Where is Kamino on the Galactic Map?

Okay, I know Geonosis is about a parsec (about 3.2 lightyears) from Tatooine. I got the impression that Kamino was closer to the Unknown Regions, obviously in the Outer Rim sectors. Is there an updated map for Kamino and Geonosis, even Ansion?

So, 45-60 or so years after the Clone Wars, many of the original participants are dead and since no one ever learns from history, I'd be mightily surprised if none of the New Jedi Order authors aren't anxious to sink their teeth into the idea of some terrified group of senators are itching to get the Kaminoans to create another clone army.

The downside to this is of course the ten year wait to get fully realized clones ready. Even with growth enhancers and even if they started during VP, they'd only be what, 3-4 years along? Also, the Yuuzhan Vong would have kittens to know that a place like Kamino exists- all that mechanical technology put to work creating organic beings. They'd kill themselves to wipe out the planet.

But I also think it's something not to be ignored. When people are frightened, they make stupid decisions and recreating a clone army would be just about as stupid as you could get. Plus, it's a contemporary and topic idea given the mess in the media over cloning real humans, so there would be great moral and ethical dilemas to explore in such a book.

Comments? Ideas?

 

I'm guessing the Unknown Regions or the Kathol Outback/Kathol Rift.

 

Im thinking past the Tion cluster into wild space.

 

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Odd, I would have placed it closer to Fondor than where it is on that map.

Any coments on my other thoughts?

 

yeah, I knew I saw a map with it somewhere before ....

 

Cool, I was preety close.

 

Ansion is near Ord Mantell, if that helps.

 

isn't it supposed to be beyond the rim?

 

That map does show it beyond the Outer Rim Territories.

What I find really cool is Rishi, an EU planet created by Zahn.

 

Don't forget, these maps are 2-D drawings of a 3-D space. So it all depends on what "angle" you're looking at the map. ie. in AotC, when Obi-Wan was in the Jedi Library, he was pointing at the top left hand side of the map, but the maps in the NJO put it on the bottom in the center. It all depends on your point of view

 

It's on pg 208-209 of the new RPG book.

 

Hey Merk, is the new core rule book worth getting?

 

I'd say "No". I glanced through it. Aside from some cool new maps and bios of AotC characters, its not worth $ 40.

Get it discounted or used. I will be doing that eventually.

 

It would be interesting to see some plot that started before VP that dealt with Kamino and the clones. I mean, the Imps would have known about it. Maybe Palleon could come to the NR's aid with a massive new clone army that Thrawn or Palpy ordered?...

 

Well, the connection could be Zonoma Sekot (sp) and someone who, say a decade before VP found out about what happened there and put it all together that there was at least the potential for an extra-galactic invasion, went to Kamino and ordered a few million clone troopers, based on the current a-then current bad ass in the galaxy and cloned him (or her) in secret.

 

I have a question not really relating to this but I thought of it when I read Kier's initial message...

Obi Wan plants the tracking device on jango's ship.

Next thing we see he pops out of hyperspace a few seconds after jango in the Geonosian system.

How? Hyperwave Tranceivers are supposedly the only devices capable of sending and recieving messages to/from crafts in hyperspace. And these (according to SWTC) are so huge that they "can not be used on all but the largest capital chips" (and obi wans tracking device certainly isn't the size of a large capital ship".

Wouldn't obi wan have to wait for the signal to come when Jango reaches his destination and then follow him? that would mean that Kamino and Geonosis are about a second away when travelling in hyperspace, maybe less if you factor in Obi wan having to enter and plot the course into his navicomp.

 

ansion is in rebel dream map

 

Re: Rishi, the "Rishi Maze" was mentioned in the film (AOTC)... would this make it the only spoken EU reference in the movie (besides Coruscant)?

 

DJJB,

It was probably time lapse. In the same way that it took a lot longer than 15-20 minutes for the whole Battle of Yavin, as shown in the film, and likewise the other battles. It would be silly just having the camera sit in space for minutes or hours, so they do what looks good.

 

Might be a coincidence, but its still cool and they are now considered the same. The planet Rishi inside the Rishi Maze is the same planet from Dark Forces Rising. As we can see on the map.

 

DJJB,

How? Hyperwave Tranceivers are supposedly the only devices capable of sending and recieving messages to/from crafts in hyperspace. And these (according to SWTC) are so huge that they "can not be used on all but the largest capital chips" (and obi wans tracking device certainly isn't the size of a large capital ship".

Wouldn't obi wan have to wait for the signal to come when Jango reaches his destination and then follow him? that would mean that Kamino and Geonosis are about a second away when travelling in hyperspace, maybe less if you factor in Obi wan having to enter and plot the course into his navicomp.


What if it simply broadcast to one of the beacons that would be sitting in hyperspace and the beacon simply relays the signal?

 

Talking about Geonosis, did anyone notice that Jango's charges exploded, but took about 3 quarters of a second to make any sort of noise?