Dathomir was a little-known planet located in the Quelii sector of the Outer Rim Territories. It was somewhat smaller than Coruscant in size and had slightly below-average gravity, though the planetary day was close to the standard. However, the planetary year of four hundred and ninety-one days was considerably longer than the standard year of three hundred and sixty days. Dathomir was considered a temperate and beautiful planet by Human standards, with a varied terrain that included coastal lakes and tar-pits, thick forests and snow-capped mountain peaks, powerful rivers and broad savannas, small icecaps and dramatic rift valleys. By the time of Darth Plagueis, nine-tenths of the planet remained unexplored and uninhabited, with the population limited to a relatively small area along the