Starkiller Base
aka Ilum (converted), First Order Superweapon
Coordinates: Canon (Star Systems of the Galaxy, 2025)
Expanded Dossier
⬢ CURATED RECORDStarkiller 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
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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
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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