Lettow/Legends

Lettow was a Core Worlds planet. After leaving the Jedi Order in 24,500 BBY, the Jedi Knight Xendor founded the Legionnaire Academy on Lettow for studying alternative Force-user traditions. Other like-minded individuals who came to follow Xendor named themselves the Legions of Lettow, and the group eventually came into conflict with the Jedi. After Xendor's death at the Battle of Columus, Jedi armies attacked the Legionnaires at Lettow, who held them off long enough to escape beyond the borders of the Galactic Republic. Over the subsequent millennia, Lettow became a legendary lost world.
==Description==
Lettow was a terrestrial planet located in the Lettow system, a part of the Arrowhead, or the Slice portion of the Core Worlds. It was situated near the border of the Deep Core.
==History==
In 24,500 BBY,Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force Jedi Knight Xendor requested permission from the leadership of the Jedi Order to create an academy devoted to the study of the alternative Force-using traditions of the galaxy. After the request was denied, Xendor left the Order and founded the facility known as the Legionnaire Academy on Lettow. He was followed by his lover, Arden Lyn, and soon by others who rebelled against the Jedi Order's control over the study of the Force. Those followers of Xendor named themselves the Legions of Lettow, and the disagreements between the Legionnaires and the Jedi eventually escalated into the conflict known as the First Great Schism.
After the Jedi killed Xendor at the Battle of Columus,Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side the Jedi armies advanced on Lettow with the intent of killing the rest of the Legions. Lyn, who had inherited the leadership of Xendor's forces, realized the only viable strategy was for the Legionnaires to hold off the Jedi at Lettow, which they did long enough for the former to escape beyond the borders of the Galactic Republic. Jedi Master Awdrysta Pina, however, eventually tracked down the fleeing Lyn to the celestial body Irkalla, and during the ensuing confrontation, Pina placed Lyn in a state of stasis that lasted until 4 BBY.
Lettow fell within the Republic's borders around 22,000 BBY, but over the subsequent millennia, its location became lost to history, and the events related to it were relegated to the status of legend. In 4 BBY, Lyn was awakened from her stasis by agents of the Galactic Empire and mentioned Lettow in a debriefing, selections of which were filed by Grand Inquisitor Laddinare Torbin. By the time of the Galactic Civil War, researchers believed that the holocron of the Jedi Grand Master and Supreme Chancellor of the Republic Biel Ductavis, who had lived eleven thousand years prior, could allow for the rediscovery of mythical worlds such as Lettow, although the artifact itself had been lost for millennia on the planet Ossus.
==Behind the scenes==
As first documented in the 1997 book Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays by Laurent Bouzereau, the name "Lettow" originated in George Lucas's 1974 first script draft for the 1977 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. In the draft, "Legions of Lettow" was a name used for a faction that would ultimately morph into the Sith that served as the antagonists of the trilogy.Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays
The name of the Legions of Lettow was reclaimed for canonical use with respect to the Star Wars Legends continuity in the 2002 Power of the Jedi Sourcebook, which was published for use with Wizards of the Coast's Star Wars Roleplaying Game.Power of the Jedi Sourcebook Daniel Wallace and Fry's 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas subsequently established that Lettow was a distinct celestial body and placed it in grid square M-11.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: The Old Republic 
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==Notes and references==
Category:Arrowhead planets
Category:Galactic Republic planets
Category:Terrestrial planets