Dantooine - Definition and Overview

Dantooine is a fictional planet from the Star Wars universe.

Dantooine was mentioned only once in the Star Wars films. In A New Hope, Princess Leia tries to fool Grand Moff Tarkin into believing that the Rebel base is located there. Tarkin replies that Dantooine is "too remote" to use the Death Star on (the deciding factor here seems to be a political and social impact rather than military necessity).

What we know about Dantooine comes from the Expanded Universe. It is a pleasant world of grasslands, rivers, and lakes, very much like the savanna of Africa. It hosts a small population spread amongst single-family settlements and small communities with large land holdings. Native creatures include the kath hound and the iriaz.

Dantooine was one of the subject worlds of the Infinite Empire, and a star map containing data about the Star Forge could be found in an underground structure there.

A Jedi enclave was operation on Dantooine during The Great Sith War, but was destroyed by Darth Malak along with the rest of the Dantooine settlements. Since Princess Leia, 4,000 years after Malak's attack, suggested Dantooine as a target for the Death Star, it seems likely that Dantooine was resettled at some point prior to the Battle of Yavin.

The planet is seen in the Cartoon Microseries Star Wars: Clone Wars, where Mace Windu defeats a Separatist army poised to reinforce the Confederacy on nearby Muunilist.

Kath hound

Kath hounds are creatures indigenious to the planet. They are about the size of a large dog or small horse. They are generally not very hostile unless provoked. In the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, one of the tasks the main character must complete to be fully accepted into the Jedi order is to remove a dark side taint which has made the kath hounds more violent. there is also a larger version of the kath hound called a horned kath hound, which has two husks and is slightly larger and tougher.