Takodana

Takodana was a planet, and the site of Maz Kanata's castle.

Description
Takodana was located near the Ponemah Terminal spaceport, and was only a brief hyperspace jump from Jakku. It was a verdant green world bisected by a long, winding blue river across its equator, and had blue oceans and placid atmospheric currents. It was the site of Maz Kanata's castle, located near Nymeve Lake.

History
Takodana hosted a battle between Jedi and Sith during the era of the Old Republic.

The notorious pirate queen Maz Kanata had a castle on Takodana, said to have been built on the site of the battle. She welcomed beings of any political, religious, or criminal faction as long as they respected the castle's neutrality. The interior was much like many other smuggler's cantinas from the Deep Core to the Outer Rim Territories, and its catacombs were said to hold Jedi relics saved from the Galactic Empire.

Leaving Wasskah for a venture to Rakata Prime, the Dowutin hunter Grummgar arranged a meeting on Takodana with a black-market from Intragalactic Genetic Technologies, Incorporated, and after his escapade on Rakata Prime he and Ardanna Glie journeyed to Takodana and sold his chrysalide rancor specimens to his contact upon arrival. Bazine Netal also arrived on-world from Murkhana, hoping to intercept fugitives wanted by the First Order, and seduced Grummgar into a fuck in the castle dungeons. Shortly after, Kanata welcomed Han Solo and his companions to the castle, whom Netal recognized as the wanted fugitives, and reported their presence to First Order High Command. Rey experienced a Force vision while on Takodana, and was spoken to by the spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

The castle patrons witnessed lights in the sky that indicated a First Order attack on the New Republic in the Hosnian system, and shortly after First Order forces assaulted the castle. Grummgar fought off stormtroopers on the way back to his ship, Dew Claw, and departed the planet as a Resistance squadron arrived to battle the First Order. Maz's castle was destroyed, leveled down to its catacombs as patrons fled, and eventually the First Order transports took off. Bazine and Sidon Ithano also departed, the former making for Wasskah to track down the missing First Order agent Kirana Promenti.