#Star Wars galaxy

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The Art of Star Wars Galaxy Cover Art by Ken Steacy

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Star Wars Galaxy 4, Young Obi-Wan Kenobi & Baby Princess Leia (1995). Art by Kevin Nowlan.

Han P (Comic Art Fans) : This Kevin Nowlan painting titled "A Child of Destiny" was originally commissioned by Topps for their Star Wars Galaxy trading card series back in the mid 1990's. It was most likely intended for the Star Wars Galaxy III series (1995). After more than a decade later in 2009, Topps brought SW Galaxy back with series IV and this art became part of the "Lost Galaxy" subset featuring artworks that were previously rejected by Lucasfilm for various reasons. 

Here's Nowlan's quote from his website post dated July 31, 2009 about this art: "The card was published recently, years after it was rejected for content. I picked it from a list of subjects supplied by Topps and (I would assume) approved by Lucasfilm. But after I did the painting, they rejected it because Lucas was about to start the new movies and didn't want anyone dealing with material that he was going to cover in the prequels. Glad they finally changed their minds."

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Walt Simonson

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The Mid Rim was a galactic region that included the Naboo, Kashyyyk, Ithor, and Bothuwai systems. Located between the Expansion Region and the Outer Rim, the Mid Rim had a reputation for being home to hard working beings. During the time of the Republic, it represented the farthest reach of their legal authority.

Source: The Essential Atlas (Art: Modi; 2009)

First Appearance: Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition (1992)

Read more on Wookieepedia.

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Mapping the Galaxy Set your navicomputer to join author JASON FRY in his panel exploring stellar cartography in a galaxy far, far away. From early maps of Star Wars planets to his book, Star Wars: The Essential Atlas, and how it impacted the overall infrastructure of the Star Wars Expanded Universe!

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Star Wars The Black Series Archive Clone Commander Cody Hasbro F1309

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Card art by David O. Miller, scanned from The Art of Star Wars Galaxy, Vol. 2 by Gary Gerani.  The predator here is known as the worrt.  I’ve never found the name of the prey.

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The Galaxy Far Far Away -- My Empire of the Hand AU

This has been an ongoing project of mine for a while, marking off the important factions and solar systems in the GFFA in my Legends-based AU.  (If you open the image in a new tab, you can zoom in, and see everything a lot better).  

Systems marked by stars are capitals (Nirauan, Csilla, Bastion)

Purple = Empire of the Hand

Pale blue = Chiss Ascendency

Red = Imperial Loyalists (aka Imperial Remnant)

systems that have coloured text are my own invention (Draconis, Pryce Protostar, Watchtower Station in the EotH, Abrixus in the Ascendency)

I also estimated approximate locations for both Sunrise, and for the Pathfinders’ Guild space station from the Thrawn: Ascendency trilogy, which have never been given actual locations, and Sposia, a canon CA planet that was left off the map, for some reason.  

While making this map, I discovered all three of the aliens who helped Thrawn out at his “last stand” at Sunrise - the Paccosh, the Vak, and the Garwains -- all live to the galactic “south” of the Chiss Ascencency, while Nirauan and most other Hand systems are to the “north” of the CA.  I wanted all three to eventually be members of the Empire of the Hand, so this makes for an interesting dynamic, where the Hand is basically “cut in half” by the Ascendency.  

I have it in my AU that the Hand *tries* to respect the CA’s borders, but with half their members on the other side, ships have taken to taking a “shortcut” across the Ascendency -- the “Paccosh Trail” -- which will lead to future tensions between the CA (which is still struggling just to *acknowledge* the EotH as a legitimate faction) and the Hand.  

This has led to quite a few new story ideas.  It’s cool when “geography” (or would it be astrometrics in this case?) writes the plot!  

Check out my Empire of the Hand fics on Ao3!  

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DESTINATION: BESPIN, CLOUD CITY -- THE HUNT FOR CAPTAIN SOLO'S BOUNTY HAS BEGUN.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on an "Empire Strikes Back"/Boba Fett digital art piece titled "A Hunter and His Prey" (2010), artwork by Chris Trevas.

Resolution at 1559x1651 & 525x700.

OVERVIEW: "Boba Fett overlooks Platform 327 as the Millennium Falcon arrives at Cloud City. Sold as a 18" x 24" digital art print at Star Wars Celebration V, limited to 250 pieces.

This artwork was also featured on the Topps "STAR WARS Galaxy" 7 #58 trading card ("The Hunter and his Prey") in 2012."

-- BOBA FETT FAN CLUB (multimedia galleries)

Sources: www.moddb.com/groups/star-wars-marvel/images/boba-fett-art-work & www.bobafettfanclub.com/multimedia/galleries/1280.

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Topps Star Wars Galaxy Series 6 (2011) - Darth Talon by Jerry Vanderstelt

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Theory - Why No One "Remembers" the Jedi

I've made this argument before, but this is the first time I'm putting it out on Tumblr. Everyone always asks, why no one seems to remember the Jedi in the Original Trilogy when they were around during the Prequel Trilogy.

Here's my fan theory - most people never knew the Jedi.

Let me digress for a moment and ask you an unrelated question, how many people do you know from Gary, Indiana? (I'm not asking the people who actually live in Indiana, btw)

According to Google, there are 73,886 people that live in Gary, Indiana.

I live on the same CONTINENT as the city of Gary, Indiana, and I've never met one person in real life that I know is from Gary, Indiana.

Here's a second question - how many Buddhist do you know?

I know 0, even though there are 4 Million Buddhist living in the United States.

Officially, there are only 10,000 Jedi across the Star Wars Universe, a universe of TRILLIONS.

Most people would never meet a Jedi in their entire life. Some people might have heard that some guy with a glowing sword was part of the Republic Army, but those people were too concerned with surviving the war to actually care if those Jedi had powers or not.

To sum up: People don't "remember" the Jedi, because they never KNEW the Jedi to begin with.

Now, let me talk about some extra background stuff with the Jedi.

After Revenge of the Sith, the Empire painted the Jedi like the Jesuit Priests.

The Jesuits (in their original incarnation) were a branch of Catholicism that did many good deeds, but they also positioned themselves as the "confessors of the powerful." They managed to weasel themselves into the royal courts of Europe to bend the ear of the most influential men on the continent for 200 years.

Eventually, the Jesuits were so pervasive amongst the Elite, that they had to be BANNED and dissolved across all of Europe.

Here's something people don't talk about any more: America used to openly distrust and discriminate against Catholics.

From the outsider's perspective, Catholics look very weird.

They have large ornate temples, and lots of rituals. (Church sermons were conducted in Latin up until the 1960s). Plus, there are the common practitioners, but then there are special members of the Catholic Church - Monks, Priests, and Nuns that are easily identifiable by their unique clothing.

So, just like the Jesuits, the Jedi had positions themselves right next to the Senate, with Chancellor Palpetine often meeting the members of Jedi Council. They are secretive and removed from society like catholic monks.

It was easy for normal people to believe that the Jedi had been secretly plotting to gain control of the Republic since they had already position themselves so close to the people in power, and had been leading the military for three years. It made Palpetine look like a hero for fighting them off.

Of course, the events of Revenge of the Sith were followed by the Purge, as Darth Vader and the Inquisitors sought to eliminate all remaining Jedi.

The Inquisitors are based off the Spanish inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition were religious zealots that were hunting down Muslims and Jews inside of Spain in the 1500s. Just like these Inquisitors are hunting the Jedi.

Like the real world inquisition, the Inquisitors are likely not a branch of the actual army of the Empire. The Inquisition was an extension of the Vatican/ Catholic Church inside of Spain.

The Emperor serves as a Dark Pope that has created the Inquisitors to carry out the purge of the Jedi, those people that tried to assassinate him long ago.

The Spanish Inquisition saw themselves as keeping Spain PURE, while these Inquisitors are maybe convinced that the Jedi really were a threat to the Empire/ Republic. So, the people of the Star Wars Universe tolerate the Inquisitors because they're main goal is to prevent the reemergence of the Jedi, who had plotted to take over everything.

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This is genuinely so helpful for Star Wars fic writing omg

STAR WARS HYPERSPACE TRAVEL TIMES: As a disclaimer, a lot of this is going to come from Legends info, but I feel reasonably confident in using them because LFL does still operate on things like this very often.  You can’t count it as hard canon, not until it appears in some story or guidebook or is confirmed through word of god, but until then I’d give it a solid 80-85% chance of being accurate. As a secondary disclaimer, you also can’t count on this to always hold true in-universe for stories because often times things happen “at the speed of plot”, meaning there’s no way Sidious should have been able to get to Mustafar to, uh, rescue Anakin as fast as he did, unless we’re assuming Anakin hung around on Mustafar for like eight days after killing the Separatists and then another eight days before Sidious found him.  (Well, I guess if anyone could survive on hate that long, it’d be Anakin.  We know Maul survived on hate when he should have died, too.  But, realistically, I think we’re just not supposed to think about it.) RESOURCES: - The excellent Astrogation Computer, which will calculate the travel time for you!  It doesn’t have every system, but if you know a nearby one (check the galaxy map to find a nearby planet) you should be able to get an accurate travel time.  Some examples above:  Coruscant to Naboo with a premium hyperdrive engine is 6.65 days.  Coruscant to Mustafar is 8.16 days.  Coruscant to Naboo is 7.96 days.  Etc. - Star Wars Galaxy Map, which should have all the major planets if you need to find where something is to use in the above calculator.  You can do a search if you want to find something specific, too!  You can also check the hyperspace lanes that are nearest any given planet. - Black Cat’s Hyperspace travel times is another good place to start to get the chart above for basic travel times and an overview of some of the things that can affect travel time. THINGS THAT CAN AFFECT TRAVEL TIMES: - The quality of your hyperdrive engine.  The better quality your engine is, the faster you’ll get there.  The above travel times are calculated based on a 1x multiplier, but if you have a crappier hyperdrive, your time is going take significantly longer. - Whether or not there is a hyperspace lane that has been cleared for a continuous journey and all objects cleared out of the way.  These are incredibly valuable to own the rights to/have access to. - How much stuff (planets. stars, asteroids, nebulae, etc.) is in your way, since you can’t travel in a straight line, you can’t go through stuff without getting exploded.  This is why hyperspace routes are so incredibly valued, because you can travel much more quickly and safely on pre-established routes.  (It’d be a really bad idea to try to plot your own course because celestial drift or unknown/unmarked celestial objects would be all over the place.) TRADE ROUTES/HYPERSPACE LANES THAT ARE AVAILABLE: These are the major ones, though, there are plenty of smaller ones that you could also use, but wouldn’t be as extensive or possibly as safe as these: - Nexus Route (Canon + Legends) [x] - Unknown placement, but it was a major route that connected Republic and Separatist spaces, this is the one that Even Piell died to get the coordinates for after he told his half to Ahsoka. - Rimma Trade Route (Canon + Legends) [x] - Notable for connecting to Sullust and Eriadu. - Perlemian Trade Route (Canon + Legends) [x] - Notable for connecting to Felucia and Taanab. - Hydian Way (Canon + Legends) [x] - Notable for connecting to Malastare and Yavin. - Corellian Run (Canon + Legends) [x] - Notable for connecting to Coruscant, Ryloth, Corellia, and Christophsis - Corellian Trade Spine (Canon + Legends) [x] - Notable for connecting to Corellia, Duro, and Hosnian Prime.  It intersected with the Rimma Trade Route in the Inner Rim and with the Hydian way in the Outer Rim territories. CONCLUSIONS: The above travel times should factor in hyperspace lanes in the calculations, as well as which ones may be close together but require going slower or making more stops because it’s more densely packed in the Deep Core, where there are a lot of stars.  Whereas, out in the Outer Rim, there’s less you have to navigate around so you can just zip through more quickly. BONUS: - Have a Legends map of Republic Space vs Separatist Space vs Hutt Space, to give you an idea of where it would be safe to travel and where it wouldn’t be. - Bigger version of the (Legends) Hyperspace lane map via Wookieepedia.

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The Maw Cluster was an infamously unnavigable collection of black holes in the Outer Rim. Visible due to the gases being drawn in, the Maw was located in the Kessel sector, and the similarly infamous spice run required pilots to navigate the treacherous nebula without being summarily destroyed.

Source: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption (2006)

First Appearance: Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook (1993)

Read more on Wookieepedia.

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Star Wars Outlaws - Gameplay

In a galaxy far far away we step into the shoes of Kay Vess who, along with her cute companion Nix, search for a new life only to find themselves quickly mixed in with some of the worst criminals in the galaxy and working alongside these criminal syndicates in Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws.

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Experience the first-ever open world Star Wars game, set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Explore distinct locations across the galaxy, both iconic and new. Risk it all as Kay Vess, a scoundrel seeking freedom and the means to start a new life, along with her companion Nix. Fight, steal, and outwit your way through the galaxy’s crime syndicates as you join the galaxy’s most wanted.

Star Wars Outlaws Developer: Massive Entertainment Publisher: Ubisoft Platform: Windows, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 Release Date: August 30th, 2204 Price: $69.99 USD

Available here - https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/star-wars/outlaws