Spice Mines of Kessel

"We'll be sent to the spice mines of Kessel or smashed into who-knows-what!"

- C-3PO

The Spice Mines of Kessel is a fictional location featured in the Star Wars multimedia franchise. They were first referenced in a line of dialogue from the 1977 film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. They appeared as a secondary setting in the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story. It's first actual appearance was in the 1994 novel Star Wars: Jedi Search.

History
The Spice Mines of Kessel was a mining facility and labor camp located on the planet Kessel and were owned and operated by the Kessel Royal Family. The miners were slaves that were forced to work at the facility, mining a medicinal spice that would later be converted into a highly valuable narcotic.

Ten years before the Battle of Yavin, a crew of space pirates led by Tobias Beckett, which included Han Solo, Qi'ra, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian journeyed to the spice mines in order to acquire large volumes of unrefined coaxium, which they had promised to their employer, Dryden Vos.

Characters associated with the Spice Mines

 * Chewbacca
 * Han Solo
 * Lando Calrissian
 * Qi'ra
 * Tobias Beckett

Notes & Trivia

 * The Spice Mines of Kessel were first referenced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The paranoid protocol droid C-3PO theorized that his counterpart R2-D2 and he might end up being sent to the Spice Mines if they were captured by Imperial forces aboard the Tantive IV.

Related categories

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Appearances

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 * Solo: A Star Wars Story


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 * Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition
 * Star Wars: Jedi Search
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