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Big One

Legends Canon version → Linked from 7 articles

Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.

The Big One was a moon-sized asteroid located in the Hoth asteroid field. During the Battle of Hoth in 3 ABY, the smuggler Han Solo used a large crater within this asteroid to hide his starship, the Millennium Falcon, from pursuing Imperial forces under the command of the Dark Lord Darth Vader. However, Solo and his Rebel companions, including Princess Leia Organa, were surprised to learn that the large asteroid crater was actually the gullet of an enormous space slug. Vader, having anticipated that the Millennium Falcon had most likely hid inside one of the asteroids, also deployed TIE/sa bombers to bomb the area to flush them out.

Text and facts from the “Big One/Legends” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.

Facts

Region
Outer Rim Territories
Western Reaches
Sector
Anoat sector
System
Hoth system
Grid coordinates
K-18
Class
Asteroid
Fauna
Exogorth
Mynock

Appearances

8 works, in story order
  1. Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
  2. Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization
  3. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back novelization (first appearance)
  4. Classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back novelization
  5. The Empire Strikes Back: A Storybook
  6. Star Wars (1977) 41
  7. Star Wars Manga: The Empire Strikes Back 2
  8. Star Wars (1977) 42

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