Hoth asteroid field

The Hoth asteroid field, also known as the Hoth asteroid belt or Anoat Asteroid Belt, was an asteroid field overlapping the boundaries of the Hoth and Anoat systems near the planet Hoth.
==Description==
The Hoth asteroid belt contained millions of asteroids, some large, some small, some the size of tiny moons. About two-thirds of them were big enough to destroy a starship as large as an YT-1300 light freighter on impactThe Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi? and some were even large enough to devastate capital ships. Creatures the exogorth Sy-O, who lived within the "Big One" asteroid, and mynocks were present in this area.
==History==
After the Alliance to Restore the Republic was forced to abandon Yavin 4 after the Battle of Yavin, they began a search for a new base. Eventually the rebels picked the planet Hoth as their new base, largely due to the existence of the asteroid field, as the asteroids in the Hoth system formed an effective barrier to outsiders.
Shortly after the Battle of Hoth, being chased by the Imperial TIE/ln space superiority starfighters, the crew of the Millennium Falcon noticed that the hyperdrive was damaged, so they dashed into the asteroid belt to ditch the pursuit. Despite the near-impossibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field without getting pulverized, the Falcon evaded its pursuers (all of whom were destroyed by asteroid collisons) and hid inside one of the largest asteroids. Death Squadron—the Imperial fleet under the command of Darth Vader himself—pursued them, but the field punished them with brutal impacts, resulting in the loss of at least one Star Destroyer when its bridge tower was obliterated by a particularly large asteroid and even inflicting damage to the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Executor before Admiral Piett informed Vader to make contact with Emperor Palpatine, causing the Executor to withdraw from the asteroid field so that Vader could send a clear transmission.
==Appearances==
*Lost Stars 
*Lost Stars webcomic
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*The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi? 
*Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization
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*Star Wars: Uprising
*Bloodline 
===Non-canon appearances===
*LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
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==Notes and references==
Category:Anoat sector asteroid fields
Category:Anoat system
Category:Hoth system