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Star Wars: Bespin

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The Bespin system lies in the Anoat sector of the Greater Javin region, Outer Rim Territories, along the Ison Trade Corridor.

Sources disagree on its planet count—one says four planets, another says three planets and one asteroid belt—but the two reconcile neatly: Velser's Ring, the system's asteroid belt, is the wreckage of what was once a fourth planet, an unstable gas giant that broke apart long ago. What remains is dominated by the gas giant Bespin, whose thin "Life Zone" supports the floating Tibanna gas mining colony known as Cloud City.

Celestial Bodies (10)

Bespin (Star)
star · system center · 1,350,000 km diameter
Legends Class G Main Sequence

The primary yellow sun of the Bespin system, providing stable thermal energy to the Life Zone.

Miser
planet · orbits Bespin (Star) · 55,000,000 km · 4,200 km diameter
Legends 🪨 Terrestrial 🔥 Scorched

A hot, rugged world with an iron-and-gethentium core—most of the metal used to build Cloud City was mined here. Its terrain was too rough for the rolling mining rig Ecclessis Figg once proposed for its permanent dark side.

Secret Imperial Base
station · orbits Miser · 3,000 km · 8 km diameter
Legends Imperial Installation

A covert Imperial installation hidden on Miser, commanded by Admiral Grendreef and guarded by the Star Destroyer Desolator.

Bespin II
planet · orbits Bespin (Star) · 105,000,000 km · 9,800 km diameter
Unconfirmed 🪨 Terrestrial Barren

The system's second planet. A desolate terrestrial world with significant silicate deposits.

Velser's Ring
region · orbits Bespin (Star) · 400,000,000 km–450,000,000 km
Legends Planetoid Belt

Named for the survey team leader who discovered it, this belt is the wreckage of an unstable gas giant that once occupied the system's third orbit. Composed of refractive frozen gases, it shimmers like a rainbow from certain angles. Ugnaught crews staged out of Shirmar Base mine it for lasers, carbon-freezing units, and tractor beam helix tubes.

Bespin
planet, gas-giant · orbits Bespin (Star) · 780,000,000 km · 118,000 km diameter
Canon 💨 Gas Giant Jovian

A massive Jovian world and home to several million Humans, Ugnaughts, and Lutrillians. Cloud City's pink sky comes from the abundance of floating algae called "pinks" in its upper atmosphere, while a second species called "glowers" gives its night side a faint purplish glow.

Cloud City
station · orbits Bespin · 10,000 km · 16 km diameter
Canon Mining Colony Tibanna Gas

Originally the Floating Home Mining Colony, commissioned by Lord Ecclessis Figg with the help of three Ugnaught tribes. Tractor-beam generators funnel Tibanna gas up from more than 23,000 km down in Bespin's atmosphere, through the reactor stalk for processing.

Drudonna
moon · orbits Bespin · 350,000 km · 1,400 km diameter
Legends Satellite ❄️ Ice World

A green ice moon, one of the pair known as "the Twins." Home to Shirmar Base, an Ugnaught staging area for mining expeditions into Velser's Ring.

Shirmar Base
station · orbits Drudonna · 500 km · 5 km diameter
Legends Mining Outpost

An Ugnaught staging area and processing center for mining expeditions into Velser's Ring.

H'gaard
moon · orbits Bespin · 600,000 km · 1,900 km diameter
Legends Satellite ❄️ Ice World

The larger of "the Twins," also covered in green ice—together with Drudonna, it appears as a pair of large green spheres in Bespin's night sky.