![]() Rounding out the team are two other Lucasfilm employees: Mary Franklin, events manager and my cohort in fan activities and conventions, and Josh Kushins, communications manager and writer Chris Cassidy, who has authored or co-authored a number of Star This book couldn't have been done without Bob's groundwork and his fact-checking. Wars Encyclopedia (It is truly an awesome achievement, A major new member of the team is Bob Vitas, who, as a hobby, started in 1992 compiling what has become a huge online resource for the Star The Completely Unofficial Star. Today, Pablo is in charge of content for the official site,, and Dan is the author of a dozen official Star Wars books. Dan Wallace generously let me use any and all of his extensive online guide to the planets of the galaxy. Freelancer Pablo Hidalgo agreed to do a massive fact-check on the first manuscript, coming back with 80 pages of typed, single-spaced notes. Two of them were a tremendous help a decade ago, although on an unofficial basis. I'm very proud to have worked with Team Encyclopedia, my term for the six other authors who I recruitedevery one of them a die-hard Star Wars fan. ![]() We also have eliminated source codes they have become mostly irrelevant in such an interrelated universe, and also too cumbersomeand therefore not very helpful-for a large number of the entries. In a galaxy where entire planets and billions of sentient beings can be-and frequently are-totally wiped out in a flash, nothing is safe and few things are certain. Most entries, therefore, are in the past tense. Since that history now extends to a time far before the events shown in George Lucas's six-movie saga, and to a time more than a century after, our vantage point is a period perhaps 150 years after the Battle of Yavin. Like the first encyclopedia, the in-fantasy conceit of this one is that it has been compiled by some omniscient committee of historians and scholars taking a look back over tens of thousands of years of galactic history. We have integrated such things as story lines and characters from the original Marvel comics, made even more relevant by current authors who have themselves gone back and picked up situations and characters from those wonderfully creative pulps-the Dark Lady Lumiya comes to mind-to integrate into their own fiction, giving the saga even more connectivity. Up on a decade of new movies, animation, novels, comics, video games, role-playing and card games, online rnaterial, and just about anything else that is "official" and relevant to the saga. The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, catches What always made the StarĪmong sprawling sagas-tying everything together into one vast story and doing everything possible to eliminate inconsistencies-also continues. Planets, battles, and phenomena being created every day. How the galaxy has grown! And, of course, it continues to thrive with more stories, characters, vehicles, Was a hefty but reasonable 354 pages, and took me about a year of work to complete with a little helpįrom my friends. So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applauseġ998, i t had a single name on the title page, What ifthe democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become the very evil we have beenfighting to destroy? And to the man-George Lucas-whose imagination launched it all more than three decades ago. To the literally hundreds of writers, editors, artists, researchers, moviemakers, fans, and others who have contributed so much to making the Star Wars galaxy the rich, creativeforce that it is today. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 9 87 6 54321 First Edition Interior design by Michaelis/Carpelis Design Associates, Inc. DEL REY is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. & ®or TM where indicatedĪll Rights Reserved. ![]() SANSWEET & PABLO HIDALGO AND BOB VITAS & DANIEL WALLACE WITH CHRIS CASSIDY, MARY FRANKLIN & JosH KusHINS
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