Namenthe's Crater

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"A while back a scavenger named Namenthe was driving a speeder full of salvaged proton bombs and two smacked into each other a little too hard. The site's now called Namenthe's Crater."
―Rey writes about Namenthe's Crater in her survival guide[1]

Namenthe's Crater was a crater in the Starship Graveyard area of Goazon Badlands on the desert planet Jakku.[1] Located near the Kelvin Ravine,[2] the crater was formed as a result of the scavenger Namenthe salvaging proton bombs from a TIE bomber found among the wreckages in the graveyard, which dated back to the Battle of Jakku[1] in 5 ABY.[3] Two of the bombs smacked against one another too hard while Namenthe was transporting them in a speeder across the graveyard, causing an explosion that killed Namenthe and created the crater.[1]

By 34 ABY,[4] the scavenger Rey mentioned the crater's origin in a survival guide that[1] she[3] compiled.[1] The crater was also listed as an "interesting locale" in a planetary capsule of data on Jakku that Resistance pilot Poe Dameron included in his flight log following the Battle of Starkiller Base[5] in 34 ABY.[3]

Behind the scenes

Namenthe's Crater was first mentioned in Rey's Survival Guide, a 2015 replica journal written by Jason Fry.[1] It was then pictured for the first time on a map in the 2016 reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations.[6]

Sources

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Rey's Survival Guide
  2. ↑ Star Wars: Complete Locations, New Edition
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Star Wars: Timelines
  4. ↑ Rey's Survival Guide includes an addendum at the end describing some of the events of Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, written several days after they take place. The addendum is the final entry in the guide and is included chronologically after the entry mentioning Namenthe's Crater. Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of the film to 34 ABY.
  5. ↑ Poe Dameron: Flight Log
  6. ↑ Star Wars: Complete Locations