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Lit The Essential Atlas and Galactic Cartography: Official Discussion

Discussion in 'Literature' started by CeiranHarmony, Oct 14, 2005.

  1. jasonfry

    jasonfry VIP star 4 VIP

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    I don't know exactly how LFL treats FFG material, but no reason FFG star systems can't be included in the appendix, and FFG folks have helped me catalog their contributions. The inaugural Atlas appendix included star systems from things that were "quasi-canonical" parts of the EU, such as old Polyhedron and Dragon articles for the WEG systems. Basically, the rule we went with then was "the planet exists even if the events might or might not have happened." Same philosophy works here.

    Yeah, sometimes you just sprinkle. And sometimes Dan and I used that for suggesting stories: there are a lot of GCW battlefields around Virgillia to suggest a long-running rebel conflict, CW battlegrounds around the "foundry of the Confederacy" near Metalorn, etc.
     
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  2. AdmiralNick22

    AdmiralNick22 Retired Fleet Admiral star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Yeah, I loved how you did a similar thing when mapping out Mon Cala space and their surrounding region. Placing New Alderaan, Telaris, Hast, Sanctuary, Dornea, in close proximity makes a lot of sense.

    Also- what are your thoughts on the Lothal Sector? I'm assuming a subsector of the Dominus Sector? Or something entirely separate?

    --Adm. Nick
     
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  3. blackmyron

    blackmyron Chosen One star 7

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    Question: I assume you guys discussed this when it came out originally, but I'm late to (returning to) the game here - but the TOS article about the worlds of the Force Awakens mentions... Zonama Sekot? I mean, I realize there's no context for the reference, but is the appearance of the name officially canon?
     
  4. JediBatman

    JediBatman Jedi Master star 4

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    Hmmmm . . . I'd guess it's an oversight.

    The TFA Beginner's Game for the SW roleplaying game includes a map. It's identical to the Legends maps they had in their Core Rulebooks, with two exceptions: It includes the planets from TFA, and Zonoma Sekot isn't on the map.

    Now Fantasy Flight Games products are in a Canon grey area, but I think it's still relevant.
     
  5. bsmith7174

    bsmith7174 Jedi Master star 3

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    I know this has been asked before (and I'm sure I've been one of those to ask haha) but have we ever gotten a definitive answer about Starkiller Base = Ilum?
    I think it would be cool if we got a novel (Star Wars: Starkiller Base) that showed the change over time.
     
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  6. cartographer

    cartographer Jedi Master star 1

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    Have been avoiding spoilers, but I can't wait to find out what planets are in Solo and where they fall on the map. Less than a week!
     
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  7. Tuskin38

    Tuskin38 Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Starkiller so far is Ilum in everything but name, it's the same diameter as Ilum, snow covered and full of Kyber crystals

    LucasFilm is still not saying yes or no..
     
  8. LelalMekha

    LelalMekha Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    So, apparently,
    the Vandor-1 from Solo is a *frontier* world, and thus not at all in the Core Worlds (the Legends version was in the Coruscant system). Not sure why they chose a name from Legends only to place it in a different region. Not that it matters much, but it's still a little weird.
     
  9. Noash_Retrac

    Noash_Retrac Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Rodia got moved across the border to the Outer Rim from the Mid Rim.
     
  10. ToilesHeroiques

    ToilesHeroiques Jedi Master

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    And we have a completely new planet, Numidian Prime, in the Inner Rim ... It's the only one. Perhaps a clue for Star Wars Resistance, Star Wars: Episode IX or Kenobi: A Star Wars Story.
     
  11. Gamiel

    Gamiel Chosen One star 9

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    Probably just to troll the kind of SW fans that take that kind of things to serious
     
  12. JediBatman

    JediBatman Jedi Master star 4

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    Did I miss something? Where are people getting this info? Did a cross section book leak or did they post a map on starwars.com or something?
     
  13. jSarek

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    People are seeing the movie overseas. I presume the details in question are made apparent from context.
     
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  14. bsmith7174

    bsmith7174 Jedi Master star 3

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    There is a map floating out there
     
  15. blackmyron

    blackmyron Chosen One star 7

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    Eh, even back in the day of being a vry srs person about that sort of thing I'd just think it was lazy writing. I mean, that was pretty much a regular occurence in the Clone Wars cartoon.
    Besides, the US is lousy with towns with same name. I figure a galaxy with millions of systems is going to have repetition.
     
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  16. TalonCard

    TalonCard •Author: Slave Pits of Lorrd •TFN EU Staff star 5 VIP

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    Exactly. It's probably a forgotten mythological or historical figure that has a bunch of cities/planets/asteroids/holo-greeting cards named after him/her/them.

    TC
     
  17. Dr. Steve Brule

    Dr. Steve Brule Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Unless I'm mistaken, the movie also changes the location of Savareen, as well.
     
  18. Iron_lord

    Iron_lord Chosen One star 10

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    Something that's been recently pointed out - while Legends and Newcanon reference works call Kamino extragalactic, onscreen Jocasta appears to be zooming in on the main disc as Obi-Wan's talking

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    though she's not zooming in on the spot Obi-Wan's actually pointing at.

    Should this be regarded as a blooper?
     
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  19. Tzizvvt78

    Tzizvvt78 Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    It's above the disk, between it and the Rishi Maze, a satellite galaxy. So it technically IS extragalactic.
     
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  20. Iron_lord

    Iron_lord Chosen One star 10

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    Yup. Only 12 parsecs away from it, at that - the Maze looks to be a few thousand parsecs above the galactic plane.

    The question is - was the EU doing this, a mistake (based on Lucas intention)? Should it have been in the disc, like in that Jocasta zoom-in shot? Or was that a blooper, and the spot Obi-Wan is pointing to, a more accurate measure?
     
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  21. MrDarth0

    MrDarth0 Jedi Master star 4

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    So are the two satellite galaxies we can see on Obi-Wan's screen part of the GFFA? Or more specifically, is the hyperdrive technology capable of reaching those satellite galaxies? Are they part of the GFFA culture? Are they part of the Republic or the Empire? Is there regular contact between them and the main galaxy? Etc. etc.
     
  22. darklordoftech

    darklordoftech Force Ghost star 6

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    Is it possible that Thape is the homeworld of Yoda's species?
     
  23. JediBatman

    JediBatman Jedi Master star 4

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    Companion Aurek (aka the Rishi Maze) is reachable by hyperspace, as we know Rishi is a stopping point on the route there. But as far as I know that's all the info we have about it. Companion Besh (aka Firefist) is the home of the Nagai and Tofs from the 70's Marvel comics. According to Wookieepedia there are 5 other satelite galaxies that we don't see.
     
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  24. Tzizvvt78

    Tzizvvt78 Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    Well, the PT introduced us to the InterGalactic Banking Clan. I assume that entity operates on them.
     
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  25. LBT-00

    LBT-00 Jedi Knight

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    Based on Jedha being part of a sector and under Imperial control, it seems safe to say The Empire's borders in Canon stretch further than the Sector maps (originally from Legends) seem to suggest. [face_thinking]