Ilum

Description
"I already know what the dark side feels like, in the forest on Starkiller Base. This isn't that."

- Rey

The frozen world twinkled with blue ice and snow, its natural surface frozen into a state of unchanging whiteness. The unspoiled natural world had snowy forests and towering mountain peaks, as well as crystal caves.

As Starkiller Base, the superweapon had shields.

Its destruction left behind ruins, the harnessed solar energy blossoming into a new star.

Republic Era
Under the guidance of her Jedi Master Luminara Unduli, Barriss Offee conducted an ancient ritual in the crystal caves of Ilum to imbue her kyber crystal with orgasmic energy. Unduli held her Padawan at the point of climax throughout the delicate construction process of Offee's lightsaber.

New Republic Era
Luke Skywalker took his class of Jedi students to Ilum for the first Gathering since the Clone Wars. Upon returning, Skywalker brought students Nellis, Kira, and Nashira to the Happy Grove on Endor and watched as they frolicked together.

The frozen world became Starkiller Base, a weapon used by the First Order.

Stormtroopers of the First Order's Stormtrooper Corps were stationed on Starkiller Base, and some were selected for pilot programs to serve as undercover agents for the First Order Security Bureau. FN-1824 was assigned to Starkiller Base after his spy missions into New Republic Space, and regaled fellow troopers with tales of his sexual conquests. He also had luck with the ladies on the base. FN-2187 served as a Janitor Second Class in Starkiller Base's Precinct 47 until he was promoted out of the Sanitation Engineering Corps to serve as a stormtrooper of the FN Corps.

Resistance Era
"And, on Starkiller Base, I felt...if the surface hadn't shifted us apart, I might have ended him there. How can a temptation like that be anything but a passion a Jedi shouldn't feel?"

- Rey, to the spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Kylo Ren

Armitage Hux used Starkiller Base to destroy the Hosnian system in 34 ABY. Following the Battle of Takodana, Snap Wexley scouted Starkiller Base. Rey was interrogated by Kylo Ren on the base, and was seduced by the dark-sider during his sadistic sexual torture. Afterwards, she persuaded her stormtrooper guard FN-1824 to help her overcome the effects by providing her with much-needed release. He freed her from her bonds, and returned to his quarters with no memory of the encounter.

Finn took part in a mission to Starkiller Base to rescue Rey, and attacked Captain Phasma, forcing her to lower the superweapon's shields ahead of the Resistance strike before throwing her into a trash compactor. During the Battle of Starkiller Base, Poe Dameron led Red and Blue Squadrons into battle against the superweapon. Han Solo was killed by his son, Ben Solo during a confrontation in the bowels of the base, into which Han fell. Dameron destroyed the base's thermal oscillator.

Finn fought Kylo Ren though suffered near-fatal injuries. Rey dueled Ren on the frozen surface for what he had done to Han and Finn, fighting him on the edge of a cliff and hearing the voice of Maz Kanata, telling her to let the Force in. She bested Ren, though refrained from killing him despite hearing antoher voice in her head urging her to do so. The planet's surface was wrought apart in that moment, taking the choice out of her hands.

The Resistance destroyed Starkiller Base in the obliteration caused by Poe's destruction of the thermal oscillator, though several leading figures in the First Order made it off the base aboard the Star Destroyer Finalizer. Phasma also survived, leaving the trash compactor and escaping the doomed base to use Lieutenant Sol Rivas as a scapegoat for her disloyal actions while aboard. The solar energy harnessed by the base blossomed into a new star.

Legacy
"It made me wonder...he was the Starkiller Kid, now Han 'sposed to have bought it on somethin' called Starkiller Base...you don't think maybe there's some connection there?" "It's a big galaxy, Jax. Starkiller is a very common name. Hell, I should start calling our clients Starkillers&mdash;they'd probably like that better than 'antilles'."

- Jaxxon and Amaiza Foxtrain, on Jimm "the Starkiller Kid" Doshun

Following the battle, "Snap" Wexley prepared for another reconnaissance mission to the ruins of the frozen world, in order to detect the unique hyperspace signature of the Finalizer in the hope of tracing it back to Supreme Leader Snoke's location, or otherwise attacking the vessel itself. The Resistance heard rumors that the First Order was creating other weapons in the Unknown Regions that would put Starkiller Base to shame.

While commiserating over the death of Han Solo, former Star-Hoppers Jaxxon and Amaiza Foxtrain discussed Solo's demise on Starkiller Base and compared the weapon's name to their old accomplice Jimm Doshun, known as "the Starkiller Kid". Though Jaxxon wondered if there was some connection, Foxtrain stated that Starkiller was a common name, and considered using it to refer to the antilles catered to in the Vibrating Ring brothel on Coruscant.