The forest moon of Endor first appears in
Return of the Jedi, in which it is the body in whose orbit the
second Death Star is constructed, and is the home of a race of furry aliens called
Ewoks. The moon later appears in the original
Star Tours Disney theme park attraction, Ewok
TV movies
The Ewok Adventure and
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, as well as the animated
Ewoks and its
Marvel Comics tie-in series. Various descriptions of the Endor system exist in various media. Special effects storyboards for
Return of the Jedi refer to a distant orb in the system as "Planet Endor". According to the
Return of the Jedi novelization, the planet disappeared in an ancient cataclysm. The Ewok television films depict a
gas giant in the sky, and novels such as
The Truce at Bakura and
Dark Apprentice also mention a planet visible from the moon. The planet is called "Tana" in the
Ewoks animated series, which depicts a
binary star system (while other sources depict only one sun). According to the
Star Wars Databank, this "can be attributed to Ewok lore and myth". In a
Star Wars Tales comic entitled
Apocalypse Endor, an Imperial
veteran of Endor refers to the moon being devastated by the
impact of falling debris from the Death Star, which was blown up while in orbit around the moon. However, another character dismisses this as a myth, saying that most of the Death Star's mass was obliterated in the explosion, and that the Rebels "took care of the rest".
The Rise of Skywalker depicts the wreckage of the second Death Star in a watery location, named Kef Bir, an ocean moon featured in the film that orbits the same gas giant as the forest moon.
Wicket W. Warrick and his son Pommet appear briefly at the end of
The Rise of Skywalker, at the sky after the destruction of a
Resurgent-class Star Destroyer. Endor is located in the same sector as planets like Firrerre, Rattatak, Tirracles, and Bunduki, among others. ==Filming==