Ilum
Name: Ilum
Type: Terrestrial
Temperature: Frigid
Atmosphere: Type I (breathable)
Hydrosphere: Saturated
Gravity: Standard
Terrain: Crystallized glaciers, Ice plains, Mountains, Forests, Caverns
Length of Day: 66 Standard Hours
Length of Year: 301 Local Days
Sapient Species: Humans
Starport: Landing Field
Population: 100 (5200 30 ABY First Order)
Planet Function: Jedi Outpost, Starkiller Base
Government: Jedi Council
Tech Level: Stone
Trade Routes: Metellos-Ilum hyperspace route
Major Exports: Kyber crystals
Major Imports: Food Rations
Settlements: Jedi Temple, Jedi Outpost
Points of Interest: Crystal Cave, Imperial Trench, Starkiller Base, Fray Landing Base, Holenesh Canyon, Imperial Firebase 3, Ilum Jedi Temple, Icefall Cavern, The Circle, Cross-Shelf Corridor, Republic Recon Post, Snowdrift Cave, Western Ice Shelf
Flora: Trees
Fauna: Asharl panther, Blismal, Gorgodon, Razhak, Snowfeather bird
System Data
Region: Unknown Regions
Sector: 7G Sector
System Name: Ilum System
Star Name: Asar
Star Type: Orange
Background: Ilum was a snow-covered planet located in the 7G sector of the Unknown Regions, within the Ilum system. Ilum was the fifth planet from its parent star Asar, a blue dwarf, located roughly equidistant from Asar and the system’s cometary cloud. Ilum had a kyber crystalline core, and had been utilized by the Jedi Order for the Gathering, a rite of passage in which Jedi younglings had to find and harvest kyber crystals for their lightsabers, which had existed for thousands of standard years.
When the Jedi Order was exterminated by order of Darth Sidious, the new Galactic Empire occupied Ilum and began excavating it for its vast supply of kyber crystals, which were to be used in the construction of the first and second Death Stars. The over-mining of the planet caused its core, and later a massive Imperial Trench, to open up along Ilum’s equator.
After the fall of the Empire, its successor state, the First Order, converted the massive trench into Starkiller Base: a system-destroying superweapon that was the culmination of the Empire’s research into dark energy translations and hyperspace tunneling. Held in secret by the First Order, its modifications allowed Ilum to act as a mobile base and major weapons platform until it was destroyed by the Resistance in desperation after Starkiller’s destruction of the Hosnian system. Following the attack, led by Poe Dameron, the planet collapsed into a star that would later be named Solo after the legendary smuggler Han Solo, who died at Ilum.
