The Star Wars sequel trilogy featured many different planets, and this list explains all of them, from Jakku to Exegol. When George Lucas launched Star Wars back in 1977, he went to great lengths to establish the sheer scale of his saga. Ever since then, every new Star Wars movie or TV show has added new worlds and systems, fleshing out the Star Wars galaxy map. These maps divide the galaxy into rough circles, from the Deep Core to the Outer Rim. There’s also a vast unexplored region called the Unknown Regions, difficult to explore because of hyperspace anomalies.
The Star Wars sequel trilogy – set during after the New Republic Era – is mostly set on the Outer Rim. This is because so many of these planets are remote and uninhabited, allowing groups such as the First Order and the Resistance to operate with a degree of secrecy. The Galactic Core – including planets from the prequels such as Coruscant – is almost entirely absent. Here are all the planets from the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
18 Jakku
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Location | Within the Western Reaches of the Inner Rim |
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Other key appearances | Chuck Wendig’s “Aftermath” trilogy, Claudia Gray’s Lost Stars |
Rey’s homeworld, Jakku is renowned as a junkyard planet in the far Western Reaches of the Outer Rim. This was the site of the final battle between the Empire and the New Republic a year after Return of the Jedi, with Palpatine’s agents turning the planet into a gigantic bomb that would obliterate their enemies. New Republic agents successfully defused the bomb during the Battle of Jakku, however, and the planet survived – becoming a safe-haven for Rey’s parents when they fled from the First Order years later. Jakku is the first planet seen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the world where Finn deserts and meets Rey.
17 Takodana
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Location | Within the Western Reaches of the Mid Rim |
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Other key appearances | Daniel José Older, Toni Bruno and Michael Atiyeh Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures |
Located in the Western Reaches of the Mid Rim, Takodana is the location of Maz Kanata’s ancient temple. The beautiful planet was once site of a Jedi Temple as well, but this was destroyed by space pirates known as the Nihil during the High Republic Era. Han Solo takes Rey and Finn to meet with Maz in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and it is subsequently attacked by the First Order. It is on Takodana that Rey has her first vision, before meetiing Kylo Ren. Han Solo and Leia are reunited after a Resistance counterattack and the destruction of Maz’s temple home.
16 Ilum/Starkiller Base
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Location | Unknown Regions |
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Other key appearances | Star Wars: The Clone Wars, “The Gathering,” Jedi: Fallen Order |
Located in the Unknown Regions and discovered by the first Jedi using their Force powers to hone in on planets rich in the Force, Ilum is noted for its kyber crystals – the crystals that focus the power of a Jedi’s lightsaber. For generations, Ilum was the planet Jedi Younglings were taken to so they could find their crystals. The Empire claimed Ilum, however, and the First Order completed Imperial operations to turn the entire planet into a superweapon called Starkiller Base. It is used to decapitate the New Republic by destroying both the galactic capital and the Defense Fleet, before Ilum itself is destroyed by the Resistance. Han Solo meets his hearbreaking end on Starkiller Base during the attack.
15 Hosnian Prime
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Location | Galactic Core |
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Other key appearances | None |
Located in the Hosnian System, Hosnian Prime was the location of the New Republic Senate and Defense Fleet that was unfortunately all destroyed by Starkiller Base. Only a glimpse of its surface is seen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but in that one shot, Korr Sella, a Resistance agent, and Lanever Villecham, the Chancellor of the New Republic, both look up to their oncoming destruction. Hosnian Prime’s destruction created a power vacuum the First Order immediately occupied in the galaxy.
14 D’Qar
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Location | Outer Rim Territories |
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Other key appearances | Lost Stars by Claudia Gray |
D’Qar is an Outer Rim world covered in hills and forests noted for its ring – something not very common in Star Wars. The Resistance had their headquarters there for years, and it’s where many missions like the attack on Starkiller Base are launched from. In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the base is destroyed by a First Order dreadnought just before the Battle of D’Qar, which results in the loss of the Resistance bombing fleet.
13 Ahch-To
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Location | Unknown Regions |
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Other key appearances | None |
Introduced in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Ahch-To – located in the Unnown Regions – is believed to be the original homeworld of the Jedi Order some 25,000 years ago. It consisted of mostly islands, and was populated by aliens called Caretakers. Luke Skywalker fled there following the destruction of his new Jedi Temple by Kylo Ren, and it’s where Rey finds him and is trained. Luke stays on Ahch-To until his death, and even meets Rey there as a Force ghost when she flees the fight against Palpatine in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
12 Ossus
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Location | Outer Rim Territories |
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Other key appearances | The Mandalorian season 2, The Book of Boba Fett, The Rise of Kylo Ren by Charles Soule & Will Sliney |
Introduced in Star Wars Legends, Ossus was envisioned as another potential Jedi homeworld. This remote Outer Rim planet, difficult to find due to navigational hazards, was where Luke Skywalker built his Jedi Temple. In the first two sequel trilogy films, Luke flashes back to see his temple before and after its destruction. Ossus has later been fleshed out in The Book of Boba Fett, where we see the origins of Luke’s temple. The planet Ossus in Legends was the location of one of Luke’s Jedi Temples as well.
11 Cantonica
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Location | Corporate Sector |
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Other key appearances | Canto Bight anthology |
Cantonica is a distant yet wealthy planet in the prestigious Corporate Sector of the Outer Rim, and it is a desert world noted as site of the city of Canto Bight. This world is a playpen for the rich and powerful of the galaxy. Finn and Rose are imprisoned there, before being broken out by BB-8 and DJ, leading to a cross-city Fathier chase to free the abused animals. This is also where the young Force-Sensitive broom boy Temiri Blagg lives, as he’s featured in The Last Jedi‘s epilogue.
10 Crait
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Location | Outer Rim Territories |
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Other key appearances | Leia: Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray |
Located in the Outer Rim, Crait is a mineral planet full of crystals and covered in a layer of salt (it actually snows salt on Crait). Crait is a secret old Rebel base established during by Leia’s father Bail Organa himself. The Resistance take refuge on Crait while fleeting the First Order in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and they only escape thanks to the help of Luke Skywalker. Luke projects his image to the planet to distract and duel with Kylo Ren in a heroic final stand on Crait, where Rey rescues the Resistance.
9 Mustafar
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Location | Outer Rim Territories |
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Other key appearances | Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Vader: Immortal |
The only prequel world in the sequels, Mustafar is a lava planet in the Outer Rim where Anakin dueled Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. A planet rich in the Force, Mustafar was turned to the dark side when its ruled Lady Corvax attempted to perform a dark side ritual to conquer death itself. It became coveted by the Sith, with Palpatine sending the Separatist leaders there to be slain by Darth Vader – only for Obi-Wan to intervene. Darth Vader had the spirit of the ancient Sith heretic Darth Momin help him construct a fortress that would allow him to tap into the Force on Mustafar, but by the time of the sequels, this is just a ruin. The planet itself is actually recovering from its millennia-old dark side taint, explaining why Kylo Ren finds an area with trees and vegetation in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
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8 Exegol
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Location | Unknown Regions |
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Other key appearances | Dark Legends by George Mann |
Hidden in the Unknown Regions, Exegol was an ancient Sith redoubt. It is a vergence where the boundary between life and death is unusually thin, meaning generations of Sith headed there in their attempt to conquer death. Palpatine was resurrected at Exegol, but the clone body his spirit possessed was too fragile to contain his essence, and he was unable to leave the planet. Rey is ultimately lured to Exegol, where she and the now-redeemed Ben Solo face off against Palpatine and his minions, while the entire galaxy fights Palpatine’s fleet in the skies above. Rey then kills the Emperor by sacrificing herself, only to be resurrected by Ben Solo’s sacrifice, as the galaxy defeats the Emperor’s forces.
7 Ajan Kloss
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Location | Outer Rim Territories |
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Other key appearances | None |
An old secret Alderaanian refuge moon in the Outer Rim, Ajan Kloss is where the Resistance establishes their forest base in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Before the events of the sequels, Luke trained Leia there, and later Leia trains Rey there on an elaborate training course. The Resistance launches their attack on Exegol from Ajan Kloss, and it’s where their victory celebration takes place. Leia Organa meets her noble end reaching out to her son on the jungle moon.
6 Pasaana
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Location | Expansion Region |
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Other key appearances | Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher |
A desert world in the Expansion Regions, Pasaana is a hostile planet noted for the Festival of the Ancestors held by its inhabitants, the Aki-Aki. As seen in Adam Christopher’s Shadow of the Sith, Rey’s parents tricked the Sith assassin Ochi of Bestoon into believing Rey was hidden there, and he met his death there. Rey, Finn, Poe, and Chewbacca visit Pasaana years later, seeking the Sith Wayfinder that will take them to Exegol. This is where Rey and Kylo Ren have a faithful confrontation that results in the kidnapping of Chewbacca, and Rey taking down Kylo’s TIE fighter with a single blow.
5 Kijimi
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Location | Mid Rim |
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Other key appearances | Poe Dameron: Free Fall by Alex Segura |
Established a thousand years ago by a Force cult known as the Dai Bendu, Kiimi is a snowy Mid Rim planet that has become the main home of the Spice Runners of Kijimi. Poe Dameron once worked with the Spice Runners, and he takes C-3PO to his old friend Babu Frik to have him reprogrammed in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The First Order trace the Resistance to Kijimi, however, and it doesn’t take long for Rey and Kylo Ren to come face to face.
4 Kef Bir
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Location | Outer Rim Territories |
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Other key appearances | None |
One of the moons of the gas giant Endor, Kef Bir is littered with the wreckage of the second Death Star, which presumably affected the planet’s climate. First Order desertees led by Jannah settled on Kef Bir, and they ally with Rey and her friends when they arrive seeking the Sith Wayfinder in the Death Star’s wreckage. Kylo Ren becomes Ben Solo once again here, as he has a vision of Han and throws away his lightsaber.
3 Bespin
The Rise Of Skywalker
Location | Outer Rim Territories |
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Other key appearances | The Empire Strikes Back |
Seen in the montage of Resistance victories near the end of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Bespin is the location of Cloud City, famous for its role in the third act of The Empire Strikes Back. Luke and Darth Vader had their fateful duel there, where Luke loses a hand and learns that Vader is his father. In the sequel trilogy, the First Order occupied the Outer Rim planet, but their Star Destroyer is taken down by a citizen uprising following the Battle of Exegol.
2 The Forest Moon Of Endor
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Location | Outer Rim |
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Other key appearances | Return of the Jedi |
A First Order defeat is also seen over the Forest Moon of Endor in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker‘s montage. The First Order apparently occupied the Forest Moon for unknown reasons, and their defeat is watched by Ewoks – including Wicket, one of the Ewoks befirended by Leia years ago. The First Order Star Destroyer above is destroyed using a “Holdo Maneuver.”
1 Tatooine
The Rise Of Skywalker
Location | Outer Rim |
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Other key appearances | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Star Wars (1977), Return of the Jedi |
The Outer Rim planet of Tatooine lies at the heart of the Star Wars saga, and it is briefly visited at the end of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Rey takes Luke and Leia’s lightsabers to the Lars Homestead, where Luke grew up, and buried there where Shmi Skywalker is buried. Rey ignites her own, recognized by the Force ghosts of Luke and Leia, and prepares to embrace her destiny to reform the Jedi Order.
