The Core Systems

"There isn't enough life on this ice cube to fill a space cruiser!"

- Han Solo

Hoth was a remote, icy planet that was the sixth planet in the star system of the same name. It notably hosted Echo Base, the temporary headquarters of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, until the Galactic Empire located the Rebels, initiating a major confrontation known as the Battle of Hoth.

Description
"Sir, the temperature's dropping too rapidly."

- A deck officer, to Han Solo

From space, the planet of Hoth looked like a pale blue orb due to its dense snow and ice covering. Five planets existed between Hoth and its sun, while an asteroid belt surrounded the planet with meteors occasionally striking the surface. Most of its surface was covered with glaciers and frozen ice plains. Another third of the planet was covered by oceans. The temperature, although always frigid, was known to drop to -60°C come nightfall. Although devoid of intelligent life, Hoth was home to fifteen species of large gray snow lizards called tauntauns and to a species of towering predators known as wampas. The planet also had a number of "crystalline geysers."

The Rebel Alliance
"Jan Dodonna was always planning for the future&hellip;he had preliminary scans for possible new rebel bases.''" "Gimme a look at that&hellip;Atanu, Jabone IV, Lonania Prime, Hoth, Mupin XII? Mupin XII? Really? Did he make that one up? What are'' these places?"

- Leia Organa and Han Solo

Sometime following the Battle of Yavin, Saponza's Gang established a base on Hoth.

Jan Dodonna, a general in the Alliance to Restore the Republic, listed Hoth among his preliminary scans for possible Alliance bases. After Dodonna was killed in the Assault on the Mako-Ta Space Docks, Mon Mothma gave this list of possible bases to Leia Organa after the mission to Shu-Torun, requesting that her team scout the locations. Han Solo expressed surprise at how obscure the locations were. However, Luke Skywalker responded to him by saying that one of the locations was the Rebellion's new home. Ultimately, Hoth came to be the Alliance's new base of operations, as the Rebellion established Echo Base on the planet.

Battle of Hoth and aftermath
"Com-Scan has detected an energy field protecting an area of the sixth planet of the Hoth system. The field is strong enough to deflect any bombardment."

- General Maximillian Veers

Hoth was the arena of a battle between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, which had installed its temporary headquarters, Echo Base, on the ice planet. However thanks to one of the thousands of probe droids they had dispatched throughout the galaxy, the Imperials had discovered the Alliance base within a month of the rebels habitation on the planet. Although Echo Base was evacuated in the eleventh hour, the Battle of Hoth resulted in a clear defeat for the Alliance after the elite Imperial Blizzard Force overran it.

In the months following the Battle of Hoth, scavengers established temporary base camps on the planet to scrap the AT-ATs destroyed by the Rebel Alliance during the Empire's attack.

In 5 ABY, Troithe Acting Governor Fara Yadeez heard rumors that the New Republic intended to repurpose Hoth into a prison for those who remained loyal to the Empire. Major Soran Keize, however, dismissed the credibility of the rumor as Republic Chancellor Mon Mothma had been dedicated to a pretext of justice over punishment, and that repurposing Hoth, where the rebellion had been badly defeated by the Empire, had too much poetry.

Behind the scenes
Hoth first appeared in the 1980 film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, the second installment of the Star Wars original trilogy. The real-world filming location for Hoth was Finse, Norway.

Non-canon appearances

 * Disney Infinity 3.0
 * LEGO Star Wars Movie Short: Snowball Sight
 * LEGO Star Wars Movie Short: Wampa Woes
 * Star Wars Epic Yarns: The Empire Strikes Back
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga