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Qui-Gon Jinn's homeworld

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Qui-Gon Jinn's homeworld

Physical
Class	Terrestrial^[1]
Atmosphere	Type I (breathable for Humans)^[2]
Points of interest	River of Light^[1]
Societal
Immigrated species	Human^[1]

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"I found it years ago. When I was no older than you are now. I found it in the River of Light on my home planet."

―Qui-Gon Jinn, handing Obi-Wan Kenobi a stone from the River of Light^[src]

A terrestrial planet was the homeworld of Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. Though he left the world as an infant to become a Jedi, he returned to visit it later in life. The planet had running surface water and an atmosphere that was suitable for Humans. A type of Force-sensitive stone, one of which Jinn obtained from the River of Light and kept as a memento, was found on the world.

1 Description
2 History
3 Behind the scenes
4 Appearances
5 Sources
6 Notes and references
7 External links

DescriptionEdit

The planet was terrestrial^[1] and had a Type I atmosphere^[2] that could support Human life. The world had running surface water, including rivers such as the River of Light. A type of stone sensitive to the Force was found in the River of Light. It was shiny black in color, with veins of deep red visible when viewed in bright light. The stone was warm to the touch and emitted crystalline glow in the dark.^[1]

HistoryEdit

In 92 BBY,^[3] the Human male Qui-Gon Jinn was born on the planet. Not long after, the Jedi Order discovered Jinn's Force-sensitivity, and he was taken to the Galactic Republic capital of Coruscant to receive Jedi training.^[4] Though most Jedi of the era left their old lives completely behind once they were accepted into the Order,^[5] Jinn kept some ties with his planet of birth. During a visit there^[1] around 79 BBY^[6] at age thirteen, he obtained a Force-sensitive stone from the River of Light. Keeping it for over thirty years as a reminder of his homeworld, Jinn, by then a Jedi Master, eventually handed the stone to his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, when he turned thirteen^[1] in 44 BBY.^[7] Kenobi in turn gave the stone to his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, on his thirteenth birthday^[8] in 28 BBY.^[9] Knowledge of the existence of Force-sensitive river stones survived into the days of the New Jedi Order;^[10] following the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War in 29 ABY,^[11] Jedi Knight Tam Azur-Jamin mentioned them in his essay, Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena, which discussed the emergence of the Force in inanimate objects and technological devices.^[10]

Behind the scenesEdit

Qui-Gon Jinn's homeworld was first mentioned in The Hidden Past, the third installment in the Jedi Apprentice series. Written by Jude Watson and published in 1999, the young reader novel contains the only in-universe reference to the planet so far. Jinn's homeworld has since been mentioned in the reference books The New Essential Guide to Characters (2002)^[4] and The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia (2008).^[12] The planet has not been officially named; both The New Essential Guide to Characters^[4] and the 2011 book Star Wars: Mysteries of the Jedi^[13] list Jinn's homeworld as "unknown," as did the Databank,^[14] predecessor of StarWars.com's Encyclopedia feature.

The 2005 Hyperspace-exclusive article Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena, written by Abel G. Peña, mentions the Force being found in "lifeless rocks like river stones."^[10] In the article endnotes published on his StarWars.com blog, Peña specified that this was meant as a reference to the stones found on Qui-Gon Jinn's homeworld.^[15]