A terrestrial planet was the homeworld of Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. Though he left the world as an infant to become a Jedi, he returned to visit it later in life. The planet had liquid surface water and an atmosphere that was suitable for Humans. A type of Force-sensitive stone, one of which Jinn obtained from the River of Light and kept as a memento, was found on the world.
The planet was terrestrial and had a Type I atmosphere that could support Human life. The world had liquid surface water, as exemplified by the River of Light. A type of stone sensitive to the Force was found in the River of Light. It was shiny black in color, with veins of deep red visible when viewed in bright light. The stone was warm to the touch and emitted crystalline glow in the dark.
Qui-Gon Jinn, a native of the planet
In 92 BBY, the Human male Qui-Gon Jinn was born on the planet. Not long after, the Jedi Order discovered Jinn's Force-sensitivity, and he was taken to the Galactic Republic capital of Coruscant to receive Jedi training. Though most Jedi of the era left their old lives completely behind once they were accepted into the Order, Jinn kept some ties with his planet of birth. During a visit there around 79 BBY at age thirteen, he obtained a Force-sensitive stone from the River of Light.
Keeping it for over thirty years as a reminder of his homeworld, Jinn, by then a Jedi Master, eventually handed the stone to his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, when he turned thirteen in 44 BBY. Kenobi in turn gave the stone to his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, on his thirteenth birthday in 29 BBY. Knowledge of the existence of Force-sensitive river stones survived into the days of the New Jedi Order; following the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War in 29 ABY, Jedi Knight Tam Azur-Jamin mentioned them in his essay Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena, which discussed the emergence of the Force in inanimate objects and technological devices.
Qui-Gon Jinn's homeworld was first mentioned in The Hidden Past, the third installment in the Jedi Apprentice series that was written by Jude Watson and published in 1999. The planet has not been officially named; both The New Essential Guide to Characters and the 2011 book Star Wars: Mysteries of the Jedi list Jinn's homeworld as "unknown," as did StarWars.com's original Databank encyclopedia.
The 2005 Hyperspace-exclusive article Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena, written by Abel G. Peña, mentions the Force being found in "lifeless rocks like river stones." In the article endnotes published on his StarWars.com blog, Peña specified that this was meant as a reference to the stones found on Qui-Gon Jinn's homeworld.
- The New Essential Guide to Characters
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III
- Star Wars: Mysteries of the Jedi
- The Essential Reader's Companion