17-524: Jakku is a fictional desert planet in the Star Wars universe, first featured in the 2015 film The Force Awakens . Remote, lawless, and inhospitable, it is the homeworld of sequel trilogy main character Rey , played by Daisy Ridley , and Aftermath character Gallius Rax , both members of the Palpatine family . The film focuses on two distinct localities, Tuanul Village and Niima Outpost, near
34-490: A dry planet , an arid planet , or a dune planet , is a type of terrestrial planet with an arid surface consistency similar to Earth 's deserts . Mars is a prominent example of a desert planet in the Solar System . A 2011 study suggested that not only are life-sustaining desert planets possible, but that they might be more common than Earth-like planets. The study found that, when modeled, desert planets had
51-536: A starship graveyard. The planet is also depicted in novels such as Chuck Wendig 's Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End (2017). The planet was first seen in the November 2014 teaser trailer for the first film of the Star Wars sequel trilogy , The Force Awakens (2015). The film's director and co-writer, J. J. Abrams , first mentioned its name at Star Wars Celebration in April 2015, identifying Jakku as
68-519: A much larger habitable zone than ocean planets . The same study also speculated that Venus may have once been a habitable desert planet as recently as 1 billion years ago. It is also predicted that Earth will become a desert planet within a billion years due to the Sun 's increasing luminosity. A study conducted in 2013 concluded that hot desert planets without runaway greenhouse effect can exist in 0.5 AU around Sun-like stars. In that study, it
85-583: A non-DLC multiplayer map titled Jakku: The Graveyard , with 4 different gamemode variants. Jakku is also a location in the two Lego -themed action-adventure video games ; 2016's Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens , and 2022's Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga . The planet is featured in a Lego Star Wars playset called Encounter on Jakku . Jakku appears in the Disney Parks and Resorts attraction Star Tours – The Adventures Continue . Desert planet A desert planet , also known as
102-697: Is also depicted in the final book in Wendig's Aftermath trilogy, Empire's End (2017), which explains that Palpatine kept an observatory on the planet to map the Unknown Regions, overseen by Palpatine's own adoptive son and Jakku native Gallius Rax , where in the event of his death, the Empire would reform as the First Order. The reference book The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary establishes that this battle occurs one year and four days after
119-489: Is captured by the oppressive First Order but leaves the data behind with his astromech droid , BB-8 . He escapes with the help of turncoat stormtrooper Finn ( John Boyega ), but Poe is presumed dead when their stolen TIE fighter crashes in the desert. Meanwhile, BB-8 befriends local scavenger Rey; pursued by the First Order, she and Finn flee Jakku with the droid aboard the Millennium Falcon . Later in
136-665: The Evernight series and her Star Wars novels: Lost Stars , Bloodline , Leia, Princess of Alderaan , Master and Apprentice, Into the Dark , and Star Wars: The Fallen Star . The second book in the Evernight series, Stargazer , was published in March 2009, and was ranked No. 4 in the chapter book category of The New York Times list of bestselling children's books in April 2009. According to her website, Gray lives in
153-706: The Battle of Endor depicted in Return of the Jedi , and is the last major stand of the Empire and battle of the Galactic Civil War . 29 years later, around the time of The Force Awakens , the debris field in the desert is called the Starship Graveyard. Jakku appears or is mentioned in multiple other works, including Rey's Survival Guide (2015) and The Weapon of a Jedi (2015) by Jason Fry , and
170-535: The Emirate of Abu Dhabi . In early concept development stages, the planet was conceived as a "junk planet" which would have "wreckage from the previous Star Wars movies". Unused designs for Tatooine by original trilogy concept artist Ralph McQuarrie were repurposed for exteriors. Some have criticized Jakku as being essentially the same planet as Tatooine, the home world of both Luke and Anakin Skywalker (from
187-410: The 2015 short stories " High Noon on Jakku " (2015) and " All Creatures Great and Small " by Landry Q. Walker . The 2015 action shooter video game Star Wars Battlefront features downloadable content (DLC) titled Battle of Jakku , which includes two multiplayer maps set on the planet. Jakku also features in the single-player campaign of the 2017 sequel, Star Wars Battlefront II , as well as
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#1732787883391204-682: The desert planet Arrakis (also known as Dune) in the Dune franchise drew inspiration from the Middle East , particularly the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf , as well as Mexico . Dune in turn inspired the desert planets which prominently appear in the Star Wars franchise, including the planets Tatooine , Geonosis , and Jakku . Claudia Gray Claudia Gray is the pseudonym of Amy Vincent , an American writer of paranormal romance young adult fiction , best known for
221-469: The film, Rey has a vision of being left on the planet as a child and being taken by Unkar Plutt after touching Luke Skywalker 's old lightsaber . The planet appears briefly in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Rey has a flashback-like vision of her parents leaving her on the planet before they were killed. The planet also appears in a montage alongside Bespin and Endor after
238-683: The film’s climactic battle on Exegol between the Resistance and the Sith Eternal ; a burning Resurgent -class Star Destroyer can be seen falling behind an old Imperial -class Star Destroyer (one shown in The Force Awakens ) as the galaxy rises up against the First Order. The scenes on Jakku were filmed in the UAE section of the Rub al Khali desert, which falls under the jurisdiction of
255-587: The original and prequel trilogy , respectively), with only its name being unique. Jakku was first introduced in two novels released on September 4, 2015: Chuck Wendig 's Star Wars: Aftermath (2015) and Claudia Gray 's Lost Stars . The latter depicts some of the Battle of Jakku, the final confrontation between the forces of the Galactic Empire and the New Republic over the planet. The battle
272-468: The setting in the trailers and revealing that it is where the character Rey ( Daisy Ridley ) lives. Jakku is a major setting in The Force Awakens and its novelization . The home world of main character Rey, it is a harsh and inhospitable desert planet on the outskirts of the Unknown Regions. In the film, Resistance X-wing pilot Poe Dameron ( Oscar Isaac ) comes to Jakku seeking vital information held by explorer Lor San Tekka ( Max von Sydow ). Poe
289-430: Was concluded that a minimum humidity of 1% is needed to wash off carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but too much water can act as a greenhouse gas itself. Higher atmospheric pressures increase the range in which the water can remain liquid. The concept has become a common setting in science fiction , appearing as early as the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and Frank Herbert 's 1965 novel Dune . The environment of
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