Treasure Planet

Treasure Planet, "the loot of a thousand worlds", is a giant artificial planet with a hollowed interior in which the legendary pirate Nathaniel Flint, hid the spoils of the countless merchant ships he attacked. As a result, the planet is filled with riches beyond imagination. It has two ring systems and its surface is covered by forests of fungal-like life forms, some of which as large as trees.

The origins of Treasure Planet are not known, and the machinery contained within it is more advanced than anything known to the Empire. A portal-generating mechanism allowed Flint to open up gateways from Treasure Planet to practically anywhere in the galaxy, explaining how his ship was able to appear suddenly before its prey and vanish mysteriously after the sacks.

Before his death, Flint was somehow able to install a self-destruct mechanism into the planet's core and program it to destroy itself if the interior chamber was ever entered, thus ensuring that no one would ever retrieve the treasure. He also removed the memory circuit of his robotic navigator B.E.N. and left the amnesic android stranded on the planet as its sole sapient inhabitant.

Prior to its discovery by the RLS Legacy expedition, the location of Flint's Treasure Planet was unknown, and its existence was largely disputed. The cyborg John Silver spent most of his life searching for it, and successfully tracked the location of a spherical device in the possession of Billy Bones, which was actually a map revealing the Treasure Planet's location. Bones was pursued by Silver's crew until his ship crashed on Montressor, where he handed the map to Jim Hawkins before dying from his wounds. As soon as he found out what it was, Hawkins along with Dr. Delbert Doppler organized an expedition to find Treasure Planet.