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Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. However, travel along the "Hutt Highway" was slow and often dangerous owing to smugglers, slavers and pirates operating out of Hutt Space.
Thriving trade turned Nal Hutta's moon Nar Shaddaa into a boomworld. However, the supernova of the star of the Kyyr system in BBY made the route unnavigable.
The Ootmian was eventually restored, but the rise of the Corellian Run finished Nar Shaddaa as a respectable tradeworld, with legitimate business moving elsewhere and the moon becoming one of the galaxy's most notorious shadowports.
It was speculated that the Kyyr supernova was thus responsible for the shift of the Hutt kajidics towards criminal enterprises. There were some routes that were used for more illegal purposes, in particular the illicit trade of smuggling.
One of the most infamous examples of illegal routes was the Kessel Run , an The notorious smuggler Han Solo claimed to have navigated the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs with his ship, the Millennium Falcon , by skirting close to the black holes that made up part of the Kessel Run. The Ison Corridor was a fairly small route within the Corellian Trade Spine, which had five system stops before reconnecting with the Spine, and was connected from the coreward region to the rimward region.
The Sisar Run was a hyperspace trade route originating in the Tharin sector , where it passed through the heart of the Periphery, passing through Hutt Space and Srillur and bypassing the Si'Klatta Cluster before it splits at Sispe.
Myto's Arrow , named after its discoverer, the Galactic Republic scout Keos Myto , was a route located in the Outer Rim that was used for travel between the Raioballo sector via Dantooine and the Obtrexta sector. The Daragon Trail , well known for being the longest blind jump to have been made successfully in the history of the galaxy, travelled between Korriban in the Outer Rim and Empress Teta which at the time of the route's discovery was named Koros Major in the Deep Core.
Portions of it were merged with the smuggling route Carbonite Run. Under the Galactic Republic, the peoples of the galaxy were represented in the legislative body known as the Galactic Senate. Originally, any sufficiently-populated star system would return a senator , but this was soon rejected as a recipe for gridlock as the Republic expanded massively and thousands of delegates attended Senate meetings.
The Planetary Senate gave way to sectorial representation: the Republic was divided into sectors containing no more than fifty inhabited systems - it was feared that larger sectors would form the seeds of breakaway empires - which were each represented by a single sectorial senator. However, the price of passing this amendment was additional legislation that allowed many of the Republic's Core Founders to retain their planetary seats, giving extra votes to the most powerful Core and Colonies sectors.
To strict Galactic Constitutionalists , this was the Republic's "founding tyranny", a cynical scheme to preserve the power of the Core systems. Indeed, the awarding of single-system votes caused such an outcry that a compromise was reached: anyone recognized as a representative of a single system had the right to petition the full Senate, a right still occasionally invoked under the New Republic Senate.
Sectors grew to include thousands of star systems, but even with the "rule of fifty" widely ignored, the Republic expanded to include millions of sectors by 17, BBY , once again rendering the galaxy ungovernable. In the aftermath of the First Alsakan Conflict , the Challat Compromise was adopted, which split the legislature into a seated Senate, whose members had full rights of address, and an unseated Senate, whose members had to petition for such rights. Predictably, the seated senators became power-brokers, and corruption thrived, with unseated senators having to trade the vast majority of their votes for the chance to be heard in the Senate.
The Ruusan Reformations of BBY saw a remarkable dismantling of central authority and reorganized the Republic into 1, regional sectors, each represented by a single senator, though once again a series of exceptions favored planets in the Core and Colonies. Additionally, the right of representation was extended to so-called functional constituencies representing discreet cultural and species enclaves. While the galaxy was once again governable, the Reformations inevitably placed power into the hands of a very few, especially when the definition of functional constituencies was extended in BBY to the galaxy's mightiest guilds and corporations, chief among them the Trade Federation.
The Trade Federation bought up vast blocs of votes from poor sectors and gained control of key appointments in the bureaucracy, and by the time of the Separatist Crisis was the Senate's greatest power and paralyzed the Senate in the face of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
The New Republic restored the body, but it inevitably again became mired in gridlock, archaic tradition, and corruption.
When the New Republic was reorganized into the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances during the Yuuzhan Vong War , the very name of the new state seemed to be an acceptance of the need for decentralization of power.
However, efforts to rehabilitate the galaxy after the Yuuzhan Vong War depended heavily on centralized power, leading to the rebellion of independent-minded systems in a Confederation led by Corellia , and so the ancient problem of galactic democracy begun a Second Galactic Civil War. Hutt Space was a large stretch of the Outer and Mid Rims, dominated by the Hutts , that eluded central control for millennia. The Allied Regions were independent states that freely joined the Galactic Republic as it expanded early in its history, with their rulers receiving the honorary title of Moff.
By the time of the Clone Wars, most Allied Regions had been divided into sectors, but a handful endured as regions with a discreet cultural identity, such as the Trailing Sectors or the New Territories ; or a sector dominated by a single species, such as Trianii Space.
Several of these governments survived as client states under the Galactic Empire and maintained a degree of independence, and were recognized by the New Republic afterwards. Hutt Space referred to the large stretch of the Rimward Slice controlled by the Hutt Ruling Council , the governing body of the Hutt species.
Originally powerful warriors, the Hutt Empire overthrew the empire of Xim the Despot , but a disastrous civil war around 15, BBY known as the Hutt Cataclysms forced a cultural reformation, beginning a new philosophy known as kajidic , which stressed economic dominance over outright conquest.
Hutt Space's borders ebbed and flowed over the millennia but the Hutts' power in both the economic and the criminal spheres endured, extending as far Coreward as Gyndine as the Galactic Republic decayed during the Separatist Crisis.
Hutt Space was nominally part of the Galactic Empire, but the New Order largely tolerated the Hutts' criminal dealings, as the Hutt Ruling Council was a known quantity as opposed to the possibility of hundreds of feuding Hutt crime lords. Hutt Space was devastated during the Yuuzhan Vong War , but recovered surprisingly quickly, bringing with it a renewed Hutt militarism that was expressed when the region declared for the Confederation during the Second Galactic Civil War.
The Corporate Sector Authority CSA referred to the government of the Corporate Sector , a region of close to thirty thousand star systems on the edge of the Tingel Arm ruled from Etti IV , and was a collective of businesses and corporations granted exclusive rights to all resources in the territory. The experiment in corporate governance, while protecting the rights of workers, began after lessons were learned from the Outer Expansion Zone scandal.
At the suggestion of Baron Orman Tagge , the Corporate Sector was vastly expanded under the Galactic Empire and it became an officially-sanctioned refuge for Loyalist corporations seeking to avoid nationalization. The CSA became the region's sole owner, employer, government, and military, while corporations that invested in the Authority would receive proportional shares of the profits.
The Centrality was a long strip of territory to the north of Hutt Space, founded as a libertarian independent state in BBY. Human -dominated, the capital of Erilnar often fell under the influence of the Hutt kajidics , which were often the beneficiaries of the profits of the Centrality's main export, the life-crystals of Rafa V. The Centrality was formally an Imperial territory, but was generally left alone by Imperial Center. Emperor Palpatine's sole act concerning the region occurred several years prior to the Battle of Yavin , when he gave de facto control of the Centrality to Rokur Gepta , Sorcerer of Tund , who was later killed by Lando Calrissian in defense of the region's native Oswaft at the Battle of ThonBoka.
Isolationist and matriarchal, the secretive Hapans became legendary for their reputed wealth, beauty, pride, and aristocratic feuds. Emperor Palpatine's tolerance of the region's independence surprised many, and it was suggested that the Emperor maintained Hapes as a lesson to the galaxy in the dangers of insularity and decadence. The Hapes Cluster was an isolationist grouping of 63 inhabited worlds ruled by the matriarchal Queen Mothers. The political, diplomatic and military writings of Atrisia , in particular the Sayings of Uueg Tching , had been studied for millennia.
The insular territory declared independence after Emperor Palpatine's death at Endor but later accepted Allied Region status in the New Republic. Similarly, Nouane began as a thriving Inner Rim empire beyond the Slice, and was renowned for its philosophers and thinkers, in particular the controversial Four Sages of Dwartii. Nouanese ministers were common in the young Republic, and the territory sought Allied Region status after being ravaged by the Mandalorian Crusaders in BBY. The region of planets was a loyal supporter of the Empire and declared independence under the New Republic.
Bothan Space included some settled systems in the Mid Rim, dominated by Bothan colonists and ruled by the Bothan Council. One of the few species close to Hutt Space to preserve their independence, the Bothans were credited with the diplomacy and espionage that preserved the stability of much of the Mid Rim. The ursine Botori controlled two dozen star systems within a nebula while the Human Dawferim controlled just over thirty systems. The two states had fought no less than forty wars even after they accepted Allied Region status under the Galactic Republic, and both declared independence after the Declaration of a New Republic.
Herglic Space referred to the shrunken remnant of the Herglic Trade Empire. It consisted of some forty star systems around the Rimma Trade Route , but hundreds of worlds along the Rimma outside Herglic Space had substantial Herglic populations. Religiously fundamentalist, the region had evolved a common culture where each species was seen as complementary to the other two and the rest of the galaxy was seen as unholy. Each species ruled sixty-three star systems while another three were open to outlanders under strict conditions.
Paqwepori was a small cluster of ninety rich star systems just off the Corellian Run in the Mid Rim. Paqwepor Major 's bazaars were popular destinations for Republic traders expanding the Corellian Run for eons. The Paqwepori were known for their love of business and ambition while despising any law that could limit individual expression or initiative.
The spread of technology and civilization throughout the galaxy led to the development of the galactic economy , the system of production, distribution, trade, and consumption of goods. Few planets were entirely self-sufficient, with some, such as the factory worlds of Telti and Mechis III , devoting their economies solely to the production of high-tech goods but relying on agriworlds for food. In turn, these agriworlds relied on on manufacturing worlds to supply heavy equipment to harvest and process foodstuffs , and chemical industries to produce fertilizers and pesticides.
The importance of the galactic economy meant that a number of megacorporations were able to acquire immense economic and political power. In the years prior to the Clone Wars , the Trade Federation , a conglomerate of shipping and merchant cartels, controlled the votes of hundreds of star systems in the Galactic Senate by making their commerce dependent on its Merchant Fleet and enforcing deals with the Trade Defense Force.
TaggeCo controlled hundreds of star systems and dozens of subsidiaries, making it one of the galaxy's most influential organizations. Even relatively small businesses, such as the Figg conglomerate in the Greater Javin , commanded substantial influence on their homeworlds and sectors.
The main currency of the Galactic Republic was the Galactic Credit Standard , divided into ten decicreds. Of the galaxy's one billion settled systems, the majority of these were lightly-settled colonies of little note that were often not even marked on sector maps.
During the days of the Galactic Empire more than 69 million systems met the requirements for Imperial representation, and 1. Because only around a quarter of the galaxy's four hundred billion stars had been thoroughly surveyed, scientists were uncertain as to the true number of intelligent species. The Galactic Empire recognized five million intelligent species, though it was mathematically accepted that galactic civilization had yet to discover a large number of species and the total could be as high as twenty million.
An Ithorian playing holochess against a Human opponent, as a Baragwin observes. In classical history, the dominant species were Humans. Originating from the Core Worlds, Humans were the most populous species in the galaxy and so tended to form the basis of the major governments. Sentients other than Humans were sometimes known as " aliens ", though the term "non-Human" was considered less offensive. Nevertheless, the Humanocentric definition of races was considered unacceptable by some, and simply another expression of unwarranted Human dominance.
Although not considered a race for obvious reasons, droids formed a significant part of society, helping and coexisting with the population. On Naboo , higher level droids were considered equal as fellow sentients. Whether the Asogian expedition to another galaxy succeeded or not is unknown. Extra-galactic travel was difficult due to a hyperspace disturbance beyond the edge of the galaxy that prevented hyperspace routes very far outside the disk, and beyond this, the barren vastness of the Intergalactic Void.
However, by the time of the Clone Wars , contact had been established with the two small galaxies orbiting the galaxy: the Rishi Maze , also known as Companion Aurek, and Firefist , also known as Companion Besh.
The InterGalactic Banking Clan had influence as far as these locations. The Extragalactic Society was an organization devoted to the search for life outside the galaxy. Two major expeditions were launched around the period of the Clone Wars in an effort to explore beyond the galaxy: the Outbound Flight Project was intended to settle another galaxy but was destroyed by the Chiss after it accidentally entered their territory in the Unknown Regions.
The Yuuzhan Vong were the most infamous extra-galactic species. Just after the Battle of Endor, the Nagai and the Tofs , races native to the companion galaxy of Firefist, invaded the galaxy, the Nagai hoping to escape the Tofs, who had oppressed them for centuries. Assisted by the Alliance of Free Planets and the Mandalorians , the Nagai defeated the Tofs and returned to liberate their home galaxy, bringing the Nagai—Tof War to a close.
Among the best known extra-galactic aliens were those that had fled from the Yuuzhan Vong galaxy : the droid races of the Abominor and the Silentium , and the Yuuzhan Vong themselves and their slave soldiers, the Chazrach.
The Abominor and the Silentium fought a devastating war before the Yuuzhan Vong rose up against both and drive them from their galaxy. Of those Silentium and Abominor that survived, two, the Great Heep and Vuffi Raa , established themselves in the galaxy proper around the time of the Galactic Civil War.
The former was destroyed on Biitu and the latter was recovered by the Silentium after the Battle of ThonBoka. After driving the Silentium and the Abominor from their galaxy, the Yuuzhan Vong turned inward and fought their own civil war, the Cremlevian War , which stripped much of their galaxy of life.
Seeking a new home, the Yuuzhan Vong and the Chazrach crossed the Intergalactic Void for millennia until they arrived in the galaxy, beginning a religious war which almost destroyed galactic civilization while it was just recovering from the Galactic Civil War. The second most common language was Huttese , expanded through the criminal and financial activity of the Hutts, and so it was adopted throughout the Outer Rim Territories by other species that were in close cooperation with them throughout the ages, such as the Rodians and the Toydarians.
The dominant writing system in the galaxy was Aurebesh , derived from the script of the Rakatan Infinite Empire by its former subject species after the Empire collapsed, though the symbols themselves were possibly much older. Derived from Tionese characters , the High Galactic alphabet was popular among the upper class, and as late as 22 BBY , one-third of Republic citizens who spoke Basic used the High Galactic alphabet. Consequently, notices were often written in both Aurebesh and High Galactic.
No serious attempt has been made to give the galaxy an official astronomical name. It is generally referred to by the out-of-universe descriptive phrase "the Star Wars galaxy". According to The Essential Atlas , the Nagai of Firefist refer to the main galaxy as Skyriver , which it is the closest any official material has come to giving the galaxy an in-universe name. We don't know, however, whether or how members of the galactic community refer to their own home galaxy the way we call ours the " Milky Way ".
This galaxy in the films is referred to simply as "the galaxy. The opening words of each Star Wars film place that galaxy in the same plane of existence as ours, as they declare it to be a finite distance—"far, far away"—from us, but nothing more of its location has been revealed. Humans exist in both galaxies, and Galactic Basic is essentially the same as modern-day English , including but not limited to its British , American , New Zealander , Caribbean , and Indian variants.
Additionally, many cultural traditions from the handshake to marriage are similar or identical in both galaxies, but these similarities remain unexplained.
Similarly, the time frame the galaxy and the events occurring in it occurred in compared to that of Earth is not made clear other than the opening words declaring that they took place "A long time ago.
At the end of The Empire Strikes Back , characters aboard the Rebel fleet see a celestial object from some distance away. Some fans have said that it rotates too fast to be a galaxy and at that distance a galaxy would not emit as much light as is portrayed in the film. Some sources have said that the fleet spent some time hiding outside the galactic disk, probably intending to refer to this scene. Since the release of Tales of the Bounty Hunters , the object has been inconsistently identified.
The Complete Star Wars Trilogy Scrapbook , first released in , identifies the object as a spinning star formation. In , Leland Chee confirmed on the StarWars. Several publications have contained "maps" of the galaxy, although they are at best two-dimensional projections of a three-dimensional galaxy. The first maps of the Star Wars galaxy were published in roleplaying game sourcebooks by West End Games , and contained detail maps of regions and sectors.
Despite these partial maps, it would not be until , with the release of the CD-ROM digital encyclopedia Star Wars: Behind the Magic that the first full, official galactic map was released. This map placed the most important planets from the films and the Expanded Universe. The map provided a top-down view of the Star Wars galaxy, with concentric rings indicating the various regions from the Deep Core to the Outer Rim Territories , as well as placing Naboo , which would feature in the upcoming The Phantom Menace.
The maps in these books showed an isometric projection of the galaxy, and included the spiral arms and empty galactic west known as the Unknown Regions. Each novel included the same basic map, which mapped planets from the existing lore as well as newly visited worlds of the New Jedi Order stories.
Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I , also released in , returned to a map using concentric circles, similar to the Behind the Magic map, but with broadly similar planet placements to The New Jedi Order map. A large poster map was provided in 's Star Wars Insider 65 , and The New Essential Chronology of also had a spread with an updated galaxy map and its most notable systems, and was the first to mark the locations of the planets of Revenge of the Sith. As well as a large galaxy map, The Essential Atlas also included numerous historical, regional, and sectoral maps and developed a coordinate system and galactic compass.
In addition, The Essential Atlas included an index of 4, star systems , assigning each a coordinate, sector and region. The Essential Atlas has since been expanded with an Online Companion , which includes an updated index placing 5, star systems, believed to be every system mentioned in Star Wars Legends , as well as maps of the sectors of the Outer Rim, Mid Rim, and Expansion Region. The chapter selection of Star Wars: TIE Fighter was the first appearance of what can be considered a galaxy map, consisting of a generic galactic shape on which the supposed location of the current mission is highlighted; the highlights, however, do not correspond to canonical coordinates of said locations e.
The video game Star Wars: Rebellion would provide an interface of a galaxy map divided up into 20 sectors and systems; however, these positions are provided only as a game mechanic and have been contradicted by later official sources. Wookieepedia Explore. Star Wars. Clone Wars Droids Ewoks. Administrators' noticeboard IRC Discord. Tutorials Editing sandbox Things to do Status article nominations Featured article nominations Good article nominations Comprehensive article nominations.
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