Figg Excavations, the mining subsidiary of the Outer Javin Company, once turned Tokmia into a hugely lucrative money-making venture by exploiting the planet's crystal and ore deposits.[1] The Tokmia mining enterprise earned Figg Excavations a fortune, and company employees distributed handouts to the planet's native Okuspecies during each operation.[4] Once the planet's mines ran dry, Figg Excavations pulled out and abandoned Tokmia, leaving behind a strange cargo cult among the Oku, who, remembering the gifts they had been given, burned huge fires to resemble landing lights in prophesy that the magicalstarships of the offworlders would one day return.[1]
Specifically, the Imperial II-class Star DestroyerAvenger, under the command of CaptainLorth Needa, sent out the probe droid assigned to explore Tokmia.[5] Vader's directive to search Tokmia, Allyuen, and Hoth was a departure from the Avenger's original target schedule.[6] The Empire ultimately discovered that Hoth was, in fact, the planet hosting the Rebellion's new base.[5]
Tokmia was the homeworld of some 400,000 Oku, a barely-sentient, primitive species of white-furredaliens who governed themselves in tribal councils. The abandonment of Figg Excavation's mining operation on Tokmia had a deeply profound impact on the Oku mythos, in which the Oku prophesied that their benevolent offworld visitors would return to their planet again.[1]
Figg Excavations left behind an abandoned mining colony on Tokmia complete with a starport after exhausting the planet's crystal deposits and then moving on to other endeavors.[1]
Tokmia was later one of 200 planets featured in the 1998PC gameStar Wars: Rebellion, which included the planet's only visual depiction to date, an image also used to illustrate twenty-one other planets of similar composition in the game, and its first geographical description, as a lush forest planet.[3] Nevertheless, the 2004Wizards of the Coast online roleplaying supplement Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin described Tokmia as a snow-covered planet, in the same vein as Hoth,[1] which has been repeated by all subsequent sources to mention the planet.[2][4]
Star Wars: Rebellion provides hyperspace travel times between each planet in the game. However, in several instances these times are significantly longer than other canonical sources, which seems to reflect the Rebellion hyperspace times as game mechanics rather than actual figures. Tokmia's intra-sector hyperspace times and distance from Coruscant according to Rebellion using the game's fastest capital shiphyperdrives are as follows. Note that this chart only includes planets canonically located in the Anoat sector, excepting Coruscant.