Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons - Softcover

Wallace, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345420683 ISBN 13: 9780345420688

Verlag: Lucasbooks, 1998

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Offers a detailed, illustrated look at one hundred of the most exotic locales in the Star Wars universe and their strange inhabitants, and includes a time line of major events in the saga's history. Original.

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RESOURCE TO THE WORLDS OF THE STAR WARS GALAXY!

From the sun-baked deserts of Tatooine to the frost-bitten snowscape of Hoth to the misty swamps of Dagobah, here's your expert guide to the hundred most fascinating worlds of the extraordinary Star Wars universe. Travel from the Deep Core to the Outer Rim Territories and discover the wonders of:

¸ Kashyyyk--the treacherous, arboreal planet where the Wookiee race dwells among the branches in elevated cities . . . and lethal predators rule the surface
¸ Bespin--the gas planet devoid of solid ground, in whose atmosphere hovers the formidable Cloud City
¸ Endor--The Forest Moon: home to the peaceful but powerful Ewoks and site of a decisive battle in the galactic civil war
¸ Coruscant--center of power, law, history, and culture in the galaxy . . . and once the location of Imperial City, the seat of the dreaded Empire

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"An epic of heroes, villains, and aliens from a thousand worlds."

That's what the stentorian announcer promised to deliver in the first
theatrical previews for a new sci-fi extravaganza called Star Wars. The
flickering trailer offered tasty flashes of zooming spaceships, strange
beasties, and double sunsets, hinting at a fantastic galaxy that was
utterly unlike our own.

When the movie finally broke in May 1977, the "gee whiz" factor didn't
diminish one bit. Our heroes' planet-hopping adventures took them from
the hot sands of Tatooine to the cool mists of Yavin 4. And the
phantasmagoric menagerie of bizarre barflies knocking 'em back in the Mos
Eisley cantina hinted at a thousand other points of origin.

The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi added several strange new
locales to the canon, leading one to speculate that the Star Wars galaxy
has a peculiar number of single-climate worlds: Tatooine is a desert
planet, Hoth an ice ball, Dagobah a slimy mudhole, Endor the "forest
moon." (But hey, this is space opera--why not?)

Though the films have been loved by generations of moviegoers and VCR
buffs, they spotlight only a small fraction of the countless planets in
that galaxy far, far away. The books, comics, computer games, and
television specials have done their best to rectify that. Even places
that were mentioned only in passing on the big screen, such as Dantooine,
Kessel, and Taanab, have been given climates, geographies, and elaborate
histories by dozens of new authors and artists. If you're interested in
tracking down the original source material on any given planet, the back
of this volume contains a coded bibliography to help you in your search.

From Abregado-rae to Zhar, planets and moons are the backdrops for the
world's most popular space fantasy. This book covers a hundred of the most
notable. But galaxies are big places, and there is still much to explore.

Enjoy the bus tour, and don't feed the Wookiees.

--Daniel Wallace, Detroit, Michigan






Excerpts

ABREGADO-RAE

System:                Abregado system

Terrain:                Hills

Species:                Humans, Gados, Moochers

Language:                Basic

Points of Interest:        LoBue cantina


Abregado-rae has always been a common destination for smugglers and
free-traders, who are greeted at spaceports by Moochers-- small sentient
creatures that survive by panhandling. In recent years the world has
suffered from the rise of a new, tyrannical government that has modernized
Abregado-rae but demanded total obedience from its citizens. A peaceful
separatist group in the southern hills made the mistake of publicly
protesting; as an example, the regime cut off its supply lines, forcing
the group to submit or starve.

During the New Republic's war against Grand Admiral Thrawn, Han Solo and
Lando Calrissian went to Abregado-rae to make contact with Talon Karrde's
smuggling organization. The planet's notoriously seedy starport was now
gleaming and polished, but the sight of grim police thugs made it clear
that the native Gados had lost a measure of freedom.

Ducking into the LoBue cantina, Lando spotted their contact, Fynn Torve,
in an intense game of sabacc with several other players. All too aware of
the security officers casing the place, Han purchased a pile of betting
chips and took a seat at the table. As he was easing into the game, a
burly religious minister shoved forward, seemingly plucking a
"skifter"--an illegal face-changing sabacc card--from Han's hand. Law
enforcement toughs converged to harass the suspected cheater, and Torve
quietly slipped away.

Lando and Han finally met Torve back onboard the Falcon. Since
Abregado-rae's constabulary had impounded Torve's ship, the Etherway, for
running contraband food to the hill dissidents, the smuggler had wisely
been lying low. The "reverend" back in the cantina had actually been one
of Torve's local contacts, happy to create the needed diversion. After Han
and Lando expressed their desire to meet his boss, Torve reluctantly
agreed to take them to Talon Karrde's hidden base on Myrkr.

Later, Mara Jade arrived at Abregado-rae to pick up the confiscated
Etherway on behalf of Karrde and discovered that the smuggling ship had
been released from the impound yard thanks to a generous bribe given by
Wedge Antilles. After briefly chatting with Rogue Squadron's leader, Mara
boarded the Etherway and piloted through the outer fringes of the planet's
atmosphere.

Accelerating to full speed, Mara rapidly prepared the jump to hyperspace,
but the Victory- class Star Destroyer Adamant roared from the planet's far
side and expertly cut off her escape route. The Imperial warship's smug
commander called for the outlaw vessel's immediate and unconditional
surrender.

Mara was out of options. Though she had enjoyed her years of anonymity,
she had no choice but to transmit the unmistakable recognition signal that
identified her as the long-lost Emperor's Hand.

His valuable prize safely aboard, the Adamant's commander left
Abregado-rae with all possible haste, bound for Endor and a very
interested Grand Admiral Thrawn.


AGAMAR

System:                Mirgoshir system

Terrain:                Binka forests

Species:                Humans

Language:                Basic

Points of Interest:        Calna Muun starport



A secluded planet in the isolated Outer Rim, Agamar is known primarily as
the homeworld of Keyan Farlander--a determined recruit who overcame his
humble beginnings to become one of the greatest pilots in the Rebel
Alliance.

Because of the Outer Rim's distance from the Core Worlds, the Emperor was
unable to maintain a tightfisted grip on the wild frontier region. Upstart
resistance groups on backwater worlds such as Agamar thought they could
plot against the Imperial regime with impunity. They were sorely mistaken.

An Imperial assault craft was dispatched to Agamar to quell its fledgling
insurrectionist movement. Over deafening loudspeakers, the warship's
commander announced the in-escapable penalty for Imperial citizens who
dared harbor traitors. Proton torpedoes were then dropped from the sky.

A young Keyan Farlander, racing home through the binka forest, heard the
screams of the wounded and dying. When the bombardment finally ceased, his
hometown of Tondatha was a smoking ruin. At the blast crater that had once
been his family's struggling mugruebe ranch Keyan found the lifeless
bodies of his mother and father.

With no reason to remain, Keyan drifted to the main city, Calna Muun,
where he joined the Agamar Resistance. The dissident group had been shaken
by the Empire's brutal attack but was now more driven than ever to...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lucasbooks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0345420683
• ISBN 13: 9780345420688
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204
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