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List of Star Wars cities - Ahto City. The lone city and capital of Manaan. List of Star Wars cities - Aldera. Aldera is the capital city of Alderaan, located in a caldera. List of Star Wars cities - Anchorhead. See main article A sleepy farming community on Tatooine, east of Lars's Homestead. It is also the location of Tosche Station, just outside its borders.This city's outskirts have been raided many times by Tusken Raiders or more commonly known as the Sand People. < ...

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Carida is first mentioned in the Star Wars Expanded Universe as the site of an Imperial training academy. It was a large planet with high gravity and a large variety of climates. The planet was destroyed by Jedi Master Kyp Durron using the Sun Crusher, a superweapon that fires missiles into stars and causes them to go supernova, destroying everything within their solar systems. At the time, Kyp Durron was under the influence (but not control) of the Sith Lord Exar Kun.

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Elom is home to Eloms and the Elomin. For centuries, the two species lived unknown to one another, with Eloms living deep underground to access the planet's natural springs, and the Elomin living a technologically advanced life on the surface. Eloms are primitive and peaceful, and evolved on the surface in times long passed. Only later did they adapt to subterranean life, evolving larger claws for digging and acquiring an extreme sensitivity to bright light. They live in communities called cseria, ...

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Yavin 4 is one of the 26 moons orbiting the gas giant Yavin. In ancient times, the Massassi race lived on Yavin 4. The Sith lords Naga Sadow and Exar Kun, respectively, came to Yavin 4 and enslaved the Massassi, having them build huge temples that were focal points of power. Exar Kun later imprisoned his spirit inside one of the temples. During the Rebellion against the Empire, the Rebel Alliance used Yavin 4 as a base. After the rise of the New Republic, Luke Skywalker chose the moon as the location for his new Jedi Praxeum. H ...

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Aargau is a core world and is the headquarters of the Bank of Aargau, which is owned by the Confederacy of Independent Systems's ally, the InterGalactic Banking Clan. Aargau is located in the Zug System. The planet shares its name with Aargau, a Swiss canton near the banking capital of Switzerland, Zürich. Zug, another canton, is the undisputed tax haven of Switzerland. ...

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Expanded Universe Star Wars - Film and television. The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) was a two-hour television special portraying Chewbacca's return to his home planet of Kashyyyk to celebrate Life Day with his family. Along with the stars of the original 1977 movie, such TV and music stars as Beatrice Arthur, Art Carney and Jefferson Starship appeared in plot-related skits and musical numbers. The content is considered canonical, but the special is reviled by some fans and virtually disown ...

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Dantooine was mentioned only once in the Star Wars films. In A New Hope, Princess Leia tries to fool Grand Moff Tarkin into believing that the Rebel base is located there. Tarkin replies that Dantooine is "too remote" to use the Death Star on (the deciding factor here seems to be a political and social impact rather than military necessity). Dantooine was featured in both Knights of the Old Republic games. Dantooine is home to a Jedi enclave which was destroyed by Darth Malak during the Jedi Civil War; it w ...

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Dagobah is the name of both a planet and the system in which it resides. The planet appears in the films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and, while not shown in Revenge of the Sith, it is mentioned by Yoda. After Darth Vader hunted down nearly all of the Jedi, Jedi Master Yoda hid in a swamp on Dagobah where a cave strong with the dark side of the Force hid him from detection by the Emperor (it appears that the dark side presence neutralized Yoda's light side presence). The cave first became ...

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Drall is a planet in the Corellian System. The planet is primarily inhabited by the species of the same name, the Drall; however there are also large numbers of humans and Selonians. One notable planetary feature (and tourist attraction) is the Boiling Seas. There is a planetary repulsor on Drall, which was used millennia ago by an unknown race to move the planet into its current orbit around the star Corell. [39]

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Duro is home to the alien race of the same name. Duros are interested in exploration (some credit them with inventing the hyperdrive) and have ventured off their home world to explore the galaxy, leaving Duro in a state of ruin. The Empire ruined the planet's ecosystem and forced all the remaining Duros to move off the planet into orbiting city stations. The Empire also removed Duro from its own sector, placing it in the Corellian Sector, though the New Republic switched it back (it is sometimes still believed to be in the Corellian S ...

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D'vouran was a top-secret Imperial project, the first experiment in Project Starscream. D'vouran was a living planet that consumed its victims through holes that appeared in the ground. A small crystal worn on a necklace was the only thing that prevented the wearer from being eaten by the planet. D'vouran was destroyed when Zak and Tash Arranda threw the crystal necklace into the heart of the planet, which caused the planet to eat itself.

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Coruscant, seen in Episodes I, II, III and VI, was the capital of the Old Republic, the Galactic Empire, the New Republic, the Galactic Alliance, and the Yuuzhan Vong occupation at various times. It is generally agreed that Coruscant is the most important world in the Star Wars galaxy, evidenced by the fact that its hyperspace coordinates are (0,0,0). The planet is essentially one giant city, with skyscrapers jutting several kilometers into the atmosphere. Approximately 1 trillion people inhabit the planet. When the Yuuzhan Vong invad ...

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