Limestone

Limestone was a white stone that could be found on the planet Bogano and the moons Endor and Ajan Kloss. A spa on the planet Cantonica was made of artificial limestone, and some buildings on the world of Batuu used the material as well. In 3 ABY, archaeologist Detta Yao confused a wall of bones on the planet Dianth with a wall of limestone.

Description

Limestone was a type of white stone that, together with clay, constituted the geology of the Outer Rim Territories planet Bogano. A chain of limestone mountains located beyond the deserts of the forested moon Endor were inhabited by Gorax, a semi-sentient species. Limestone resembled marble and bones, and the Resistance base on the Outer Rim moon Ajan Kloss was built within a limestone cave. Artificial limestone could be used as a building material, such as the walls of Zord's Spa and Bathhouse, a spa located in the city Canto Bight on the Outer Rim planet Cantonica. The Great Temple on the moon Yavin 4 also consisted of limestone.

In 382 BBY, Jedi Padawan Rooper Nitani was on the Outer Rim world Batuu, and as she traveled to Black Spire Outpost to meet her friend Dass Leffbruk, she noticed buildings made of limestone in the outpost as she got nearer.

In 3 ABY, archaeologists Chelli Lona Aphra, Eustacia Okka, and Detta Yao, along with the smuggler Just Lucky and the bounty hunter Krrsantan, traveled to the city of Vaale on the planet Dianth in the Malitoris system and saw a wall made of bones that Yao first thought was either marble or limestone.

Limestone first appeared in the canon continuity in the short story "Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing," published as part of the novella Canto Bight on December 5, 2017. Zord's Spa and Bathhouse, including its limestone walls, was set to appear in a scene in the sequel trilogy film Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi, released on December 15, 2017, but it was ultimately cut. It was first pictured in the accompanying reference book Star Wars: The Last Jedi: The Visual Dictionary written by Pablo Hidalgo and published on the same day.

Limestone was first introduced in the Star Wars Legends continuity by Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a 1978 novel written by Alan Dean Foster. In real life, limestone is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock.