Aquillia

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For other uses, see Aquilae.

"I'm an archaeologist. Within this haunted place, there are runes that I'm quite interested in. They're written on the altars of the Rak'qua tribe. I just can't seem to get to them on my own."
―Aquillia, to a spacer[1]

Aquillia was a female Twi'lek archaeologist who lived during the Galactic Civil War.[1] In 1 ABY,[2] she was studying the culture of the Rak'qua, a Nautolan tribe that inhabited Station Gamma, an asteroid-carved space station in the Bright Jewel system. During her stay on the station, she discovered that the Rak'qua worshiped ancient altars, dancing around them and hoping that their wisdom will bring them protection and prowess in battle. As the Nautolans were rather hostile with strangers, Aquillia once tasked a group of spacers with exploring the depths of Station Gamma and surveying eight sacred runes from Rak'qua altars. The spacers had to fight several Rak'qua but they succeeded in their mission, bringing reproductions of the runes to Aquillia.[1]

Behind the scenes

Aquillia 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.[3] Aquillia 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.[4]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Aquillia's Runes" on Station Gamma
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Gal-icon IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  4. ↑ Gal-icon Publish Archive 2005 on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)

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