Astronavigation Data: Hoth system, Anoat sector, Outer Rim Territories Orbital Metrics: 549 days per year/23 hours per day Government: None Population: Fewer than 10 Languages: Ewokese Terrain: Frozen ice plains, glaciers, mountains Major Cities: None Areas of Interest: Clabburn Range/Echo Base, Echo Station 3-T-8, Icefall Plains, Moorsh Moraine, Outpost Beta, Perimeter Outpost Delta, Shyloah's Crest, Wampa Mountain Major Exports: None Major Imports: None Trade Routes: Ison Corridor Background: From space, the planet of Hoth looked like presence there. He and his group were chased away a pale blue orb due to its dense snow and ice covering. from Hoth by Solo after failing to capture him, hoping to Five planets existed between Hoth and its sun, while an collect the bounty placed on his head by Jabba the Hutt. asteroid belt surrounded the planet with meteors The smuggler Raskar, leader of the Pirates of Iridium, occasionally striking the surface. Its surface was covered attempted to seize a valuable cache of lumni-spice with glaciers and frozen ice plains. The temperature, before the Alliance settled on Hoth, but was chased off although always frigid, was known to drop to -60°C by a dragon slug. A group of failed stormtroopers come nightfall. Although devoid of intelligent life, Hoth attempted to start a hunting business there, but were was home to fifteen species of large gray snow lizards all supposedly killed by a group of wampas. called tauntauns and to a species of towering predators known as wampas. The planet was not entirely unknown to the galaxy at large. The trans-system data storage library on the Hoth appears to have been part of the Infinite planet Halowan contained a substantial amount of Empire in a long forgotten past as evidenced by information concerning the Hoth system and the the existence of Rakatan steles on the ice planet's geography. While still relatively unknown, the planet was a destination for ice-boarding and hover- planet. Indeed during the Cold War, a Jedi skiing enthusiasts, who could visit Hoth traveling with Consular looking for the prison of the Esh-kha, Star Tours. Hoth was occasionally visited by pirates and discovered in a cave an holographic artifact smugglers who took advantage of its remote location, designed by Rakatas who provided the using the ice planet as a base. Even prior to his inclusion coordinates of the planet Belsavis. with the Rebellion, Han Solo was already familiar with Hoth from his days as a smuggler. The Mon Calamari smuggler Salmakk and his crew used one of Hoth's ice caverns as a base for several years prior to the Alliance's