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Coruscant

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Coruscant is a planet in the fictional Star Wars universe (in the Coruscant Subsector of the Corusca Sector of the Core Worlds). [1]

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Alderaan

Alderaan was a fictional planet featured in the Star Wars franchise (in the Alderaan Sector of the Core Worlds). It is blue-green in appearance and is depicted as a terrestrial planet with humanoid inhabitants.

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Berkley Books

Berkley Books is an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) that began as an independent company in 1955.

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Bespin

Bespin is a fictional planet, a gas giant in Star Wars films and books (in the Bespin System of the Ison Corridor of the Ivax Nebula of the Anoat Sector of Greater Javin of the Outer Rim).

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Blade Runner

Blade Runner is a 1982 American-Hong Kong neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos.

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Calendar era

A calendar era is the year numbering system used by a calendar.

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Changes in Star Wars re-releases

Changes in Star Wars re-releases vary from minor differences in color timing, audio mixing, and take choices to major insertions of new visual effects, additions of characters and dialogue, scene expansions, and replacement of original cast members with newer ones.

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Clone Wars (Star Wars)

The Clone Wars, occasionally referred to in the singular as the Clone War, are conflicts in the Star Wars franchise by George Lucas.

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Concept art

Concept art is a form of illustration used to convey an idea for use in films, video games, animation, comic books, or other media before it is put into the final product.

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary

Henry Watson Fowler The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (officially titled The Concise Oxford Dictionary until 2002, and widely abbreviated COD or COED) is probably the best-known of the 'smaller' Oxford dictionaries.

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Count Dooku

Count Dooku of Serenno, from the House of Dooku is a fictional character from the ''Star Wars'' franchise, appearing in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith as a primary and minor antagonist respectively.

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Dark Empire

Dark Empire is a Star Wars comic book metaseries produced by Dark Horse Comics.

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Darth Vader

Darth Vader (birth name Anakin Skywalker) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.

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Death Star

Death Star is the name of a number of fictional mobile space stations and galactic superweapons featured in the Star Wars space opera franchise.

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Doug Chiang

Doug Chiang (born 16 February 1962) is a Taiwanese American film designer and artist.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Ecumenopolis

Ecumenopolis (from οἰκουμένη, meaning "world", and πόλις "city", thus "a city made of the whole world"; pl. ecumenopolises or ecumenopoleis) is the hypothetical concept of a planetwide city.

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Edge of Victory: Rebirth

Edge of Victory: Rebirth (also released as Edge of Victory II: Rebirth) is the second novel in a two-part story by Greg Keyes.

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Epoch (reference date)

In the fields of chronology and periodization, an epoch is an instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular era.

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Eris (dwarf planet)

Eris (minor-planet designation 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest (by volume) dwarf planet in the known Solar System.

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Fictional universe

A fictional universe is a self-consistent setting with events, and often other elements, that differ from the real world.

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Floating cities and islands in fiction

In speculative fiction, floating cities and islands are a common trope, which range from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float in the atmosphere of a planet by scientific or magical means.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.

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Galactic Empire (Star Wars)

The Galactic Empire is a fictional autocracy featured in the Star Wars franchise.

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Galactic Republic

The Galactic Republic, often referred to as simply the Republic, is the name of the interplanetary State used in the fictional ''Star Wars'' universe prior to the establishment of the Galactic Empire.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.

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Gloria Katz

Gloria Katz (born October 25, 1942) is an American screenwriter and film producer, best known for her association with George Lucas.

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Heir to the Empire

Star Wars: Heir to the Empire is a 1991 Star Wars novel by Timothy Zahn, and the first book in the ''Thrawn'' trilogy.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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James Luceno

James Luceno (born 1947) is a ''New York Times'' bestselling author, best known for his novels and reference books connected with the Star Wars franchise and the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and (with Brian Daley under the shared pseudonym Jack McKinney), novelisations of the Robotech animated television series.

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Jedi

The Jedi are the main protagonists in the Star Wars universe.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Kevin J. Anderson

Kevin James Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is an American science fiction author with over 50 bestsellers.

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Labyrinth of Evil

Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil is a 2005 novel by James Luceno set in the fictional Star Wars universe.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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List of Star Wars air, aquatic, and ground vehicles

The following is a list of fictional Star Wars terrestrial vehicles, including armoured fighting vehicles, military aircraft, and naval ships.

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List of Star Wars planets and moons

The fictional universe of the Star Wars franchise features multiple planets and moons.

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List of Star Wars species (F–J)

This is a list of Star Wars species, containing the names of fictional sentient species from the Star Wars franchise beginning with the letters F through J. Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas.

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List of Star Wars species (U–Z)

This is a list of Star Wars species, containing the names of fictional sentient species from the Star Wars franchise beginning with the letters U through Z. Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas.

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Lucasfilm

Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System.

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Metropolis (1927 film)

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang.

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New Earth Time

New Earth Time (or NET) is an alternative naming system for measuring the time of day.

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New Republic (Star Wars)

The New Republic is a fictional government in the ''Star Wars'' universe.

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Oort cloud

The Oort cloud, named after the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is a theoretical cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at distances ranging from.

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Orders of magnitude (numbers)

This list contains selected positive numbers in increasing order, including counts of things, dimensionless quantity and probabilities.

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Palpatine

Sheev Palpatine (also known by his Sith identity Darth Sidious and publicly as Senator, then Supreme Chancellor, and later Emperor) is a fictional character and one of the primary antagonists of the ''Star Wars'' franchise, mainly portrayed by Ian McDiarmid.

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Pluto

Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune.

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Ralph McQuarrie

Ralph Angus McQuarrie (June 13, 1929 – March 3, 2012) was an American conceptual designer and illustrator.

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Rebecca Moesta

Rebecca Moesta Anderson (born November 17, 1956 in Heidelberg, West Germany) is the author of several science fiction books.

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Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi) is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand.

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Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Screenwriter

A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based.

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Sith

The Sith are major antagonists in the space opera franchise Star Wars.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Star by Star

Star by Star is the ninth installment of the New Jedi Order series set in the ''Star Wars'' expanded universe.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.

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Star Wars (film)

Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas.

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Star Wars expanded to other media

Star Wars expanded to other media includes all Star Wars fictional material produced by Lucasfilm or officially licensed by it outside of the films.

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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is a 1999 American epic space opera written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones is a 2002 American epic space opera film directed by George Lucas and written by Lucas and Jonathan Hales.

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Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith is a 2005 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas.

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Star Wars: X-Wing (video game series)

Star Wars: X-Wing is a series of space flight simulator video games based in the Star Wars media franchise that attempts to simulate the fictional experience of starfighter combat, while remaining faithful to the movies.

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The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.

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The New Jedi Order

Star Wars: The New Jedi Order (or New Jedi Order or NJO) is a series of nineteen science fiction novels, published from 1999 to 2003, set in the ''Star Wars'' expanded universe.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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Thrawn trilogy

The Thrawn trilogy, also known as the Heir to the Empire trilogy, is a series of science fiction novels written by Timothy Zahn.

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Time

Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.

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Timothy Zahn

Timothy Zahn (born September 1, 1951) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy.

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Trantor

Trantor is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' Series and ''Empire'' series of science fiction novels.

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Tropical year

A tropical year (also known as a solar year) is the time that the Sun takes to return to the same position in the cycle of seasons, as seen from Earth; for example, the time from vernal equinox to vernal equinox, or from summer solstice to summer solstice.

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Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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Willard Huyck

Willard Huyck (born September 8, 1945) is an American screenwriter, director and producer, best known for his association with George Lucas.

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Yavin

Yavin (also known as "Yavin Prime", to distinguish it from its moons) is a fictional planet in the Star Wars galaxy.

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Young Jedi Knights

Young Jedi Knights is a Star Wars young adult fiction series by science fiction writer Kevin J. Anderson and his wife Rebecca Moesta.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coruscant

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