul's subterranean lair subsequent to a quick scuffle with each other.[2]

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Seles is captured by Maul in the latter's lair.

Trying to find their way within the dark labyrinth, Maul quietly grabbed Seles and separated him from the rest of the group, but Brennar soon found both Maul and the captured Roonan. Although the duo was about to be killed by the insane Zabrak, Gritz managed to ensnare Maul in an electronet and save them. The recruits later returned to Spikewheel with the captured Zabrak aboard the Salvage-1. Before the ship could leave the planet's atmosphere, Maul freed himself and attacked the scavengers, splitting the droid captain in half. Riki subsequently opened the ship's rear hatch to ditch Maul; however, Gritz and the remains of his captain also fell from the ship during the process, leaving the hapless Nikto only to be killed by Maul. Years later, Vaneé, the Sith Lord Darth Vader's attendant, told the story of the salvagers to scare his prisoner, rebel Lieutenant Thom Hudd, at Vader's castle.[2]

Brothers reunited

"The cargo you just dropped off, what planet did it come from?"
"The junk fields on planet Lotho Minor!"
―Savage Opress and a cargo hauler — (audio) Listen (file info)[src]
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Savage Opress finds his lost brother, Darth Maul, beneath the surface of Lotho Minor.

Lotho Minor remained neutral during the Clone Wars.[9] In 20 BBY,[17] Mother Talzin of the Dathomirian Nightsisters tasked Savage Opress with finding Maul, his long-lost brother, and gave him a magic talisman to aid in his quest.[18] On the planet Stobar, the talisman guided Opress to some dust clinging to an assortment of cargo crates that were being transported by a Sakiyan cargo hauler. Opress learned that the Sakiyan's Turtle Tanker had recently visited Lotho Minor and forced the hauler to take him there. When they arrived, Opress dropped the Sakiyan out of the ship in mid-air.[4]

While scouring the planet's endless garbage wastes for his brother, Opress encountered Morley, who guided him past such threats as the enormous fire-breathers[4] and a tribe[19] of territorial Junkers. Morley lured Opress into Maul's lair, believing Lotho Minor's newest guest would be their next meal. At first, the two brothers wrestled with each other in the dark labyrinth of garbage, but Opress quickly recognized Maul and saw that his brother's mind had been shattered by his long-ago defeat. When Morley interrupted them to check on the status of their meal, Opress strangled the Anacondan to death for his treachery. At Opress's prodding, Maul soon remembered himself and vowed revenge on the Jedi.[4] The brothers then traveled back to Dathomir, where Talzin repaired Maul's body and mind.[20]

Planet of misfit droids

"I was going to say, your ship is junk—magnificent, beautiful junk. And on this planet—my planet…we crave junk. We must have it."
―Akar Duel appreciates the Millennium Falcon[src]
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Akar Duel and his droids confront the rebels.

By the time of the Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, a Duros named Akar Duel had come to consider Lotho Minor his own planet. He created many junk droids from the droid parts he collected on the planet and used restraining bolts to force them into his service. Sometime after the Battle of Yavin, a team of rebels consisting of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa, Chewbacca, and the protocol droid C-3PO traveled to Lotho Minor aboard the starship Millennium Falcon in search of a suitable location for a new base. Doc and Teetee, two of Duel's droids, attempted to warn the rebels about Duel, but the Duros had already noticed their arrival.[8]

Surrounding the rebels with his conscripted droids, Duel wanted to steal the Millennium Falcon; however, the droids turned against their master upon learning that C-3PO was allowed to have free will, unlike themselves, and they eventually gained their freedom. The rebels then quickly fled Lotho Minor, giving up the idea of establishing a base there. Sometime later, after leaving the planet themselves, Doc and Teetee told their story to Bazine Netal, a spy who was searching for the Millennium Falcon.[8]

Inhabitants

"Trust me! Not everything on this planet is junk."
"It's not?"
"There are things like me. Things that live and breathe."
―Morley and Savage Opress — (audio) Listen (file info)[src]
Junkers

Lotho Minor's native Junkers survived on the planet's scrap and augmented their bodies with cybernetic enhancements.

Lotho Minor was the homeworld of the mysterious Junkers.[7] These tribal[19] denizens appeared to be a strange hybrid of organic life and mechanical debris, and no one was quite sure of their origin. Lotho Minor's role as a galactic dumping ground and the Junkers' violent territoriality discouraged any deep exploration into their culture or biology. The Junkers lived off the scrap found on their homeworld's surface, augmenting their strange and twisted bodies with cybernetic enhancements. They had lived on Lotho Minor for so long that it was impossible to tell where their bodies ended and the garbage began.[7]

The Junk World was also the homeworld of the cunning Anacondan Morley during the Clone Wars.[15] This serpentine creature slithered through the mountains of trash and survived by delivering sustenance to Darth Maul in exchange for the exiled Sith Lord's scraps.[4]

During the reign of the Empire, the Duros Akar Duel also lived on Lotho Minor and regarded himself as the planetary ruler. He employed many junk droids by force, including Doc, Teetee, and another droid with the head of an EV-series unit. In a life-changing moment for all the droids on Lotho Minor, Duel's servants revolted against their master and gained their freedom.[8]

Locations

"There's a haunted labyrinth beneath all that scrap."
―Captain Spikewheel[src]

Beneath the enormous piles of trash on the Lotho Minor's surface, the Sith Lord Darth Maul lived in a cavernous lair during his exile. Accessible through a deep pit inside a shelter on the surface, Maul's lair consisted of deep tunnels in the junk.[4]

Behind the scenes

"I was a huge fan of the Clone Wars series long before I got this project, and I was familiar with the look of planet Lotho Minor, but for the story I went back to closely examine the world as it's depicted in the episode 'Brothers.' To keep the junkyard setting from overpowering the characters and their action, I took a cue from the series' design choice to show the piles of junk and debris as vague, jagged shapes. It doesn't really take a lot of detail to suggest that these are mountain ranges made up of years and years of garbage pileup, ready to topple over on themselves or crush anyone who disturbs them."
―Megan Levens[src]
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Lotho Minor environment design illustration by Pat Presley

Lotho Minor was originally created for "Brothers," the twenty-first episode in the fourth season of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated television series, which first aired on March 9, 2012.[21] Several "spirit of" designs for Lotho Minor were illustrated by Kilian Plunkett and Pat Presley, and the planet was referred to as "Lamoth" in some pieces of concept art.[22] The StarWars.com Encyclopedia entry for Lotho Minor introduced the nickname "Junk World."[9]

The planet later appeared in a story dubbed "The Horned Devil!" in the 2019 comic book Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle 1, which was written by Cavan Scott with art by Megan Levens. Levens stated that as a preparation for her task, she examined Lotho Minor's depiction in "Brothers," patterning her illustration on the episode's design choice to show the planet's piles of junk and debris as vague, jagged shapes, suggesting that they consisted of unsteady garbage piled up over many years. She also indicated that she imagined the environment of the sinkhole and tunnels beneath the surface of Lotho Minor as the carcass of an old structure or ship that had decayed under centuries of heavy garbage and environmental stress, designing the tunnels as they were either former corridors or giant ducts.[23]

Lotho Minor was first introduced in the Star Wars Legends continuity via the young-adult novel The Wrath of Darth Maul, written by Ryder Windham[24] and released in January 2012. This story referenced the events of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Brothers"[25] prior to its television debut.[21]

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Notes and references

  1. 1.0 1.1 Ultimate Star Wars
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle 1
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 StarWars-DatabankII Lotho Minor in the Databank (backup link)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Brothers"
  5. 5.0 5.1 "The Misadventures of Triple-Zero and Beetee" — Darth Vader 20
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 StarWars-DatabankII Darth Maul in the Databank (backup link)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 StarWars-DatabankII Junker in the Databank (backup link)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller "[[Flight of the Falcon, Part 2: The Planet of Misfit Droids]]" — Star Wars Adventures (2017) 15
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 StarWars Lotho Minor in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
  10. Servants of the Empire: The Secret Academy
  11. Galaxy's Edge 1
  12. 12.0 12.1 StarWars-DatabankII Fire-breather in the Databank (backup link)
  13. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the events of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Brothers," which features the fire-breathers on Lotho Minor, to 20 BBY.
  14. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
  15. 15.0 15.1 StarWars Morley in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
  16. StarWars-DatabankII Morley in the Databank (backup link)
  17. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the events of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Witches of the Mist" to 20 BBY.
  18. TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Witches of the Mist"
  19. 19.0 19.1 StarWars Junkers in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
  20. TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Revenge"
  21. 21.0 21.1 Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Episode Guide
  22. StarWars Behind the Spooky Scenes of IDW's Return to Vader's Castle #1 – Exclusive on StarWars.com (backup link)
  23. The Wrath of Darth Maul
  24. The Essential Reader's Companion