Dantooine / Legends Dantooine ( ) was a pleasant world of grasslands , rivers and lakes . The planet was located in the Raioballo sector of the Outer Rim at an endpoint of Myto ' s Arrow , the other endpoint of which was in the Obtrexta sector , though Dantooine itself was still far removed from most galactic traffic . It hosted a small population spread amongst single - family settlements and small communities with large land holdings . Its sentient population consisted primarily of simple Human farmers , though Dantooine was also home to the primitive Dantari race . Native wildlife included the kath hound , the iriaz , the kinrath , and the graul . The planet had no industrial settlements or advanced technology by the time of the Galactic Civil War , save for a temporary Rebel base there . Description . A normal day on Dantooine lasted 25 standard hours , and a local year lasted 378 local days . Dantooine had several continents . There was an equatorial one that was connected to a larger northern one and a south polar one by slender land bridges , as well as a disconnected north - eastern continent . An olive , blue , and brown colored world , Dantooine was remote from the bustle of the galactic trade routes . Two moons floated in the skies above the savannahs of lavender and yellow grasses . Separated by forests of spiky blba tree s , colonists maintained individual family estates largely isolated from each other . One of the major continents of Dantooine was identified by its various geographical regions . To the southeast , there were the Rielig Steppes , with the Burad Hills at their southeastern corner . The Northeast section was identified as the Fields of Banir , which held the ruins of an ancient Jedi temple . To the Northwest , there were the Arissi Plains , with the Mosa Rishin region and Taikaha Hills connecting to the southwestern Darjani Plains . History . Infinite Empire . The planet was one of the subject worlds of the Rakata , of the Infinite Empire . The Rakata built several structures on its surface ; at least one of which housed a Star Map and several Rakata - made droids , and was still standing by the time of the Jedi Civil War . A theory persisted that the native Dantari were descended from a colonization attempt during the earliest days of the Old Republic , but no studies bore this supposition out , and the Dantari were recorded as being present since the beginning of more recent settlements . Old Sith Wars . During the Old Sith Wars , the Galactic Republic began a full - scale colonization campaign on Dantooine . While the Republic by itself had virtually no military on the planet , the settlers were protected by the Jedi Order . By at least 3997 BBY , a Jedi training enclave was established by Master Vodo - Siosk Baas , although ruins of an even older Jedi structure could be found on the planet . Many great Jedi of the Great Sith War were trained on Dantooine . However , the Enclave on Dantooine was infamous for the number of its students who eventually fell to the dark side ; among them were some of the greatest enemies of the Republic during that unstable period , such as Exar Kun , Revan , and Malak . Forty years later , in 3956 BBY , the leading instructors at the Dantooine Jedi Enclave were Masters Vrook Lamar , Zhar , Vandar Tokare , and Dorak . When Bastila Shan brought a mentally dead Revan before the Dantooine council , they decided to give Revan another chance to redeem himself . Revan was trained there for a second time . Just weeks after Revan completed his new training , the Enclave , along with many of Dantooine ' s other settlements , was destroyed by Darth Malak , who was obsessed with finding Revan and Bastila ( Malak also took special care to bombard the ancient Rakatan temple to preserve the Star Forge ' s secrecy , but by then it was too late ) . This attack sent the Dantooine farming community into decay , as the Republic , weakened by the war , could not offer its support to the remote world . Until the collapse of the Sith Empire a year later , Dantooine was occupied by the Sith , who executed almost all local leaders . From 3956 to 3951 BBY , the settlers , led by Administrator Terena Adare , began to rebuild their community by constructing the outpost of Khoonda . By then , Dantooine was populated by mercenaries and salvagers , the latter trying to make a living by finding Jedi relics from the ruined Enclave and selling them . In 3951 BBY , the Republic nearly lost Dantooine to the Exchange , which planned to use the world as an outpost in the Outer Rim Territories . Exchange mercenaries under the leadership of Azkul , who where supported by Czerka Arms under the leadership of Jana Lorso , made trouble for the settlers , eventually culminating in the Battle of Khoonda . Thanks to the efforts of Master Vrook and Meetra Surik , the meager Khoonda militia prevailed over Azkul ' s mercenaries and subsequently exiled the Exchange and Czerka Arms from the planet , and Dantooine remained in the Republic . The Republic eventually sent some of its forces to protect the battered planet . After the battle , the Enclave was rebuilt and briefly became the residence of the reformed Jedi Council ( Master Vrook , Master Kavar , and Master Zez - Kai Ell ) , but it was abandoned shortly after , when the Council members were killed by Darth Traya . Clone Wars . During the Clone Wars , Mace Windu won a widely publicized victory at the Battle of Dantooine . Although he was without his lightsaber for much of the battle , Windu and a large clone trooper force defeated an army of B2 super battle droids and a massive seismic tank . Galactic Empire . At some time after the creation of the Empire , the Force - sensitive clone trooper X2 aided the escaped Jedi Knight Falon Grey in his battle against Imperial stormtroopers . While Grey fought with armed villagers , X2 moved around the Jedi enclave . The two met in a mountain hangar , but X2 ' s older brother X1 arrived with his troops . Falon Grey defeated X1 in combat , but while at the lightsaber ' s edge , X1 killed the Jedi and incapacitated X2 . X2 then lived on the planet for many years . Galactic Civil War . Years later , after the Corellian Treaty was signed , the Alliance to Restore the Republic established Dantooine as their headquarters , establishing a prefabricated base near the ruins of the old Jedi Enclave . Also it was used for a staging post for starfighter strikes — most famously , the Battle of Danuta , for the recovery of the Death Star plans . In 2 BBY , the special operative Jan Ors directed the seventeen - year - old Tarrin Datch to pilot her freighter carrying a cargo of stolen Imperial fuel slugs to the sanctuary of the Dantooine base , the first command center of the Rebel Alliance . Once arriving there , Datch began training as a starfighter pilot and officially joined the Rebellion . In 1 BBY , Darth Vader was captured by the Rebel Alliance on Kamino and was taken hostage on Dantooine ' s Rebel base , unaware that Fett was pursuing the Rebels and their valuable hostage in his ship . Not long after , the Dantooine base was deserted after Ryle Torsyn discovered an Imperial homing beacon there , possibly placed by Boba Fett . After the Alliance ' s relocation to Yavin 4 , Princess Leia Organa tried to fool Grand Moff Tarkin into believing that the main Rebel base was still located on Dantooine , attempting to spare her homeworld of Alderaan from the destructive power of the Empire ' s newest weapon . Tarkin replied that Dantooine was too remote to use as an effective demonstration of the Death Star ( the deciding factor here seemed to be a political and social impact rather than military necessity ) . Alderaan was destroyed and subsequently , Imperials did indeed discover the abandoned Rebel base . As Tarkin realized that Leia would lie to him even under the most dire circumstances , he ordered her execution . The Empire took over the vacated Alliance base and discovered the Jedi cloning facility in the ruins , and resumed carrying out the research to develop rapid cloning procedures . They also established an Imperial outpost and a mining outpost . Ex - Imperial Officer Tycho Celchu also defected to the Rebel Alliance on this world . However , he was captured by the Imperial Storm Commando Corps . Before he was captured , he managed to send a panic - burst transmission to the orbiting members of Rogue Squadron who immediately began a rescue operation . Luke Skywalker piloted a captured Imperial speeder bike to the landing zone , where he used several E - Web repeating blasters to stop an Imperial APC which Tycho had been stored upon . After disabling the APC , Skywalker and Celchu used another two speeder bikes to escape from several waves of Probe droids , APCs , enemy speeders and TIE / sa starfighters . However , upon arriving at the rendezvous point with Sarkli , the Imperial forces had destroyed much of the Rebel task force , including several BTL Y - wing starfighter s , leaving four T - 65 X - wing starfighter s , which the survivors used to escape . Upon reaching orbit , Celchu hemorrhaged information about trapped scientists on the planet Ralltiir . At some point during the Galactic Civil War , a bounty hunter and kid faced off against a pirate in orbit . The kid tackled the pirate out of the airlock , forcing the bounty hunter to rescue him using an ablative heatshield and a parachute . Post - Endor era . After the Battle of Endor , Dantooine was represented by a Imperial faction , called the Pentastar Alignment , but it eventually came under New Republic control , the elite unit known as Lando ' s Commandos made use of a cloaked stealth fighter housed in a " museum " on the planet — though given the lack of public infrastructure on the planet , and the secret nature of cloaking technology , this may have been a euphemistic description for a military storehouse . In the turbulent years following the reborn clone Emperor Palpatine ' s resurrection , the New Republic relocated several refugees from Eol Sha to Dantooine . The colonist refugees did not have a chance to meet the native Dantari , since Admiral Daala dispatched an Imperial force that massacred all the refugees . Two months after the start of the Yuuzhan Vong War , Mara Jade Skywalker had landed on Dantooine with Anakin Solo to try to give Mara some rest from the war and to recover from her sickness . However , the Yuuzhan Vong soon caught up with them , and New Republic Forces who were fleeing from Dubrillion , including Leia Organa Solo , Jaina Solo and Gavin Darklighter , landed in another mess . Luke Skywalker and Jacen Solo had arrived just moments earlier , and had helped in fighting the battle on the planet that had helped the other refugees from Dubrillion escape . The population of the native Dantari were almost wiped out in the battle as the Yuuzhan Vong proceeded to conquer the planet . Kyp Durron later witnessed a two - kilometer - wide pit filled with the bones of those sacrificed to the Yuuzhan Vong gods . The Galactic Alliance reclaimed Dantooine when the Yuuzhan Vong surrendered . However , during the Second Galactic Civil War , in 40 ABY , the planet had come under Imperial control once more and would presumably still be under Imperial jurisdiction , when the remnant was reorganized into the Fel Empire , four years later . After the rise of Darth Krayt ' s Galactic Empire in 130 ABY , Dantooine was a member of the remnant of the Fel Empire , known as the Empire in exile . In 138 ABY , when the Empire - in - exile had emerged with the New Jedi Order and the Galactic Alliance Remnant , with the fall of Darth Krayt ' s Galactic Empire , Dantooine , presumably became a member of the Galactic Federation Triumvirate . Behind the scenes . The PC game " " mistakenly places Dantooine in the Mayagil sector . In the PSP game " " , Dantooine ' s landmasses are the island Ireland and part of Scotland repeated over the planet ' s sea .