Star Wars galaxy poster

Hi.
Can anyone tell me please, in what was the issue of Insider in which map-poster of teh Star Wars galaxy was published?
Or was it soemthing other than Insider?

Thanks

 

There have been several such posters. One was published in Star Wars Insider #65; another was in Star Wars Gamer #5. Several others were made available overseas in the Star Wars Fact Files.

 

There were at least two with Fact Files. The first came with the first issue. There was a later one that dealt with the galaxy at the beginning of the Clone Wars. I put this one online for somebody and it's still there.

Left side

Right side

Note - the quality on the map wasn't that great. Some of the print was hard to read, even on the original. Scanning it in didn't help any.

 

I think that map may conflict with AOTC in several places.
It's hard to tell what the shape of the galaxy is meant to look like, due to the orientation, but Tatooine and Geonosis are supposed to be in one of the spiral arms.
Kamino is supposed to be "beyond the Outer Rim", but on this map we see known Outer Rim worlds which appear to be farther out than Kamino.
Also, where are the Rishi Maze and its counterpart? On this map I don't see the Rishi Maze, but I do see a planet labeled "Rishi".

 

Kamino is charted as the Outer Rim world in the galaxy map in SW RPG Revised core rulebook as well. In fact, it looks closer to the Core than even Tatooine.
Maybe Dex thought beyond the border with the Outer Rim?

 

Galaxies are three-dimensional. Kamino's just got a big z-coordinate.

 

The Rishi system, a four-planet system possibly located in Wild Space, contained the planet of Rishi. It was said that the only way to access the Rishi Maze was by starting at this system.

That's what Wookiepedia says about the Rishi system.

But that map seems to have Rishi in two places.

 

This needs repeating, because it seems as if people keep forgeting it. Three dimensions. Which means many of those "out of the way" places could well be at extremes of the z-axis and exceptionally hard to get to depending on hyperspace routes and so on. There's nothing to stop a great many planets and systems from being at extremes to the main disk.

In some ways I almost feel it's just as well not to lock that portion of the map down to hard, although I wouldn't mind seeing a 3-d or z-axis representation, but I doubt anyone has put that much thought into the placement of all the planets.

 

In addition, stars, and thus solar systems, move. They aren't stationary. Some planet that was in the thick of things 4000 BBY during the Tales of the Jedi could have moved out of that neighborhood by 0 ABY.

This really isn't something that's going to make too much difference in stories set between The Phantom Menace and the Legacy comics, really, because it takes stars a long, long time to move to any significant degree.

It could, however, explain why the Nagai homeworld is in the Old Republic in 4000 BBY, but outside of Known Space in 4 ABY.

 

Who placed it in the Old Republic?

 

Unfortunately I've yet to see even one supposed galaxy map that tries to use any kind of three-dimensional representation.

 

Anyone else notice that there's 2 Ruusans?