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.png) Imperial Star Destroyer Graveyard on Jakku, with theMillennium Falcon and aFirst OrderTIE fighter, fromThe Force Awakens (2015) | |
| First appearance | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) |
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| Genre | Science fiction |
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Jakku is a fictionaldesert planet in theStar Wars universe, first featured in the 2015 filmThe Force Awakens. Remote, lawless, and inhospitable, it is the homeworld ofsequel trilogy main characterRey, played byDaisy Ridley, andAftermath characterGallius Rax. The film focuses on two distinct localities, Tuanul Village and Niima Outpost, near astarship graveyard.
The planet is also depicted in novels such asChuck Wendig'sStar Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End (2017).
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The planet was first seen in the November 2014teaser trailer for the first film of theStar Wars sequel trilogy,The Force Awakens (2015).[1][2][3] The film's director and co-writer,J. J. Abrams, first mentioned its name atStar Wars Celebration in April 2015, identifying Jakku as the setting in the trailers and revealing that it is where the characterRey (Daisy Ridley) lives.[1]
Jakku is a major setting inThe Force Awakens[4] andits novelization.[5][6] The home world of main character Rey, it is a harsh and inhospitable desert planet on the outskirts of the Unknown Regions.[7] In the film,ResistanceX-wing pilotPoe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) comes to Jakku seeking vital information held by explorerLor San Tekka (Max von Sydow).[8] Poe is captured by the oppressiveFirst Order but leaves the data behind with hisastromech droid,BB-8. He escapes with the help of turncoatstormtrooperFinn (John Boyega), but Poe is presumed dead when their stolenTIE 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 theMillennium Falcon. Later in the film, Rey has a vision of being left on the planet as a child and being taken byUnkar Plutt after touchingLuke Skywalker's oldlightsaber.
The planet appears briefly inStar 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 alongsideBespin andEndor after the film’s climactic battle onExegol between the Resistance and theSith Eternal; a burningResurgent-class Star Destroyer can be seen falling behind an oldImperial-class Star Destroyer (one shown inThe Force Awakens) as the galaxy rises up against the First Order.
The scenes on Jakku were filmed in the UAE section of theRub al Khali desert, which falls under the jurisdiction of theEmirate of Abu Dhabi.[9][10] In early concept development stages, the planet was conceived as a "junk planet" which would have "wreckage from the previousStar Wars movies".[11] Unused designs forTatooine byoriginal trilogy concept artistRalph McQuarrie were repurposed for exteriors.[12] Some have criticized Jakku as being essentially the same planet as Tatooine, the home world of both Luke andAnakin Skywalker (from the original andprequel trilogy, respectively), with only its name being unique.[13]
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| Admiral AckbarLando CalrissianHera SyndullaIden VersioWedge Antilles | Gallius Rax † Grand Moff Randd Hodnar Borrum Garrick Versio † Vice Admiral Pierson Teso Broosh Gideon Hask | ||||||
Jakku was first introduced in two novels released on September 4, 2015:Chuck Wendig'sStar Wars: Aftermath (2015) andClaudia Gray'sLost Stars. The latter depicts some of theBattle of Jakku, the final confrontation between the forces of theGalactic Empire and theNew Republic over the planet.[1] The battle is also depicted in the final book in Wendig'sAftermath trilogy,Empire's End (2017),[14][15] which explains thatPalpatine kept an observatory on the planet to map the Unknown Regions, overseen by Palpatine's own adoptive son and Jakku nativeGallius Rax, where in the event of his death, the Empire would reform as the First Order.[16] The reference bookThe Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary[broken anchor] establishes that this battle occurs one year and four days after theBattle of Endor depicted inReturn of the Jedi, and is the last major stand of the Empire and battle of theGalactic Civil War. 29 years later, around the time ofThe Force Awakens, the debris field in the desert is called the Starship Graveyard.[17]
Jakku appears or is mentioned in multiple other works, includingRey's Survival Guide (2015) andThe Weapon of a Jedi (2015) byJason Fry, and the 2015 short stories "High Noon on Jakku" (2015) and "All Creatures Great and Small" byLandry Q. Walker.[1]
The 2015actionshooter video gameStar Wars Battlefront featuresdownloadable content (DLC) titledBattle of Jakku,[18][19] which includes two multiplayer maps set on the planet.[20] Jakku also features in the single-player campaign of the 2017 sequel,Star Wars Battlefront II, as well as a non-DLC multiplayer map titledJakku:The Graveyard, with 4 differentgamemode variants. Jakku is also a location in the twoLego-themedaction-adventurevideo games; 2016'sLego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and 2022'sLego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.[21]
The planet is featured in aLegoStar Wars playset calledEncounter on Jakku.[22][23]
Jakku appears in theDisney Parks and Resorts attractionStar Tours – The Adventures Continue.[24][25]
