Since then, it had been a frigid world of frozen tundra and snowswept mountains. Thousands of years before the Clone Wars, an atmospheric cataclysm turned it into an icy hibernal surface.
Rhen Var was once a fertile paradise filled with vegetation and wild life. Remains of an ancient civilization and old Jedi artifacts were found beneath the ice on the planet, remnants of a former population. Throughout the history of the Galactic Republic, Rhen Var was covered in ice, rendering it almost uninhabitable.
It was the first planet in the Tobali system. Rhen Var was a planet situated near the Tion Cluster in the Outer Rim Territories and one of the former Thanium Worlds.