The great (and not so great) mysteries of the EU....

I have always wondered about:
1. Who build Correlian sector?

2. Why was Caamas destroyed?

On a more personal note:

1. Did General Garm Bel Iblis ever get together with Sena Leikvold Midanyl? (Thrawn Triology)

2. What ever happened to Moranda?(Last seen in the Hand of Thrawn)

3. What ever happened to Lara? (Wraith Squadron)

4. Since Borsk Fey'lya is out of the picture, will we see Asyr Sei'lar?

 

[face_shocked] A love triangle for Gavin!

 

Caamas(spelling please) was destroyed because, for whatever the reason, because Palpatine felt the Caamasi(spelling please) possed a threat to his New Order.

 

1. It is left deliberately vague and unknown about who built the Correllian sector though timetales provides some interesting speculation.

2.Already answered

Second Set
3. Lara was last seen on Corellia living under the alias Kirney Slane and runs a shipping business wih Kolot (an ewok pilot) and Tonin (R2 droid) Just read Solo Command.

4.Probably not, even though she was going to appear in Dark Tide: Siege before it was cancelled. She is supposedly helping Treast Kre'Fey.

 

Seeming that we are going to see the Clone Wars in Ep II and III. We will hopefully see why Caamas was destroyed or why Palpatine feared them (I'm dying to see what a Caamasi looks like!).

 

Who really are the chiss? Are they pre-republic explorers?

Whtas out in the uR? Why are we so scared about it?

As for centerpoint it is sdpeculated the Culombi built it.

 

Who are the Culombi and waht are they in?

 

From Timetales-


The Columi are among the first star-faring races in the SW galaxy. Disappointed to find barbarian races on other worlds (if even that), the Columi soon give up space travel and returns to Columus to develop their own race.

skip a couple lines-
The Corellian star system is artificially created by an unknown race (possibly the Columi?) using planetary repulsors. A humanoid race slowly evolves there over the next two million years. The repulsors are buried underground on each of the Corellian worlds, with the only external relic being the floating space station the Corellians later dub "Centerpoint." One prominent theory is that the original creators of Centerpoint Station constructed it when their own star had begun to go supernova. Once they arrived at the star Corell, they moved planets into orbit to give themselves a new place to live. Each planet?s repulsor would have helped the tractor ? repulsor to organise the planets into orbits.

Conjecture from ?SW RPG Cracken?s Threat Dossier.? [page 124]


The unknown race who creates the Corellian system, may have also been responsible for the unlikely cluster of black holes near Kessel known as the Maw.

?SW: The Essential Chronology?.

 

Thank you come again!

 

Here's more to digest, again from timtales.



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It is rumored that the hyperdrive was invented eons ago by a space-faring race from outside the known galaxy. When this race encountered the known galaxy, it first came upon the Corellian System. There, the aliens sold the secrets of the hyperdrive to the Corellians, who studied it for decades before producing their first, working hyperdrive.
?SW: Tyrant?s Test.?

 

Another mysteriouse cizilization.



In a remote corner of the Outer Rim Territories there exists a remnant of an ancient and mysterious civilisation. The cities and technologies of the six-tentacled Gree have been stagnant and falling into ruin for hundreds of millennia. The Gree lack the ability and the will to maintain or reproduce their ancient engineering works, and their cultural focus is set against the understanding of their devices, in favour of blind rote application.

One of the more noteworthy Gree technologies are their "hypergates". A hypergate resembles a large artistically-sculpted archway or door frame on the surface of a Gree world. As the term suggests, hypergates are reputed to hurl objects through hyperspace to a destination gate, where a conversion back to the subluminal realm occurs. Almost all lie in ruin or disrepair, and the Gree gatemasters appear to lack full understanding of how to operate the devices. No hypergate has functioned for centuries or millennia, so it is possible that the ancient accounts of their function are distorted or exaggerated.

Some regard hypergates as a more advanced technology than that of hyperdrive-capable starships. However this is not necessarily so. The foundations of hyperdrive engineering are said to be incomprehensible to all but the galaxy's best hyperphysicists, and the phenomena involved in hypergates and hyperdrives have the same fundamental basis. Hypergates are merely an unusual alternative application of hyperspace technology. They are impractical for many purposes: they lead only to fixed destinations and there exist only a few dozens in the entire Gree Enclave. Hypergates are useless for scouting unknown or hostile territory; and they cannot allow for easy and ambush-safe projection of military power. They appear to be difficult to operate and maintain, even accounting for the apathy and technological stagnation of the Gree.

If hypergates function as they are reputed then they seem to be analogous to a kind of inside-out hyperdrive. Presumably some mechanism or force field seizes the jump subject and imposes upon it the same kind of pre-jump acceleration as witnessed in common hyperdrive jumps. Whatever mechanism is used by a starship to jump the light barrier must also be applied to objects and vessels subjected to a hypergate. The mass affected would be sent on an appropriate trajectory and with sufficient superluminal momentum to reach the destination gate safely.

This hints at an additional peril and difficulty in hypergate operation. When hyperdrive coordinates are slightly inaccurate the ship may return to realspace off-course but intact. If the alignment of a hypergate is incorrect then the hapless traveller will miss the destination and never be brought back to realspace. This would inevitably lead to collisions with mass-shadows and eventual pulverisation to individual zero-energy transcendent particles.

Since the hypergates are fixed on planetary surfaces, their alignment must take account of both regular orbital motion and the gradual orbital variations that planets and star systems experience over the millennia. Without precise astrometric calibration, the hypergates will fail. This is probably one of the most severe impediments to the revival of the gatemasters' profession.

The positioning of hypergates on the ground and in atmosphere also has important implications for their functioning. Passing through the air at supralight speeds would probably be fatal. Perhaps each hypergate has a secondary mechanism to expel the atmospheric gases from a shielded channel in a direction facing the other end of the jump. Alternatively, the air in the atmospheres between the two gates may be transported just like the travellers who step into the gate aperture.

 

oh yeah that from technical commentaries along with......



However a spiral galaxy doesn't end abruptly, and there is diffuse formless material and occasional stars, stellar remnants and globular star clusters scattered in a spherical halo of space surrounding the disk, even above the main galactic plane. Dark matter in the halo constitutes most of the galactic mass; although mysterious to our science, it should be innocuous old knowledge to a galactic civilisation. Few of the complacent people of the greater galaxy would bother to stray from their tens-of-millennia-old trade routes to visit these spaces beyond the disk, because the distances are so vast and the destinations so scarce. Chemical considerations make planets unlikely or uncommon in globular clusters, even though these associations of millions of stars must have high abundances of interesting power sources like exotic stellar corpses. In total the halo would still contain millions of interesting destinations but because they're spread across space much larger than the disk, it wouldn't be economical to establish trade routes so far out. This zone is probably what constitutes the Unknown Regions and Wild Space. These regions may have an unusually large concentration of naval and military power, (in the hands of secretive rogue species like the Nagai, Tofs, Ssi-Ruuk and Chiss) but very few inhabited systems compared to the galaxy at large. Indeed the conditions of these sparse interstellar badlands might actually encourage spacefaring locals towards aggression.

If this is how the Unknown Regions are defined billions of stars spread out over a vast space several times the diameter of the galactic disk, compared with hundreds of billions of stars in the conventional part of the galaxy. That's plenty of interesting places for stories, and it's remote enough to explain why it's rarely visited.

The interpretation of a drawing of the galaxy in Vector Prime also raises controversy over the nature of the Unknown Regions. The problematic part of the diagram is the label "unknown regions" appearing above part of the galactic disk. Spiral galaxies do not suffer physical discontinuities that could possibly restrict interstellar exploration and settlement in a special band of longitude. Probe droids are cheap in galactic terms, and amateur astronomy is even cheaper. Technical cultres emerging within the disk would soon detect the deliberate and accidental emissions of galactic civilisation, and vice versa. In all the tens and hundreds of thousands of years of civilization, the entire disk must have been visited, with only local pockets left aside due to disinterest. Even the use of relativistic sublight travel (eg. the journey from Anoat to Bespin in The Empire Strikes Back) is sufficient to reach all corners of the galaxy during the known history of Coruscant.

The Vector Prime can be rationlised. The physically and textually awkward interpretation is only one of several ways of reading the art. Firstly, we must remember that the map does not purport to be a complete or perfectly scaled version of the galaxy. It portrays the topology of some important trade routes, and it concentrates on systems that are already known in the literature. Absence of a feature on this map does not disprove its existence in the STAR WARS galaxy. Secondly, the map is a projection of a tilted three-dimensional structure. The labelled "unknown regions" must be in the galactic halo between the disk and the artist's point of view; ie. above and surrounding the main galactic plane. This geometric explanation also reconciles the placement of the label "Wild Space" opposite the "Unknown Regions" (which occurs despite the fact that these spaces are consecutive and concentric in the previous STAR WARS literature). As less obvious alternative is to suppose that each of the star-like marks is a region of wild space within the Outer Rim Territories etc.

This helps explain part of a great UR mystery.

 

Thanks Chissdude 10. Your posts were extremely informative.
Where can I find ?SW RPG Cracken?s Threat Dossier?? Maybe we will read something about General Cracken in RD, since the Wraith's will be in the story line.

 

Wizards of the coast.com

 

Its an out of print RPG sorcebook. Check older comicbook stores and maybe used book stores. Or you could try eBay or Amazon's auction services. Good luck.

Chissdude, Wizards.com wouldn't have an out of print WEG sorcebook for sale.

 

oh i guess they wouldent, thats an older one isent it?