It hosted the Wheel Races in the north and mining operations dotted the planet. Niima Outpost was a junkyard settlement named after Niima the Hutt.Īn isolated planet located in the Jakku system within the Western Reaches of the galaxy's Inner Rim, Jakku was once a verdant world with forests and water, but some past calamity turned it into a barren globe of scorched badlands and marching dunes. War ain't got no reason to roll up on this rock.' ― Ergel and Corwin Ballast
The farthest-flung nowhere rock I could find on a star map.' A place where the war will never find us. Wanted to take them as far away from the fighting as I could.