Is it the Milkyway?

I always wondered what that galaxy was at the end of ESB. It looks too far away to be the Star Wars galaxy, and I've heard rumour that it is actually our very own galaxy!

 

I read somewhere in these forums that it is the Rishi Maze mentioned in the ATOC library scene.

 

My first double post. Yippee!!!

 

There was a story saying it was their own galaxy, but several differing sources have said it's a star cluster or a mini-galaxy.

 

The AotC DVD text commentary says its the Rishi Maze, the same star cluster seen on the map in the Jedi Archives in AotC.

So they were pretty close to Kamino.

 

If the AOTC DVD states emphatically that it's the Rishi Maze, that's fine; but there's no reason that it couldn't be "the bright center" of the Galaxy--the central hub, the galactic axis around which the spiral arms of the GFFA revolve.
And even if it is the Maze, there's no reason to assume the end of ESB takes place near Kamino, which as Kenobi points out is "south" of the Maze. The Rebel ships may be north of the maze, or west, or ... you get the idea!

 

IIRC, didn't the Falcon fly toward the galaxy? If so, wouldn't that mean Tatooine is in the Rishi Maze as well?


Edit- Nevermind, just watched the ending and the Falcon flies to the side.

 

Vort -- It's the same vicinity.

AD21 -- They didn't go strait to Tatooine anyway. Even if you don't accept Shadows of the Empire, there's still a year in between ESB and RotJ, in which I doubt if they sat on Tatooine doing nothing.

 

The object is the star cluster known as the Rishi Maze. It's mos definitely not a galaxy.

 

If Kamino is "beyond the outer rim", then presumably the Rishi Maze is as well, so it could be a smaller satellite galaxy, like the Magellanic Clouds surrounding our own.

 

I think that the Rishi Maze was invented by GL long after he made ESB. I can't ever remember anyone mentioning it in the OT, just the PT. And the "thing" we see at the end of ESB looks too big to be merely a star cluster. It looked more like a galaxy, in both size and in its looks.

 

So you know the exact size of what they were looking at, the distance they were from it, and the relative size from the standard size of a star cluster?

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If Kamino is "beyond the outer rim", then presumably the Rishi Maze is as well, so it could be a smaller satellite galaxy, like the Magellanic Clouds surrounding our own.

Technically Kamino was only "beyond the outer rim" in AOTC times. By the time of ESB it was in the Outer Rim.

 

AD21 -- They didn't go strait to Tatooine anyway. Even if you don't accept Shadows of the Empire, there's still a year in between ESB and RotJ, in which I doubt if they sat on Tatooine doing nothing.

I actually thought they (Lando and Chewie) did go straight there.

They did a lot more than sit on Tatooine, though, like help Bothan spies, get chased by Bounty Hunters, battle the Imperial and Black Sun navy, infiltrate a palace, and chase down swoops in Mos Eisley.

Ah well, I may be wrong it's been a while since I read it.

 

My mistake, I guess they did go at the start of the book.

I forgot about that part.

 

It looked more like a galaxy, in both size and in its looks.

It looks nothing like a galaxy. Galaxies do not noticeably rotate, and do not have "lit up" areas.

 

but there's no reason that it couldn't be "the bright center" of the Galaxy--the central hub, the galactic axis around which the spiral arms of the GFFA revolve.

It seems like the fleet would have to be very, very far from the center of the galaxy to have a view like that.

 

And Coruscant is the center of the galaxy -- nav coordinates for Coruscant are 000 -- and that's where the Empire is. I doubt the Rebellion would fly right to the center of Imperial Space like that without having an attack in motion.

And I doubt that Luke meant it in a literal sense. He meant a wonderful planet, not the dustball he was stuck on.