The Separatists' motives were unclear as to why they took the world, until Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker discovered Count Dooku uncovering the Force Harvester on Raxus Prime. Obi-Wan Kenobi informed the Jedi High Council about the seizure of the planet. He ultimately found peace in the snowy wastes, and was redeemed prior to his murder by Hoggon.Īt the start of the Clone Wars in 22 years before the Battle of Yavin, the Confederacy of Independent Systems seized Rhen Var with an army so large that the Republic base had to evacuate the planet. Since then, it had been a frigid world of frozen tundra andĪfter the Great Sith War in 3,986 years before the Battle of Yavin, former Jedi Ulic Qel-Droma sought refuge on Rhen Var, and there trained Vima Sunrider.

Millions of years before the Clone Wars, an atmospheric cataclysm turned it into an icy hibernal surface. Rhen Var was once a fertile paradise filled with vegetation and wild life. Remains of an ancient civilization and old Jedi artifacts were found beneath the ice on the planet, remnants of a former population. Throughout the history of the Galactic Republic, Rhen Var was covered in ice, rendering it almost uninhabitable. Rhen Var was a planet that had one moon and was situated in the Tion Cluster in the Outer Rim Territories.

Star Wars-Planets-Rhen Var at Galactic Voyage