Lit The Essential Atlas and Galactic Cartography: Official Discussion

ok, implied worlds from Shadows of Mindor

Pervian blood crow--I haven't found page # yet
Batravian gumplucker--I haven't found page # yet, but its early in book
Nomarian thunder shark p 291
Perthrillian nightwasp p 232
planet Kindlabethia mentioned like almost first page
Hrthgingian firegem vaults p 234
Rhand, in Nihil Retreat, in Perann Nebula, in Unknown Regions--Cronal's homeworld; native humans called "Rhandites", inc the Sorcerers of Rhand
Klepthian rock otter p 270(?)
Trigaskian Blur--an area, page?
Karthrexian glaciers p 165
the T'kkrpk homeworld
the "Spirana operation" p. ?
Traptoforian razorslug p 91
sentient "Glassferran" species--assumedly from a planet called "Glassferra"?
Leia, right before Battle of Mindor, negotiated entry into New Republic of a species of hairy arachnoids with humanoid faces who inhabit a "minor star cluster"

ps
worlds from Wild Space:
Chanosant--Sep
Allanteen IV
Lanos--Republic, taken by Seps
Korriban--note that although a Commerce Guild stronghold in Jedi Quest, in this book represented as being a Loyalist world, protected from Seps by Eeth Koth (despite the fact older sources had him die at Geonosis!)

 

An amusing detail in Vector Prime - not sure anyone's spotted this before?

On pp. 182-184, Kyp and his squadron have moved from Dubrillion to check an "observation buoy" they had installed at a hyperspace junction in the Veragi Sector. The surrounding space is otherwise empty.

The buoy is designed to track ships, looking for smugglers; it finds "a couple of asteroids in areas previously unknown and a few freighters and even a couple of smaller, personal ships, but so far out and moving too fast to even warrant inspection"; and the ExGal-4 shuttle, which Kyp's astromech tracks as originating from Belkadan, "in the nearby Dalnobian sector".

Kyp picks up some fragmented comm chatter from Belkadan reporting on the YV attack, and figures that the shuttle was fleeing trouble, so he wonders why it had hearded to Helska. He wonders why there "and not back toward the Core, or even towards Lando's operations or towards the not-so-distant Moddell sector...."

That's right. In spite of what the map implies, Endor is actually round near the Imperial Remnant....



- The Imperial Ewok

 

HNN indicates Dalonbian Sector was named after Tobbert Dalonbian, founder of ExGal Society

 

Dan Wallace's TOS blog has some more choice quotes from the Atlas.

 

I don't think I can aptly say just how incredibly happy I am right now. I'm marking the calendar as I type.
Mentioning the D'Asta family from CE2. This is why I love Dan Wallace.

 

"The Twenty Wonders of the Galaxy is a list compiled by the historian Vicendi in 10,000 B.B.Y. for his work Arturum Galactinum, commissioned for the Republic's anniversary."
Awesome.

 

"Planetary Pioneers"--was that a Maverick Moon reference?! This is gonna be awesome.

TC

 

Oh, yeah, this is going to be absolutely stellar (pun intended). D'Asta family mention? Twenty Wonders of the Galaxy? Can't wait for this to come out.

 

The D'Astas? YES. Most important never-used thing ever.

 

even less used, the D'Asta's cool and as=yet unnamed starfighters--really pretty little things

 

I just noticed a reference to "Besteene" in Grievous Attacks!. Is this a new planet, or just a typo for Bestine?

 

Not quite a typo -- it's spelled that way in the CW scripts, probably to guide the voice actors' pronunciation, and I suspect it accidentally got copied over to the book.

 

Will "Zaadja" and "Zaddja" be listed as two separate worlds? Apparently they are in the new SW Encyclopedia. Soooooo dumb, up there with "Mrlissi" and "Mrissi". What's next, "Yinchor" and "Yinchorr" being two separate planets?

 

Funny you should mention listings -- we just locked the appendix.

4,348 star systems and other galactic phenomena, from 23 Mere to Zznza. Let posterity show that the final placement was Pyolli, determined to be in the Seswenna sector. Though I do have one manuscript I didn't get to. Hmm, maybe I could do a quick read and get to 4,350 or so....

ATLAS text locks Thursday. Lots and lots of maps for the (astonishingly excellent) artists to finish and get proofread, but we are actually getting there.

 

Fantastic work, Jason! A long project, almost come to fruition.

~ Eyrezer

 

Indeed. Cool beans, guys.

 

Thanks for the update! Sounds like this is going to be one heckuva book.

 

Dyspeth made it.

 

I'm surprised that the appendix got approved at all. When you see it you'll be struck by how much it reads like a crazyfan checklist. I mean, I LOVE it because I'm wired that way, but I'm little amazed that the seemingly-normal editors at Del Rey actually gave it the green light.

Dan

 

You won't find me complaining.

 

Nor me.

 

I cannot wait for this to come out. It sounds like you guys are doing great work!

I have a question about the distance between two planets.

In the fairly crappy map of the galaxy, that probably has 50-100 planets on it, Geonosis and Tatooine are very close to each other, with Tatooine being slightly closer to Coruscant than Geonosis. In Episode II Obi-Wan says he's not able to get a signal through to the Jedi Council, so he sends it to Anakin, whom he thinks is on Tatooine. On Tatooine, Anakin is able to send it perfectly fine, even though they're just a wee bet closer than Obi-Wan. Is the map wrong? Are these seemingly miniscule different lengths just bigger than they look?

Thanks.

Here's the map

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I don't think that's an absolute distance problem; that's an issue where Obi-Wan's having trouble with his transmitter and his range is limited by his equipment and possibly specific Geonosis conditions breaking up his signal. Anakin, being nearer than Coruscant, is within his range, and is himself free of any equipment or local problems preventing transmission to Coruscant.