Hoth

Hoth
Hoth and its three natural satellites in The Empire Strikes Back
Universe	Star Wars expanded universe
Planet type	Ice planet
Moon(s)	3
Created by	George Lucas
Genre	Science fiction
First appearance	The Empire Strikes Back

Hoth is a fictional ice planet that appears in the Star Wars fictional universe. It first appeared in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back and has also been a setting in Star Wars books and video games. Hoth is depicted as the sixth planet of a remote system of the same name. It is a terrestrial planet blanketed by snow and ice. Many meteorites from a nearby asteroid belt pelt the planet's surface, making temporary craters in the planet's ever-moving snow drifts. Hoth has six moons, all uninhabited. Its native creatures include the wampa and the tauntaun; both of these creatures appear in The Empire Strikes Back.

Hoth is the sixth and outermost planet of the remote Hoth system. It is a small habitable world with a freezing climate, too cold for intelligent life to develop. Hoth was close to the Hoth asteroid belt, and meteors regularly hit the planet. Hoth was home to few species, including the towering, predatory Wampa, and gray snow lizards known as Tauntauns.

In the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back, Hoth is the home of the Rebel Alliance's secret base. The Rebels patrol the planet by riding indigenous tauntauns. At the start of the film, Luke Skywalker and his tauntaun are attacked by a wampa. Skywalker eventually escapes and is rescued by Han Solo. When one of the Galactic Empire's probe droids uncovers the base, the Rebels are forced to evacuate. The Empire arrives and deploys ground forces to destroy the base, but the Rebels battle the AT-ATs with ground artillery and snowspeeders to stall them and effectively evacuate.