Jakku

Jakku is a fictional planet featured in the Star Wars multimedia franchise. It was one of the principal settings of the 2015 feature film Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.

Description
Jakku is a harsh, arid desert planet populated mostly by traders, refugees, outlaws, scavengers and thieves. Jakku was once the site of an Imperial research center during the Galactic Civil War, and was also the location of one of the final conflicts of the war between the First Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, which has come to be known as the Battle of Jakku. Decades later, wreckage from the battle could still be found strewn across the desert lands, including a downed Imperial Star Destroyer, a fall AT-AT and the remains of several fighter ships including TIE fighters.

Native animal species that could be found on Jakku include Steelpeckers, which could be found trying to crack open the metal husk of wrecked vehicles, Luggabeasts, which were biomechanoid beasts of burden used by scavengers, the strange burrowing Nightwatcher worms, and the giant, eternally thirsty Happabores.

History
In the waning years of the first Galactic Civil War, Jakku was the sight of a final battle between the forces of the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the First Galactic Empire. Wreckage from the battle dotted the landscape of the planet for many years, including a downed Imperial Star Destroyer, several Imperial walkers and numerous snub fighters lost in the battle.

About a decade later, a young girl named Rey was brought to Jakku where she came under the care of the Crolute junkboss, Unkar Plutt. She remained in the Niima Outpost region for most of her life, and lived inside the ruins of a fall AT-AT.

Points of interest

 * Goazan Badlands: The Goazan Badlands was a dry flatland region of Jakku, located some distance from Niima Outpost. It was known as dangerous terrain, where travelers ran the risk of slipping into the sinking fields to be lost forever. Around the year 34 ABY, a member of the Resistance named Poe Dameron and a refugee Stormtrooper named Finn crashed a First Order TIE fighter in the desert. Both men managed to survive, but the wrecked fighter sank beneath the sand. Finn believed Poe had died at this time, but he actually survived. Finn miraculously managed to walk unaided back to the closest population center outside of the Badlands.


 * Niima Outpost: Niima Outpost was a business center on Jakku run by a portly alien named Unkar Plutt. Unkar distributed rations as payment for viable salvage, but was known to offer disappointing portions for common items. He saw operable droids as great value and even offered the generous amount of sixty-four portions for a BB series astromech droid. Thieves and scavengers would often try to take advantage of those they felt were easy prey. Three such individuals sought to rob a young woman named Rey, but she proved more than formidable when it cam to fending them off.

Residents of Jakku

 * Lor San Tekka
 * Rey
 * Teedo
 * Unkar Plutt