Great Pit of Carkoon/Legends

The Great Pit of Carkoon, also called the Mouth of Sarlacc by Zorba Desilijic Tiure, was located within the Northern Dune Sea on the planet Tatooine. The large depression in the sand was the home of a rapacious, if slow-eating, adult sarlacc. Its consciousness was merged to that of its ancient victim, Susejo.
Its proximity to Jabba's Palace, paired with the torturous death provided by the sarlacc, made it an ideal spot for executions to be carried out for Jabba the Hutt's pleasure.
It was the place of the Battle of the Great Pit of Carkoon, and the subsequent death of Jabba.
==History==
The sarlacc had resided in the Pit of Carkoon for around four thousand years by the time of the Galactic Civil War. A Choi named Susejo, who had fallen into the sarlacc by 3996 BBY, would eventually merge his personality with the beast as it remained stationary for millennia. At some point, the gang leader Alkhara had managed to cut a road from his headquarters to the Pit of Carkoon before it was taken over by Jabba the Hutt in the year 516 BBY. Due to the pit being close to his palace, Jabba would begin using it as a means to execute people for his amusement over the course of many years.
After the Battle of Yavin, the constant presence of Jabba's sail barge at the Great Pit of Carkoon had scared off the sarlacc's natural preys. In 1 ABY, Jabba's beast master Malakili hired a spacer to kill Jundland eopies in order to collect their livers to feed the sarlacc.
In 4 ABY, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Chewbacca attempted to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt. After their capture, Jabba took his Rebel prisoners to the pit, to be digested over years by the sarlacc. The prisoners, however, overcame their guards, with the help of R2-D2 and Lando Calrissian. While Luke, Han, Lando and Chewbacca fought on their Skiff and managed to knock Boba Fett into the pit, Leia used the chains she was bound in to strangle Jabba. Luke subsequently destroyed Jabba's sail barge and escaped with the Rebels and the two droids R2-D2 and C-3PO.
Soon after that battle, Kuat of Kuat, the leader of Kuat Drive Yards, arranged a bombing run of the area around the Great Pit of Carkoon to ensure the death of the Boba Fett.The Mandalorian Armor
==Behind the scenes==
Filming the Great Pit of Carkoon for Return of the Jedi took place in the Yuma Desert in Arizona in April 1982. The sound of the sarlacc was created from sounds of alligator hisses, as well as the sounds of some of the Jedi crew's stomachs after eating pizza.
The Great Pit of Carkoon was originally supposed to be called the "Sloth Pit," but this was changed prior to the release of the script.
The 1997 Special Edition of Return of the Jedi added several tentacles and an extension with a beak-like tongue to the sarlacc.
While the original Return of the Jedi showed Boba Fett falling in the pit and then disappearing from view, leaving some freedom to Expanded Universe authors to retcon his escape, the Special Edition CGI beak-maw actually is shown to swallow Fett. However, this makes little difference, as the beak-tongue's insides are the same as those of the pit in general.
The Pit of Carkoon appeared in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts, prior to its closure on December 15, 2011. However, the game incorrectly identified the pit's location as the Western Dune Sea.
==Appearances==
===Non-canon appearances===
*Choose Your Own Star Wars Adventure: Return of the Jedi
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*The Return of Tag & Bink: Special Edition
*LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
*LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
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Category:Dune Sea locations
Category:Hutt Clan locations