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- "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
Imperial AT-ATs traverse the frozen landscape on Hoth
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.[6] Its surface was covered with glaciers and frozen ice plains.[3] The temperature, although always frigid, was known to drop to -60°C come nightfall.[6] 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.[5][6]
History
- "Com-Scan has detected an energy field protecting an area around the sixth planet of the Hoth system."
- ―General Veers
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.[12] 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.[6][5]
In the months following the Battle of Hoth, scavengers established temporary base camps on the planet to scrap the AT-ATs destroyed by the Alliance during the Empire's attack.[13]
Appearances
- Star Wars: Galactic Defense
- Lost Stars
- The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight
- Star Wars: Battle Pod
- Star Wars: Commander
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Battlefront: Twilight Company
- Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (First appearance)
- The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi?
- AT-AT Attack!
- Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure (Mentioned only)
- Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! (Mentioned only)
- Aftermath (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Uprising
- Bloodline (Mentioned only)
- Before the Awakening (Mentioned only)
- The Force Awakens, Part II (In flashback(s))
Non-canon appearances
- Disney Infinity 3.0
- LEGO Star Wars Movie Short: Snowball Sight
- LEGO Star Wars Movie Short: Wampa Woes
- Epic Yarns: The Empire Strikes Back
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "The Kyber Saber Crystal Chase" (Appears in hologram)- LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "The Maker of Zoh"
- LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "Showdown on Hoth"
- LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales — "Flight of the Falcon"
Sources
Notes and references
- ↑
Echo Base in the Databank (backup link)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ultimate Star Wars
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Hoth in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Journey Through Space
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Star Wars: Galactic Defense
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Star Wars: Commander
- ↑ Star Wars Battlefront
- ↑ Battlefront: Twilight Company
- ↑ The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi?
- ↑ Lost Stars
- ↑ Star Wars: Uprising