Has any being ever actually left the Star Wars galaxy?

Star Wars all takes place in this one galaxy, right? Has anyone ever left the galaxy? If a force user left, wouldn't he/she lose all of their power?

 

I believe the Vong were outside the Galaxy at certain points.

 

Yep, they were native to another galaxy and migrated to the SW galaxy.

 

E.T., evidently.

 

Outbound Flight was supposed to, but Palpatine set it up to fail

 

Others have come TO the galaxy, but has any native left it? I don't know. I wonder how long it would take for a ship equipped with the fastest hyperspace drive to reach the nearest galaxy.

 

I believe it's been stated that the final view of TESB is the fleet looking at the galaxy, but it's been stated numerous times that not only is it scientifically impossible to get that sort of view, (not that SW is exactly accurate in that regard) but more importantly, it contradicts its own canon that hyperspace cannot be entered outside of the galaxy

I believe the EU explains that the Rakata established hyperspace routes many millennia before the saga

 

The location of the end of ESB is only described in the script as 'SPACE', they could merely be on the fringes of the galaxy looking at the denser centre of it. The films and GL haven't ever really addressed this issue in a serious way - I'll move this over to EUC if there's nothing but EU answers, but will keep here for now.
The only extra-galactic activity ever alluded to in the films appears to be in the form of various in-jokes - ET's species in the Senate in TPM, the 2001: A Space Odyssey pod in Watto's junkyard, the hieroglyphics of C-3PO & R2-D2 in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

It was established before any "hyperspace barrier" was, that it was possible to travel to the satellite galaxies of the main one, in Marvel Star Wars.

The "most canon" source that states that what's being seen in TESB is a galaxy - was the 2004 DVD commentary.

The source that said it was "the galaxy" was Leland Chee, head of continuity for the SW-verse ("Keeper of the Holocron") - in 2003.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_galaxy

In 2003, Leland Chee confirmed on the StarWars.comMessage Boards that the object was indeed the Star Wars galaxy.[8] The film's director, Irvin Kershner, refers to the object as simply "a galaxy" on the Audio Commentary of the 2004DVD release.

 

The Silentium (Vuffi Raa's species, giant robots in space) showed up in both the Star Wars galaxy and the Yuuzhan Vong galaxy, but I don't remember if it's ever said which is their native one.

 

The endnotes to The Essential Guide to Droids don't seem to say:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110923004806/http://blogs.starwars.com/danwallace/52

p. 39: Vuffi Raa is a character from the Lando Calrissian trilogy by L. Neil Smith (1983). In what is perhaps The New Essential Guide to Droids' biggest retcon, Vuffi has been given a backstory as a member of a droid species known as the Silentium. (The other half of this retcon occurs in the entry for the Great Heep.) It is strongly implied that the Silentium are partially responsible for the war that devastated the Yuuzhan Vong home galaxy and triggered the Vong's hatred of machinery. (As a side note, embryo versions of Vuffi's species -- labeled "nano-stars" -- appeared briefly in the roleplaying guidebook Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds.)

Wookieepedia speculates that the creators of the Silentium may also have been involved with the Sharu:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Silentium's_creators

• While traveling underneath the largest pyramid on Rafa V, Lando Calrissian and Vuffi Raa saw historic wall pictorials which indicated a little of the ancient history of the Sharu, and suggested they were created by a starfish-shaped precursor race. Thus there is implication that Vuffi Raa's progenitors may have been the makers of the Sharu. This also indicates that they were not only present in the unknown regions but as well in the galaxy.

The Abominor (Silentium's opponents), are discussed on SW Blog:

http://www.starwars.com/news/the-droids-re-animated-part-2

The Great Heep
Droids come in all sizes, from the smallest in nanotechnology to the tallest of assassin droids. But few are as gargantuan as the droid known as the Great Heep. A member of the cybernetic race known as the Abominor — which nearly subdued the fanatical Yuuzhan Vong — the Great Heep was a rusting, extra-galactic robotic monstrosity measuring almost seven meters with crushing claws and a grotesque approximation of a humanoid face.

 

Well, you could argue Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka sort of left the galaxy in Mortis.

 

Well, E.T. of course.

 

And we can see a couple of these satellite galaxies, including the Rishi Maze, on a map screen in AOTC:

 

The object at the end of ESB was mentioned by the special effects team in some... thing (article? show?) to be "a nebula," but it sure does look galactic.

And there's one more 'intergalactic' mention in the films - the IG Banking Clan. (I can't remember if they actually say 'intergalactic' there, though).

 

If you believe Curtis Saxton, it was Cinefex:

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/astro.html#spectacle

The notion that the object is something of less than galactic scale is supported by a caption in a report in CINEFEX #2 p.8. The object is pictured and explicitly described as a "nebula". A nebula is one or another kind of cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space. It could refer to a protostellar nebula, or something similar in scale but presently unknown to science. The exact quote is:

Effects unit art director Joe Johnston prepares a model nebula for photography. The swirling star formation was filmed with a slight rotation and incorporated into the final sequence.​

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And I've managed to track down the page that has it:​

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http://thestarwarstrilogy.com/starwars/post/2014/05/12/Cinefex-2-August-1980-The-Empire-Strikes-Back​

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Spoiler

Interestingly, in a number of pictures, (such as in the Illustrated The Empire Strikes Back Storybook) the picture used appears to be a real nebula - possibly the Orion Nebula was the basis.​

For example:

 

Dunno, but I have absolutely no plans to do so

 

They don't even say "IG". They just say "Banking Clan".

 

We may never know.

 

Keep in mind that really old books referred to galaxies as "spiral nebulae" and even after it was proven that they weren't, I recall some books using "nebula" occasionally. Something along the lines of "Great Andromeda Nebula (Andromeda Galaxy).

So I could see Cinefax info being of this kind.

 

Whatever it is IT'S MOVING WAY TOO FAST!!!!!

 

"Artistic licence".

Nebulae in TCW are way denser than real nebulae- for similar reasons.

 

I think Vergere from the New Jedi Order series was originally from the SWs galaxy, then went to the Vong Galaxy and returned when they invaded.

 

The Vong had a long way to go from one galaxy to the next - result - the main Vong fleet was only a short distance away from the SW galaxy, in the void - they already had scouting parties in the SW galaxy, and it was one of those that attacked Zonama Sekot and picked up Vergere.

So, yes, she left the galaxy - but she didn't have to go very far, to reach the Vong fleet.