- "It's not an easy flight. The Planet of the Beast changes conditions every time we revolve around it, like it's some kind of shape-shifter. We never know what to expect from hour to hour. We could hit a surface storm. As it stands, that planet has an unstable atmosphere and it's constantly being barraged with space debris and asteroids crashing through its outer atmosphere and being pulled down to the surface with some kind of gravity that we know very little about yet."
- ―Bill Lawrence
Planet #666 (nicknamed the "Planet of the Beast" or simply the "Beast") is an exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The entire planet is a barren, rocky, and wind-buffeted wasteland devoid of any kind of life (even microscopic extremophiles) or resources, and it is pitch-black except for one day a week when a moon provides minimal reflected light in certain areas of the Beast. G7, a research station, was based in orbit around Planet #666. The station's crew made two exploratory trips to Planet #666 and discerned from samples taken from it that the planet was completely incapable of supporting life of any kind and never could, as its strange atmosphere caused any unshielded organic material to instantly freeze, explode, and turn into more of the black dust that makes up the planet's surface; it is unknown why this occurred, with the process puzzling even an omnidisciplinary scientist like Professor Claude Bardox, the head of G7. A space shuttle exploding on Planet #666 also caused a strange reaction, with the fuel igniting and turning into a massive beacon of silvery fire that shot upwards for miles, nearly reaching G7.
Black Star 13, a spaceship that found Jason Voorhees in a waste disposal rocket adrift in space, crashed into Planet #666 while dragging down another spaceship called The Revival. Jason survived the crash, but it and the unlivable conditions of Planet #666 left him in a comatose state, buried beneath the rubble of both Black Star 13 and The Revival. Bardox and his assistant, Emery Peterson, made two trips from G7 to Planet #666 to acquire Jason's DNA. On their second trip, Bardox and Peterson inadvertently woke Jason up with electric shocks, which were only supposed to reinvigorate any of Jason's surviving cells so they could be harvested by Bardox. After Jason killed Peterson and Felicity Lawrence, the pilot sent by G7 to rescue the stranded Bardox and Peterson, he escaped from Planet #666 by stowing away on Felicity's space shuttle while Bardox used it to return to G7. Felicity's brother, Bill, later visited Planet #666 to confirm his sister's death, which he did when he found what was left of Felicity's body after her heart was ripped out by Jason. Bill left Felicity's body on Planet #666 so she could be with Fedor Stanislav, her deceased lover and the captain of The Revival.
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- Jason X: Planet of the Beast
- Jason X: Death Moon (mentioned)
- Jason X: To the Third Power (mentioned)