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Salt flats world · Outer Rim · N-17
Crait
A white salt crust over red mineral soil, hiding an abandoned Rebel base.
- Region
- Outer Rim
- Grid
- N-17
- Sector
- Bon'nyuw-Luq
- System
- Crait
- Suns
- 1
- Moons
- 0
- Climate
- Arid
- Terrain
- Salt flats, red soil, mountains, burrows
- Inhabitants
- Vulptices
Overview
Crait is an out-of-the-way mineral planet in the Outer Rim, a dry world whose surface is a layer of white salt lying over red mineral soil. Where the crust is broken, long red scars show through, and the ground beneath is riddled with burrows and tunnels[1]. The galaxy map files it under grid square N-17 in the Bon'nyuw-Luq sector[3].
Nobody lives on Crait today. The only buildings are the remains of a hidden Rebel base, a mining installation that insurgents funded by Bail Organa turned into a fortress in the Empire era and later abandoned[1]. It lies inside a mountain, and a skulk of crystal-furred foxes called vulptices has made it home[1][2].
Crait first showed up in print, in the 2017 novel Leia, Princess of Alderaan, and reached the screen in The Last Jedi[7].
Who lives here
Vulptices
Crystal foxes: gregarious, curious, foxlike animals with crystalline-bristle coats and keen eyesight, able to squeeze through narrow gaps. A skulk lives in the abandoned Rebel base[1].
Rebel insurgents
Not natives. Anti-Imperial insurgents funded by Bail Organa converted an old mining installation into a fortress, then left it when Imperial patrols changed[1].
Resistance fighters
Not natives. The Resistance counts the abandoned Rebel base as an emergency refuge for its fighters, a fallback place that Leia kept in reserve[1].
Role in the galaxy
Crait matters because of its hidden Rebel base. Anti-Imperial insurgents funded by Bail Organa turned an old mining installation into a fortress and abandoned it after Imperial patrols changed[1]. Leia and her allies clashed briefly with the Empire there before it was left empty[1].
After the Galactic Civil War Leia saved the base's coordinates in a file for emergencies, so the planet stayed available as a fallback. Apart from the old base and its crystal foxes, the planet is empty, and its only on-screen appearance is The Last Jedi[1][5].
Chronicle
Events are in story order. Spoilers stay hidden until you open them — or mark the title as watched on the timeline, and they open by themselves.
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Age of Rebellion
Insurgents funded by Bail Organa convert an old mining installation on Crait into a fortress. Leia and her allies clash briefly with the Empire there, and the base is later abandoned[1].
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The New Republic
After the Galactic Civil War, Leia keeps the coordinates of the abandoned base in a file set aside for emergencies[1].
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34 ABY
Spoiler · Episode VIII — The Last JediShowYou've watched it
After Holdo stays behind as a decoy and the First Order destroys many of the evacuation transports, the surviving Resistance reaches the abandoned base on Crait[5].
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34 ABY
Spoiler · Episode VIII — The Last JediShowYou've watched it
The First Order attacks the fortress with a siege cannon. Poe, Finn and Rose charge out in old speeders, Rose stops Finn's sacrifice run, and Rey and Chewbacca draw TIE fighters away in the Millennium Falcon[5].
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34 ABY
Spoiler · Episode VIII — The Last JediShowYou've watched it
Luke Skywalker appears alone in front of the First Order walkers and is unharmed by their fire. He duels Kylo Ren, who realises too late that Luke is only a Force projection, and the delay lets the Resistance escape[5].
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34 ABY
Where to see Crait
Every film, series and game in the timeline where Crait appears, in watch order.
Filmed on Earth
Real places that played Crait on screen.
Did you know?
- Crait first appeared in the 2017 novel Leia, Princess of Alderaan, as an early Rebel outpost, before The Last Jedi showed it on screen[7].
- The real salt flat used for Crait, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, covers roughly 10,500 square kilometres[8].
- Vulptices have crystal-like bristles and keen eyesight, and a whole skulk lives in the abandoned Rebel base[2].
Questions about Crait
Where was Crait filmed?
Crait was filmed on the Salar de Uyuni, a huge salt flat in Potosí, Bolivia[6]. The flat covers roughly 10,500 square kilometres[8].