Section:H
Halowan - The location of a top-secret Imperial data storage net and a trans-system data storage library. Alliance historian Voren Na'al infiltrated the Imperial data net on Halowan by posing as an agent for Moff Lorin of Fakir sector. [MTS]
Hapes Consortium - A cluster of sixty-three stars with sixty-three inhabited planets, the Hapes Consortium is an old and very wealthy society that had almost no contact with the rest of the galaxy for three thousand years. It was settled thousands of years ago by a pirate group called the Lorell Raiders, who seized beautiful women from their victims to serve as their mates. The male descendants continued to serve as pirates for generations, until their forces were eliminated by the Jedi Knights. The women then took control of the cluster, and the inherited leadership title of Queen Mother began. The first queen mother began construction on the Star Home, an enormous castle-like spaceship, four thousand years ago. The worlds of the Hapes cluster include Arabanth, Charubah, Dreena, Gallinore, Reboam, Selab, Terephon, Ut, and Hapes itself, which is orbited by seven moons. Frequent encounters with pirates occur on the cluster's borders, partially because many young Hapan males turn to piracy as a means of rebellion. Hapan naval forces include the feared Battle Dragon and the newer Hapes Nova-class battle cruisers. Queen Mother Ta'a Chume broke Hapes' long isolation when she offered her son Prince Isolder to Leia Organa in marriage. Isolder later married Teneniel Djo of Dathomir, who bore a daughter, Tenel Ka. [COPL, COTJ, YJK]
Hefi - The location of a secret retreat for Death Star designer Bevel Lemelisk, who hid on Hefi after the first Death Star's destruction until discovered by Imperial agents. [MTS]
Hijarna - A deserted, battle-scarred planet first discovered by the Fifth Alderaanian Expedition. Atop a bluff sits the crumbling fortress of Hijarna, made of hard black stone and probably abandoned a thousand years before its discovery. The fortress overlooks a plain crossed with deep ravines and marked with indications of former devastation. It is unclear whether the fortress was built to defend against this destruction, or was somehow the cause of it. Talon Karrde called a meeting with his fellow smugglers in Hijarna's fortress to discuss actions against Grand Admiral Thrawn. [TLC]
Hindasar system - The infamous criminal known as Dr. Evazan set up a "medical" practice in the Hindasar system after escaping from the prison world of Delrian. Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi had a confrontation with Dr. Evazan in the Mos Eisley cantina on Tatooine. [MTS]
Hishyim - Grand Admiral Thrawn provided the ship thief Niles Ferrier with an assault shuttle from the Hishyim patrol station so he could present it to Talon Karrde to establish credibility. [TLC]
H'nemthe - A planet with three moons and home to the alien species also called H'nemthe. During the season of trine, all three of the planet's moons give off their light. On average, there are twenty H'nemthe males for every female-- after mating, the male is gutted with the female's razor-sharp tongue. Virgin females are not often allowed to leave the planet, and are permitted to eat only fruits and vegetables. Plant life on H'nemthe includes the carnivorous m'iiyoom nightlily, a white flower which blooms during the season of trine. [TFTC]
Honoghr - A planet with three moons in the Honoghr system (near Fwillsving and Kessel), and the homeworld of the Noghri. Honoghr is a devastated world; almost all of its plant and animal life has been destroyed. From space it appears to be uniformly brown, broken only by the occasional blue lake and the green area known as the Clean Lands. The main city of Nystao is located in the center of the Clean Lands-- it is home to the Common Room of Honoghr within the Grand Dukha and is the only city with adequate spacecraft repair facilities. The Noghri people are divided into clans (including the clans Kihm'bar, Bakh'tor, Eikh'mir, and Hakh'khar) that have had a long history of bloody rivalry. Each clan is ruled by a dynast, and female maitrakhs lead family or subclan units. In the center of each village is a cylindrical building called a dukha, constructed of polished wood encircled by a metal band and containing the clan High Seat and a genealogical chart carved into one wall. The ancient Noghri laws of discovery and judgement involve a period of public shaming in the main city by order of the clan dynasts. The village of clan Kihm'bar is at the edge of the Clean Lands and is ruled by Dynast Ir'khaim. Animal life on Honoghr includes the carnivorous stava. During the Clone Wars, a battle between two starships resulted in one of them crashing on Honoghr's surface, setting off catastrophic earthquakes and releasing toxic chemicals into the atmosphere. Darth Vader came to offer Imperial assistance, and teams of deadly Noghri commandos joined the Empire in return for Emperor's help in restoring their world. Noghri clans and their respective dukhas were relocated to the Clean Lands, and Imperial decontamination droids set to work apparently renewing the soil. In actuality, the Empire had seeded Honoghr with a hybrid form of kholm-grass that inhibited all other plant growth, keeping the planet lifeless for generations and forcing the Noghri to remain in the Emperor's debt. Before Vader's death, he named Grand Admiral Thrawn his designated heir and ruler of the Noghri commandos. The Noghri renounced their service to Thrawn after Leia Organa Solo showed them the extent of the Empire's treachery, and they began to grow new crops along the banks of a hidden river running between two jagged cliffs. After Thrawn's defeat, the New Republic was planning to relocate the Noghri people to a new world. [HTTE, DFR, TLC]
Horuz - The little-known Horuz system is located in the Outer Rim Territories and contains the planet Despayre, the construction site of the first Death Star. The Empire used the master encrypt code ILKO to transmit data from Coruscant to Horuz during this construction. [TLC, MTS]
Hosk - A moon orbiting Kalarba in the remote Kalarba system. One hemisphere of the moon is covered by the towers and outlying buildings of Hosk Station. Hosk Station's central city is domed, and all energy weapons are ostensibly surrendered upon arrival. Sites in the city include Trillka's Repair Shop and the Hosk Droid Arena, and the station is patrolled by automated security forces. A snake-like Hulgren has been seen living in the station's lower levels. R2-D2 and C-3PO helped avert the destruction of Hosk Station when its power core was ruptured by the criminal Olag Greck. [D]
Hosrel XI - The location of a remote navy base, where a squadron of pilots had a brief battle with Lehesu of the Oswaft. [LCSC]
Hoth - The remote Hoth system is located on the fringes of civilized space, and its sixth planet is an icy, unpopulated world also known as Hoth. The system receives a great deal of meteor activity. Hoth's native lifeforms include the tauntaun and its natural predator, the Wampa ice creature. Tauntauns eat a fungus that grows beneath the top layer of snow and cluster together in caves during Hoth's bitter night to keep from freezing. The Rebel Alliance's main base was established on Hoth following their evacuation of Yavin 4. The Alliance encountered trouble adapting their equipment to Hoth's extreme temperatures and were attacked by the Wampa ice creatures. The base was later discovered by an Imperial probe droid, leading to the defeat of the Rebels by Darth Vader's forces in the engagement now known as the Battle of Hoth. [ESB, ESBN, MTS]