⬢ PLANETARY ARCHIVES/STARKILLER BASE

Starkiller Base

aka Ilum (converted), First Order Superweapon

Unknown RegionsGRID G-7

Coordinates: Canon (Star Systems of the Galaxy, 2025)

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Expanded Dossier

⬢ CURATED RECORD

Starkiller Base was the First Order's apotheosis of the Death Star concept: not a station but a planet - the snow-forested world formerly charted as Ilum, holy kyber source of the Jedi - hollowed and converted into a superweapon that drank a star's plasma and projected it through hyperspace to kill whole systems light-years away.

Its single firing erased the Hosnian system and the New Republic's government. Days later, Resistance starfighters - exploiting sabotage by Finn, Han Solo and Chewbacca - detonated its thermal oscillator; the imploding weapon collapsed into the star it had half-drained. Han Solo died on its maintenance bridge, killed by his son.

First appearance: Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens (2015)

Planetary Data

System
Unknown Regions
Sector
Uncharted
Region
Unknown Regions
Grid square
G-7
Climate
Frozen
Population
50 thousand
Government
First Order
Economy
Military
Suns
(Consumed its host stars to fire)
Moons
None recorded
Day length
21 standard hours
Year length
Unstable orbit (mobile weapon)

Terrain

IceWeapon

Languages

Galactic Basic

Economy

Primary sector: Military

Points of Interest

  • The thermal oscillator at Precinct 47 (destroyed)
  • The kyber excavation core (formerly Ilum's Jedi crystal caves)
  • The maintenance bridge where Han Solo died

Major Events

Affiliation History

First Order
First Order
28 ABY - 34 ABY

Archive Annotations

  • Built within Ilum, the sacred Jedi crystal world of the Clone Wars era
  • Its beam split to destroy five Hosnian worlds simultaneously
  • Kylo Ren's scar dates from Rey's victory in its dying forest