Oth Sector
 Sector 77 - 3


This SubSector contains the planet Hoth.


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Hoth System
A system with a blue-white sun. It contains the planets Hoth, Loth, Vinsoth and three other planets. The Ison Corridor runs thru this system.

Doloth
The fifth planet in the Hoth System. Dolothis known for its main export, Pephtu Wine.

Hoth
Hoth, the sixth planet in the system of the same name, is an icy, unpopulated world covered with glacier fields, circling a blue-white sun. The isolated world is not even recorded on some standard navigational charts. Hoth is orbited by three moons, and receives a great deal of meteor activity. The planet's daylight temperature averages -32 degrees centigrade even in the temperate equatorial zone, and can plunge another 20-30 degrees at night. Hoth's native lifeforms include the common tauntaun and its natural predator, the Wampa ice creature. The many species of tauntauns eat fungus growing in cave grottoes and beneath the snow layer, and cluster together in caves during Hoth's bitter night to keep from freezing. Sights on Hoth include spectacular frozen ice geysers, and a 1000-kilometer long chasm in the planet's southern hemisphere. The bottom of this chasm is filled with water, kept in its liquid state due to the immense pressure of the two opposing cliff faces. Several glaciers, slowly sliding into the chasm's depths, harbor algae and burrowing, algae-feeding ice worms.

Following the Battle of Yavin, Luke Skywalker crashed on Hoth in an effort to escape pursuing TIE fighters. He encountered two lifelike androids, programmed to look and act like an Imperial governor and his daughter, who had been hiding on Hoth in order to escape from the Empire. Later, the pirate Raskar captured Skywalker and Han Solo above Hoth, and Solo flew the group to a deep chasm on the planet's equator. There they discovered a hidden cave filled with rare lumni-spice lichens guarded by a fire- breathing dragon-slug, and barely escaped with their lives. After the Alliance fully evacuated from Yavin 4, they established their main base on Hoth (in a series of ice caves at the northern edge of the temperate zone), christening it Echo Base. The Alliance encountered trouble adapting their equipment to Hoth's extreme temperatures, and were also attacked by the Wampa ice creatures. The base was later discovered by an Imperial probe droid, leading to the defeat of the Rebels by Darth Vader's forces in the engagement now known as the Battle of Hoth. Eight years after the Battle of Endor, a big-game hunting expedition traveled to Hoth, intending to hunt Wampas for their valuable pelts. When the Wampas destroyed the party's landing ship, the group took shelter in the abandoned Echo Base. Luke Skywalker and Callista attempted to rescue the hunters, but the entire expedition was killed by the ice creatures, and Skywalker and Callista barely escaped with their lives.

Hoth Asteroid Belt
A nightmarish hazard to navigation in the Hoth System, this storm of rocks sweeps across space with constant collisions and crashes.

Ison Corridor
The Ison Corridor, which runs through the Ison system, is located next to the Corellian Trade Spine. It is lightly populated and considered a backwater, and almost all freight traffic skips the Corridor in favor of the nearby Trade Spine. The Corridor is made of four systems in a relatively straight line, starting with the Bespin system and continuing with the Anoat, Hoth, and Ison systems. A standard hyperspace trip from one system to the next will only take about fourteen hours. The Ison Corridor also contains the planet Varonat, where Mara Jade once worked as a hyperdrive mechanic following the death of the Emperor. The Corridor connects Sectors 75, 76, 77, and 78.

Loth
Organocrystalline structures, a possible form of primitive life in the oceans of Stroiketcy, have been compared with the rubygrub cysts that are found on Loth.

Ooth
The star that is orbited by the planets of the Hoth System.

Perdoth
This is the first planet in the Hoth System. It orbits the systems star so closely that the entire surface is molten.

Vinsoth
The planet Vinsoth is covered by vast plains and is home to the unusual-looking aliens called the Chevin. The Chevin are hunter-gatherers who follow the herds of backshin as they travel the plains, and have enslaved a native humanoid race also called Chevins. Ephant Mon, a gunrunner who spent time in Jabba the Hutt's court, was a native of Vinsoth. After a life-changing encounter with Luke Skywalker in Jabba's dungeon, Ephant Mon returned to his home planet and founded a new religious sect that worshipped nature and the Force, though he still ran some scams on the side to finance his sect's temple.

Zoth
The fifth planet in the Hoth System. The exploer Fidga Brell once spend three months here hunting the elusive Zothian Tintun, a slightly larger cousin of the Hoth Tauntaun.


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Wioth System
a system next to the Hoth System.

Cere
This planet is in the Wioth System of the Trax Sector. The planet has long been an agriplanet. the Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi was a native of this planet.

Darlyn Boda
During the reign of the Empire, Darlyn Boda was an Imperial planet in name only. It is about half a day's travel from Hoth and is a steamy, muddy world that has long had both a thriving criminal underground and, during the days of the Old Empire, an active network of rebel contacts. It's main city is also called Darlyn Boda.

Many years ago, the bounty hunter droid 4-LOM abandoned his former position as a valet aboard the Kuari Princess when the ship stopped at Darlyn Boda. Years later, after the Battle of Hoth, 4-LOM and the Gand Zuckuss severly damaged one of the last Rebel transports to leave the planet, then had a change of heart and rescued the ninety Alliance soldiers aboard and transported then to Darlyn Boda for treatment of their wounds.


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