Bothawui
aka Bothan Homeworld
Coordinates: Canon (Star Systems of the Galaxy, 2025)
Expanded Dossier
⬢ CURATED RECORDBothawui is the cosmopolitan homeworld of the Bothans - fur-shifting, politically gifted operators who run the galaxy's most storied intelligence network, the Bothan Spynet. Officially neutral in every war, Bothawui sells information to all sides with scrupulous dishonesty.
In the Clone Wars its orbit hosted Anakin Skywalker's ambush of Grievous among the rings and asteroids. A generation later came the species' epitaph: the operation to steal the second Death Star's location, of which Mon Mothma said the words every Bothan knows - 'Many Bothans died to bring us this information.'
First appearance: Mentioned in Return of the Jedi (1983); seen in The Clone Wars
Planetary Data
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Economy
Primary sector: Intelligence
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Points of Interest
- ⬢Drev'starn, the spy capital
- ⬢The orbital ring battlefield of 22 BBY
- ⬢Spynet brokerage houses
Affiliation History
Archive Annotations
- ⬢The Bothan Spynet predates the Republic's fall and outlived it
- ⬢Bothan fur ripples involuntarily with emotion - trained agents control it
- ⬢Bothawui stayed officially neutral through four galactic wars