Antom Moria

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"Antom in the Station Master's Office would be thrilled to see you. I'm sure he's gotten himself into some kind of sticky situation that requires diplomacy."
―Han Solo, to a spacer[2]

Antom Moria was a male Human officer who was living during the Galactic Civil War.

Biography

"I was hoping that you would come and see me. I know that you are probably busy but we have a situation that we could really use your help with."
―Antom Moria, to a spacer[1]

After the Battle of Yavin, Antom Moria resided on board Tansarii Point Station, in the Bright Jewel system.[1] During that time, he was training a young student named Neina to become an officer.[3]

In 1 ABY,[4] Antom Moria was very concerned by the escalating conflict between the Car'das controlling Tansarii Point Station and the Rak'qua living in neighboring Station Gamma.[1] The officer thus dispatched his student Neina to Station Gamma in order to discuss with a Rak'qua Fervent, one of their leaders, but the Rak'qua refused to discuss with the young woman and captured her.[3] Two days later, a spacer who was also an officer under training arrived on Tansarii Point Station, along with Han Solo.[1] The spacer agreed with helping Antom and soon departed to Station Gamma to negotiate the release of Antom's missing student. The Rak'qua Fervent was not willing to free his hostage but proposed a test of honor: if the spacer could hunt down and defeat a Rak'qua shaman in a fair fight, the student would be released. Since the spacer succeeded, to the Fervent great surprise, Neina was set free and returned safe to Antom Moria.[3]

Antom Moria then continued to investigate the reasons of the war between the Car'das and the Rak'qua.[5] He finally obtained evidences from the Bothan spy Lercer Gaia that a local arms dealer was involved in the outbreak of the conflict.[5][6] The officer thus tasked the spacer to travel again to Station Gamma and present the evidences to the Rak'qua Fervent. Hence, Moria was able to convince both parties that the war was meaningless and managed to prevent escalation of the conflict.[5]

After those events, the spacer left Tansarii Point Station and traveled to Tatooine and Naboo. There, Antom Moria introduced the spacer to the officers Ellis Arrison and Eom Nia who undertook the training of the spacer.[7][8]

Behind the scenes

Antom Moria appeared as a non-player character in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[1] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[9] Antom Moria was added to the game as part of the "New Player Tutorial," introduced with the release of the "Publish 25," a.k.a. the "New Game Enhancements," on November 15, 2005.[10]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Officer Quest: "Officer Antom" on Tansarii Point Station
  2. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "You Need Work" on Tansarii Point Station
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Officer Quest: "Antom's Missing Student" on Tansarii Point Station
  4. ↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Officer Quest: "Preventing a War" on Tansarii Point Station
  6. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Spy Quest: "The Spy's Game" on Tansarii Point Station
  7. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Officer Quest: "Officer Mission 1" on Tatooine
  8. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Officer Quest: "Officer Mission 2" on Naboo
  9. ↑ Gal-icon IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  10. ↑ Gal-icon Publish Archive 2005 on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)

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