Jakku

Jakku
Starship Graveyard on Jakku, with the Millennium Falcon and a TIE fighter, from The Force Awakens (2015)
Universe	Star Wars
Planet type	Desert planet
Notable locations	Tuanul Village Niima Outpost
Created by	Lawrence Kasdan J. J. Abrams Michael Arndt
Genre	Science fiction
First appearance	Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

Jakku is a fictional desert planet first featured in the 2015 Star Wars film The Force Awakens. Remote, lawless, and inhospitable, it is the homeworld of main character Rey, played by Daisy Ridley. The film focuses on two distinct localities, Tuanul Village and Niima Outpost, near a starship graveyard.

The planet is also depicted in the 2017 Chuck Wendig novel, Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End.

Jakku is a setting in the 2015 Star Wars film The Force Awakens, and its novelization. The homeworld of main character Rey, it is a harsh and inhospitable desert planet on the outskirts of the galaxy. In the film, Resistance X-wing fighter pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) comes to Jakku seeking vital information held by explorer Lor San Tekka (Max von Sydow). Poe is captured by the First Order but leaves the data behind with his astromech droid BB-8. He escapes with the help of turncoat stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega), but Poe is presumed dead when their ship crashes in the desert. Meanwhile, BB-8 has befriended local scavenger Rey (Ridley); pursued by the First Order, she and Finn flee Jakku with the droid in the Millennium Falcon.

The planet was first seen in the 88-second The Force Awakens teaser trailer released by Lucasfilm in November 2014.The Force Awakens writer/director J. J. Abrams first mentioned its name at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California in April 2015, identifying Jakku as the setting in the trailers and revealing that it is where the character Rey lives.