Limestone

"But this isn't marble or limestone. It's… bone?"

―Detta Yao, looking at a wall made of bones^[8]

Limestone was a white stone that could be found on the planet Bogano and the moons Endor and Ajan Kloss. A spa on the planet Cantonica was made of artificial limestone, and some buildings on the world of Batuu used the material as well. The planet Ruathi featured an extensive series of limestone caves. In 3 ABY, archaeologist Detta Yao confused a wall of bones on the planet Dianth with a wall of limestone.

Description

Limestone was a type of white stone that, together with clay, constituted the geology of^[3] the Outer Rim Territories planet^[9] Bogano.^[3] A chain of limestone mountains located beyond the deserts of the forested moon Endor were inhabited by Gorax, a semi-sentient species.^[5] Limestone resembled marble and bones,^[8] and the Resistance base on the Outer Rim moon Ajan Kloss was built within a limestone cave.^[1] Artificial limestone could be used as a building material, such as the walls of Zord's Spa and Bathhouse, a spa located in the city Canto Bight on the Outer Rim planet Cantonica.^[4] The Great Temple on the moon Yavin 4 also consisted of limestone.^[7] The planet Ruathi featured an extensive series of limestone caves that had gheriol creatures present in them.^[6]

History

Some buildings in the Black Spire Outpost (pictured) consisted of limestone.

In 382 BBY,^[10] Jedi Padawan Rooper Nitani was on^[2] the Outer Rim^[11] world Batuu, and as she traveled to Black Spire Outpost to meet her friend Dass Leffbruk, she noticed buildings made of limestone in the outpost as she got nearer.^[2]

By the time of the High Republic Era, Ruathi's limestone caves was one of many reasons that the world was liked by smugglers, who eventually took over the caves and almost drove the native gheriols to extinction. While on a mission to Ruathi^[6] around 160 BBY,^[12] the Jedi Knight Indara was forced into a fighting arena and attacked by gheriols. She eventually managed to escape from the situation when Jedi Master Vernestra Rwoh and Force-sensitive operative Ty Yorrick rescued her. Afterward, Indara and Rwoh traveled through a hallway-like cave tunnel with limestone walls while moving to track down the owners and eventually found one of them, Kliva of Arnt. Later, after the group was safe, Yorrick explained to Indara how the gheriols had nearly been driven extinct when smugglers took control of Ruathi’s limestone caves.^[6]

In 3 ABY,^[13] archaeologists Chelli Lona Aphra, Eustacia Okka, and Detta Yao, along with the smuggler Just Lucky and the bounty hunter Krrsantan, traveled to the city of Vaale on the planet Dianth in the Malitoris system and saw a wall made of bones that Yao first thought was either marble or limestone.^[8]

Behind the scenes

In the current canon limestone was introduced in Canto Bight's "Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing — In the current canon limestone was introduced in *Canto Bight*'s "Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing."

Limestone first appeared in the current Star Wars canon in the short story "Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing,"^[4] published as part of the novella Canto Bight on December 5, 2017.^[14] Zord's Spa and Bathhouse, including its limestone walls, was set to appear in a scene in^[15] the sequel trilogy film Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi,^[16] released on December 15, 2017,^[17] but it was ultimately cut.^[15] It was first pictured in the accompanying reference book Star Wars: The Last Jedi: The Visual Dictionary written by Pablo Hidalgo^[18] and published on the same day.^[19]