Hoth

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Hoth
Star Wars location
Hoth and its three natural satellites in The Empire Strikes Back
First appearanceThe Empire Strikes Back
Created byGeorge Lucas
GenreScience fiction
In-universe information
TypeIce planet

Hoth is an

1980 film The Empire Strikes Back
and has also been a setting in Star Wars books and video games.

Description

Hoth is the sixth

tauntauns
. Both appear in The Empire Strikes Back.

Appearances

Film

In the 1980 film

AT-ATs with ground artillery and snowspeeders
to stall them and effectively evacuate. This conflict is commonly referred to as the "Battle of Hoth".

The original draft of The Empire Strikes Back, written by

Bespin). The draft also depicted Hoth's wampas attacking the Rebel base.[3]

The Hardangerjøkulen glacier near Finse, Norway, served as the filming location for Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back. Scenes were filmed in subzero temperatures. For the ground battle scene, miniatures were used on a set that used microscopic glass bubbles and baking soda to mimic the snowy territory.[4]

Legends

Further information:
Star Wars expanded to other media

Hoth has also appeared in Star Wars comics, books, and video games. In the 1983

Callista Ming travel to Hoth, where they encounter the same wampa that attacked Luke in Empire, but he swiftly kills it. In Shadows of the Empire
, Hoth is one of several settings for Dash Rendar's adventures, including the Battle of Hoth.

Video games

The planet appears in the

hub world in the 2022 game Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
.

Scientific accuracy

The

extrasolar planet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, "With a surface temperature of −364 degrees Fahrenheit (−220 degrees Celsius), it is nearly as frigid as Pluto."[5] Bruce Betts of The Planetary Society said the asteroid belt near Hoth meant that the planet would have difficulty staying in place. With Hoth being bombarded frequently by asteroids, Betts said it would be unlikely for natural lifeforms (like the wampa and the tauntaun shown in the film) to evolve on the planet.[6]

Jeanne Cavelos theorized in The Science of Star Wars that the frequency of meteoroids bombarding Hoth indicated that the planet was relatively young since in older solar systems, the debris is more cleared out. Since Hoth has complex lifeforms, Cavolos said the planet's age may be older, in the range of several billion years. The author said Hoth could be similar to Earth in age but lack neighboring planets like Jupiter and Saturn to shelter it from meteoroid impacts. She also said with the asteroid belt depicted in the film as close to Hoth that the belt was a likely source for meteoroids. (The asteroid belt itself is unrealistically depicted as being closely clustered, which would normally mean that the asteroids would be reduced to sand-sized rubble over a long enough timespan.)[7]

CJ Miozzi, writing for The Escapist, said that Hoth was realistic as a single-biome planet (among numerous such planets in Star Wars), citing Jupiter's moon Europa as a similar example. Miozzi said the planet was depicted in the Star Wars books as being geologically active and having additional smaller lifeforms, including lichen. The author said lichen on Earth was an important part of the food chain during winter months but that it could grow back outside these months. With Hoth perpetually iced over, Miozzi said lichen likely would not be sufficient to support a multi-tiered food chain that includes an apex predator, the wampa.[8]

Theme park attraction

Hoth appears in the theme park attraction

Anaheim, California
.

See also

References

  1. ^ Kershner, Irvin (Director) (May 21, 1980). The Empire Strikes Back (Motion picture). 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm. General Veers: Com-Scan has detected an energy field protecting an area of the sixth planet of the Hoth system.
  2. ISBN 0-553-09302-9
    .
  3. ^ Pirrello, Phil; Moro, Eric; Collura, Scott (May 21, 2010). "100 Things You Didn't Know About The Empire Strikes Back". IGN. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
  4. About.com. Archived from the original
    on July 18, 2016. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
  5. ^ Chao, Tom (September 14, 2012). "10 Real Alien Worlds That Resemble 'Star Wars' Planets". Retrieved November 21, 2014.
  6. National Geographic. Archived from the original
    on June 10, 2005. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
  7. ISBN 978-1-4299-7176-8
    .
  8. ^ Miozzi, CJ (March 27, 2014). "Star Wars Canon: Just How Realistic Are the Single-Biome Planets?". The Escapist. Archived from the original on December 25, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
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