Bespin

Bespin is the planet in The Empire Strikes Back over which the floating city Cloud City hovers suspended by an antigravity pod. Bespin is also a major source of tibanna gas, which is refined for production and transport in Cloud City. It used in the production of starship blasters. It is home to several million individuals — including humans and Ugnaughts.

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The planet Bespin is a gas giant that is about 118,000 kilometers in diameter. Like most gas giants, it has a solid core made of metal followed by layers of metallic gasses. Most of the layers of gas are poisonous, and the pressure and temperature are far above what a human could tolerate. But from approximately 150 to 180 kilometers down from space there is a habitable layer known as the Bespin Life Zone. This layer has an oxygen atmosphere with the temperature and pressure that makes it ideal for human life. It is in this layer that Cloud City is located. Like most gas giants, Bespin has a number of moons. Bespin has a 12 hour day, and completes a revolution around its sun about every 14 years.

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The Millennium Falcon, by Han Solo's admission, just barely made it there from the Anoat system without hyperdrive.

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Lando Calrissian, the previous owner of the Millennium Falcon, administered Cloud City and provided well-paying jobs for the Ugnaughts until the Galactic Empire took over.

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The Jedi Knight Streen, an old gas prospector, was discovered on Bespin by Luke Skywalker and recruited to be part of the first class of the Jedi Academy. He had lived there as a hermit after Cloud City was abandoned by the Empire after their defeat there.

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Planet: A planet in common parlance is a large object in orbit around a star that is not a star itself. The name comes from the Greek term πλανήτης, planētēs, meaning "wanderer", as ancient astronomers noted how certain lights moved across the sky in relatio...

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