Lotho Minor

**Lotho Minor**, also known as the **Junk World** or simply **Lotho**, was a planet located in the galaxy's Outer Rim Territories that was the homeworld of the Junker species. It was discovered early in the history of the Galactic Republic. As one of the galaxy's dumping grounds, Lotho Minor's surface was covered with mountains of trash amassed over untold generations, which brought salvage operations to the planet in search of machinery that could still be repurposed. Planets such as Naboo dumped their trash there.

Following his defeat at the Battle of Naboo, with his body shattered, the Sith Lord Darth Maul went into exile in the bowels of Lotho Minor, where he lost his mind. To escape the planet, he sent out a transmission, offering a great sum of credits for the capture of himself in hopes of luring a starship that he could escape in. The transmission was intercepted by the droid Captain Spikewheel and her crew of scavenger hopefuls; however, Maul's attempt to flee the planet failed.

The crazed Sith was eventually found by his brother, Savage Opress, over a decade after the former's defeat on Naboo. During the Galactic Civil War, the Duros Akar Duel ruled over a collection of monster droids built from Lotho Minor's scrap and claimed the planet as his own, but his servants turned against him and gained their freedom following an encounter with the Rebel Alliance droid C-3PO.

## Characteristics

A stormy, desolate terrestrial planet in orbit of the sun Lotho, Lotho Minor was located beyond the Western Reaches in the Lotho Minor system, which itself was located in the northern part of the Outer Rim Territories' Wazta sector, in grid square I-17 on the Standard Galactic Grid. The world was close to the Koda Spur hyperspace route, which connected it to the planet Thune and a space station known as Koda Station. Lotho Minor had a brownish surface covered with enormous mountains of trash piled over countless generations, with much of it permanently on fire, and had more junk than even the planet Raxus Prime. No approach vectors that could be used to enter the atmosphere were established.

The gutted and rotting hulls of ancient starships poked through the more recent garbage, lending its landscape the eerie feel of an industrial graveyard. Foul-smelling fog limited visibility, while huge pools of toxic sludge and periodic bursts of deadly acid rain made the hot and caustic planet's ruined ecosystem one of the most dangerous in the galaxy. The planet's Type I atmosphere was breathable to some species, yet Lotho Minor looked rusty and unattractive even from orbit, featuring occasional and aggressive rains of solid metal along with strong winds that blew the junk across the world. Combined with rust storms, underground explosions, and other sudden movements in the lower layers, Lotho Minor's numerous planetary hazards provoked the detachment of sharp waste and debris or flash floods of chemicals previously held by weather-worn dams.

"Nellis Express to Lotho Minor" was the nickname for a deadly tunnel in the Safa Toma Speedway, a Riot Racing track located on the planet Serolonis around the year 19 BBY, in reference to the likewise-dangerous Lotho Minor. The planet also contained pits, which were the subject of slang used as an interjection for surprise: "What in the pits of Lotho Minor?" The smuggler Han Solo uttered the phrase upon confronting infant sarlaccs that could move around around 5 BBY.

## History

In 5 ABY, after a group of Jawas stole the Crystal skull from Boba Fett and Indiana Jones, they fled to Lotho Minor using Jones' UT-60D U-wing starfighter/support craft. Jones had previously stolen the craft from Utapau, where it was in the possession of local Amani, using it as an escape craft. After the Jawas landed, they fled into the junk fields with the Crystal Skull. However, they were tracked there by Fett and Jones in *Slave I*. While scouring the planet's endless garbage wastes for the Skull, Jones and Fett got past past such threats as the enormous fire-breathers and a tribe of territorial Junkers, some of who were slain by Fett. The pair took shelter in a cave, in which they found the Crystal Skull. After this, they left the planet, with Jones flying the recovered U-wing and Fett flying *Slave I*.

## Appearances

* The Quest for the Crystal Skull (First appearance)