Planets - H
Source List & Abbreviations
Habassa II
One of the likely homeworlds of the alien Habassa race, who joined the
Alliance following the Battle of Yavin. A transfer of B-wings to the
cruiser Cathleen near Habassa II was unsuccessfully attacked by Imperial
fighters. [FP]
Hadar sector
The Hadar sector contains the planet Turkana. Alliance pilot Keyan
Farlander's first mission was in a quadrant of the Hadar sector. [FP]
Haldeen sector
The terrorist Earnst Kamiel, leader of the radical Justice Action
Network (JAN), was extradited to the Haldeen sector for Imperial trial
after being captured on Eldrooden. [SWAJ]
Hallomar
A beach and vacation world. [SWAJ]
Halowan
The location of a top-secret Imperial data storage net and a
trans-system data storage library. Alliance historian Voren Na'al
infiltrated the Imperial data net on Halowan by posing as an agent for
Moff Lorin of Fakir sector. [MTS]
Halthor sector
The territory of Imperial Moff Gergis, located near the Noonian sector.
[SWAJ]
Hapes Consortium
A cluster of sixty-three stars with sixty-three inhabited planets, the
Hapes Consortium is an old and very wealthy society that had almost no
contact with the rest of the galaxy for three thousand years.
Encompassing hundreds of different governments and thousands of
cultures, the cluster was first settled thousands of years ago by a
pirate group called the Lorell Raiders, who seized beautiful women from
their victims to serve as their mates. The male descendants continued to
serve as pirates for generations, until their forces were eliminated by
the Jedi Knights. The women then took control of the cluster, and the
inherited leadership title of Queen Mother began. The first queen mother
began construction on the Star Home, an enormous castle-like spaceship,
four thousand years ago.
The worlds of the Hapes cluster include Arabanth, Charubah, Dreena,
Gallinore, Reboam, Selab, Terephon, Ut, Maires, Vergill, and Hapes
itself, which is orbited by seven moons. The Fountain Palace on the
planet Hapes is home to the Hapan royal family, who stay in Reef
Fortress in emergencies. Located on an isolated island accessible only
by boat, Reef Fortress is a secure stronghold of stone parapets entered
through a cave grotto and protected by night perimeter shields. The
Dragonıs Teeth, jagged rocks jutting from Hapesı blue-green ocean, are a
nearby landmark. Frequent encounters with star pirates occur on the
Hapes Consortium's borders, partially because many young Hapan males
turn to piracy as a means of rebellion. The Hapan naval space forces
include the feared Battle Dragon and the newer Hapes Nova-class battle
cruisers; for use on oceans, Hapes manufactures the Hapan Water Dragon.
Four years after the Battle of Endor, Queen Mother Ta'a Chume, matriarch
of the Royal House of Hapes, broke the cluster's long isolation when she
offered her son Prince Isolder to Leia Organa in marriage. Isolder later
married Teneniel Djo of Dathomir, who bore a daughter, Tenel Ka.
Nineteen years after the Battle of Endor, Tenel Ka returned to Hapes
after losing her arm in a training accident at Luke Skywalkerıs Jedi
Academy. Jacen and Jaina Solo and their friend Lowbacca visited Tenel
Ka, and the group got caught up in Ambassador Yfraıs plot to overthrow
the Hapan monarchy. After a bomb went off in the Fountain Palace, the
group retreated to Reef Fortress, where Yfra tried to have them
eliminated by steering their wavespeeder into a patch of carnivorous
seaweed and ordering an attack on the Fortress by deadly Bartokk
assassins. [COPL, COTJ, YJK]
Harrin Trade Corridor
The Harrin Trade Corridor is linked to the Enarc Run via the
recently-discovered Kira Run. [SWAJ]
Hast
Site of the secret Hast shipyards, where the Star Destroyers Liberator
and Emancipator (captured during the Battle of Endor) were being
refurbished for active New Republic duty. Imperial spies discovered the
shipyards soon after Endor, and the resulting attack severely damaged
both Star Destroyers and ruined a large portion of the Alliance fleet.
This devastating attack put the New Republic's war effort several years
behind schedule. [DESB]
Hefi
The location of a secret retreat for Death Star designer Bevel Lemelisk.
According to Alliance historian Voren Na'al, Lemelisk hid on Hefi after
the first Death Star's destruction until discovered by Imperial agents,
though this story appears to be inaccurate. [MTS, DS]
Hensara system
Located in the Rachuk sector, the Hensara system's third planet is a
small jungle world called Hensara III. Some three years after the Battle
of Endor, Alliance operative Dirk Harkness and his Black Curs were
forced to crash their ship in one of Hensara III's lakes after running
into the Strike cruiser Havoc. The Havoc landed AT-AT and AT-ST walkers,
along with two platoons of stormtroopers, to find and eliminate them.
Harkness and his group were rescued by Rogue Squadron, who easily wiped
out Imperial resistance without suffering any casualties in the battle
later called the Rout of Hensara. [XWRS]
H'gaard
One of the two largest moons orbiting the planet Bespin. H'gaard and its
smaller sister moon Drudonna are known together as The Twins. The moon
is only five kilometers in diameter. Both are unremarkable ice
satellites, and appear as large green spheres in Bespin's night sky.
[GG2]
Hijarna
A deserted, battle-scarred planet first discovered by the Fifth
Alderaanian Expedition. Atop a bluff sits the crumbling fortress of
Hijarna, made of hard black stone and probably abandoned a thousand
years before its discovery. The fortress overlooks a plain crossed with
deep ravines and marked with indications of former devastation. It is
unclear whether the fortress was built to defend against this
destruction, or was somehow the cause of it. Talon Karrde called a
meeting with his fellow smugglers in Hijarna's fortress to discuss
actions against Grand Admiral Thrawn. [TLC]
Hindasar system
The infamous criminal known as Dr. Evazan set up a "medical" practice in
the Hindasar system after escaping from the prison world of Delrian.
Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi had a confrontation with Dr. Evazan in the
Mos Eisley cantina on Tatooine. [MTS]
Hishyim
Grand Admiral Thrawn provided the ship thief Niles Ferrier with an
assault shuttle from the Hishyim patrol station so he could present it
to Talon Karrde to establish credibility. [TLC]
H'ken system
Located in the Corva sector of the Outer Rim, the H'ken system contains
a 20-kilometer wide asteroid belt. After the Battle of Endor, a squadron
of X-wings was training in the belt when they were wiped out by an
Imperial warlord's ships. [SWAJ]
H'nemthe
A planet with three moons and home to the alien species also called
H'nemthe. During the season of trine, all three of the planet's moons
give off their light. On average, there are twenty H'nemthe males for
every female-- after mating, the male is gutted with the female's
razor-sharp tongue. Virgin females are not often allowed to leave the
planet, and are permitted to eat only fruits and vegetables. Plant life
on H'nemthe includes the carnivorous m'iiyoom nightlily, a white flower
which blooms during the season of trine. [TFTC]
Hollan D1 sector
A vital Imperial storage area was destroyed in the Hollan D1 sector by
the Alliance following the Battle of Yavin. Rebel pilots used captured
ships from Overlord Ghorin in the attack, in an attempt to discredit
Ghorin in the eyes of the Empire. [FP]
Hollastin Seven
Located in the Hollastin system, Hollastin Seven is the base of
operations for the crimelord Glorga the Hutt. During the Second
Hollastin Insurrection, Hollastin Seven's capital city was besieged by
native guerrillas. A group of smugglers tried to use the chaos to
overthrow Glorga, but they were stopped by the Hutt's henchmen. [SWAJ]
Honoghr
A planet with three moons in the Honoghr system (near Fwillsving and
Kessel), and the homeworld of the Noghri. Honoghr is a devastated world;
almost all of its plant and animal life has been destroyed. From space
it appears to be uniformly brown, broken only by the occasional blue
lake and the green area known as the Clean Lands. The main city of
Nystao is located in the center of the Clean Lands-- it is home to the
Common Room of Honoghr within the Grand Dukha and is the only city with
adequate spacecraft repair facilities. The Noghri people are divided
into clans (including the clans Kihm'bar, Bakh'tor, Eikh'mir, and
Hakh'khar) that have had a long history of bloody rivalry. Each clan is
ruled by a dynast, and female maitrakhs lead family or subclan units. In
the center of each village is a cylindrical building called a dukha,
constructed of polished wood encircled by a metal band and containing
the clan High Seat and a genealogical chart carved into one wall. The
ancient Noghri laws of discovery and judgement involve a period of
public shaming in the main city by order of the clan dynasts. The
village of clan Kihm'bar is at the edge of the Clean Lands and is ruled
by Dynast Ir'khaim. Animal life on Honoghr includes the carnivorous
stava.
During the Clone Wars, a battle between two starships resulted in one of
them crashing on Honoghr's surface, setting off catastrophic earthquakes
and releasing toxic chemicals into the atmosphere. Darth Vader came to
offer Imperial assistance, and teams of deadly Noghri commandos joined
the Empire in return for Emperor's help in restoring their world. Noghri
clans and their respective dukhas were relocated to the Clean Lands, and
Imperial decontamination droids set to work apparently renewing the
soil. In actuality, the Empire had seeded Honoghr with a hybrid form of
kholm-grass that inhibited all other plant growth, keeping the planet
lifeless for generations and forcing the Noghri to remain in the
Emperor's debt. Before Vader's death, he named Grand Admiral Thrawn his
designated heir and ruler of the Noghri commandos. The Noghri renounced
their service to Thrawn after Leia Organa Solo showed them the extent of
the Empire's treachery, and they began to grow new crops along the banks
of a hidden river running between two jagged cliffs. After Thrawn's
defeat, the New Republic was planning to relocate the Noghri people to a
new world. [HTTE, DFR, TLC]
Horuz system
The Horuz system, formerly containing the prison planet Despayre, is
located in an isolated corner of the Outer Rim far from any hyperspace
lanes. The first Death Star was built in the Horuz system above
Despayre, and upon completion the battle station utterly destroyed the
planet. The Empire used the master encrypt code ILKO to transmit data
from Coruscant to Horuz during this construction. [TLC, MTS, DSTC]
Hosk
A moon orbiting Kalarba in the remote Kalarba system. One hemisphere of
the moon is covered by the towers and outlying buildings of Hosk
Station. Hosk Station's central city is domed, and all energy weapons
are ostensibly surrendered upon arrival. Sites in the city include
Trillka's Repair Shop and the Hosk Droid Arena, and the station is
patrolled by automated security forces. A snake-like Hulgren has been
seen living in the station's lower levels. R2-D2 and C-3PO helped avert
the destruction of Hosk Station when its power core was ruptured by the
criminal Olag Greck. [D]
Hosrel XI
The location of a remote navy base, where a squadron of pilots had a
brief battle with Lehesu of the Oswaft. [LCSC]
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 enco
untered 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. [ESB, ESBN, MTS, GG2, CSW, DS, ISWU]
Hoth system
The remote Hoth system is located in the Ison Corridor on the fringes of
civilized space, and its sixth planet is a frozen, unpopulated world
also known as Hoth. The system also contains a dangerous asteroid belt,
formed billions of years ago by the collision of two planets. Within the
belt there is rumored to be a pure platinum asteroid, called "Kerane's
Folly" after the prospector who discovered it, left to verify its
purity, then could never find it again. On some asteroids grow delicate
crystal ferns, which could be a primitive silicon-based lifeform.
Over the centuries many smugglers and criminals have built bases in some
of the larger asteroids, including the notorious pirate Clabburn, who
placed huge space slugs to guard his hideouts. After the Battle of Hoth,
the Millennium Falcon tried to escape pursuing Star Destroyers in the
asteroid field and was nearly swallowed by a space slug. Eight years
after the Battle of Endor, Durga the Hutt began mining the asteroids in
the Hoth Asteroid Belt for raw materials used in the construction of the
Darksaber weapon. The Darksaber was discovered in the asteroid field by
New Republic forces, and the weapon was utterly destroyed when it was
crushed between two planetoids. [ESB, DS, ISWU]
Hydian Way
The Hydian Way is a major trade route that runs from the Mid-Core out to
the Corporate Sector. It intersects the Perlemian Trade Route in the
Bormea sector at the planet Brentaal. 3000 years ago, the legendary
pioneer woman Freia Kallea helped explore Brentaal space and
single-handedly blazed the Hydian Way. [SWAJ]