A Guide to Star Wars: The Last Jedi's Planets

It’s been two long years since The Force Awakens arrived in theaters, captivating longtime Star Wars fans and introducing a new generation to the sci-fi epic. Now, the highly anticipated eighth chapter of the saga looms, and with it comes an array of intriguing new characters, fantastical creatures and, of course, fascinating locales. With that in mind, let’s explore the planets, cities and other locations we’ll see in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

D’Qar

A lush forest planet located in the Ileenium system of the Outer Rim Territories, D'Qar was introduced in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the headquarters of the Resistance. However, while D’Qar appears again in The Last Jedi, it likely won’t be shown for long because, as we know, the Resistance will eventually relocate to Crait.

Leia Organa founded the Resistance to oppose the growing threat of the First Order, and chose D'Qar as the headquarters of the military force because of the planet's remote location. With much of the complex hidden underground and the rest concealed by the planet’s thick foliage, the Resistance was able to evade most air and ground sensors, avoiding detection until the after the destruction of the First Order's Starkiller Base.

Crait

After evacuating D’Qar, the Resistance heads to the small mineral planet of Crait, whose crimson-red soil is masked by a thick crust of white salt. Once home to a small Rebel outpost, Crait is now considered uninhabited, aside from the fox-like Vulptices that live within the planet's many tunnels.

Our first look at Crait came in the teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, where we saw speeders flying in formation and ripping up chunks of the terrain, leaving scarlet trails of ash in their wake. According to director Rian Johnson, Crait “ends up playing a key role in the movie,” and although The Last Jedi is the first film to feature the new planet, it already holds a great deal of significance for Leia.

The aforementioned Rebel outpost was established in the early days of the Galactic Empire by a loose network of cells that was led in secret by Leia’s father, Senator Bail Organa. When those Rebels attacked the Imperial-led Calderos Station, Leia traveled to Crait to learn who was behind the assault. Instead, she discovered her father was organizing a rebellion against the Empire. The outpost was abandoned just before the start of the Galactic Civil War, but in The Last Jedi, it will not only become a temporary haven for the Resistance but also the site of a massive battle with the First Order.

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Ahch-To

In the final shot of The Force Awakens, Rey arrives on Ahch-To offers Luke Skywalker, long in self-imposed exile, his old lightsaber. From space, the planet appears to be completely covered by water, but it’s actually dotted with a number of small, rocky islands rich in vegetation. It’s also believed to be the home of the first Jedi Temple, which is what drew Luke there.

Long before the Jedi Purge, Ahch-To was one of several candidates to house the Jedi Order’s first temple (other locations included Tython, Coruscant, Jedha and Ossus). While the actual site of the temple remained a mystery, Luke set off in search of it after he was betrayed by Kylo Ren.

Cantonica

Little is known about Cantonica. But what we do know is that it’s home to Canto Bight, which Lucasfilm describes as “a casino city and playground for the galaxy’s ultra-rich. It’s a place of both opportunity and high stakes, filled with casinos, racetracks, and other expensive distractions.”

According to Johnson, Canto Bight is “a Star Wars Monte Carlo–type environment, a little James Bond–ish, a little To Catch a Thief.” He also noted that it was “an interesting challenge, portraying luxury and wealth in this universe. I was thinking, OK, let’s go ultra-glamour. Let’s create a playground, basically, for rich assholes.” One of those rich assholes is presumably Benicio Del Toro’s mysterious character “DJ,” whom Finn and Rose travel to Canto Bight to seek out.

Our best look at Canto Bight comes from the recently released international trailer, in which riders race fathiers, or "space horses," through a pristine garden and then a massive window.

Snoke’s Throne Room

While it’s not a planet or even a city, The Last Jedi will introduce Supreme Leader Snoke’s Throne Room, which was revealed in the first official trailer. Its design was inspired by that of Emperor Palpatine’s Throne Room aboard the second Death Star in Return of the Jedi.

Based on the trailers and TV spots, we know the throne room will be the site of a confrontation between Snoke and Rey, but it’s here that we’ll also see Snoke’s Elite Praetorian Guard – a group of eight human warriors responsible for protecting the Supreme Leader (much like the real-life Praetorian Guard, whose members served as personal bodyguards to the Roman emperors).

Arriving Friday in theaters nationwide, director Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi stars Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma, Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, Lupita Nyong’o as Maz Kanata, Benicio Del Toro as ‘DJ’, Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico, Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, and the late Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa.