Utapau
aka Sinkhole Planet
Coordinates: Canon (Star Systems of the Galaxy, 2025)
Expanded Dossier
⬢ CURATED RECORDUtapau's surface is windswept desert plain, but its civilization lives below: vast natural sinkholes, some kilometers across, hold the vertical cities of the Pau'an administrators and Utai laborers. Wind-power vanes and dragon-mount rookeries stud the sinkhole walls above subterranean oceans.
In the war's final days, General Grievous relocated Separatist headquarters to Pau City's tenth level. Obi-Wan Kenobi tracked him there, dueled him among the landing platforms, and finished the cyborg general with an undignified blaster ('so uncivilized') - hours before his own clones, on Utapau's sinkhole walls, received Order 66.
First appearance: Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Planetary Data
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Economy
Primary sector: Trade
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Points of Interest
- ⬢Pau City sinkhole metropolis
- ⬢The subterranean World-Ocean
- ⬢Varactyl rookeries (Boga's kin)
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Archive Annotations
- ⬢The death-place of General Grievous
- ⬢Obi-Wan survived Order 66 here by falling into the sinkhole lake
- ⬢Early drafts of Return of the Jedi placed a 'sinkhole planet' in the saga decades earlier