Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Dagobah


Astrographical
Region: Outer Rim Territories
Sector; Sluis Sector
System: Dagobah system
Suns: 1
Moons: 0
Distance from Core: 50,250 light years
Rotation period: 23 hours
Orbital period: 341 days

Physical
Class : Terrestrial
Atmosphere: Oxygen Mix
Climate: Humid
Primary terrain: swamps, bogs, jungles
Surface water: 8%


MONOPOLY STATS
Rent value (default): 6 Credits
Rent value (1 settlement): 30 Credits
Rent value (2 settlements): 90 Credits
Rent value (3 settlements): 270 Credits
Rent value (4 settlements): 400 Credits
Rent value (with City): 550 Credits
Mortgage value: 50 Credits
Purchase value: 100 Credits
Cost of Settlement/City: 50 Credits

Dagobah was an Outer Rim planet in the Dagobah system. A remote world of swamps and forests, it served as a refuge for Jedi Master Yoda during his exile from the Empire, but otherwise had no notable intelligent life.
GEOGRAPHY
Dagobah was a harsh, humid, swampy planet, mostly covered in shallow marshland, interspersed with stifling forests. There were very few truly open bodies of water on the planet: the water supply was thinly invested throughout the planet's main habitat, swampland, although there were vast expanses of mud fields. Dagobah was home to many creatures, such as bogwings, dragonsnakes, nudj, sleens, vine snakes, and swamp slugs. Examples of flora included the Gnarltree and Meat flower. The planet was devoid of any advanced civilization, although the primitive Hepsalum Tash managed to eke out a living in the bogs.

HISTORY

Discovery and Surveys
The first official Republic survey of Dagobah occurred in 39 BBY. In 38 BBY, forty Humans crashed on Dagobah, and were forced to raise their children as cannibals.
Prior to the Clone Wars, a Republic research team under Halka Four-Den was stationed on Dagobah to research the native flora and fauna. Unfortunately, Halka Four-Den and her research team later died on Dagobah before they could be retrieved, due to the neglect of their superiors.
At the outbreak of the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Yoda was quick to recall Master Kenobi's search for Kamino, a lost planet beyond the Outer Rim. He knew that if Kamino was deleted from the Jedi Archives, then other such planets must exist. He discovered thirty-seven such worlds, Dagobah being one of them. He passed over it, but not before considering it as a refuge. He also might have remembered the time he spent on a similar swamp planet long before in his past.


Yoda's Exile
Near the beginning of the Great Jedi Purge, Yoda entered into exile in the swamps of Dagobah after facing Darth Sidious. He had decided long before, that in case his failure became a reality, he would go there. By choosing a world that "didn't exist" and living on a planet writhing with the Living Force, Yoda remained completely undetectable. He made his dwelling near the cave where he had slain the Bpfasshi Dark Jedi, which further negated his light side presence.
Tash Arranda and Zak Arranda met Yoda on the planet, but he chose not to train them in the Jedi ways at that time, explaining to them he was awaiting a different student. Afterwards, the Arrandas assisted in the rescue of the descendants of the survey team dispatched in 38 BBY, thus ridding Dagobah of the closest thing to an "advanced civilization" it had probably ever boasted.


The Next Skywalker
In 3 ABY, during the Galactic Civil War, Luke Skywalker was visited on the ice planet Hoth by the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi, who instructed him to seek Yoda on Dagobah so that he may be trained in the ways of the Jedi. Luke traveled to Dagobah in his T-65 X-wing, along with R2-D2 after the end of the Battle of Hoth. Due to a bumpy landing, Luke's X-wing ended up being half-buried in the swamp, and a grumpy and irritable Luke met a strange creature that turned out to be Yoda. During his grueling training, Luke learned control and power in the Force. Many of the teaching methods he learns here were later applied at his Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4. He also entered the cave where Yoda had defeated the Dark Jedi to test himself and experienced a vision where he fought a version of Darth Vader with Luke's face underneath his mask, hinting at both Vader's identity as his father and his own later involvement with the dark side. Later in his training, Skywalker had a vision of his friends Han Solo, Leia Organa, and Chewbacca suffering on Bespin. As a result, he left his training early, promising Yoda that he would return to complete it.
Luke did return to Dagobah in 4 ABY, but only in time to have one final conversation with Yoda before his death. Afterwards, he spoke extensively with Obi-Wan Kenobi about the conflicting stories of his own parentage.

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