Tag: reference

Hello! I’m writing a personal SW story and was wondering if there are other neutral or shady resort worlds (preferably in the Outer Rims but I’m flexible!) like the one Canto Bight was on? Lavish or scummy will work! Also any mining planets that the Empire may have taken over, or heavily populated but poor areas that produce something of value? Thank you!

Right, sorry this took so long! I had to do some digging for this one. For resort worlds, I was pretty loose with the definition, but if they aren’t exactly resorts then they are certainly shady and have plenty of places for gambling and criminal activities. As well, there will be places on many planets where high-class criminals do business (some places on Coruscant, for example, would work very well) but these worlds are just better known for it:

Cloud City (Bespin), Keyorin, Llanic, Nar Shadda, Ord Mantell, Pembric II, Kerev Doi, Corellia (certain places, such as Treasure Ship Row), Mon Gazza, Ord Antalaha, the Lol sector and specifically Kendamar, and Pavo Prime. 

As for Imperial mining worlds, a whole lot of planets with significant resources were taken over during the Imperial era, so if you’d like to look through the mining planets category you will find quite a few that work. This link specifically will take you to the category intersection for Imperial worlds and mining planets, for a more specific but less comprehensive list. 

Generally, you won’t find heavily populated planets that are considered poor overall, especially if they have valuable resources. The planet itself will be quite rich, but the wealth will usually be highly concentrated among the corporations that own the resources, which in most cases are metals, minerals, and tourist destinations. Try looking through the ecumenopoleis; most of them will be very densely populated, and will have some large source of revenue that allowed them to get that way, which means they will have very poor areas as well. Coruscant and Empress Teta would be good examples. 

I hope some of those work for you!

~ Jacen 

gffa:

SPECIES OF A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY:  Klatoonian
    Including:  Physiology, Society, Homeworld, Lanugage, and History

Source: Fantasy Flight Games
Caveat:  RPGs have always been low-rung canon and FFG continues to use Legends materials, so Actual Canon may overwrite these at any time

or may already be overwritten

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Uses:  it can be useful for filling out the background of a character or wold you need to reference in fic, games, or whatever else you like!

Notable Members: Barada, Castas

darth-lumines:

→ Star Wars Atlas (2009) – Galactic Regions
→ Interesting notes:  Location of many notable planets, the layers of galatic regions

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This is a selection of maps showing the sectors of Star Wars’ galaxy, radiating outward from the center.  While no longer strictly canon (as of April 25, 2014) it still gives a good idea of what planets are where.  It can be especially helpful if you want to find a planet that’s nowhere near Coruscant to strand your characters on or if you want to find a more densely populated world near the center of everything!  Or if you just want to know how close a specific planet is to the center of the galaxy.

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Deep Core:  

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(Note:  The Deep Core did not hold as many notable worlds as the Core Worlds/Galactic Core/the Core, it had a massive black hole at the center which made hyperspace travel difficult and it was extremely densely packed with stars that had tremendous gravitational pull.)

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The Core:  

Alderaan / Anaxes / Brentaal / Corellia / Coruscant / Duro / Kuat / Nubia / N’zoth

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The Colonies:  

Fondor / Neimoidia

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Inner Rim:  

Bestine / Hapes / Onderon / Taanab / Thyferra

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Expansion Region:   

Mimban

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Mid Rim:  

Ansion / Bothawui /

Boz Pity / Ithor / Kashyyyk / Malastare / Naboo / Nar Shadda / Ord Mantell / Ruusan

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Hutt Space:  

Nal Hutta / Nar Shadda / Toydaria

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Outer Rim:  

Anoat / Bespin / Bonadan / Christophsis / Dagobah / Dantooine / Dathomir / Endor (Forest Moon) / Eriadu / Felucia / Gamorr / Geonosis / Honoghr / Hoth / Kamino / Kessel / Korriban / Mandalore / Mon Cala / Mustafar / Mygeeto / Nal Hutta / Ossus / Raxus Prime / Rhen Var / Rishi / Rodia / Ryloth / Saleucami / Sernpidal / Shadda-Bi-Boran / Sullust / Tatooine / Toydaria / Triton / Tund / Utapau / Yavin

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Wild Space:  

Bakura / Kalee / Teth

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Unknown Regions:  

Csilla / Iego / Ilum / Nagi / Lehon (Rakata Prime) / Rattatak / Zonama Sekot

thefoodwiththedood:

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     ✦ ✦ ✦  Link to Volume 1  ✦ ✦ ✦  Link to Volume 2  ✦✦✦    

The trilogy is complete!!! Just in time for Christmas and the release of The Last Jedi, here’s “What Species To Choose for your Star Wars OC”, Volume 3! Have you ever wanted to make a character in the Star Wars universe, but you can’t decide which of the fifty billion alien races to use for them? Well, here’s this handy flowchart to help make that decision just a little easier!

For this version, I decided I wanted to suffer as I made it, so I went ahead and bumped up the species count from 150 to 250, which is somehow still only scratching the surface of the species out there. Even so, I’m happy to say I’ve at least covered most of the major species, while still sprinkling in some more obscure ones—everything from Twi’leks and Zabraks to Hysalrians and Drabatans, this flowchart has it all!

Beyond that (as well as some minor formatting changes), everything’s just as it was before! You can pick out your species either by following the flowchart or by picking randomly with a six-sided die or a random number generator—figured the latter would be cool for all the RPG players out there! Once you find one you like, feel free to check out the links below for lists of resources and info on each species (alphabetized, of course, for your convenience). These resources can include their Wookieepedia page, videos of the species in-action, informational videos, and even name generators! Do be warned, though, that the amount of info on the species vary, as some are just older and more well known/established than others. I hope what I found helps anyway, though!

But yeah, in any case, I really hope this helps some people out! In fact, if you do end up using this, please consider tagging whatever you make with #starwarsocflowchart—you don’t have to, of course, but I’d just love to see what people come up with!

With that said, merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone reading this, and thank you all for supporting my work on here enough to inspire me to do this! Y’all are the best, and I can’t wait to see all that you make with this!

✦ Species A-C ✦ Species D-I ✦ Species J-N ✦ Species O-S ✦ Species T-Z ✦

The third volume is here! Thank you for doing this @thefoodwiththedood!

Source: thefoodwiththedood

Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know about Coruscant.

muldertorture:

A Semi-Comprehensive Guide to the Galatic Center, circa the Fall of the Republic Era for Inter-galactic Tourists and Fic Writers Alike. 

(For those who don’t have the patience or feel too overwhelmed to browse Wookiepedia, this is for you!) Originally created as a resource for @the-far-bright-center

Welcome to Coruscant! Originally called Notron, also known as Imperial
Center or the Queen of the Core, was a planet located in the Galactic
Core.  Over the centuries, Coruscant had
developed into an ecumenopolis, (a type of planet, or in some cases a moon,
whose entire surface was covered with a single worldwide city) with a total of
5,127 levels of city built up from the crust by the time of the Clone Wars. The
actual planet-wide metropolis of Coruscant was called Galactic City. Under the
Galactic Republic, the names Republic City or the City of Spires were also used
to reference the city. However, in practice, Galactic City and its other names
were sometimes applied to the Senate District, the central government center
and de facto capital of Coruscant.

Keep Reading for the full Coruscanti experience!

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Clone Troopers

likealeafonthewind:

A summary from my latest venture onto Wookieepedia, because I’ve been watching some of the clone-centric CW episodes with @themikeymonster and had Questions about the clones. 

Italicized information is from Legends, regular font is from canon. 

More musing and headcanons under the cut. Please feel free to chime in. This is making my head hurt.

Null-class Advanced Recon Commandos

  • Prototypes
  • Designation: N- or Null-
  • Total produced: 12 (but 6 died early on)
  • Deemed a failure by Kaminoans; adopted by Mandalorian mercenary Kal Skirata
  • Named after Mandalorian warriors

Alpha-class Advanced Recon Commando (ARC) troopers

  • Designation: A- or Alpha-
  • Unaltered independent minds – only some of them decided to obey Order 66, the rest sided with the Jedi

  • Total number produced: 100
  • Personally trained by Jango Fett, who ordered them to kill all the younger clones if Kamino ever fell to the Separatists
  • Known trooper:
    • Alpha-17

Clone trooper commanders

  • Designation: CC-
  • Bred for leadership roles, with extra capacity for autonomy, tactical thinking, and coordination
  • Trained with ARC skills
  • Led regiments of 2,304 troopers
  • Some known troopers:
    • CC-2224 – Cody
    • CC-3636 – Wolffe
    • CC-5052 – Bly

Clone Commandos or Republic Commandos

  • Designation: RC-
  • Bred with more independence than standard clone troopers
  • Trained to be more lethal and efficient than average clone soldier by Mandalorian drill sergeants
  • Worked in squads of 4, carried out covert infiltration, sabotage, demolition, and assassination
  • A few refused to comply with Order 66
  • Known troopers:
    • CC-5576-39 – Gregor
    • Foxtrot Group – attached to the 212th; led by Gregor
    • Clone Force 99 – genetically altered to be super soldiers; worked with Cody; named in honor of 99
    • RC-1138 – Boss; leader of Delta Squad

Clone trooper captain

  • Commanded companies of 144 troopers
  • Bred as battlefield officers and special mission operatives
  • Known troopers:
    • CT-7567 – Rex

Clone Lieutenant

  • Designation: CL-
  • Commanded platoons of 36 troopers
  • Known troopers:
    • CL-9632 – Trap

Clone Sergeant

  • Designation: CT-
  • Commanded squads of 9 troopers
  • Known troopers:
    • Appo – later promoted to clone commander

Rank-and-file clone troopers

  • Designation: CT-

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Any tips on how to draw Nautlons?

thefoodwiththedood:

deer-head-xiris:

I’ll see what I can offer! Most of my personal stylization for Nautolans comes from The Clone Wars style for them, so I’ll mainly stick with that for most visual stuff. Here’s some tips on designing your handsome squids

Before I draw any OC for a SW species, I like to read up on their biology on their wikis- http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Nautolan/Legends

Nautolans have large dark eyes, often black or dark maroon. They have 14 head-tresses (don’t feel pressured to draw all of them- they can be hidden behind them) that can be tied together or displayed in other fashions, and gills on the sides of their head:

 Their skin has been seen to be shades of Green, Brown, Blue, Purple, Yellow, and Red (though with colorful inhuman species like this I see no harm in adding extra colors if there’s no specified reason not to). 

Nautolans have also been shown to have varied skin patterns:

There’s near endless potential to mess around with here. You can look up other sea creatures for design inspiration! For my character Strizao, I based her appearance off of this Larger Pacific Striped Octopus

My Akua’s patterns weren’t inspired by a sea creature, they were just more natural-looking formations based on her old Gem self

And if your Nautolan doesn’t have wild colors or patterns, they can also get cool looking tattoos if desired!

Nautolan’s hands are fairly large and their fingers are pointed with no nails

and though it’s not canon, Kit Fisto was shown to have webbed hands in the 2003 clone wars, so feel free to mess around with that too! 

Despite not having webbed fingers in canon, they do have spindly webbed feet!

Also another thing to note- Nautolans were originally not meant to have eyelids, but in The Clone Wars they were animated to blink so that bit would also be up to you to decide if you want or not!

That should be all the basics of Nautolan appearance. You can google image search “Nautolan” for more inspiration if you’d like. 

Hope this helped, have fun!

@writebetterstarwars

And here is the Nautolan one for anyone interested!